Parkside Crossing

After living here going on two years sadly I have to drop a star. If it wasn’t for Toni (manager) and Ashley (also works in the office) id drop it to 1 star. Besides the lovely ladies in the office they DO accept bad rental history here. Which my past roommate left us with a broken lease so we turned here. Anyways. The apartments seem to just be falling apart. I’ve not even been here two years and the carpets are already ratty and gross (I’m a clean person FYI. But my carpets were not replaced prior to me moving in, only cleaned). I will say maintenance is pretty quick to come fix things but it just sucks that things break so often. Leaky faucets. The water bill is astronomical here. Higher than anywhere else I’ve lived. $ 100 or more each month! My main and too reason I’m not happy living here anymore is the tenants. I have weed smell coming through my air vents every single night from my upstairs neighbor. Hear gunshots at night. Next door neighbor is constantly having the cops over from fighting with his girls he brings over. Not to mention the downstairs neighbors that smoke weed right in front of our building (we have a good 6 kids in our building) and even walking around the parking lot with a rifle once. I don’t feel safe when I’m home alone anymore and it sucks. The outside is nice. But don’t let that fool you.

So here is our update on move in and a month living here, reducing to 3 stars. Make sure to see your actual apartment before signing, paying and moving in. We learned this the hard way. The carpet has to be at least 5 years old, it is stained, matted and worn. There is about a half inch gap between all of the walls and the carpet as if it has never been stretched. The closet is also smaller than the exact replica that we viewed before moving in. You will notice that maintenance has been half a$$ed to the point where I could do better with little skill. Paint splatter everywhere, screws showing and leaky faucets. The pantries don’t offer much in the way of space and have small wire shelves. So the front looks nice but the inside is what I would call «ghetto». So far no bug issues. We have 2 dogs and unfortunately it seems like we are the only owners that pick up their animal waste and being near the «puppy potty» as we like to call it, you’re lucky not to hit a land mine. Noise is fine, just like any other apartment. Be warned though — if you are next to an AC unit, sleep with ear plugs, those dinosaurs are loud. Management and staff are really nice except when we mentioned the nasty carpet they claimed «we have a five year limit on keeping carpet», we then asked for a record of when ours had been replaced last and got «I’m not sure but I know it was less than 5 years ago.» Maintenance, though half a$$ed, is pretty fast. Usually repairs have a 2 – 3 day turn around. I have only seen 2 guys for the whole complex so I can’t really expect same day fixes. If you have a problem with kids, they are often running around, in groups unsupervised. They have left notices on everyone’s doors about it but that only does so much. I have heard a lot of people say to be careful and take lots of pictures and document move in and move out, but I think that’s a common apartment thing. Other than these things it’s a nice quiet place to live and I LOVE the gas stove. Electric is pretty low with Amigo, a month with all the fees at moderate usage in the small one bedroom is about $ 100, but it’s hard for us to use more than 1000Kwh. The water bill is around $ 75 for 2 people in a one bedroom — sadly I think they tie in the useless, wasteful sprinkler system.
We have been trying to get into these apartments since December of 2014. The application process has been very easy, despite an error on my credit and 2 broken leases (I paid on off to get approved). We were set to move in at one point in early 2015 and ended up deciding against it just before the move in date. They were incredibly flexible and didn’t give us a hard time about backing out. We now have a set move in date for the summer that is more than a month away and we have bombarded them with calls and questions. They haven’t lost their patience with us and have really been on top of things. I really hope that our stay will be just as good, I’ll update about halfway into our lease. First impression: Friendly, patient, flexible and welcoming.

One star is too much. None of the «amenities» ever work. Both the gate and hot tub have been broken more months than not. The maintenance doesn’t do much, especially put notices on doors. This morning my boyfriend came home to swap cars and his car had been towed due to paving the parking lot, even though there are many other things to be worried about in my opinion. The manager, Toni says that maintenance put a notice on our door, which neither of us received. Now we are expected to pay 200 dollars to get it out. Its absolutely ridiculous. I think breaking our lease may be the only option now.

Worst apartments ever! Nearly thirteen hundred just for rent, then another almost two hundred just for water sewage and trash oh and you pay for pest control every month and if you don’t request the service your paying for nothing. Wish I had never moved in.

The management is rude, and maintenance is USELESS. They didn’t fix anything. There was toxic mold in my apartment which made me severely ill and kill my 6 month old puppy. I had contacted an Attorney and had been advised to withhold rent until they responded to the mold issue. My rent was 3 days late and they TOOK MY TV’S while I was at work!!! AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

I loved these apartments. I had a two bedroom that was spacious and lovely. The apartments were safe and had nice grounds. Rent was a bit high, but everything was new and electricity work great. I did live on the third floor and the stairs were a killer. plus aide, we had a washer dryer in the unit so no renting one or dragging laundry to the laundry mat. The office staff was. also super friendly. I miss these apartments. My apartments now are cheap but super crappy.