The Enclave At La Frontera

I rented on an 18 month lease which ended in late June. While I was searching for the absolute cheapest rental in round rock, the exercise has taught me to never compromise on living area and has driven me to purchase a house far earlier than expected. In that regard I would like to thank the Enclave.
The maintenance staff and management were nothing short of stellar, and I really mean that. Amy Perez the property manager was quite helpful, even with trivial items, but the residents are a completely different issue. Regular noise distractions included: Skateboards down the hallways at all hours, stereo’s blasted out front at all hours in all parking areas, regular arrests in the parking lot along with a general lack of regard for human life amongst most the residents. Also: Huge trash piles in common areas and youths wanting to be gangsters abound here.
If, out of pure fiscal necessity, you must rent here, I will offer two pieces of advice: Get on the third floor no matter what, and do not rent on the front side where La Frontera Blvd is. Fail on either of those and you will have a difficult time sleeping.

I have been living in their one bedroom unit here and it’s perfect. I love the layout it is spacious and open. The staff here is great and and very friendly, especially Melissa and Blake. Any maintenance request I submit is done in a timely manner and when I moved in my apartment was spotless. I only wish the grounds were a little bit nicer but I know they are working steadily to improve it. I am very glad I decided to call this place home. Thank you for all you guys do in the leasing department! You guys are great!

I lived at Enclave at La Frontera for a little more than a year. I had a job up north which was convenient. Now that work downtown, I live off Riverside.
I enjoyed my 1br/​1bath. I enjoyed the fact that we had a garage, garbage chutes, clean pools, and neighbors who mind their own business. And, the on-​site gym and indoor-​basketball court was cool, too.
The office staff was nice. I never had any problems with them. Of course, I always paid my rent on time and I never had any real maintenance issues.
My lack of a star is because of the lack of cameras in the garage and the small parking in the garage. I stepped into my apartment for a few minutes to unload groceries. I had skateboards attached to my rack in which kids stole all of my decks. These kids ride up and down the garage with bikes and skateboards like it’s a playground. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if you ran one of them over going up/​don the garage or backing out of your spot. Their parents don’t care. A lot of these kids take their bikes and boards to the top floor and smoke dope and cigs, spray paint the structure, and throw off beer bottles from recycling. Have fun with that.
Let me reiterate, the garage has small parking. Don’t be surprised if someone hits your car and doesn’t leave a note. Spots are too compact, I had to park on a higher floors since no one wanted to walk further then they had to.
In learning to park in higher floors, I didn’t have anymore issues with the garage.
Again, ⁴⁄₅. Would have been 5 if it weren’t for hoodlum kids, and their negligent parents, small parking, and some security.

I’ve lived here for almost 3 years, first in a 1b/​1b and now in a 2b/​2b. I’ve never had any problems that weren’t addressed in a timely manner.
I chose here because the apartments are large, have crown molding, include washer and dryers, microwaves, dishwashers, and ice makers in the freezers. I’ve never had a problem getting any maintenance done on anything that needed it. It is usually rare that I have to call and request maintenance.
I have never had a problem with neighbors, and even living by the pool, still have minimal noise in my apartment.
My only complaints are the small parking spaces, the people are lazy and don’t put trash down the trash chutes, and I wish they would power wash all the hallways and parking garage.
Overall, I’ve not had a problem here an would recommend them to anyone.

