Lived here almost a year and got a mixed impression. Major issue: the price jumped over the year. I got more than 10% increase,...
Lived here almost a year and got a mixed impression.
Major issue: the price jumped over the year. I got more than 10% increase, and the website price is even more, 20% over the last year. One top of that the agency push you to have the rental renewal in August, hottest time with highest prices. Can't afford that and have to move out.
Cons:
- Fire alarm. Be ready to enjoy it, most pleasantly in the nights. Can't trust it for so many false alerts, but the bad thing is that once it was a real fire, see the photos.
- Noisy climate system, both the block inside the apartment and the one at the balcony, the latter is even worse (you hear the neighbor's one). Good to have it for really hot days in the summer, but almost impossible to use more frequently, especially overnight.
- Appliances are not bad, but I didn't like the washer (and climate system again of course). I had several different before and they did better job. The dishwasher also could perform better and quicker.
- As some of reviewers already pointed out, a lot of SCU students live here. This is both nice and not very nice, because they can be noisy. My impression that most of them lives in the building #1. I was lucky to live in a building which is at another side of the complex.
- The Santa Clara area is pretty boring, don't expect much.
- I would not recommend to live on the bottom floors of the exterior side of building #2, if you are not interested to smell the opened trash containers in the morning.
- The recent exterior parking asphalt restoration was complete waste of money and unreasonable bothering of tenants. And yes, the ants started to appear after that, even on the top floor.
- The San Jos-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility is relatively close, sometimes there is a smell when the wind takes that direction.
Pros:
- Close to the Caltrain, there is a minimalistic set (Safeway, few simple restaurants, Starbucks) in the walking distance, Santa Clara university campus is very nice. Quick access to the highways.
- Appartments are really spacious, no complaints here. Windows are good in terms of noise and thermal isolation, overall quality is not too bad, but for sure not "luxurious" as it is claimed.
- The complex is nice, clean and green, however it is a bit compact. It is relatively new construction (2006) with pretty modern layout, where you don't feel that you traveled back to the future (like in many places in MV or MP). Although the area s pretty quite, I anyway like that it is gated.
- Didn't have major issues during my stay, but for small ones the maintenance team was great, fast and efficient.
The bottom line: for the last year price it was a decent offer, current price is crazy. Quite curious to see the next year.