Vida Apartments

I have recently re-​located to Denver for my job and am actively looking for a place to live near University Hospital. I drive by Vida every day and was interested in looking at an apartment there. I tried and tried to call for an appointment, but one phone number is disconnected, another is a private residence IN THE BUILDING with no affilitaion to Residential Niche management, and every time I call the other one, I get a message saying no one is available to take my call regardless of the time of day I call.
I get the distinct feeling that this property is not managed very well, as I have left 4 messages and sent 6 emails trying to get someone to contact me.
Oh well, their loss. I WAS planning on signing a year lease and paying for it all up front, but apparently, they’re doing so well in this economy that they don’t need to rent to the likes of me.
Can’t say if these are nice apartments or not, as setting up a showing is apparently at the bottom of their priority list. Good luck getting in through with the management office.

Thanks to Lauren for the review. It’s pretty accurate to a T.
The slumlords who run this place operate a few other residences, all look great & have so much potential if they were just managed decently.
I’m a lucky one, I have survived so much of the issues here unscathed but it all sort of boiled over this week when we get a notice on July 8^th that a «quarterly spray» will begin on Saturday at noon. I’ve lived here since May 2009, there’s never been a quarterly spray…
I can attest to Lauren that not only has that leasing agent been fired, but every 6 weeks or so a different great looking leasing agent has that job title. They easily sign people into leases, the rent is affordable and the «flipped over» apartments actually do a good job. I still can’t even complain, I have a huge bathroom, dishwasher, air conditioner, 825 square feet quiet when I want it to be apartment in an extremely great location. I can even deal with an outage here and there, but it’s gotten progressively worse this summer.
For the past 6 weeks entire apartments have been dumped in the back ally, we’re talking couches, beds, chairs, desks, lamps, anything and everything… now, is this eviction? or bugs?
My neighbor abandoned her place, there’s still almost everything in there. I share a wall with this unit. I decided not to pay July’s rent until the office explain some things to me. They have been completely unresponsive.
Read the lease, i can’t believe someone can actually expect this garbage to stand in a civil court. My understanding is the building is on the market now. I just met a guy who moved in on a month to month literally today, the same day they spray for bed bugs.
I have complied with their strict cleaning guidelines for a spraying overnight. They gave a list of what to do, by the way, at 8pm the night before they said spraying was scheduled.
Wish me luck.

If I could give zero stars, I would. This is the worst apartment complex I have ever lived in — EVER. It’s a bad sign when you show up to the place with your U-​Haul after driving cross country and the current residents (soo nice, I loved my neighbs) are telling you, «DO NOT LIVE HERE.» Being new to town and with a truck and two car loads full of our belongings, we were not in the mood to try to find a new apartment so we sucked it up and moved in. Big mistake.
We didn’t even sign our lease for the first couple of weeks we lived there — the building manager kept saying she was «busy» and failed to set up a time to go over the lease. Surprise surprise she was fired a few months later. While we lived there we dealt with NO FREE WI-​FI (we had to get internet through Comcast even though they «claim» to have free Wi-​Fi), broken AC, defunct heat, and an infestation of box elder bugs. A neighbor got his car stolen and they leave the front door wide open for «prospective renters.» Um helllo, this place is right on Colorado Blvd. Pretty sketch. We had people knocking on our door right off of the street selling magazines, books, etc. All of these problems were brought up to the manager AND the property company and they never returned our calls/​e-​mails nor fixed the problems.
The apartment unit itself was ok — they call it an «apartment flip» (I guess the building used to be bad) but pretty much all they did was paint the walls, slap on new carpet (horrrrible job), and add stainless steel appliances to the kitchen. However, the hallways are disgusting (the stairwells have cracked linoleum and century-​old caked on dirt), and the ancient elevator never worked. Perhaps they could have fixed these things before installing stainless steel fridges?
Bottom line is, we broke our lease and moved out early. I would NEVER recommend anyone to live here, due to the horrible management and unsafe living conditions.