300 East Seventeenth Apartments

I moved in a couple months ago, and i recently met the new manager Tiffany. She was really helpful on getting one of my Maintence questions answered. She was pleasant and professional to deal with like the rest of team. I love my location, and I love the views from my apartment! This place rocks

I decided to apply for this apartment, giving it the benefit of the doubt after reading previous reviews. So, if the previous reviews aren’t enough, here’s one more to save you any trouble in the future.
This place has the WORST management and staff team I have ever dealt with. As I was applying for this apartment, several issues arose:
1. Living out of state, I was told I had to have signed documents notarized if I was sending them electronically. I called to verify this information THREE times. I asked them if I PERSONALLY had the signed documents brought into them if they had to be notarized, and they said only if they’re sent ELECTRONICALLY. So, I had the signed documents personally brought into them, and they did not accept them. They told me they had to be notarized. So, I had to start the process over again, meanwhile the apartment price increased and they said they could not hold it for me.
2. Notarizing the documents cost me $ 10 per signature X 6 signatures.
3. Once application and deposit fees were submitted, they told me my income was not enough; however, my proof of income (aka student loans) is clearly enough to cover rent. They said I needed a co-​signer to proceed. Meanwhile, rent is STILL increasing, and they are not holding the apartment.
4. The assistant manager told me they have «had the apartment taken off the market for too long while working with us.» However, it has been on the market the whole time (with increasing prices). Due to my frustrations (which are understandable by this time), she then told me to not even proceed with applying. Waste of time.
Basically, you should not even APPLY to live here, yet alone actually live here! Most frustrating thing and incompetent staff I’ve ever dealt with.

Important background, and why you should take this review seriously amid the sea of single star reviews:
Since graduating college, I have lived in at least a half dozen apartment buildings that could be loosely compared to this complex. I’ve been in Denver for 4 years and have moved every year, never twice to a place managed by the same company. I am intimately familiar with rental rates, amenities, and neighborhoods in this city.
Summary? This complex is extremely competitive in the market and not terribly difficult to get into. The entire reason it gets a bad rap is that the only people who bother to review apartments have a serious chip on their shoulder about some of the trappings that come with community living… I would wager the same people would rate their own personal home poorly because the water heater broke one morning or they had someone wake them up too early on a Saturday morning because they decided to mow the lawn.
So here’s where I’ll get real about my experience and what you can realistically expect. For starters, my wife loves it here and if we weren’t planning to buy a condo with more space to start a family, we’d likely not have any plans to move.
The folks who live here are a slice of the Uptown Denver demographic. You can’t live here without some respectable income, but it’s mostly attractive to twenty somethings (I’m mid thirties) and such. Younger people. That said, you should set your expectations accordingly: sometimes it will be loud late on Friday (but the walls ceilings and floors are all concrete so you’ll rarely notice), sometimes it will smell like weed in the halls. You know, pretty standard things to expect in this kind of community. Sometimes people suck, but it isn’t the complex’s fault.
The staff is polite and responsive. You can get packages 24×7 thanks to security, who WILL respond to noise complaints. You can pay your rent online. If your AC breaks in the summer months or your tub should flood, emergency maintainance WILL respond at 2am. Personal experience.
There are legitimate gripes that are solvable and that definitely lose a star… but only one, to be fair, sum total in my opinion:
Amenities are frequently out of service, such as one dead elevator, half the laundry machines broken (come on, management), poorly maintained workout facilities /​broken equipment, and NON-​emergency maintenance can take weeks to months and repeated calls to resolve. I won’t get into anecdotal nonsense since several other Unilocalers have done that plenty enough.
The pending $ 100 rent hike at the end of our lease tastes bitter, but for all I know, the original rent was deliberately leased cheaper to get us in the door. Either way, it’s still OK, and competitive for the area.
Finally, the location is pretty much unbeatable and they allow cats and dogs. The units are usually newly renovated when you move in, nice appliances, fresh paint, good floors.
You’ll be lucky to ever live in a community like this for the asking price where certain chronic issues aren’t to be expected. I would recommend to friends.

This is by far the worst place I’ve ever lived in my life. I’ve never seen such a terrible management. Employees talk back to you and can be even rude sometimes. THEY NEVER EVER EVER PICK UP THE PHONE!!!. laundry facility is ALWAYS broken!!! Garage spots are ridiculously small at the point where you can barely open your car’s door. If you want to pay a lot of money and stress yourself like an idiot… move to this fucking place.

Absolutely the worst residential experience of my life. We were flooded three times in 1 year, a plumber was sent to the apartment at 10:30 pm and awoke us from sleep when he attempted to enter our bedroom without prior notice, the staff has horrendous turnover, and no one seems to care. There are multiple leaks in the garage. When I told management about my concerns, they said I should look for another apartment! Needless to see we have moved out of this glorified flop house and would advise anyone of sound mind to avoid this semi-​slum at all costs. I’d give them zero stars if I could!

This is the worst rental experience I have ever had. The leasing staff is completely incompetent and unable to help their residents. Calls and email are never returned despite the nature of the call. It is clear their only incentive is to sign new leases, not help any of their current residents. All experiences I have had with them leave me absolutely baffled at the incompetence. There is a revolving door of these agents, with one leaving and being replaced every couple of months, with the new person’s skills being less than the one before. The two woman who worked here when I first moved in where great. It is clear they got out of here real fast and customer service left with them.
The laundry facility has had constantly broken machines for nine months. The machines are turned off, leak, do not accept money or spin for hours, locking your clothes in and you are unable to get them out. There have been signs posted time and again that the machines are being replaced, but nothing ever changes.
The pool which is supposed to be open all year went under construction in August. There is constant construction noise and no concessions have been made financially for those of us who expect and pay to have a pool all year long. The balcony off the apartment is littered in cigarette butts from the apartment above, and if you have an apartment overlooking the courtyard, you can’t open your windows because of the constant smoke coming from the smoker’s corner. I am aware that this is Colorado, but this building is supposed to be smoke free. My apartment and the hallways reek of marijuana morning and night.
The exercise facility is a joke also. The machines are always broken and far from state of the art. I had to join the YMCA down the street.
The bike racks are filled with old and broken bikes, with no place to lock a new bike up. Again, requests for maintenance are unsuccessful. Parking costs continuously rise, despite plenty of unused spots. You are better off renting in one of the lots located around the building.
Counting down the days until I don’t have to pay to live here anymore.

I moved out of here 6 weeks early (paid rent at 2 places for 6 weeks that is) just to get out of here. Utilities broke, poor resident service, cheap flooring and moulding. Additionally, a person tried to force his way into my apartment believing it was his unit. Worst living experience I have ever had. So happy to be out of there!

I’ve lived here for a year and a half. Everything has gone to hell over the last year.
–loud neighbors with little response from security
–the lawn in the courtyard is all brown and dead, all the plants have died. It just looks terrible
— washers and dryers are frequently broken and leaking all over
— the pool lounge chairs are all broken or torn.
I cannot say the staff has been bad, I really blame the management company. It’s way over priced for the lack of attention– cannot wait to move.

On March 11, 2014, a man broke into my locked apartment and I woke up to him standing in my bedroom. Management was very defensive saying it was not their job to protect me and took 3 week to call the detective back. The courtesy patrol, Mike, was the first to call back my father and told my dad «it was to be expected» and that «it was an honest mistake». The building management says they can’t find anything wrong with it and that it was only an allegation. I would NEVER suggest this building to anyone I care about based on lack of safety. I would stay far away. I cannot wait for my lease to end in June.