Meadow Creek Apartments

I can’t complain about this apartment complex. I discovered Meadow Creek on whatever housing sites I was browsing but was discouraged because I had no idea what or where Gunbarrel was. I took a trip out with my brother and we fell in love instantly. Gunbarrel can be looked at as a «neighborhood» of Boulder (considering it’s still in Boulder County) and it’s all you can want from a place to live. It’s quiet as hell, has a gas station, ²⁴⁄₇ King Soopers and a few other small places that are convenient to have so close by. Everything is within walking distance and the convenience of having an RTD 205 bus stop right in front of the complex is icing on the cake. I can take one bus that brings me into the heart of downtown Boulder where I have no problem commuting to work. The ²⁴⁄₇ gym is great, the staff is insanely friendly, the apartments clean and large, and the price really can’t be beat for being this close to Boulder. I’m thankful to have found Meadow Creek when I did and hope you at least go check it out before settling on some over priced place right in Boulder.
Shoutout to Lucy Slaughter for being such a fabulous housing agent and helping us out during our initial move-​in.

****BED BUGS****
I am updating my review because this place has changed a great deal since management changed about a year or so ago (2014).
Just to give a blunt report of the situation:
Monday, 11÷2÷15:
Found bed bugs in apartment.
Tuesday, 11÷3÷15:
Visited leasing office 3 times to request pest control services for the bed bugs that we found in our apartment.
Wednesday, 11÷4÷15:
Filed online service request for pest control services (to keep a paper trail in case they dropped the ball).
No contact from Meadow Creek.
Thursday, 11÷5÷15:
Meadow Creek told us a pest control company would be by on Friday to inspect and potentially fumigate. Additionally, we let them know that we booked our own company (on our own dime) today and that the company would steam the apartment. However we still wanted the additional pest control company promised by Meadow Creek, just in case company #1 didn’t rid the place of bugs.
Friday, 11÷6÷15:
We are still waiting for pest control company to come by…
Reasons to stay away:
— We learned from our pest control guy that the apartment directly next to ours had a bed bug infestation months prior to ours.
— We saw a mattress by the dumpster near our unit that was covered in bed bugs. Unclear which unit or building it was from.
— We were not told by the leasing office of either of these infestations. If we had known, we could have proactively set up traps or had a pest control company come in to inspect and treat potential areas. We also wouldn’t have renewed our lease a few months ago, which now expires in July 2015. GREAT.
The rundown…
My boyfriend and I recently came home from a 10-​day trip out of state to find BED BUGS in our couch and bed.
We immediately took action to get rid of all the affected furniture, and the next morning my boyfriend visited our leasing office to see if A) other apartments were affected B) if they would help us contact a pest control company.
We also did our own research and called a local bed bug specialist, and booked an appointment for ASAP — the next morning. We understood that we would need to cover this cost since we were handling it ourselves. (About $ 600).
At the same time, we decided to also get the help of the Meadow Creek leasing office just in case our pest control guy didn’t work out.
After visiting the Meadow Creek leasing office three times, we were told that they «would try to contact a company» and would call us to let us know when the company would be able to come out. They said that they would cover the cost for this additional pest control company.
We heard NOTHING from the leasing office for 2 ½ days. This was after multiple in-​person contacts with maintenance and staff, as well as a physical service request that I filed online.
It is now Friday and we have not yet had a visit from the pest control company, or any additional contact from Meadow Creek.
Additional reasons to stay away:
— A friend moved out because his ceiling caved in and covered his family’s living room in asbestos.
— Tenants regularly receive posted notes on their door about things such as: Having too many plants on your balcony, smoking in common areas or on balconies (this one is probably once a month at least), shutting off the water (once a month at least), pets, etc. I often feel like they treat this like a college dorm, as opposed to an apartment community for adults.

