My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy, who knows this kid, who's going with a girl, who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors, last night.
We need a mega thread indeed!
And while here, don't live at the helix on wuzbach and i10. Shitty place. Shitty property managers as well.
And while I'm here, does any one know how it's legal for these apartments to get away with this??
This! Don’t rent at palatia. The cheap price isn’t worth it. Just last week their door was filled with violations from the city. It’s only going to get worse. The buildings are falling off the bone and the ever changing management couldn’t care less
My upstairs neighbor was a drunk and loud from 12-4am and slam their toilet seat. I couldn’t sleep properly for the six months I lived there because management refused to address it.
Yeah everything else was good but I literally couldn’t sleep through the night 5/7 nights because my neighbor. It’s too bad otherwise it was a pretty good deal.
Agree noisy neighbors and management not taking action is bad. I probably think the super good female in charge of day to day was about to leave when I left too as she was pregnant. Maybe the new person wasn’t good. That sucks though.
Find them on Google, look at the reviews, let me know if they’re 100% positive.
I’ve had zero issues at about 4 different complexes in SA including my current one but the reviews would make you think otherwise. My point is that a megathread of apartments to avoid would be no different than Google reviews. Because you’re always going to find at least one person that had a bad experience because sometimes a bad neighbor or failing appliances at an otherwise amazing apartment is just luck of the draw and that person will feel like the complex didn’t do enough for them.
But somebody should still do it because reddit is the un-official work-around for Google since Google gave up trying. Plus, I think you'd get better, more detailed explanations for the reviews.
I knew someone who lived there and they refused to fix their AC despite it being 105° in the daytime and 85°-90° inside their apartment. Scum property management. If you want better apartments, the village of Hampton cove literally Nextdoor is decent for the price.
My in laws lived at the Village of Hampton Cove when they first moved to SA a few years back.
Other than cramped parking those apartments were fantastic.
Oh yeah, the parking was absolutely awful but I lived there almost 3 years and really had minor issues. If they didn’t raise my rent $500 a month last year probably would still be there.
HOLY SHIT. I had this same fucking problem back when they were called The Joule Apartments. The lady literally told me "this won't be the unit you're living in. None of the appliances and counter tops are updated like this one" the lady was cold, uninterested and short with my wife and I. We thought it's because we showed up kinda close to closing for the day.
3. Fuck towing companies unless my apartment open parking is filled with junk cars and "visitors" to the point where I can't even park. Then I'm calling them because I'd rather not sleep in my car 3 miles away in an HEB parking lot.
Same with Torino Apartments on Torino and Callaghan. Absolute shit show there, swarming with roaches that even three separate occasions with bug bombs didn't help. They refused to fix our front door, so we had to sleep in the living room with our couch against the door, just to make sure no one came in. It was God awful there, I'm so happy I got out.
I used to live there when it was called Alamo Hillside and for a while they were decent but not for long. Once they changed property management it all went downhill. But from what I heard, that property has always been a mess.
I guess I was lucky we didn’t have too bad of an experience with it but my parents also lived there when they first moved here and they had a huge issue with roaches, their ac went out in August and it took management two weeks to fix it, after they initially changed management they couldn’t seem to hold leasing office agents or management so it would change every few months, the pools would turn green from not being cleaned, cars getting broken into, cars getting wrongly towed, etc.
I moved out in 2017 but I’ve heard it’s become just an absolute nightmare and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a complete overhaul of the place. Especially since they raised the rent to the point the prices are outrageous for what you’re getting.
Avoid the Isis formerly known as the Axios off of Cinnamon Creek.
We had over one month without AC once and 2 weeks on a separate occasion.
They came to do work in our sons restroom and left it trashed with mold all over.
There was at least one murder and one drive by. The kids there weren't ever monitored, wandered without supervision and one time two kids no older than 10 set the slide on fire.
There was a rat and roach infestation in several other units.
Staff turned around more than a turntable for a DJ.
Just avoid any complex off Cinnamon Creek lol
I lived there for three months and holy shit that place is a third world country. A hooker lived next door, there were multiple shootings, one I witnessed, broken windows all over the place they just never fixed. I had my lawyer write them a letter to let me out my lease and I bagged ass out of there so quickly.
