Mariners West Apartments

Enjoyed my stay at this industrial park/housing project from 40's. It is a noisy building that is in poor shape. Most units are newly...

Enjoyed my stay at this industrial park/housing project from 40's. It is a noisy building that is in poor shape. Most units are newly remodeled, unfortunately the general workmanship is poor. Notes: - Switch at the Unit entry door was never wired to a light or switch. - Switch for each bedroom .. never wired to a light or switch. - Both sink lights, bathroom light are switch and function. - Never painted the bathroom after replacing original fan with a newer (also loud) model. [Note: The fan is LOUD because it is not VENTED to the outside, I know, I installed the same model NuTone in my own house and you can't ever hear the fan when it is properly installed]. - Outdoor porch lamp is not switched (I replace the outlet cover from one I had laying around as original one was broken). Management is joke (over 1 year and they still couldn't manage to put my name on the front access or give me a code to my own building). Also only provided one set of keys ... so I made duplicates -- Bonus: Home Depot is a short walk. Noise, noise, noise. Single pane windows don't close properly. Casual conversions go right through the walls. Every car entering the garage and car doors come through clear as day. Not to mention the people on the floor above ... every damn foot step. All. Day. Long. Cold, expensive to heat ... again - single pane windows don't close properly - Electric hit $400.00/month in winter, yeah sure I *could* ask my wife to freeze but *why should have to*? Old. Old. Old. building. No insulation and the WINDOWS DON"T SHUT. None of the phone jacks are wired. As a bonus I used the dummy covers between the living and the bedroom to pass the Ethernet cable through, was easier that updating the jacks anyway. Finally moved out and management held back the deposit for painting and cleaning the carpets. I assume the painting they charged is for the bathroom *that they never did when they replaced the fan* (To replace the fan the changed the fan opening and the electric from a 3 gang to a single gang so taping, rocking and painting was required ... however that would require painting the bathroom and since were were out of town for 3 weeks, clearly that was not enough time to finish. Otherwise we cleaned up, wiped down the walls and vacuumed. Aren't they *required* to shampoo the carpets anyway? Better some of my deposit back than none. The new ground floor laundry + bike shed will have to be better than the nasty closet machines on floors 1 and 3. Yep, 2 coin machines for each 24 apartments in a nasty little room. For rent approaching 3000 you would expect they at least would have in room laundry .. but the reality is the buildings are far too old to bring up to anything resembling code. The Urov Family way overpaid for some tear down commercial real-estate, glad I'm not stuck in their cash strapped money pit. FPI Managment paid 10m, Urov's paid 16m. 6m in less than a year? For less than a dozen of 48 renos? 16m on 400k income? People, please ... do you homework on a fast flip and CHECK THE NUMBERS. TL:DR Good: Comcast is fast (Got 50MB sustained). And cheap. Area is safe. Walls between apartments appear to be sound proofed. Bad: Building is poor shape, foundation is sagging, floors are warped. Owners overpaid and have to pass their bad judgement onto you. Management is clearly incompetent. Floors are not insulted for noise. Reno is pretty but quality is poor. Luxury fails: Kitchen sink faucet, bath fixtures, cabinets and sinks -- are all the lowest cost items at Hope Depot. Appliances are stainless exterior finish, but again the lowest cost version you can buy. Bathroom shower/tub liner is a trashy motel solution, think Motel 6 not Hyatt. * 2 stars cause the location is better than the other side of the bridge. Signed, Bldg: 730, Unit 5

The manager John will tell you that he must get a refundable deposit if the credit check didn't go through of a $100 along...

The manager John will tell you that he must get a refundable deposit if the credit check didn't go through of a $100 along with the credit check fee. Be aware that it's not refundable! You will not get it back!! Even though I got accepted in Beach Cove in Foster city I didn't with Mariners Island west which is understandable, but it's been 7 weeks now and after many attempts I'm still waiting on the deposit I didn't get anything but lies from the Manager. I wonder what would they do with rent security deposit...thank God I didn't rent there.