I’m sorry if my star rating is misleading to some people, but Unilocal won’t let me give zero stars.
I loved my first nine months here. The maintenance people were great and we have the most amazing next door neighbor. Then all of a sudden things flipped and service was terrible. I figured people were adjusting to a pay cut so I cut them some slack and renewed my over priced apartment.
The apartment complex does a few major things that had I known about I would not have renewed.
1. They charge you late fees on utilities much more than the amount due without telling you what you will be charged. I pay the rent portion on the 30^th of each month then the utilities a few days later. However, sometimes if I know I won’t be able to pay later, I throw in a few HUNDRED dollars in hopes to cover the utilities. Sometimes I will get to my front door after being out of town to find a statement on my door saying I estimated a few dollars (so far it has been anywhere as low as 8 and 50.08 at the highest) too short. On top of this amount, they would like me to pay $ 170 late fee and «delivery fee» on top of it. How can my late fee be more than the charge itself??? And this wouldn’t be a problem anyway if I knew how much I was paying for utilities.
2. The utilities things also gets me going because you pay for what you don’t use. I was out of town for a month and came back to the highest utility bill yet. No lights on, no heat on, nothing. BE WARNED
3. I had a decorative fall display on my table on my porch along with a broom and an entrance mat. I was told that it is against the policy to have those here. My dog also tore my blinds mid work-​week and I was told I only had two days (two extremely busy days in which I didn’t even have time for me to shower) to replace them.
4. I have been waiting over a week for a service request to be filled.
5. DO NOT OVER PAY EVER. Once they accidentally over charged me and I spoke with a woman about correcting that. She said she did and that it would be applied to the next month’s utilities. As usual, I paid my entire bill on the 30^th, only to find out that the charges WERE NOT APPLIED to my bill. That meant I had both a late fee and some missing money.
6. I have mice. As do other neighbors.
7. I have received notices telling me to «stop smoking» (I don’t smoke) because my upstairs neighbors drop their cigarette butts onto my porch like it’s an ashtray. Even though I have explained this many times, the administration continues to ask me to quit a habit I never started.
8. There is no AC in the «winter» months and no heat in the «summer» months even if it’s an abnormally hot/​cold day. 9. The cost to get out of one’s lease is so outrageous that as badly as I want to leave I’m unable to because it would cost me a fortune. Especially considering I recently lost my job and can’t afford their high demands
Do your self a favor. DON’T move here. It’s like writing your own ransom note. If it gets better I will be happy to let everyone know, but as of right now I wouldn’t suggest this place to even my worst enemy because even this is too cruel of a punishment.

Granted I haven’t lived in many apts., just houses, but privately owned so I have dealt with owners hands on, face to face, this place has the worst office staff I ever seen, && as previous tenants stated, they do not keep nor value their word! I am not going into complete details at the moment until I makes some calls, but if u are as busy as I am, u hate the hassle, being lied to, then don’t waste your time!

AWFUL! The review that states that mgt. practices are purposely confusing is correct! Especially plumbing heat and air. I probably wont waste much more time with them
at Meadow Creek Office as they are part of the plot to avoid residents and be deceptive about everything.
They wont take rent checks and there is a convoluted method of p) aying rent and utilities. Utilities are NOT based on what the reident actually uses, but a pool of
combined costs are charged so you never know what you really used. All rules to the most trivial are corporate favored. So since I am an older resident with disabilities I will take the route of outside intervention thru tenant/​landlord intervention. For over a month I have tried to communicate with them. Called Aimco who listened to me but don’t do very much. Hot water comes out of the cold water faucet in the kitchen; tub backs up. Toilet flooded my bathroom on day 2 of being here. Obviously there is a huge ancient plumbing problem. I need air conditioning and that process has been a HUGE SECRET! I am sweltering in humidity. Gardeners avoid patio weeds even after numerous requests to trim the patio, but mow the grass repeatedly, while weeds
climb up my wall and walk.
Accomodations for disabled are not cooperated with and anger by one maintenance
man was used instead.
Questions sent to the Manager of Boulder Creek and Meadow Creek (she does moth from day one went unanswered. They don’t avoid individuals, they avoid ALL residents needs. She called my phone number from my old apt. saying there
was no way to leave a message so I never talked to her or saw her until I
caught her in the office one day pretending ignorance or misinterpreting my
maintenance requests.
This style of management is unfortunately common in these days.: Forget the
«Customer is always right» times. Policy is avoid, ignore, humiliate, drag feet
forever until you are super stressed out and are charged «fees» and immoral,
gouging rates. And respect the elderly? Who ever said that? IGNORE
POSITIVE REVIEWS — they reflect denial and delusion that the location
somehow should make you grateful to live here despite how you are treated.
I need Air conditioning and From the beginning I have been denied KNOWLEDGE
OF HOW IT EVEN WORKS. I HAVE NO control over the thermostat and
am not told how to use it or when it will be on. AIMCO needs to be
ashamed of their treatment of people and needs to reform their exploitation
philosophy. Being dragged into a lawsuit is something innocent apartment
residents do not want and that is what CORPORATE and THIER PARTNERS
at the local office are counting on.

Meadow Creek has been a great place to live. The staff is friendly and attentive to the needs of the residents. The apartments are quite comfortable and mine has a great view of the Boulder Country Club golf course.