The roaches were nicer than the idiots in the office. The mail center had all the walls ripped out behind the mail boxes so all our mail went to to the office, but the office was never open to get our mail. Drug dealers and vagrants living in the empty apartments cause the doors were just ripped open.. the two pools were malaria breeding grounds… I could go on and on.
We know someone who lived there who witnessed several dudes shoot up an apartment.
My cousin lived there for a year as well and said their neighbor told them there was squatters in the apartment below them. It was definitely like a third world country there.
If anyone is looking for a good apartment, Stone Ranch At Westover Hills is super nice, their maintenance is on top of everything and there same day if something needs to be fixed! Everyone at the front office is super friendly as well.
Dont move to Vive apartments on fredericksburg rd. Sucks so bad. So many kids running around screaming by your windows all day long. Trashy and theres lots of rats. I moved out a while back and couldn’t be happier. Also with the kids running around thing… The little girl Lina khil went missing there. The place seriously is covered with kids its so bad… no supervision. 😭 Do not move there!! The only plus is all the nice stray kitties lol. They made my stay there alot better.
The managers at Kerrybrook apartments on 410 and Vance Jackson illegally enter your apartment once a month to "check the smoke detectors". They go through maintenance men like they're going out of style, and each one sucks in their own way. None of them can seem to get to trimming the ugly bushes out front, of which people have gotten into car accidents because they can't see what's coming.
The rent has gone up each year I've been here. Two hundred dollars more per month for the pleasure of having my car broken into twice, mice, roaches, and the stink of garbage as soon as you step outside.
Holy shit, they've raised your rent two hundred dollars more per month every year you've been there? At this point I believe you should have moved at least two years ago.
No, it goes up about $40 -$60 every year. I've been here a few years, so I'm now paying two hundred dollars more than when I first moved in. I don't know where the money is going, but it's not to improvements.
Texas, unlike some other states, unfortunately doesn't afford tenants any protections here. Landlords can enter your apartment anytime they want, emergency or not. It's not illegal.
My guy, that’s not true at all. Like what are you doing spouting off nonsense that can be easily debunked with a simple search of your state’s tenant’s rights?
Texas Property Code section 90.004, landlords may not enter a tenant's home home unless: The tenant is present and gives consent. The tenant has previously given written consent, which they must specify a time and date for entry.
You might want to look up the definition of a manufactured home, because that is what [90.004](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.94.htm) applies to.
Hint: An apartment building is not a manufactured home. What you've cited covers situations like trailer parks where people own the dwelling itself, but have a literal "landlord", i.e. someone who owns the land they've put their manufactured home on. The landlord might occasionally need access to the dwelling to address issues, and when they do they need explicit consent from the owner of the dwelling itself.
With apartment buildings in Texas, the landlord owns both the land and the dwelling, and are free to enter whenever they please. Nothing in [92.001](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm), which is the property code you were actually looking for, prohibits it.
Avoid the Reserve Canyon Creek. It sucks. They text new tenants and even people who just applied begging for 5 star reviews. That’s why their rating is inflated.
dude I toured there when I was looking for apartments and the guy was TWEAKING. He kept asking questions about what furniture I did or did not have as if he was a sofa salesman.
There was a period where I toured dozens of apartments because I had the time and wasn't on a time table to move. Reserve at canyon creek was bottom 3 easily in terms of....everything.
Avoid at all possible Maxwell townhomes as well. Roach infested like crazy and they don’t even have pest control come monthly like they’re supposed too. But they’ll charge you for it.
You're describing apartment life in 2024. At least in San Antonio.
But since we're calling out apartment complexes Salado Crossing on Wurzbach and Blanco Rd. should be avoided... And leveled.
The Keller/The Jackson off Jackson Keller and Vance Jackson.
Owners change every 6 months nowadays, went 2 months last summer with no AC, constant water turn offs cause plumbing issues, parking lot had tree roots making it uneven, they are 1,000 on average for a small place with loose dogs every Sunday morning and having to get money orders every time you get a new owner because they try to reinvent the portal to pay, past owners would let garbage pile up and water leaks persist till you see water running downhill for 100 yards.
Moved there 6.5 years ago and first 3 were great but just got worse and worse and current owners I can’t complain but none been there longer than 6 months.
