Mckinney Falls Neighborhood Pool

I love that we have a pool in our community. I do wish it was open longer however I understand the need for life guards (the guards also monitor who visit the gated pool area) The head life guard for the past few years is awesome — friendly but doesn’t mess around with visitors that disregard rules. More shade would definitely be a plus. The water is tested regularly and appears well maintained as well as the area around the pool.

Not bad for the hoa fee… decent community area. I’ve lived at other communities with similar hoa fees and zero of the amenities that we get with this neighborhood. Clean community, nice amenities.

I dont care for this pool at all.
First of all the HOA has a really hard time keeping up with this place, it is always getting vandalized and the HOA is always have to put more money into the place all the time, its not even worth it when more than half of your HOA budget goes a pool that is only open about 4 months out of the year. Complete waste of money.
Also, there is almost no shade around this place. The one shaded area is always dirty and actually pretty far away from the pool. Since this is more of a family pool, I wish they had triple the shade. Its like a giant tank of water in the middle of a hot field.
Each year I try the keycard they give us and it is always wrong, then it takes weeks to get back to the HOA to get you a new card so you can actually use the pool like you should. This has happened every year to me. Keycard system is great, when it works and the lifeguards really enforce the rules, so when the key does not work, they stare at you through the gate saying, too bad.
And the lifeguards are rude. They probably have to with a lot of crap, but they have always been rude to me and I dont know why we cant hire people that live in Austin, for some reason we hire people from the czech or something as an exchange program. I dont know why because the language barrier is an issue sometimes.