Meadow Creek is the best apartment complex and community in Boulder County.
We are going on our third year here, and we love it. We have absolutely no complaints.
We have a dog, a cat, a toddler and a baby on the way.
Meadow Creek has always felt completely safe and family-​friendly to us. There are gates all around the complex and we have a code to get in with our car.
It is in a great, a safe area, directly next to the SW College of Acupuncture ($ 25 treatments!) and also directly next to the County Club golf course, and near the new up and coming Gunbarrel plaza.
We can walk to all the businesses we need to use, and at the same time, it is quiet and private in the actual complex.
We have a gorgeous view of the Flatirons and an entire vista of mountains out all our windows and balcony.
There is a huge playground, sandbox, volleyball court, pond and trees, field, nice walking paths and landscaping, and pool and hot tub.
There is a beautiful lounge and fitness center with TV that we use often and no one is ever there.
Our apartment was beautiful and clean when we moved in, remodeled with laminate floors, new appliances, nice wooden cabinets and new countertops.
The maintenance team here is incredible. Our lobby and hallway is deeply cleaned every week, and any request we have is taken care of the next day. We have never had an emergency request, but I’m sure they would come right away.
You may rent a garage, which we do, and it is spacious, with shelving, for our storage and car.
People are nice, respectful, family-​friendly, and professional here. We have made many great neighbors who have become friends, and we do favors for each other like child care trades and watching pets when out of town.
Gunbarrel is awesome. So many farms around here to buy fresh food cheaper than at the Farmer’s market. A few lovely ways to get into downtown Boulder through the country.
Meadow Creek is a hidden gem. We cannot recommend it more highly!

If I could give negative stars I would. Absolutely the worst living situation I have ever had. careless rude staff that will ignore you every chance they can as a way to keep their jobs easy. Any shed of hope was lost when the community manager quit and the new one Dianne came in. Shes incredibly rude, heartless, and has no zero ability to properly do her job. She would purposefully avoid your calls and pawn you off to lesser employees who didn’t know how to help you. After holding out $ 800 hostage for 5 months, we had to go above her head to a district manager to finally get it in motion.
Flat out: she should be fired.
Beyond the horrible management, the apartments were survivable. They are okay, but nothing special. The floors are prone to getting gross and sticky due to the bad finish. The counters are cheap and prone to warping. If you do move in, expect your appliances to break and your pipes to burst. Your neighbors will most likely put cigarette butts and trash down their food disposal in the sink and thus clog your piping as well.
While some of our neighbors were good a majority were rude, loud, and disrespectful people. They had no sense of time and no respect for a sleep schedule. Walls are thin so expect quite a few nights with parties into the early AM. If you live in the pool courtyard you can expect the occasional pool party that gets out of hand as well.
This place isn’t cheap either. It would be one thing if I was saving big bucks to live in a crummy apartment. But to be paying that much and have such a horrible experience is a scam.
Seriously, spend the same amount and live in Boulder proper. You can find just as many amenities for the same cost in town.