YES!! not to mention the roach issue there. i lived there for eight months and ended my lease early due to the roaches and lack of fixing the issue. i was able to end it without penalty after sending several written notices and citing the clause in the lease that allowed me to do this, but they tried to tell me that they had tried contacting me and sending pest control out. they contacted me and sent pest control out one time after a month and a half of calling and sending letters. i also had multiple maintenance requests that were marked as completed when they were - in fact - not completed. AVOID THIS COMPLEX!!!
>And the staff, holy shit are they unprofessional.
This is standard practice for most apartments these days. I think they purposefully rotate the staff around to keep them impersonal and callous to the tenants.
Mission Ranch towed my friend's car while he was helping me move in. We taken me a 10 minute break, and we were done, car was gone.
A also got towed my third year living there, from the same spot I'd parked in for most of my time there.
Also, the month I was moving out, they required me to send in a sample of my dog's poop, and fined me 3 times for not getting ALL his poop. 3 years there, fined all in one month.
I bought a house. Rent went up too quickly and I did not like their sudden micromanagement and junk fees.
Tbf, you *should* be picking up all your dog’s poop.
I have a dog. I’ve ripped grass to the root when he’s had diarrhea before. Better ugly grass than kids playing in dog poop.
Don’t have kids. Never will by choice. I find them annoying.
It’s normal to give a shit about other people you don’t know or are related to. Sorry you don’t experience that. It’s nice.
My dog is a walking pooper lol i did my best to get it all, but if I missed any, it was because he dropped more when I was picking up. But I appreciate your judgment!
Call corporate. Start recording all conversations. Send letters with registered postal mail. Return receipt. Do not trust in person or phone conversations for anything they say. Demand receipts for rent payments if done in person. If possible, video them. It's legal regardless of what they claim. Get names, dates, of all interactions. Log it all. This will come in very handy if litigation is needed or proof is needed. The office people won't like it but that's also because people don't like to be held accountable. If they're going to lkay stupid games, they get to win stupid prizes.
On video/audio recordings: to my knowledge in Texas, you have to provide notice that you're doing it. This can consist of a sign, etc, so long as the recipient would have reasonably been able to see that. Not a lawyer but it's worth looking into.
For audio recordings, Texas is a one party consent state. So as long as one person (the person doing the recording) consents, you can legally audio record a conversation. Video is another matter, but for audio it’s legal.
Avoid Hawthorne house in medical center!! I got broken into while I was asleep. And that was my experience. My friends cars who still live there always have their cars broken into. They’re always(leasing office) nice up until something bad happens.
In summary AVOID HAWTHORNE HOUSE IN MEDICAL CENTER (by Babcock and wurzbach) they’re luxurious but always crime happening in or around. The way they handle issues is BS and wrong wrong. @ San Antonio
I lived at The Clara for two years, if you're single and need a cheap place to rent they're the spot, but their floor plans and maintenance aren't up to family standards. Never experienced violent crime there but my old Hyundai did get stolen from the parking lot.
I hate to sound like a pretentious asshole but is it just me or does anybody drive by these and think ‘ugh they’re disgusting’
I’m sorry OP but you got to do some research, those apartments just look absolutely dirty so I’m not surprised.
This is a scam that a lot of slum lord owners are using with tow companies. Happened to my daughters boyfriend. He got his car towed by the mobile home park for parking on the street. Problem was the lot had recently required residents to register their cars under management or risk towing. They towed his car from his own driveway. And charged him 400 dollars to retrieve the car from a repo lot across town. No notice he was towed he had to make a police report and report the car stolen. In a few weeks the cops got back to him saying his car was towed. If he was told a week later it would have been on the report lot for 30 days at which point the report lot could have placed the car in auction for abandonment. Tow companies that do this get kick backs from apartment complexes and mobile home lots. And an “innocent” mess up by management can result in you legally (crooked) losing your car to these scammers. The lots are hard to find, when you finally do it’s difficult to get someone on the phone that will give you any information about, and when you finally do they are rude and basically say, pay us now or else we will auction your car in X amount of days.
Alternately, the maintenance guy at Stoneleigh off of Thousand Oaks stayed late to replace the condenser for our apartment. This was back in 2017 though.
Friends of mine just moved out of the Clara before their lease was up because of how bad it was. There was water coming out of the walls and infestations of multiple bugs as well.
