Parkside Terrace

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DO NOT MOVE HERE.
THE HORRIBLE PROBLEMS WITH THIS PLACE. — COCKROACH INFESTED. FLEAS EVERYWHERE. NO PARKING FOR GUESTS. ITS LITERALLY IMPACTED WITH CARS AND PEOPLE FOR A PLACE THAT ONLY SERVES 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS. COPS HERE EVERYDAY. MOLD AND MILDEW.
ITS LITERALLY A SANCTUARY FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR LIVING STANDARDS AND HYGIENE.
When i first moved in this rachet place, it was because it was low cost (1200 – 1300), convenient to the 101 high way, its pet friendly, and i thought the place was oddly charming with the woodsy feel.
First month within living here. found cockroach traps on the top cabinets of the kitchen. WTF. there’s literally like 20 dead cockroaches. If I wasn’t desperate I would’ve left in a heart beat, But considering how i already paid 2000. I was stuck until i could be able to save enough money for a new place.
Walking to my apartment after work at night and i see my neighbors window. There’s F**king over 30 baby and huge cockroaches just chilling around their window. I honestly should’ve have taken a picture of it but I know for the residents it would’ve been super creepy, and rude. I don’t even know why i spent my time counting them honestly because I should’ve known this place is disgusting.
I have dogs that live with me. I don’t use frontline or any flea products because i never really had a problem with them until i moved here. Both my dogs had 10 fleas + EACH and the dog park that they have here is not only infested with fleas but there’s holes surrounding the gates where dogs can escape. Whats the point of having a dog park if you can’t maintain it and there’s beer cans and litter across the park.
PARKING ISN’T EVEN EXISTENT HERE. I can’t even have a second car here without finding parking 3 or 4 blocks down the apartment complex. SERIOUSLY I WAS WALKING BY AND I SEE THIS APARTMENT WITH 2 BUNK BEDS IN THE LIVING ROOM. OMFG. THAT STILL DOES NOT EVEN JUSTIFY THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN A 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT. 4 KIDS WITH 3 ADULTS, OR SEEING 2 KIDS AND 3 ADULTS. I EVEN SAW 5 PEOPLE SLEEPING IN THE LIVING ROOM. (I Understand the «you gotta do what you gotta do» motto but SH*T its like a popular trend that most if not everyone does HERE)
The apartment complex literally has a mold and mildew everywhere and i had to buy so many products with air purifiers, mold suctions, and a bunch of cleaning products to keep up with this place. I have only lived here for a couple months and i am counting down the days until i get my tax refund to get out of this sh*T hole. I have never had bronchitis in my life and after moving here I“VE HAD IT TWICE! NOT KIDDING!
I wanted to give them half of a star. for decent staff and the place being pet friendly.
1 STAR is me actually being NICE.
TIPS– don’t move here, I understand downtown san jose and pet friendly and low cost but honestly spend the extra couple hundreds on a place where you feel safe and clean. (HONESTLY, I SPEND 200 FOR CLEANING PRODUCTS, COCKROACH TRAPS, AND PET FLEA MEDICATIONS. EVERY MONTH ANYWAY).
I saw this complex with a couple years of old reviews so I wanted to do MY PART IN THE COMMUNITY AND HELP THOSE IN NEED WITH A LONG, DETAILED AND UPDATED REVIEW. SERIOUSLY COMING FROM A PERSON WHO DOESN’T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO FEEL THE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THAT I HAVE DEALT WITH LIVING HERE.
PLEASE DON’T LIVE HERE.

I have lived here for three years. I moved here because it was close to SJSU, the rent was low, and pet friendly. My first year was not bad, there were no problems and the neighbors were great. But after that things slowly started to go down hill. The main thing I hated the most was parking. When ever I came home from work, someone would be parked in my parking spot. Usually all you have to do is honk your horn and someone will come out immediately and move it but then you will get the ones that don’t come out and then your left with no parking spot. Vanessa the property manager was awesome though. She will always try to help you, if it wasn’t for her I probably would of left Parkside sooner. Overall Parkside was OK :)

