1. Dirty, dirty place! It only looks nice from the outside. There are bedbugs in the carpet and cockroaches running between the gap of kitchen cabinets. The apartment smells bad. The elevator wall is CARPET, and it smells like stinky feet inside. The hallways carpet is so filthy that you cannot tell the original color.
2. Noisy. The leasing agents will tell you the neighborhood is quiet. This is true only during daytime. The high school stadium cross the street has after school football and
...cheerleading training, and games every week. They play loud music and speaker broadcast. You cannot do anything but only wait for the game to finish.
3. You may lose your package. The mailbox is very small, so the postman has to leave big packages in the leasing office. I lost a package once. The leasing agents didn't care, and only said they were not responsible for any missing packages.
4. Sewage backup problems from old plumbing system. Some first floor units have sewage backup sometimes. Without any notice, the apartment shut off the water in the whole building for several hours. It happened several times after I moved in.
5. The elevator is tiny and broken every month. The elevator probably is as old as these buildings and breaks too often. It once stopped working for two weeks. It's too small to fit anything bigger than a twin bed. If you have larger furniture that need to move upstairs, you have to use stairs.
6. Too many doors to get in and out, your family and friends probably don't like to visit you because the premises is not easy to come in and get out, and parking is limited. All the entries are gated and all the buildings are locked. Although the rental agents tell you the doors are for security, the reality is that I saw people without keys just follow the residents here enter the building all the time. From time to time strangers knocked on my apartment door for soliciting or donation. They told me that I would get free newspapers for the donation, but I never got any newspaper because the newspaper delivery person could not get in without gate keys.
7. The bedrooms in the top floor get really hot during summer time. The bay area's hot summer time is getting longer and longer in recent years. This complex only has AC installed in living rooms, so the top floor bedrooms get really hot. Sometimes it feels like an oven.
I wish I had known these things before I moved in, and I would have definitely changed my decision of moving here.
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Pets must be spayed/neutered.