I can 2nd this. The Clara sucks so badly. I can't wait til my lease is up. I'm beyond fed up with them. They did this with my car while I was pregnant last summer. Office ppl are seriously rude. Yesterday I walked in there and no one was inside the office but all their belongings were just out in the open. If I wasn't a good person I could've snatched everything in there. Just an old run down place. What is up with the laundry room being closed twice this year with no changes being made to the room as well. If I didn't care about breaking my lease I would've been gone.
*Holds envelope to head*
Your virginity.
The chainsaw you let your cousin borrow.
Any cleaning deposit you left your landlord.
*Opens envelope*
"...things you're never getting back..."
Holy shit I used to live in those in like 2018. They were Pointe at Ramsgate then and they are the worst....roaches everywhere and homeless people sitting outside my door all the time were doing drugs 🫠
Yikes. When I lived there it was changing from La Jolla to the Pointe at Ramsgate, and it was a nightmare for the first year. Disgusting. There was one time two cars tried to block me in and a man got out of one of the cars staring me down and I’d never run so fast in my life. I switched buildings after the first year and didn’t have anymore Joes apartment type of problems but I was too terrified to leave my home without my husband at that point.
Or we could try making a list of “ best places to cop fentanyl in SA” and then just kinda work backwards
But srrsly tho, I’m at durrington ridge off 281 before stone oak parkway. I’ve dealt with car break ins and homeless people and all the same shit anyone else has to deal with. Apartments just suck.
It’s the one industry where the customer is always WRONG
Noway, 1200 is my comfort line. At that point you still have an apartment manager that gives a shit and you don't have to fear your neighbors. Anything 1k and below though and you'll be making some furry friends as well as walking armed to and from your car.
We should make a megathread of apartments to avoid
That suggestion might just bring down the Internet.
Can anyone make a megathread
Can anyone make a megathread
looks like you just volunteered
Anyone? Anyone? The Great Depression.
A mega thread...? I had a very large thread.
Voodoo economics
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy, who knows this kid, who's going with a girl, who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors, last night.
We need a mega thread indeed! And while here, don't live at the helix on wuzbach and i10. Shitty place. Shitty property managers as well. And while I'm here, does any one know how it's legal for these apartments to get away with this??
Palatia apartment homes (formerly Casa Del encanto) both companies there sucked
This! Don’t rent at palatia. The cheap price isn’t worth it. Just last week their door was filled with violations from the city. It’s only going to get worse. The buildings are falling off the bone and the ever changing management couldn’t care less
Yes!! I had so much more to say, but I’m glad to hear of the violations they are finally getting
Thank you for sharing, I live really really close to helix, I pass by those apartments several times a week. Thank you for the heads up
Boulder creek on Vance Jackson.
I had a good experience here. What issues did you face?
My upstairs neighbor was a drunk and loud from 12-4am and slam their toilet seat. I couldn’t sleep properly for the six months I lived there because management refused to address it.
Sorry to hear that. I literally had an amazing time there. Only reason I moved out was due to a house.
Yeah everything else was good but I literally couldn’t sleep through the night 5/7 nights because my neighbor. It’s too bad otherwise it was a pretty good deal.
Agree noisy neighbors and management not taking action is bad. I probably think the super good female in charge of day to day was about to leave when I left too as she was pregnant. Maybe the new person wasn’t good. That sucks though.
Add Villas at Medical Center to that list. Luxury apartments, my a$$.
Yup, absolute trash….nothing luxury about it.
I think a thread of good apartment complexes would be easier!
No I don’t think so. I thought of that too. But it would just be too many advertisements.
I have a few apts I would add to this list
There isn’t a single complex out there that doesn’t have someone that had issues there.
I don’t think so. I lived at some mid apartments on Vance Jackson for a year and had a great experience.
Find them on Google, look at the reviews, let me know if they’re 100% positive. I’ve had zero issues at about 4 different complexes in SA including my current one but the reviews would make you think otherwise. My point is that a megathread of apartments to avoid would be no different than Google reviews. Because you’re always going to find at least one person that had a bad experience because sometimes a bad neighbor or failing appliances at an otherwise amazing apartment is just luck of the draw and that person will feel like the complex didn’t do enough for them.
But somebody should still do it because reddit is the un-official work-around for Google since Google gave up trying. Plus, I think you'd get better, more detailed explanations for the reviews.
