Tantra Lake Apartments

I moved from another state to boulder and had to find an apartment before actually visiting it. I called many places including Tantra Lake. They kept on record of what I was looking for and the next day they had an apartment available meeting the requirements that I was looking for. I worked with Rachel to sign the lease and she was wonderful and very helpful. Right before I was suppose to move in I was notified that the apartment wasn’t left in good enough condition by the previous owner and Rachel went out of her way to provide me with a temporary place till my actual apartment was ready. I was truly touched by the experience as they didn’t have to tell me and just put me in a dirty apartment. I am looking forward to my stay at Tantra Lake. The management is great and so is the location!

Let me start by saying I have never dealt with worse management, never have I seen anyone completely take the word of one tenant over another without even lending an ear to the others side of the story. We were issued noise complaints almost immediately after moving for completely unjust causes. While still in the process of moving in our belongings we were apparently already «making too much noise».
When disputing each and every complaint against us they did not once take our words into consideration and thus ending up asking us to leave after 4 months of vacancy. If you are a young adult looking for a place to live keep looking because Tantra Lakes is sure to find some way to give you the boot whether or not you have good reason to protest their motives.

I will say that for being in Boulder, their not too expensive, but the price is still ridiculously high, as I’m paying over 1600 for a two room town home.
The bad:
1. Management will tell you to your face as you’re signing the lease that they’ll never go into your apartment without there being an emergency unless they notify you and get your approval. Two months after I moved in, maintenance came into the apartment while no one was home to change an air filter without telling us, then left the old dirty one in the middle of our floor (picture:
). As far as I’m concerned this is a break in the lease that we signed. I called the management and left my name, apartment number and phone number about this, but they never called back.
2. There is no vent over the stove — it’s just a fan that blows smoke and steam around the kitchen and towards the smoke detector. This makes it impossible to use a skillet to cook without having someone use a towel to fan smoke away from the smoke detector, otherwise you get the piercing screech from the alarm.
3. They used the cheapest paint possible inside of the apartment. If you have a couch against the wall, the color of the couch fabric will be absorbed into the paint within a day or two. You can press your finger on the wall (without using your nail) and leave a dark mark.
4. The walls are insanely thin. You can hear your neighbors talking and laughing.
In short: no respect for privacy and cheap maintenance/​infrastructure despite rent costs.
The good:
1. Plenty of parking and near the bus lines to get into Denver or downtown Boulder easily
2. Cheaper than living in downtown Boulder
3. Having a balcony from the main bedroom is nice, but our unit has a florescent lamp post right outside, so we have to keep the blinds closed at night in order to sleep.

let me preface this by saying i did not live here, so i don’t know how mgmt works. but it is an incredibly welcoming and relaxing environment. will say bathrooms are a bit small.
one of my good friends lived here and i would go out of my way to spend time at her apartment. there is a large lake with fountains, geese and picnic tables. we loved to make dinner and take it outside to watch the sunset over the flatirons.
very dog friendly.
for amenities, there is a nice gym, pool, out door hot tub and tanning booth.
i loved this place so much i considered staying in boulder after my lease expired, but only if i could live here.

All I have to say is WOW… I went thinking this was the highest on my list and it was a dump. No patio/​balcony. No outside access (you enter your apartment from inside the building). Old appliances. A wall air conditioning that looked like it was from the 70’s. Only reason I gave it two stars is for the FABULOUS amentities. The pool and weight room were the best I had seen in an apt complex!