Marina Park Condo Association

The people are lovely. The Management does not do what is right. Bear with me
My family lived in Marina for 18 months. The community of people who live there are awesome. We loved being downtown and felt the area was nice and quiet. The condos are spacious for the price. We also loved the guest parking.
Now, the bad… after our first year we had two bikes stolen from the «secure» parking garage. «Security» didn’t see these things taken. A cop across the street caught a homeless man with my husband’s bike. There is always a «security guard» working the lobby AND lots of security cameras where they can watch what is happening from the lobby. They can even zoom in on things they see or move a camera to take a look. My husband is a traveling music teacher (12 schools) and a gigging musician. He was loading and unloading equipment a lot. One Sunday morning as we were heading to church this past February 2015, we noticed that our SUV had been burglarized. All of my husband’s instruments, sound equipment, our kids’ DVDs, even the manual and registration were removed from the glove box. I immediately called the front desk. An older man had been working and told me that he saw someone taking equipment out of my car. That the guy was in a white car. Hmmmmmm. Why didn’t he call us? The police? So I told him I was coming to the lobby to watch film. And there it was. About 7 cameras caught the fancy white car with no plates pull in and steal all of our stuff. The driver actually used a key to get into the garage that ONLY SDG&E has access to. Odd. Then he drives around and the passenger gets out and smokes an entire cigarette as he looks into the elevator. Hmmm. Why didn’t «security» come and tell him that he cannot smoke in the garage? Then 7 minutes of tape mysteriously go «missing». The next thing you see is the passenger loading our things into his car and the car drives off. The whole thing took awhile and nobody even walked down to see what was going on. The entire time I was up watching tape in the lobby their shift was changing. The two lobby agents continuously spoke Spanish to each other so I could not understand them.
I called the police. They sent a detective over. We never heard anything from him. Another failure.
We spoke to the Marina Park Property Management company and they suggest that we stole our own stuff? Really? The guy is on camera! Your security guy zoomed in on him! That man does not live in my home. So insulting. They were not nice. Our renter’s insurance didn’t want to pay because it was in our parking garage and they don’t consider it «in the residence»…$ 10,000 worth of equipment gone. So much for a secure parking garage.
They even stole our garage clickers. Therefore they can now come and go as they please. The HOA even made us spend $ 150 for new clickers. Ridiculous. For THEIR mistake. Seriously, security. You have ONE JOB!!! Nope. They just sat and WATCHED US GET ROBBED. And they know it too!
DISGUSTING. We did not renew our lease. It’s very sad.
Nobody called us to check on us or even apologized. It was a major loss. Affected our income and sense of safety. It was a violation and they just did not care. Inexcusable.

Here’s an updated review two years later. Good news: the Quiet Zone is now in effect so no more train horns at night. The Federal Courthouse construction is now complete so no more construction noise. They’ve replaced the common area carpets so the slight musty odor in the hallways is gone, along with perfumed chemicals which attempted to hide the odor.
Bad news: still no community BBQs. Padres still suck.

Great place to live. It’s quiet, very clean, free guest parking and the staff is great. The only thing it doesn’t have is a place to BBQ. Oh, one bad thing is the Federal Courthouse getting built is real noisy during the day. I know when it’s 7:00 AM every morning, but Sunday b/​c that’s when they start.

I LOVE living here! If you are lucky enough to find a vacancy, it’s a wonderful place. It’s walking distance to everything downtown, yet quiet since most of the residents are older. There is a 24 hour security guard at the front desk, so you feel safe. They keep everything in impeccable condition around here, a wonderful place to live!