This is the perfect place to live if you’re an orphan and have no friends!
When my boyfriend first moved here it wasn’t so bad. Lately it’s just been *awful*! Noisy people, kids with no sense running out in front of cars, drunken disputes at midnight, dysfunctional neighbors trying to scam free rides, people throwing their trash on the lawn, horrible displays of parenting, people throwing their 40’s on the curb…
Even when it wasn’t so bad there was still the sidewalks in all the wrong places leaving you to run across the muddy lawns which they over water *all the time*, random acts of stupidity in the neighborhood like car accidents and pedestrians getting hit, the constant police presence, the dumpsters in all the wrong places, the mile high speed bumps and the Kellogg processing plant across the canal.
All of which pales in comparison to the almost criminal lack of parking. Frankly, I have better luck getting parking in San Francisco. There are eleven — count them — ELEVEN guest parking spots for a complex with more than 150 units! Street parking is a joke, meaning guests have to be «ferried» in from up to a half a mile away! When I come to visit my boyfriend I always check out of the guest parking. Over the last year I’ve managed to park there three times. That’s it. Just three. And I’m one of the lucky ones!
And when someone parks in the one reserved spot per apartment it takes *FOREVER* to get the idiot towed! It seems like everyday somebody’s out honking their horn to get someone out of their spot. It makes for a less than lovely symphony of horns late at night.
Management for the most part is irritating as hell. There are angry notes taped to the door *all the time* most of which never apply to my boyfriend. They range from demanding forms be filled out to «reminding» people that dealing drugs is against their lease agreement. When something needs to be fixed it can take a month to get it done!
One the plus side, the actual layout of the apartments is decent. If they hadn’t skimped on the bathroom fixtures it would have been much better. Vanessa in the office really is quite helpful and nice. The main handyman is quite competent and friendly, it’s just unfortunate both of them are so overworked and don’t seem to get the resources they need to provide the best possible service. Not their fault.
There’s a good fast Mexican restaurant in the neighbor with friendly staff and there’s the cheapest gas in the city nearby. That’s about it.
I would have given this place more stars — because until recently it was just another apartment complex — if not for the parking situation. I cannot stress how bad the lack of parking here is. When I drive in from the East Bay to see my sweetie the last thing I want to do is spend twenty minutes dealing with parking after an hour on the road! And that’s on a good day!
There’s a lot of unused space tucked here and there in the complex, including a never used park behind the office. Why not tear that up and make more guest parking? Change the name from Parkside Terrace to Parkingside Terrace if you have to, but make it so people can visit!
Hasta la vista Parkside Terrace! My boyfriend’s moved and I can finally stop being annoyed by you!

if i could rate 0 stars i would. THIS PLACE SUCKS. its low income housing so you have a ton of «PEOPLE» w/​their kids running around at all times of the night in the middle of the street. Cars rolling through w/​their stereos BLARING rattling my windows. The office staff completely SUCKS, they never do anything you can complain and complain and NOTHING will ever be taken care of. Parking is miserable never any guest parking because everyone has like 10 people living with them but only 1 parking spot to every apartment.. Theres no dishwasher in the apartment. The walls are VERY THIN you can never open your windows b/​c your apartment will smell like marijuana or you’ll hear screaming kids, or latin music. ITS RIDICULOUS. and the office staff just sits back and lets it happen. If you live here and you’re going to talk to anyone in the office i’d suggest Vanessa she’s the best person to talk to. besides that if you can avoid it DO NOT EVER MOVE HERE, THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE.
— — UPDATE 8.20.07 — -
If I could give negative stars I would. This is the only place that keeps getting progressively worse. I am lucky enough to get a new neighbor. A new neighbor who puts subs against the wall we share and blares his music all hours of the day & night. So much that my picture has fallen off the wall and luckily I caught it before it hit me in the head. I can’t even hear my T.V. this f*cker is so loud. Security has been called lets say 6 times. Cops have been here twice for the music & marijuana smell coming out of his windows. Management has been up 5 times to tell him to turn down his music, and still nothing has changed!! He keeps getting complaints and management does absolutely nothing. We have a new guy working in the office his names Chris. I think he’s high as a kite every time i see him he’s lazy and no good.*update– he’s fired* Every time he comes up to tell our neighbor to be quiet the neighbor asks him who called on him and he said «Well they didn’t leave a name or number, but If i’d have to guess I’d say it was them» and points to our door. I want to slap the SH*T out of him he’s so stupid. Our management tells our neighbor that we’ve called security on him. Which i think is downright WRONG. And they do nothing about the noise. No warnings, no threats of eviction and he’s had 12 complaints probably in the last 3 weeks.
***UPDATE 9/​20/​07***
New management has come, haven’t really noticed any changes though but its only been a few weeks. Vanessa is still here *hooray!* and just recently someone has been parking in my spot and everytime i get home, they’re in my spot so I have to wait 30 min for a tow truck or for the idiot to notice and move out of my spot. I’ve had alot of trouble with the parking before the person who parks next to me has hit my car and left scratches on it because the spots are so small and her car is so big. But the old management never gave me a new spot. I called today and talked to Vanessa just asking if Security could check when they patrol to make sure only my car was there. Suprisingly I got a new spot thats closer to my apartment! Hopefully it works out now. This is AMAZING! Before when I complained to old managemnt (jerks!) I was told I can’t have another parking spot. So maybe something has improved…
***Update Nov 5^th 07 ***
New manager Alice is really nice and seems to care about the problems at the apartment. New maintenance is FAST and super friendly. Besides all of that I’m still having problems with my next door neighbor extremely loud music all the time, he parks in everyones spots, speeds around the parking lot with his music blaring. Also my downstairs neighbor is constantly blaring her music and T.V. and has a ton of people in her apartment (they are all 1 bedrooms) and she takes up all the friggin parking. Basically management and maintenance got better but nothing else did. The neighbors still SUCK and nothing has been done yet to solve the problems. I still would rate 0 STARS and say STAY AWAY, in fact RUN AWAY and Don’t look back!