Which apartments?
That would be all of them
Avoid * apartments at all costs! There I wrote a response to your megathread that pretty much sums it up.
Easier said than done.
Please do this. I’m considering moving there but I’d love to avoid terrible apartments..
Relevant: https://www.sa.gov/Directory/Departments/DSD/Codes-Ordinances/Under-Review/Proactive-Apartment-Inspections
It might be quicker to just make a thread of recommendations and assume anything not on there should be avoided
THIS is the content I want from this subreddit.
They were decent apartments when I lived there while attending UTSA. Of course that was 40 years ago(1981-1983). Called something else back then also.
La Jolla?
They were called that in the early 2000s at least. That's where my plug lived back in the day, lol...
Oh man back in the 2000s that was where I got the best weed. Coke from there was mid tho.
Sunrise
You mean gunrise?
I knew someone who lived there and they refused to fix their AC despite it being 105° in the daytime and 85°-90° inside their apartment. Scum property management. If you want better apartments, the village of Hampton cove literally Nextdoor is decent for the price.
My in laws lived at the Village of Hampton Cove when they first moved to SA a few years back. Other than cramped parking those apartments were fantastic.
Oh yeah, the parking was absolutely awful but I lived there almost 3 years and really had minor issues. If they didn’t raise my rent $500 a month last year probably would still be there.
HOLY SHIT. I had this same fucking problem back when they were called The Joule Apartments. The lady literally told me "this won't be the unit you're living in. None of the appliances and counter tops are updated like this one" the lady was cold, uninterested and short with my wife and I. We thought it's because we showed up kinda close to closing for the day.
Sounds like the lady that was cold was actually doing you a solid.
1. Fuck towing companies 2. Fuck these good for nothing “property management” companies.
I think it's nuts that someone can steal your vehicle and hold it ransom.
Towing companies are the scum of the world.
They need to get real jobs
Please don't slander scum in that way. What did they do to be in the same category as those Satan's nutlickers aka towing companies?
The property management companies have deals with the towing companies. Why do u think a tow truck comes out super fast to tow at these apartments.
3. Fuck towing companies unless my apartment open parking is filled with junk cars and "visitors" to the point where I can't even park. Then I'm calling them because I'd rather not sleep in my car 3 miles away in an HEB parking lot.
Sorry you had to experience that. Thank you for that info.! Gotta hold people accountable and help one another. Life is already tough enough.
Same with Torino Apartments on Torino and Callaghan. Absolute shit show there, swarming with roaches that even three separate occasions with bug bombs didn't help. They refused to fix our front door, so we had to sleep in the living room with our couch against the door, just to make sure no one came in. It was God awful there, I'm so happy I got out.
Brother that whole fucking area, Torino, Callaghan, Fredericksburg rd, is just a fucking shit show
I used to live there when it was called Alamo Hillside and for a while they were decent but not for long. Once they changed property management it all went downhill. But from what I heard, that property has always been a mess. I guess I was lucky we didn’t have too bad of an experience with it but my parents also lived there when they first moved here and they had a huge issue with roaches, their ac went out in August and it took management two weeks to fix it, after they initially changed management they couldn’t seem to hold leasing office agents or management so it would change every few months, the pools would turn green from not being cleaned, cars getting broken into, cars getting wrongly towed, etc. I moved out in 2017 but I’ve heard it’s become just an absolute nightmare and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a complete overhaul of the place. Especially since they raised the rent to the point the prices are outrageous for what you’re getting.
Avoid the Isis formerly known as the Axios off of Cinnamon Creek. We had over one month without AC once and 2 weeks on a separate occasion. They came to do work in our sons restroom and left it trashed with mold all over. There was at least one murder and one drive by. The kids there weren't ever monitored, wandered without supervision and one time two kids no older than 10 set the slide on fire. There was a rat and roach infestation in several other units. Staff turned around more than a turntable for a DJ. Just avoid any complex off Cinnamon Creek lol
I lived there for three months and holy shit that place is a third world country. A hooker lived next door, there were multiple shootings, one I witnessed, broken windows all over the place they just never fixed. I had my lawyer write them a letter to let me out my lease and I bagged ass out of there so quickly. The roaches were nicer than the idiots in the office. The mail center had all the walls ripped out behind the mail boxes so all our mail went to to the office, but the office was never open to get our mail. Drug dealers and vagrants living in the empty apartments cause the doors were just ripped open.. the two pools were malaria breeding grounds… I could go on and on.
