Palmilla Villas Apartments

If I could give zero stars I would. This was my roommate and I’s first apartment and we still knew how screwed up it was. The prices are inexpensive, but for good reason. The initial deposit we were suppose to pay they doubled it last minute because we were first time renters. They never let us know in the beginning that this would change the pricing at all. We are starving college students so that was a major inconvenience to our budget. Secondly the apartment’s equilibrium was way off. When you walk into the apartment its unbalanced and the kitchen floor sinks in. They issue you two parking passes and one covered parking spot. Parking here is INSANE. They have about 10 guest parking spots for the entire complex (theres probably over 200 tenants). The people who live at the complex park in the guest parking spots. Theres barely any parking as it is so it makes it extremely difficult to have people over. You have to park two streets away and walk half a mile if you’re having people over. Your car will get towed. IT WILL GET TOWED. I parked MY car (license plate was registered with the front office) in MY covered parking spot and it got towed over night and I had to pay $ 500 to get it back. The neighbors are extremely rude. The kids light off fire rockets, through candy, trash, and rocks on our balcony, and they are EXTREMELY loud. They also stole my roommates cell phone. The parents don’t care about what their children do so they run loose and are very disrespectful. The worst part was that our apartment was INFESTED with rats, mold, cockroaches, and fleas. Which is odd considering we cleaned twice a week, took the trash out constantly, and always kept the kitchen spotless. The rats came in through holes in the kitchen and when we called the front desk, they barely acted like it was an issue. It was like it was normal for them. We had to call twice before we got anyone up there (and it took two weeks for pest control). The cockroaches were never taken care of properly. Oh yeah, the rats would try to scratch their way in through the ceiling. The mold was in my bathroom in the master bathroom. It started to grow exponentially on the top of the ceiling and walls around the shower, behind the bathroom door, and also above each rooms’ window sills. When we showed them, they shrugged it off and said it was mildew. No, this was a serious form of mold. We both suffered from major sickness during this time. They FINALLY got a specialist in there who had to go through the beams of the walls and suck the mold out with his high tech machines. As soon as the mold was gone, we felt 100% better. They also didn’t professionally clean the apartment for us and then tried to charge us to professionally clean it. We were also there for only 6 months and they tried to charge us nearly $ 300 for all new paint. Julia is a dingbat. She is annoying and never has a solution to the problem. Andrea gets the short end of the stick. She should be managing a different complex. Not a crappy one like this. For our first apartment this sucked. It was inexpensive but it’s not worth getting sick because of mold, rats, and cockroaches, getting your car towed, and dealing with bad neighbors. So bad. Never ever move here. Ever.

I lived at Palmilla 6 years ago when I first moved out. The only reason I’m writing a review now is because based on the previous review, zip has changed.
The low prices DO NOT make up for the stress you’ll have because you live here. I had my laundry stolen from, really scary people showed up when we had people over one night, cockroaches, mice, flies, and mold were on the regular. One long night all the nearby streets were blocked off because there was a gun fired in the alleyway from a party and people were leaving with their faces beaten up. My roommate was robbed one night on his way home from work. The 3^rd day we lived there the building that was in the alleyway (before those nice apartments were built) blew up from a meth lab. There were signs about the exposed gases and the next day the kids from Palmilla were playing in the glass. Our cars received lots of abuse from the kids playing on them and from getting towed multiple times.
We thankfully got along with our neighbors. However, the neighbors woke up everyone when they were fighting and one parent honked their horn every school day until their child got in the car. The pool is always cold and the hair collects in wads at the bottom. When we finally moved out there was a problem with the deposit 2 years later. Without any prior notices, we owed money but nobody knew so it went on 2 peoples credit report.
Palmilla is great for those that have time to kill bugs, watch your laundry for thief’s, and if you want to visit a tow yard quite a bit. You can only go up from Palmilla thankfully!
Look into low income housing if Palmillas prices are your make or break.

I just moved in July 14. First the model they showed was very nice, the leasing office is nice, the workout room is nice. I was originally supposed to be across the complex right next to a laundry room and pool. I showed up on July 7 when I was originally supposed to sign the lease and get the keys, apparently no on thought to contact me and tell me the prior tenant had no vacated the apartment yet and I could not move in until July14. I had to begged my landlord to let me stay another week and paid a fine amount of money to get him to do so. I arrived at 10 am on July 14 and was told they just fumigated the apartment and we could not move in until after 2 pm. Well at 3 pm my started the move in and the apartment was crawling with live and dead cockroaches, the doors look like they have been kicked in and instead of being replaced were just patched up, the back door frame is damaged and the fix was to put a metal sheath over the door handle so it would look more secure. Almost 2 weeks, still have cockroaches, they are coming July 28^th to re-​fumigate, wiring for cable/​internet is one wire leading into the master bedroom from outside, cable must be run from there into 3 other rooms, the backyard area is flooded and infested with fleas, my dogs have never had fleas and are now red and blotchy from all the bites and scratching and flea treatment on them is not working, the parking is a cluster. As soon as my lease is up I am looking elsewhere to get out of here, there is the smell of marijuana being smoked every night, people hanging out in the parking lot at all hours of the night. Just a nightmare!

I recently moved into Palmilla apartments and I have to say they were one of the friendliest Management offices I have been at. They were so helpful with finding the apartment that would be best for my family. After moving in we had some minor problems with our stove and the maintenance team was there to fix it immediately. They are all very professional and it has been a great experience living here. We hope to make this our home for many years to come.