Whispering Meadows Apartments

Rented this unit for my son for an 8-​week stint in Bakersfield. Melissa, the property manager, was very responsive, accommodating and easy to work with. The unit was as promised — clean and spacious. The grounds were clean and secure, very well maintained. Would consider renting this again if we’re ever in the Bakersfield for short stay.

We moved here three years ago because it seemed like one of the cleaner parts of oildale and it was close to my boyfriends job. It was great at first. The management seemed friendly and we never had any problems other than our downstairs neighbors complaining about noise we make when we aren’t even home. I started having problems when they put up a fence around the entire complex. This is a huge complex and there’s only one entrance and exit which seems very irresponsible to me because what if someone needs an ambulance? That’s a time critical situation and if you live on the ends of the complex you’ll have to wait extra time. Then they raised our rent for no apparent reason. Still I could deal with that. Then they turned the water off to fix a leak or something and didn’t turn it on for two more days. That’s a long time without a working toilet. It’s impossible to get in touch with anyone after hours. Their answering service has no idea what’s going on at any time. They now charge for maintenance repairs and light bulbs. The security guards wouldn’t do anything when I called about a man doing drugs and playing offensive music in the parking lot every night for weeks. For the insane amount of money they charge to live here they could hire managers that actually give a damn about their tenants. Not to mention the passive aggressive notes they constantly tape to the doors. I locked myself out once and had to walk to the office and they refused to come unlock my door. Had to call my boyfriend to come home from work to do it. Long story short, these people will charge you for anything they can get away with, the apartments are not nice enough for the price, and the managers are stuck up and not helpful. If move if I was able but I’m stuck here. Definitely shop around for an apartment. There’s better places for a fraction of the cost.

absolutely awful experience, I’d give zero stars if I could. horrible communication, penny pinchers making money any way possible. I got charged $ 140 in extra cleaning fees on an apartment that was left spotless and thoroughly cleaned with bleach and vacuumed. how dirty can an apartment really getting when it’s been stayed in for only about a week and a half’s worth of time anyway? made up excuses for the cleaning fees, front office is very difficult to work with. I would never recommend this place to anyone. horrible service and the apartments themselves are just okay, but not even close to worth it for the price. that’s not to mention a very poor location, way too overpriced. highly recommend not wasting your money here

Typical apartment dwellers, but I will say this complex is well managed and landscaped beautifully.
The maintenance is a+ from the landscape to the inside of the apts. if you have a problem they are on top of it quickly. I would recommend these Apts to friends. They also a compensate large dogs as well. The dog owners need to take care
of the dog walks better (no fault of management) like picking up after their dogs. Gym and pool areas are nice as well. Nicely priced and great locale.

Average apartment. Love Dana in the office! She is so nice and helpful. Downside is typical of no soundproofing floors or walls so often hear upstairs tenants walking around. They love to keep up the place which is bad if you work nights (like I do) because often woken up by grass cutting. Also they decieded to repave the parking lots and took forever! And caused them to shut down 2 parking lots at one time. Decent pools, OK fitness center (which they do not regulate kids in there playing on equipment).