The Granada on Hardy

living at granada is the WORST decision ive ever made. they over-​charge you for EVERYTHING (including an entire first month’s rent… the management gets around every loop hole in the lease and is beyond shady). i cleaned our apartment from top to bottom before i moved out, and they are charging me almost $ 200 for cleaning charges. even though its a convenient location, it is not worth the poor management, the ridiculous prices, and the hassle of living there. do yourself a favor and put in the extra effort to find a DIFFERENT place to live!

Unfortunately, this isn’t going to be a good review. First the good — the location is great, right on campus and a great place to meet people. Rooms are clean and everything is new, or was a year ago.
Now the rest — the staff are hopeless, they NEVER get back to you. Phone calls are unanswered, messages ignored. To get broken items replaced it takes weeks and weeks of your time when you could be studying.
It’s expensive, really expensive and make sure you read the contract carefully. It caught us out because the things we were told by staff were not the same as in the contract and when I finally tracked someone down they said it was a legally binding contract and they’d sue if needed.
We were told, and agreed to, $ 950 per month. But we came to find that it wasn’t $ 950 per month. It was 12 payments of $ 950 over 11 months! So they snuck an extra payment in there and it’s upfront as well!
Overall, it’s a nice place in a good student location, way over-​priced, the full-​time staff are poor. Your kid will like it, but you won’t and he or she will leave for more reasonable, better managed accommodation.

The biggest problem with the Granada is the management staff, they simply cannot be relied on. My frustration started with broken items in the room that were supposed to be fixed upon move in, and after several phone calls to the office without the issues being dealt with, I only found success in actually taking the broken items down there myself. I was extremely upset with spending over 1000 dollars a month for my room, without good service to match. I decided to get out of my lease one semester early for exactly that reason.
My experience was during their first semester, but I still have friends in the complex with similar frustrations. Save yourself some money and prevent headaches, live elsewhere.

So the first review is from the management staff, just saying…
The Granada is in a super convenient location and really beautiful and nice; however, I would never say that it is truly worth the $ 1000 – 1200 they charge for a smallllllllllllll room and included utilities + $ 25 (will be $ 50 next year) for pain in the ass tandem parking (you’re not guaranteed to share with someone you live with, in fact many don’t) + a $ 10 – 40 «premium» for a «mountain» view aka a view of trash on a roof of the neighboring apartment. and NO balcony (Sorry Granada, but this is pretty hard to compete with considering nearly all neighboring apartment buildings have these) However, I don’t think any of this will be changing anytime soon. In fact, rates are going up!
This place definitely got off to a rough start and I considered many times withholding my rent in a escrow account until everything we were promised (parking, cable tv, enet issues, tanning beds, etc) was fulfilled. I didn’t sign my lease to have these things provided 2 months into my lease, but upon my lease start date. And some things they pitched to us upon signing our lease were not provided — such as the «Bum a Bike» program and a market downstairs that was expected in the «fall» and still isn’t there.
Oh, and if you live here, be careful about parking issues. They show NO mercy when towing your car even if they know who you are and that you live there and own the car and can call and warn you. And it’s their fault when they tow it because they didn’t assign parking for the first 2 – 3 weeks. 2 out of my 4 roommates have had their cars towed — one due to them not assigning parking prior to us moving in. One of them due to her having no choice but to park in an unassigned spot due to a lost key and was towed 30 minutes after parking there with NO warning. Also, there aren’t enough parking spots for each resident so many are forced to park in the university parking lot across the street. (think: $ 275 for a semester night parking pass) I find it weird that they know our numbers when we are an hour late on rent, but somehow don’t when they’re going to tow someone’s car…
There’s probably around 200 residents so it’s easy to meet neighbors and other people in the building. It’s loud on the weekends, but being a student, I definitely don’t mind that! You really have to work hard though to make the living room and stuff «homey and cozy» as the wood floor and black furniture make it a little cold feeling. The study room has came in handy as well. However, they suck royally at keeping paper in the printer.
Oh, and order checks before moving in. If you pay your rent online there’s a $ 20 convenience fee!

The Granada on Hardy is a horrible place to live. Besides being the MOST expensive place to live near sdsu, it is always loud, the walls are thin as paper, the market that was supposed to be open on the main floor is still under construction, there is no bum a bike package, there is a terrible ant problem since the day of move in, it is always disgustingly dirty, the other day someone literally shit in the hallway and someone stepped in it and it was all over the place. There is usually three different piles of throw up on any given weekend. There is no place for visitors to park if they come to see you, if they park in the garage you WILL be towed without a doubt. They over charge for electricity. The cops are basically the security in this place and hand out tickets and MIC’s like there is no tomorrow. People smoke cigarettes and pee yes, pee in the elevators. The management here is a joke, literally. Honestly don’t waste your time or your money you will regret it.