If you've been following my recent journey, you know I have a new job and am looking for a new place to live. Well I found a super nice apartment complex in Plymouth (right off 55 and 169) called Creekside. Decent rent (which includes underground heated parking ) and other great amenities. The only issue is, while searching for reviews on the place online...I found a lot of people bashing it. Now, I usually contribute this to weirdos who like to rant on the internet...but now it's just in the back of my mind. I just figure people who were unhappy like to talk about it more than people who are happy. Anyway...I'm just wondering if anyone has any personal experience with the place? You live there, friend lives there, significant other lives there...anything?
I just read through a bunch of the reviews and I'd say stay away just based on the amount of people who took the time to rant about the place, if it weren't that bad of a place there probably wouldn't be too many reviews on it, especially negative reviews. "Ask Creekside how many people renew their lease....that is a good indicator of the quality of an apartment complex....here its under 10%....seriously, they told me that!" - Taken from a reviewer
Alot of time if you rent, you aren't going to be happy 100% of the time. This means there will be millions of unhappy people before you, and in this day and age of how easy it is to spread your opinion on the internet, they have already done so. I have had both, great landlords and properties I've lived with, and bad where I was punching a landlords door at 2am to wake him up because the heat went out and he was avoiding my calls.(for a week mind you) Hobo is right though, based on his info alone i'd say screw that place. Theres TONS of better. Take your time. Unless you're living in you car, then hurry up! I hope this helps, and good luck.
I could only stand apt living for 6 mos, and that was with zero issues from the landlord/aprt complex, it just wasnt for me. Even though RC car drift in the garage was fun
yep I know where it is. I hear its cheap. But I think a lot of people live off SEC 8 there. If you know what I mean.
Check out Wayzata Woods in Wayzata. Its reeeally nice. Plus, the landlady is VERY cute. lol Underground parking as well, very quiet neighborhood. You'll like the place, I promise. www.wayzatawoods.com If you sign up, say Eli from 240/214 referred you.
Take those review sites with a grain of salt. Look at other apartments in the area and see the crappy reviews they get as well. Generally I've noticed on apartment review sites it's mostly negative reviews because people with a bad experience are more likely to post a review than those that had a good experience. And even if you do post a good experience most of the time the trolls flame the review as an employee of the complex posting favorable reviews.
I have a long list of questions I'll be asking tomorrow when I go back there tomorrow. This will be one of them. That would be nice! Chime in...maybe I can get him a referral bonus! I don't know if you are thinking of the same place as I am... I totally agree. I looked up some other apartment complexes that I am familiar with (friends living there). All of those reviews were bad too, but my friends have had absolutely no issues.
Keep in mind too, that while 10% of tenants renewing their leases may sound bad, it's probably not far off the average. Especially in a complex that's going to have a lot of people in their 20s or 30s, people move/break up/change jobs, etc on a pretty regular basis.
Mark, PM'd you. I live less than a mile from there in a decent complex. Let me know if you need more info.
Bristol Village in Bloomington had a lot of bad reviews and some good and those got flames ha ha, but most of them were about dog pooooop everywhere... THOSE WERE TRUE... anyone needs somewhere to sleep for the month of January.. for real cheap?/ we still have our lease till end of january at Bristol and havent lived there tfor a month now.. ha ha.. take a bed and tv there and you would be ok... ha ha
My complex has a lot of complaints on some websites. The biggest problem I've had is a broken drawer.
I'm curious to know if there are any bad reviews about the Woods... haha I'll have to check when I get home.
That site had my old apartments down here listed as 70% recommended with 30 reviews to it seems to be relatively free of trolls. One thing a lot of people don't consider is cable/internet options at an apartment. Until that FCC law stating apartments can't restrict you to using only their service provider goes into effect you need to pay attention to who services your lines. My old complex had an awful provider for cable, internet, and phone and they made you pay for it since you couldn't get anything else. My DSL and basic cable cost me nearly $100 a month and that was for 2Mb down and analog cable, not anything terribly speedy or digital cable even. All this and the houses around us had Verizon FiOS with a switch station right outside the entrance of the complex. It was extremely irritating. I wish they were up front about utility costs at places too. They always lowball the cost estimates by a lot. I heard about high electricity bills from running the AC in the summer down here but I was completely blindsided by my electricity bill one month as high as $260 for an 800 sq-ft 1BR/1BA. It's all central air and I have a fully-programmable thermostat and never turned it past 75° in the summer. Crazy.
check out ramsgate in hopkins. it is little india but they take care of the place and they have great ammenities along with it feels very safe there.
asking a leasing agent about those things is like asking a car salesmen for his opinion on the car you are looking to buy. they are always going to turn potential negatives into some sort of positive (I used to be in sales at a few places). my place where I live is pretty nice, but it seems like after you sign the lease, all of management treats you differently. its like we aren't priority like we were when first looking at the place. depending on what the reviews say...that would be key. I have put up with a lot of crap in the last year especially when I transferred units here. anywhere that monopolizes your choices on internet and cable/phone service is going to start to piss people off. parking rules...piss people off. We have 160 or so units here, with 130 parking spaces, reduced to about 100 now. somehow, everyone that signs a lease is granted two spots, and that doesn't even factor in if someone else lives there. needless to say, we have a parking shortage.
I do know not to live in the Plymouth Oaks apts off 169. I lived there for about 6 months and hated it. The heating would freeze up so we had no heat and when maintenance came in to fix it they'd make a huge mess and not clean it up (at least they didn't break anything of ours), they never dealt with noise complaints (subs have NO place in apartments, get a house if you want a big stereo system), and the one garage spot they give you would always be taken by some other prick and they never did anything about that either (even though we were paying extra for that spot). They'd also take forever to plow the lots.
I think that if there are multiple reviews complaining about the same sort of issue then you may need to consider that as having at least some shred of truth. I read a bunch of reviews on where I live now, and they are all negative but they are pretty damn accurate. The only reason I continue to live here is because I get what I pay for (super cheap rent) and it's nice to have a private garage.
Those are the least of your concerns. My station has been out there twice to put them out, and both times were large fires. They were only 7 months apart, it's never a good thing when you're getting on scene and the incident commander says "Just put your truck where you had it last time"