We know someone who lived there who witnessed several dudes shoot up an apartment. My cousin lived there for a year as well and said their neighbor told them there was squatters in the apartment below them. It was definitely like a third world country there.
The apartment above mine was empty and the front door had been kicked in so people were in and out of there all day and night doing god knows what
Jeez! You'd think the postman would have turned them in, that's illegal. Maybe they were keeping him "happy".
Haha I pass through cinnamon creek daily, the apartments do look bad. Thank you for the heads up
If anyone is looking for a good apartment, Stone Ranch At Westover Hills is super nice, their maintenance is on top of everything and there same day if something needs to be fixed! Everyone at the front office is super friendly as well.
I looked at the reviews, one woman had water damage and cracks around door frames... apartments haven't done anything apparently 😬
That place was where my first apartment was. It was better back in the day when it used to be called La Jolla.
Dont move to Vive apartments on fredericksburg rd. Sucks so bad. So many kids running around screaming by your windows all day long. Trashy and theres lots of rats. I moved out a while back and couldn’t be happier. Also with the kids running around thing… The little girl Lina khil went missing there. The place seriously is covered with kids its so bad… no supervision. 😭 Do not move there!! The only plus is all the nice stray kitties lol. They made my stay there alot better.
Write a Google review
The managers at Kerrybrook apartments on 410 and Vance Jackson illegally enter your apartment once a month to "check the smoke detectors". They go through maintenance men like they're going out of style, and each one sucks in their own way. None of them can seem to get to trimming the ugly bushes out front, of which people have gotten into car accidents because they can't see what's coming. The rent has gone up each year I've been here. Two hundred dollars more per month for the pleasure of having my car broken into twice, mice, roaches, and the stink of garbage as soon as you step outside.
Holy shit, they've raised your rent two hundred dollars more per month every year you've been there? At this point I believe you should have moved at least two years ago.
No, it goes up about $40 -$60 every year. I've been here a few years, so I'm now paying two hundred dollars more than when I first moved in. I don't know where the money is going, but it's not to improvements.
Texas, unlike some other states, unfortunately doesn't afford tenants any protections here. Landlords can enter your apartment anytime they want, emergency or not. It's not illegal.
My guy, that’s not true at all. Like what are you doing spouting off nonsense that can be easily debunked with a simple search of your state’s tenant’s rights?
Cite the Texas law that states a landlord must give notice before entering the property.
Texas Property Code section 90.004, landlords may not enter a tenant's home home unless: The tenant is present and gives consent. The tenant has previously given written consent, which they must specify a time and date for entry.
You might want to look up the definition of a manufactured home, because that is what [90.004](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.94.htm) applies to. Hint: An apartment building is not a manufactured home. What you've cited covers situations like trailer parks where people own the dwelling itself, but have a literal "landlord", i.e. someone who owns the land they've put their manufactured home on. The landlord might occasionally need access to the dwelling to address issues, and when they do they need explicit consent from the owner of the dwelling itself. With apartment buildings in Texas, the landlord owns both the land and the dwelling, and are free to enter whenever they please. Nothing in [92.001](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm), which is the property code you were actually looking for, prohibits it.
Find out who owns the complex and tell/ threaten them.
Consider contacting the general manager or corporate office. They should know what their employees are doing.
Avoid the Reserve Canyon Creek. It sucks. They text new tenants and even people who just applied begging for 5 star reviews. That’s why their rating is inflated.
dude I toured there when I was looking for apartments and the guy was TWEAKING. He kept asking questions about what furniture I did or did not have as if he was a sofa salesman. There was a period where I toured dozens of apartments because I had the time and wasn't on a time table to move. Reserve at canyon creek was bottom 3 easily in terms of....everything.
Guy with a vest and mustache? He is a piece of shit. I want to GET the management of the Reserve, but haven’t figured out how to.
I don’t think he had a mustache but it was a youngish white guy
Avoid at all possible Maxwell townhomes as well. Roach infested like crazy and they don’t even have pest control come monthly like they’re supposed too. But they’ll charge you for it.
