The Groves At Dublin Ranch

I have lived her for almost 3 years. And I read a lot of the reviews and I have not personally experienced most of them.
I do agree that before the new management came there was a lot of people smoking Weed and kids running around. And still there are shady people I see but it is a huge place and I think due fact that they have to rent to Lower lower income due standards Dublin puts up is part of that ! Personally for the amount of rent I pay if I knew they had such a high percentage of lower income housing rents I would not have rented here. But that is a personal choice and preference .
The new management is great !! Carlos is always helpful :)
Just a tip :
don’t park your bike lower levels and chain it to the rail mine was almost it stolen I caught the guy trying to cut it with wire cutters !! And I found out the cameras do not go far enough over.
They are quick with my repair issues overall I am very satisfied here. And I enjoy the monthly newsletter makes me smile .)
And the doggie pee in the elevator is not their fault it’s the pet owners fault I have called before and they cleaned up quickly the camera have helped with that greatly.
Thanks for making me feel safe I. My home

The apartment is a very nice size and the staff and maintenance men are pretty cool. The entire complex is gated so you need either a key or a code to get in. There’s a reasonable sized garage where you will most likely find a parking spot somewhere, if not there’s parking around the outside of the complex. They have public laundry machines you can use if you don’t have a dryer or washer machine. There’s a gated playground for little kids to run in. Gladly they also have security at night who starts patrolling around 9ish .
The reason why I gave it 3 stars is because of the on and off again cleanliness, the annoying people and children, and the fact that sometimes the staff can be unreliable.
There have been multiple times where I have walked into my elevator and there’s dog pee on the floor. It’s truly disgusting because sometimes you don’t realize there’s pee until the door is closed, and the stench rises to your nose, you look down and your standing right in it. The pool never seems clean enough to go into, don’t get me wrong people go into it all the time but it always seems like dirt floating around in the water so I stay away.
Kids from ages 5 – 16 run around the halls and pool area yelling, screaming, playing loud music, and skate boarding/​scootering/​bicycling. You really can’t go anywhere without bumping into one of them. Sometime the people here can look really sketch too. If an annoying person in our building hasn’t pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the night the senior residence across the street will most likely have and fire alarm off or a bright fire truck blinking. Until they finally put cameras in the stairwell people used to smoke weed in there.
Multiple times my mother and I have called the staff to have maintenance repair the public laundry machines but they never fix them. After living here for 5 years I know which dryer not to spend my money on 2 maybe 3 times. When I first moved in the noticed the carpet seemed weird because after only a few weeks it started to flatten around the areas that were commonly used. They don’t switch the carpet out unless if you’ve lived here for 7 years. We are also constantly calling the getting our dishwasher fixed, the maintenance men fix it but after a few months it breaks again. 2 of my bikes stolen, only one of them were left because the tire was already flat.

–5 stars. The worst apartments ever. They’re small and cheap. Mismatching paint on walls, different sized lightbulbs. Cheap flooring in kitchen and bathroom. Linoleum started lifting instantly and there was mold and mildew. Kitchen counter top lining is cheap, started peeling and falling apart. Dishwashers are cheap and do not wash at all, you hear water swishing around but it’s really not doing anything. Kitchen drawers are only being held by plastic tracks, tracks started to break. The sink garbage disposal is horrid, i am positive they have not once replaced them since this place was built. No good ventilation throughout the apartment. They constantly tape letters or memos on your door. They have a «monthly newsletter» which just gets thrown on the floor in front of your door. They are never in the office when you need them, and if they are, they are never helpful and whatever your issue is, it happens to be «out of their hands» or «the person who can help isn’t here». Pool is never cleaned. Laundry room is dirty, washer and dryer is cheap and it is never cleaned! It smells repulsive and the stench of mildew is too much to bear. FPI Management does the bare minimum to pass laws and requirements. They are money hungry assholes!
STAY AWAY!

Pathetic service over here. I call them within 2 hours after an ad was posted on Craigslist and they say it was gone. She then helps me schedule an appointment for 5PM to tour the apartments. I reach there at 5 and wait for a few minutes. They then inform me that you can’t get a tour at 5 or after 5. Pathetic customer service, I didn’t even bother inquiring about anything. Dodged a bullet here, please avoid.

I lived here from ¹¹⁄₀₆ — ⁷⁄₁₀ and it was nice in the beginning when it was brand new and practically empty. During the time here the fire alarm went off 3 times, all in the middle of the night. Scared the crap out of my kids! There were thugs all over the place, I can’t tell you how many times a fight would break out in the garage, which I lived right next to. I was seriously fearful for our safety half the time and was thankful for the iron clad door we had. We were at the pool once and some 20 something goth looking people were hanging out, and a girl took a DEAD BIRD out of a shoebox and threw it in the pool! I complained to the office and they did NOTHING. The grounds were always filthy, and the garbage room had trash LITERALLY waist high half the time because 1) the chute was often full or broken 2) people were too lazy to go to another trash room. Many times it was piled outside the trash room door. The people living there were disgusting. I would not reccomment this place to anyone!