I’ve lived here for a year and a half now. We’re moving out in August and it couldn’t come fast enough.
When we first moved in, everything was great. Maintenance responded in a timely manner, neighbors were decent, etc. About 6 months into it, with NO change in management, keep in mind, things started going downhill. This is the ghetto of Round Rock. You want nice Round Rock? Go live on the IKEA side, because this is the trashy section. Ten year olds screaming curse words outside with no adult supervision, and I’ve seen suspicious activity with some of the residents that hang around the parking lot at night. And maintenance takes days to respond.
The straw that broke the camel’s back for me is maintenance. Our tub’s plug has nothing to screw into (the bottom is completely corroded), so it has a difficult time holding in water. Naturally, I wanted this fixed, so I requested a work order. Three days later, maintenance comes out, looks at it, and leaves a note saying «Too damaged to fix.» But they refuse to replace it. So, I guess it’s showers for us on the nights where the plug won’t sit still to hold water? Ridiculous!
Another thing with maintenance are the dryers they put in these buildings. Our dryer tends to eat up delicate clothes. The washcloths, socks, underwear, etc. get caught between the barrel of the dryer and the part of the dryer that the barrel sits in, causing it to spin around and stretch out our clothes as well as tear holes in the thinner clothes and get rust spots EVERYWHERE. One day, the dryer stopped working. We requested a work order, which again took several days before we got a response. Came home one day to find a note that said «Will be back tomorrow to replace dryer.» Still couldn’t dry laundry until the damn thing was put in, so I waited. The next day, he comes in and replaces my old dryer with an even older one that had been broken before and just recently «fixed.» In other words, it «works.» It has been a couple months into this ‘new’ dryer, and it has eaten up even more of my clothes than the last one did. I have more clothes with rust spots and holes than I care to count, and that’s AFTER grabbing my delicates and making sure they don’t get tossed into the dryer. I hang those up to air dry, but of course some of them get overlooked.
Management has not changed, they’ve just gotten lazier and are too cheap to fix what needs to be fixed and replace what can’t be fixed with something better. The parking garage has so many poles to keep the structure standing, and I can count one in every three cars that has a giant pole-​sized dent in their car doors from trying to get out of the narrow spaces without hitting the cars next to them. Cars come flying down the garage, so you need to look out for that, too. The poles are constantly being repainted to cover the fact that they’ve been hit, but our floors need to be pressure washed (there’s gum and spit and who knows what else caked on the ground), our walls need to be cleaned instead of just being painted over, there’s cigarette butts everywhere, and neighbors use the floor underneath the stairs like a trash can for their beer bottles. DISGUSTING. Don’t move here. Save your money and your patience, and go somewhere else. This might be more affordable for you, but trust me, you’re better off paying more to live somewhere else.

I’m not one to write reviews… for ANYTHING, but I don’t want anyone to have to experience what me and my previous roommate have had to experience with this place, so here it goes!
I’ve lived in several apartment complexes since 2008, the majority of them being at least one year contracted leases. This was the first place I’ve ever lived in that I decided to re-​lease when the time came and I’ve deeply regretted that decision.
To be fair, I actually had a fairly good experience my first year here, but the issues started arising come the second term. First, my roommate at the time was moving out when our lease ended, so I found another roommate to take over. We gave notice that we would be releasing and we also all three went in to make sure everything was taken care of and that the transition was complete. We all signed a bunch of papers, negotiated the new 13 month lease, everything was good. I then call on the first of the following month (when me and my new roommates lease started) and got the total amount we owed with all of the concessions. Easy enough, we paid it life was still good. Then, come the very next month we received a notice on our door that the previous month was actually at a «month to month» rate and that no lease was ever signed (so we were charged and extra $ 100 and some odd dollars). Umm… what? Then what in the world did you have us sign when we came in? Why didn’t anybody inform me when I called on the 1^st of the previous month? Anyhow, we ended up paying it because to this day, Kevin, the manager has not gotten back to me and I’ll be damned if any of my records or credit is screwed up because of this place.
Throughout the entire lease we had several issues with our dishwasher (6 different times we had to make a work order on that alone I believe) and they still refused to replace it. We also had problems with our A/​C, you don’t even want me to get started on the plumbing with the sinks in the bathroom and they would always randomly shut off the water… in the entire complex. It was absolutely ridiculous.
But, what tops of everything is that they have now charged us over $ 1,000 in damages and fees. Almost $ 700.00 of that ALONE was to replace carpet in the entire apartment. Please note that we never had any pets, we rarely had guests over and it was only two women living in that one bedroom/​one study apartment, ever, throughout those 2 yrs and 2 months. It’s also the lowest grade carpet you can get, so how they (or anyone for that matter) can charge anyone even close to that much simply boggles my mind. They say that the apartment is 971 sq. feet, but subtract the foyer, the kitchen, the bathroom, and the room where the washer and dryer are… and you’re telling me what’s left after that is worth almost $ 700.00 to replace… really?
We are still trying to fight it, but I highly doubt they’ll budge on anything because that’s just how I’ve found them to run their business, in a very unethical manner. I sincerely hope this helps if your considering moving into this complex. The bottom line is, JUST DON’T DO IT.