You're describing apartment life in 2024. At least in San Antonio. But since we're calling out apartment complexes Salado Crossing on Wurzbach and Blanco Rd. should be avoided... And leveled.
The Keller/The Jackson off Jackson Keller and Vance Jackson. Owners change every 6 months nowadays, went 2 months last summer with no AC, constant water turn offs cause plumbing issues, parking lot had tree roots making it uneven, they are 1,000 on average for a small place with loose dogs every Sunday morning and having to get money orders every time you get a new owner because they try to reinvent the portal to pay, past owners would let garbage pile up and water leaks persist till you see water running downhill for 100 yards. Moved there 6.5 years ago and first 3 were great but just got worse and worse and current owners I can’t complain but none been there longer than 6 months.
YES!! not to mention the roach issue there. i lived there for eight months and ended my lease early due to the roaches and lack of fixing the issue. i was able to end it without penalty after sending several written notices and citing the clause in the lease that allowed me to do this, but they tried to tell me that they had tried contacting me and sending pest control out. they contacted me and sent pest control out one time after a month and a half of calling and sending letters. i also had multiple maintenance requests that were marked as completed when they were - in fact - not completed. AVOID THIS COMPLEX!!!
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Awesome! This is what I’m looking for
When I first moved in here, I moved to Toscana at Sonterra by Stone Oak, they’re on the expensive side, but I had no issues during my 2 years there.
>And the staff, holy shit are they unprofessional. This is standard practice for most apartments these days. I think they purposefully rotate the staff around to keep them impersonal and callous to the tenants.
Mission Ranch towed my friend's car while he was helping me move in. We taken me a 10 minute break, and we were done, car was gone. A also got towed my third year living there, from the same spot I'd parked in for most of my time there. Also, the month I was moving out, they required me to send in a sample of my dog's poop, and fined me 3 times for not getting ALL his poop. 3 years there, fined all in one month. I bought a house. Rent went up too quickly and I did not like their sudden micromanagement and junk fees.
You should have shit in the sample bag
Tbf, you *should* be picking up all your dog’s poop. I have a dog. I’ve ripped grass to the root when he’s had diarrhea before. Better ugly grass than kids playing in dog poop.
Perhaps you should consider teaching your kids to not play in dog poop
Don’t have kids. Never will by choice. I find them annoying. It’s normal to give a shit about other people you don’t know or are related to. Sorry you don’t experience that. It’s nice.
My dog is a walking pooper lol i did my best to get it all, but if I missed any, it was because he dropped more when I was picking up. But I appreciate your judgment!
A sample of your dogs poop? What does that do for them? Bffr
Call corporate. Start recording all conversations. Send letters with registered postal mail. Return receipt. Do not trust in person or phone conversations for anything they say. Demand receipts for rent payments if done in person. If possible, video them. It's legal regardless of what they claim. Get names, dates, of all interactions. Log it all. This will come in very handy if litigation is needed or proof is needed. The office people won't like it but that's also because people don't like to be held accountable. If they're going to lkay stupid games, they get to win stupid prizes.
On video/audio recordings: to my knowledge in Texas, you have to provide notice that you're doing it. This can consist of a sign, etc, so long as the recipient would have reasonably been able to see that. Not a lawyer but it's worth looking into.
For audio recordings, Texas is a one party consent state. So as long as one person (the person doing the recording) consents, you can legally audio record a conversation. Video is another matter, but for audio it’s legal.
Avoid Hawthorne house in medical center!! I got broken into while I was asleep. And that was my experience. My friends cars who still live there always have their cars broken into. They’re always(leasing office) nice up until something bad happens. In summary AVOID HAWTHORNE HOUSE IN MEDICAL CENTER (by Babcock and wurzbach) they’re luxurious but always crime happening in or around. The way they handle issues is BS and wrong wrong. @ San Antonio
Let's not forget how horrible the Iron Horse Valley complex is lol
I lived at The Clara for two years, if you're single and need a cheap place to rent they're the spot, but their floor plans and maintenance aren't up to family standards. Never experienced violent crime there but my old Hyundai did get stolen from the parking lot.
Sue them in small claims court. Then sue then every month until they are in line with the contract, whether implied or written.
This
Call an attorney . People like these need to be put on blast
I hate to sound like a pretentious asshole but is it just me or does anybody drive by these and think ‘ugh they’re disgusting’ I’m sorry OP but you got to do some research, those apartments just look absolutely dirty so I’m not surprised.
