The good:
LOCATION! Close to everything - shopping, food, entertainment. So convenient.
Size of the apartment - our 1BR/1BA is 900 square feet. The rooms (excluding the bathroom) are all large and spacious. Love the 2 sliding glass doors and huge balcony.
Price - for the location and size of the apartment the price is really fair.
Neighbors (most of them) - lots of senior citizens which makes for a great quiet building. However, a few younger people have moved in lately. A few residents
...don't follow rules and work on their cars in the lot, and I think some have pets which I thought was forbidden... Also, pretty sure one downstairs neighbor of us is dealing drugs in the parking lot. You get weirdos everywhere you live though.
The bad:
They do renovate most apartments before a new tenant moves in. For us, renovations included new cabinets and countertops, along with fixtures in the kitchen and bathroom, brand new carpet, and fresh paint. These are older buildings though and some things are just not attended to, including the tile floors in the bathrooms (we constantly have tiles popping out and the grout is filthy), the sliding doors are in bad shape (both of our handles are broken), and the windows don't open easily. The walls have so many layers of paint that they chip easily. And they don't take good care of common areas: carpeting is old and dirty and looks like it's original to 1975. The washer/dryers are constantly breaking as well.
No washer/dryer in unit - one of the main reasons we are moving.
No pets allowed - communities really need to look into being more flexible on this!
Buildings just this year became smoke free, even though we were told when we moved in a few years back that buildings were non-smoking. The hallways can smell nasty.
Dated decor in the lobby is kind of embarrassing and the stairways are disgusting.
Keep all of this in mind before deciding if this place is right for you. All in all, we've been pretty happy here...but want out now!
Max of 1. Tenant must register car with management and place a small tag in the vehicle's window.