Bella Vita Condos

If you want to live in a quiet, clean neighborhood with parking that is close to your home, don’t live here.
Your noise level will vary depending on your neighbors. My area was mostly quiet until a new guy moved in right next to me a few months ago. On an almost daily basis I can hear and feel his music through the wall. It’s so loud that it shakes my desk. I have asked him several times to quiet down, and he says he will but then he doesn’t. The same guy will also stand outside my apartment door yelling into a cell phone and smoking. The smoke gets into my apartment, which is not fun. Why he can’t smoke and make calls on his own patio like a normal human being is a mystery to me. The HOA has so far done nothing about any of this.
I see trash bags left out in front of apartments on a regular basis, even though there is a rule specifically stating we cannot do that. Plus, the trash bin is just a few steps away.
The parking setup is the worst of any apartment complex I have ever lived in. Whoever designed the layout of this complex did a terrible job. Our assigned spot is two buildings away from where we live. My wife and I use separate cars, and finding an open space for the second car that is anywhere near our apartment is not possible most of the time. Often I find myself having to park about eight buildings away, regardless of the time of day.
The design of the 1 bed, 1 bath, 700 square feet apartment I rent feels cramped. I wish that the kitchen didn’t have a wall separating it from the living room. I have lived in apartments with similar dimensions that were more open than this one. Also, having the laundry machines out on the patio is a very strange design choice. It’s not fun doing laundry in the summer heat. Why they didn’t just make it part of the kitchen is beyond me.
It’s not all bad though. The complex is located near a lot of stores, restaurants, and casinos. Rent is not too expensive, and so far it has not gone up. I rarely see any bugs. Most of Bella Vita’s employees are friendly and helpful.

Unless you enjoy living with cock roaches …

I have lived here for three years with mild issues. Do NOT rent from a woman named Shanna Huong. She has laid in waiting until I moved out of my unit (5008 River Glen Dr. Apt 134), to try an swindle me out of $ 1600! When I moved in there was mold, it was added to the lease, never fixed. After 6 months they laid carpet on our nice wooden floors and my roommate didn’t want to live there, she moved. The closet doors couldn’t fit after the carpet installation and she said she would get them cut. Never happened.
I gave a 2 month notice. She asked me every week if I was gone… I was late one time with rent 2 yrs ago.
Anyway, I had the carpets cleaned for $ 95, I painted the walls and the doors, I asked to replace the screen that had been ripped by my friends kittens :/​. And because I told her about the kittens one time stay, she’s charging me a $ 500 fine on top of the pet deposit bc I didn’t let her know I had pets… I didn’t have pets. So that right there shows she wants to scam me. I did a «walk thru”(I voiced it as a walk thru in many text messages and was taking it seriously) she sent her soon to be ex husband (who now will not answer my texts) to do the «walk thru.» I specifically took him around to all the parts I knew were damaged and he checked off on all of them and said it wouldn’t cost me more that $ 50 for repairs… LIAR! This woman has no money and wasn’t prepared for my move out so she needs to cover 2 months of rent so she slapped me with this ridiculous bill! And since these properties are individually owned, the HOA will do NOTHING for you. The whole complex is a scam. I thought I was safe and I spoke with this woman frequently and got along with both of them for three years. I had to get a lawyer to clear this up. DO NOT MOVE HERE. I know it’s nice, gated, cheap, well maintained, but you need to take video of everything. Even when you pay rent, video it. Pictures do nothing and trust is an absent trait here.

Cockroach Infested!
Stay Away !!
There is no killing them off. They only move around.
Beware of shady landlords renting infested units!

OK, I managed to kill off all of my cockroaches, with the help of an exterminator who actually does German cockroaches. For anyone’s future reference his name is Danny and his phone number is 702−215−1991.
Apparently my neighbhors had told me they had these cockroaches as well, so I understood that the building walls will cause the creatures to cross over non-​stop.
Its possible that something I did (inserting boric acid into the wall crevices behind the kitchen) actually kills whatever cockroaches try to move over to my place from theirs. Or its possible that everything I did on my side of the wall killed em all.
But they’re gone, for me.
Given that, I’m happy with the place.
My landlord == so so. I’m renting from the condo owner and she tries to charge $ 100 per instance of sending someone over. So because of that I’m avoiding getting the bathroom electrical outlets fixed (seem to have burnt out from my girlfriend’s hair dryer) until a few more things get messed up.
Some oddball neighbors, one of whom I can’t stand and always wants to talk to me, but I guess that’s going to happen anywhere. Not that big a deal.
A few neighbors who leave their dogs on their balcony and would bark nonstop which I could hear from my apartment. Seems to have stopped lately, or I’ve stopped noticing.
Sometimes guests will find it annoying that there can be a long guest-​line driving in (it is a gated community though you could park across the street and just walk on in with no problem, so its also kinda fake security hah).
The one thing to look out for is at least in my apartment the AC unit is horrible. It works well enough but you have to be fine erring on the side of too much energy use. Its loud so when I had some phone interviews while job hunting, I’d have to turn it off.
That said, its pretty much a 4 star place to live IMO. Not super fancy, not too bad, especially sans the cockroaches. But lesson learned, I definitely know to look for creepy stuff like that before I sign an apartment lease!

Great community. Been here 2 years now and no problems. Clean, safe, quiet with a pretty good mix of people here. Great location near the strip and you get a lot of bang for your buck here. Secure gated community with 6 swimming pools, 6 tennis courts and 3 fitness centers. Palm trees everywhere and the community is very well maintained. Don’t let the idiots complaining about speed bumps scare you away. Come check out Bella Vita and you will be very impressed with it for the prices they are asking.

NEVER live here. For me to leave the house I have to go over 24 speed bumps!!! It’s completely ridiculous. Plan to have your car ruined. There are 1200 condos and about 2 staff… totally understaffed. They will not let you park close to your condo. so plan to walk! I even told them that I’m a single female and don’t feel safe at night and they still wouldn’t let me have a parking spot close to my condo. I cannot leave here any faster!