All the other reviews are sooooo true! I can’t believe how well everyone summed up the experiences here. My husband and I have the same experiences…
Ok so yes it’s low income, well some of the units are, and even then it’s not worth it.
There is a false sense of security it’s supposed to be a «gated community» but the gates are always unlocked so what’s gated about it? Plus there is supposed to be a security guard and a number you can call half the time the number doesn’t work and the other half no one answers so what’s secure? You got me.
The place is always crawling with screaming hooligans running around; not just kids running around being kids, they are screaming as though they are running for their lives. Parents are never watching their kids whether it’s in the pool area, fitness room, or any where else on the property.
AND OH THE FIRE ALARMS if I never hear another one again it will be too soon; they go off all the time. If it’s not the fire alarm it’s the parking garage alarm. No one ever comes to check it or turn it off. When the fire alarm goes off in your building it goes off inside YOUR apt. It’s a nightmare it is so loud and disturbing and lasts 30 min (at least) at a time. Thank you idiots down the hall that cook fish at 11pm and smoke up the halls.
The worst part of Oak Groves is the management. They don’t give a F@*K. We’ve had issues with our neighbors and some how nothing gets done about their excessive noise and bouncing around.
The one positive experience we have had here is the maintenance. There is one man, I wish I knew his name, who is very nice and attentive. He always fixes our issues in a timely manner.
As for the rest of the staff… Tammy couldn’t manage a cold let alone a complex.

Do your self a favor and avoid this place!
Have been here for a little over a year and when I first moved in, I loved it! The pool was always clean, hot tub always in working order, and laundry machines were up and running. Now this place sucks. It was recently taken over by a new manager who thinks she will come down on this community with a Gadafi/​Hitler approach.
1. When she first started working here she sent out a ridiculous amount of notices. Everyday I get home from work and there is a piece of paper jammed in my door. She totally wastes paper!
2. We are only aloud ONE TABLE and TWO CHAIRS on our patios. No plants! No extra crap that you might not be able to store in these tiny apartments. Oh yea, and she has maintence walk around top floors to look down at lower patios.
3. Only one machine in each laundry room works. For example, you will have to wash your cloths in one room, and then go to a different room to dry them-​if the machine even drys them.
4. The custodians here will harass women, I have seen the head of custodians take pictures of unsuspecting women when they walk by. One time he watched me workout in the workout room. EW! They will follow you around the parking garage and try to talk to you. Its totally inappropriate.
5. You may pay 1200 a month for a one bedroom, but you will be living next to some wellfare hoodlums that have no respect for the property! I have been harassed multiple times by these men in the garage. And in the summer time they take up the whole pool area, yelling and screaming.
6. Kids smoke dope in the middle playground which is supposed to be for kids!
7. MIMI was right! The security guard is totally incapable of protecting any body and only follows females. He closes up the gym early and wont open it at the specified time because he wants to get to work late and go home early!
8. Management threatens tenants with police and eviction when a resident complains or asks for something to get fixed. Tammy Hartz is trying to scare her tenants, not make them feel comfortable.
9. Somebody keeps urinating in the elevators and halls. and nobody cleans it up!
10. Hot tub is no longer working and it’s usage is included in the lease! Management will not fix!!!
11. Management has nothing else to do but watch and harass everyone. Basically this place is worse than a jail cell and I shell out 1200 bucks a month to live in this shit hole.
12. You stuff will be stolen out of your car. My hub cabs were ripped off, my gas was stolen. When I got a locking gas cap the morons kept prying open my thing, trying to get gas! It’s like they forgot that they already tried my car last time!
GO down the street and pay the same price for luxury apartments in a gated community with all working amenities. I know thats where I am headed when my lease is up! I already called and complained to Tammy Hartz manager and we will see what good that does.
In the meantime. Whatever you do, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THE DUBLIN GROVES

I’ve lived in this complex for almost 2 yrs. It was great at first management were nice and friendly. The problems with this place are many. They all started when the new manager Tammy Hartz took over as the property Director. She is very rude and on a mission to get anyone she doesn’t like or her maintenance staff doesn’t like out of the building. I believe she is on some type of power trip. I know the management was somewhat lenient before but at least she was never rude and tried to work with her tenants. All the stupid letter’s littering our door telling us that they expect us to have nothing but patio furniture on our balcony and no clutter in our apartments. How about worrying about more important things like the kids doing drugs at the little playground next to the pool right in Tammy’s line of sight. The maintenance staff are rude and never fix anything properly. And if you are even remotely a good looking girl, they will harass you and take pictures of your ass whenever possible. Not a single laundry room on any of the 4 floors has a working washer & dryer. You wash on one floor and have to take it to a separate floor to dry. The hot tub has been out of commission for about 2 months now. The doors are always getting broken and half the time your key doesn’t work on any of the outer doors into the building. There is garbage littered all over the place and over grown bushes blocking walkways. The fitness room isn’t available at 7am like the lease agreement stated and the security guard who is essentially physically unable to protect anyone keeps trying to close the fitness room between 8 & 9 instead of at 10pm like the agreement also states. Not to mention the fire alarm that goes off at least 2 or 3 times a week for no apparent reason. And here she is worrying about what you have on your balcony or in your windows besides patio furniture and blinds. I unfortunately have several months left in my lease, but when it is up, I will most definitely not be renewing my lease. If I could break my lease without paying for it I would in a heartbeat!!! My fiancé and I will be making sure to check ratings on a place before we ever sign a lease again!

Lived in this place for 4 years, it all started out great until more and more folks started moving in, My car as well as my room mate’s cars were broken into several times in the tenant parking garage, management did nothing to help resolve the issue not help pay for any of the damages, had several flat tires from their construction crew leaving nails everywhere and yet again no help from the jokes they call management. Fire alarms pulled almost every night at all hours of the night, maintenance crew that decided they wanted to enter your apartment whenever they wanted to without notice. we had enough so we went into the office and advised the manager we would not be renewing our lease, oh what a nightmare that was… now they are trying to say we never gave notice or turned in the keys (both are completely false) you try to call and get whatever make-​believe issue they have resolved and you get hung up on, leave a message and never get a call back. STAY AWAY from this hell hole, you’re better off living in a cardboard box.