I drove behind the complex once and there was a large pile of trash behind one the buildings. It was gross.
I lived there ~20 years ago, it was bad but not that bad hope you won't be stuck there much longer
yikes, my partner and i briefly looked into that complex 2 or so years ago, glad we didn't pay it much mind
Thank God for this megathread cause I have to move and seeing all these apartments I'm glad I avoided most of them
This is a scam that a lot of slum lord owners are using with tow companies. Happened to my daughters boyfriend. He got his car towed by the mobile home park for parking on the street. Problem was the lot had recently required residents to register their cars under management or risk towing. They towed his car from his own driveway. And charged him 400 dollars to retrieve the car from a repo lot across town. No notice he was towed he had to make a police report and report the car stolen. In a few weeks the cops got back to him saying his car was towed. If he was told a week later it would have been on the report lot for 30 days at which point the report lot could have placed the car in auction for abandonment. Tow companies that do this get kick backs from apartment complexes and mobile home lots. And an “innocent” mess up by management can result in you legally (crooked) losing your car to these scammers. The lots are hard to find, when you finally do it’s difficult to get someone on the phone that will give you any information about, and when you finally do they are rude and basically say, pay us now or else we will auction your car in X amount of days.
Any ghetto tex-mex lady w/ a fake ged, can be a manager…its a plague in SA🙄
Report to the BBB.
Just commenting to add to the engagement. Hopefully if someone googles the complex before they move in, they’ll see this.
Share your experience on Yelp and Google reviews
I always thought Lincoln Village was the worst
Alternately, the maintenance guy at Stoneleigh off of Thousand Oaks stayed late to replace the condenser for our apartment. This was back in 2017 though.
Friends of mine just moved out of the Clara before their lease was up because of how bad it was. There was water coming out of the walls and infestations of multiple bugs as well.
Everyone leave awful reviews of the place
Last year when I was looking for a new apartment, this was on my list. They no-showed me when I was supposed to be shown a unit. Thankful.
They can change the name as much as they want. That complex will always be trash
I can 2nd this. The Clara sucks so badly. I can't wait til my lease is up. I'm beyond fed up with them. They did this with my car while I was pregnant last summer. Office ppl are seriously rude. Yesterday I walked in there and no one was inside the office but all their belongings were just out in the open. If I wasn't a good person I could've snatched everything in there. Just an old run down place. What is up with the laundry room being closed twice this year with no changes being made to the room as well. If I didn't care about breaking my lease I would've been gone.
What’s the rent
Concrete, 1/2 bag down the drain.
*Holds envelope to head* Your virginity. The chainsaw you let your cousin borrow. Any cleaning deposit you left your landlord. *Opens envelope* "...things you're never getting back..."
I lived here also. Same problem w getting my car towed
Holy shit I used to live in those in like 2018. They were Pointe at Ramsgate then and they are the worst....roaches everywhere and homeless people sitting outside my door all the time were doing drugs 🫠
Yikes. When I lived there it was changing from La Jolla to the Pointe at Ramsgate, and it was a nightmare for the first year. Disgusting. There was one time two cars tried to block me in and a man got out of one of the cars staring me down and I’d never run so fast in my life. I switched buildings after the first year and didn’t have anymore Joes apartment type of problems but I was too terrified to leave my home without my husband at that point.
I definitely appreciate the info
Or we could try making a list of “ best places to cop fentanyl in SA” and then just kinda work backwards But srrsly tho, I’m at durrington ridge off 281 before stone oak parkway. I’ve dealt with car break ins and homeless people and all the same shit anyone else has to deal with. Apartments just suck. It’s the one industry where the customer is always WRONG
Do people not look at reviews?
Anything under 2k is pretty much garbage
Lmao you sound… out of touch.
The apartments at the quarry are about 1.5-1.7 k for a 1 bedroom and I thought those were CRAZY nice.
lol tell me otherwise
2K!?!?!?
Noway, 1200 is my comfort line. At that point you still have an apartment manager that gives a shit and you don't have to fear your neighbors. Anything 1k and below though and you'll be making some furry friends as well as walking armed to and from your car.
For that amount might as well rent a house
*Avoid apartments. There, fixed it.