I lived at the Enclave for 3 years.
The first year I moved there in 2007 I was completely new to the Round Rock/​Austin area. It was great and I didn’t have any problems. I really liked having a parking garage for my car as oppose to having it just sitting out in a parking lot.
On my second year living there I’m not sure what happened but things changed. My neighbors were the loudest neighbors I’ve ever heard. I could tell right away people moved above me because I did hear them stopping frequently. My neighbors were constantly hanging out on their balconies being loud at 1,2,3, even 4 in the morning. My third year living there things just got worse. I have to get up early for work and I had so many problems being woken up in the middle of the night and then I wasn’t able to go back to bed. My neighbors would even throw stuff off the balcony causing me not to want to go on my balcony because I didn’t want to see all the trash. I never made use of my balcony my third year there
To get any repairs done in the apartment you have to call several times. There were even times I would check when someone would come by to address my problems and there wasn’t even a work order for me. They’d have to create another work order for me and again I’d wait. It got to the point to where I’d rather just live with broken stuff then have to deal with calling the office over and over.
On the plus side the staff there is really nice. There have been many times I’ve expressed my bad opinions of the neighbors to the staff and they did seem very understanding. I do know on several occasions they did talk to my neighbors about keeping the noise down. And for the most part the noise would calm down for about a couple months but it never stayed that way. If a loud neighbor did move out another loud neighbor would just move in.

Pretty apartments; HORRIBLE people. My grandmother lived there for around two years. She was a PERFECT tenant; apartment was clean, rent always on time, never complained even though there are a lot of young people there and it’s noisy. Her health deteriorated and she needed some concessions regarding her lease. Not only were they completely inflexible, they were stone-​faced voice of the Man, not a smile or empathy. I can understand being held to a contract, but to treat good people in a downright UGLY manner is deplorable. Not an I’m sorry, but here is how it is. Not a smile or an I understand, let’s see if there’s anything we can do. Just stoic no after stoic no. A sad, pure lack of humanity in this place. Too bad, because the apartment was beautiful and reasonably priced, but not worth one’s dignity to be treated this way.

Lived at La Frontera for 4 years (2000 – 2004) in a 1BR/​1BA apt. Moved there b/​c was very close to Dell… so close I could see the building from my window… and yet so far away… crossing over I-​35 and exiting the RR campus took for ever (30 minutes sometimes!).
On the plus side:
* My rent was reduced 5 times. Started at $ 700+ and ended up at $ 500 something.
* I was the 1^st occupant. When I moved in everything was brand new, fresh and squeaky clean.
* Had plenty of shops (Kohl, Old Navy, World Market to name a few), restaurants, and convenience stores. Visitors could sleep at the brand new Marriott hotel right behind my complex. Used the nearby Starbucks and Schlotzky’s for coffee, breakfast and brunch.
* Friendly staff. Once we «joined forces» to rescue a kitten stuck under the hood. The lady ended up adopting it… Her sister «adopted» me a week later after miau-​ing constantly in front of my door .
* Little park with lighted trails and pond you could walk around in the evenings.
* Garage parking and indoor basketball court.
On the negative side
* ONGOING, never ending construction! The surroundings changed dramatically over the years, from new roads and ever-​changing traffic patterns to stop lights and signs being put in then taken out, to the most inconvenient of all: the building of an overpass to connect to I-​35. That killed the view (all I could see now was big block concrete). Could hardly open the window. Pounds of dust gathered on my balcony. The noise was terrible.
Not sure how much the rent is now and whether there is still some construction going on. If not this is a good starting place to live for singles working at Dell who don’t care about lots of traffic under their nose.