Meadow Creek Apartments is the worst place to live in the Boulder area.
As others have covered the paper thin walls, lack of heat and air conditioning until it’s too hot or cold to bare, and shared over priced utilities, I will focus on a couple issues we had, and how they relate to the apartment complex as a whole.
1: Poor Property Management.
From the moment of moving in the apartment had been riddled with issues with the plumbing. Within every 3 week period we would put in a service request regarding our kitchen sink plumbing. After the repeated flooding of our sink, all personal property as well as surfaces such as drawers and countertops were water damaged and ruined, while the main office refused to repair or replace them.
The main office always remained ignorant of our problems and refused to send anyone other than a basic handyman to attempt to fix our issues (and mark them fixed despite the problem remaining, just to mark the issue as «resolved»).
Eventually it was discovered that a pipe had burst underground below our bathtub. Dirt, cigarette butts from our upstairs neighbors, and hot sewage shot out of our sink like a geyser. However, we were told the solution to this problem was to simply «stop using your kitchen sink.» An easy enough task. We became accustomed to washing dishes in the shower, as that was the best solution Meadow Creek’s management could come up with.
Flash forward to two weeks later. The time is now 2:00pm on a Friday: I get a call telling me the issue would be fixed, the solution is to replace the broken pipe. Thank the powers of Google for helping them solve that issue.
After that call I received no point of contact in regards to what was happening. At 6pm I was informed we would not be able to return home and that we needed a hotel for the night. We were never consulted on this project and whether we approved of it. That act alone borders on illegal.
Throughout that weekend we went through hell trying to understand what was going on. We would spend every morning trying to determine if we would be ok to check out of the room or if we would need another night. Calling the office was useless because no one was aware of the project. A project that was slated to take one day ended up taking a full week.
When I asked to be reimbursed for the hotel stay, nobody in the office had any idea what I was talking about, and gave me the run-​around, never giving me a straight answer and usually lying to my face about when I would be reimbursed.
Furthermore, I would later find out that the hired worker was not approved an approved contractor, and there is no record of the work being done or who did it. It was simply someone the maintenance head found that could dig a hole. No one was aware this man had access to our belongings, and our keys.
After we left Meadow Creek, any calls to the front office were ignored, and only picked up when I called using a different phone. The community manager would not take my calls, and would only speak with me through the leasing agent. I was only reimbursed two months later after speaking personally with the AIMCO district manager.
Tip for prospective residents: Ikea sells wall mounted bars that you can hang dish racks on as well as shower caddies.
2: Lack of Community Respect
From the moment we moved in we dealt with the most horrible neighbors we have ever lived near. We kept in repeated contact with the front office in regards to their problems and were brushed off every time. They would simply email the unit to ask them to behave, and it would only serve to instigate them.
After repeated attempts to contact our neighbors, the front office requested that we call the police to file a noise complaint whenever the got out of control, as that is the only way they could take further action.
One Wednesday night at around 2am, after blasting music and stomping around for six hours straight at a volume loud enough to shake our light fixtures and prevent any sleep, I had the audacity to knock on the ceiling with a broom handle, the universal sign of «please be quiet.» Immediately, their front door slammed, and minutes later, we had the lady living upstairs pounding on our front door and bedroom windows, screaing at us to come out and fight her instead of calling the police, because she didn’t want another ticket.
That fight did not occur that evening, nor did any action from the office when asked to deal with the incident.
The front office told us there’s nothing they could do about tenants on their property, and asked us to take matters into our own hands. Even with the threat of violence. Their «community contract» thing they present for you to sign when you sign the lease is apparently non-​binding, or doesn’t apply to the whole community.
Another tip for prospective residents: Because Meadow Creek is in Boulder County, you need to call the Boulder County police department, not the City of Boulder police.

Watch out for this horrible landlord. They tell you one thing and then stick you with another. If you make agreements, get it in writing — they will break every promise they make! My daughter moved to Boulder in 2006 to attend CU and we’ve always had delightful landlords. I can’t believe Meadow Creek stays in business — I wish we’d read reviews about the place before my daughter rented an apartment. Research this place — these people are awful!

I’ve been a resident of Meadow Creek Apartments since December, and I have to say, I have nothing to complain about. The rent and utilities are easy to pay — just one combined monthly payment from my computer. In addition to having a great view of the foothills (specific to my room) and being comfortable and quiet, the apartment staff is a pleasure to work with. They answer all my questions promptly and professionally, and the service requests are always taken care of by the next morning.
Speaking of service requests: a little while ago, I was in Miami for a 3-​day music festival for which the tickets had been sold out and there was no chance of admittance to the festival without a pass. I was an idiot and had left my pass in my apartment, so I had no other option but to contact Amber and Judi at Meadow Creek and ask them to get into my apartment and overnight my festival pass to me from Boulder to Miami. I sent out an email and a service request (from the Ft. Lauderdale airport at midnight) explaining what I needed and how desperate I was. The Meadow Creek staff sprang into action the following morning, and by the time the festival started, a day and half after I had realized my mistake, I was holding my beautiful festival pass in my hand!
I could have wasted 5 useless days in Miami as well as a whole bunch of missed work and money for the trip, but instead, thanks to Amber, Judi, and Meadow Creek staff, my whole trip was saved! I’m so glad I live here, because if I were living in a house, or some other apartment complex with a less caring and reliable staff, I wouldn’t have been so lucky!
This is my first apartment since graduating college, so I don’t have much experience with apartment complexes, but I can’t imagine any serious complaints a reasonable person would have about this place.
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These apartments are great. Compared to neighboring areas, it’s a great value. Only a 10 min drive to Pearl Street and other attractions.
The best part is the service. Each time I’ve needed to speak with someone, they’ve been VERY responsive on top of being courteous and professional and all around helpful.

While I personally wasn’t crazy about the apt, my husband liked them. Some have access only from the inside of the building, like a hotel which was a no-​go for me. Not close enough to CU for me.