Parkside Apartments

I lived here for a year and it was a great experience. Management is amazing! They are friendly and answer service requests rapidly. Like many others stated you do hear and feel the shakes of the train however, after a while you get use to it. The apartment complex is filled mainly by families and some students. A previous Unilocaler stated that there is creepy people walking around late however, during my stay I never witnessed anyone with that description. There is a night time security vehicle on site. The only person I seen walk around at odd hours was a lady collecting cans. I highly recommend this place because it is close to downtown and right across the public library as well as the community center (amazing yoga classes there). They also have little parties hosted by the manager where they raffle gift cards. The only downside to this property is that the gym and pool close at 10pm.

I lived here for about 2 years and probably had one of the better units near the pool. I barely heard the train (pretty far from the tracks) only annoying thing was when some highschooler with a fart cannon on their 1984 Honda civic would go blasting down the street at 3am. Since i had a unit right on the street that couod get annoying at times.
However after living there for a month or so it kinda fades and you dont notice anymore. The management was super friendly and maintenance was quick about any issues. Only issue was the gym. It was super lacking in terns of equipment and size.

I never lived here, but I visited it often because my girlfriend used to live here. Out of all the apartments I have been to in Davis, this place was by-​far the worst. As a fellow Unilocaler said, you feel the trains as they pass through. That part was okay though, and doesn’t take too long to get used to.
This place just has the shadiest people as tenants. Not sure if it’s because of the cheap rent or something else, but there was always some questionable people walking around the complex, especially at night. I guess you get what you pay for as well — the interior wasn’t all that appealing either.
Needless to say, I was glad that I lived at the Lexington when I visited here, and my girlfriend would never hesitate to leave parkside to spend the day elsewhere.

Lived here for two years. I appreciated the low rent and proximity to downtown. I did not appreciate the proximity to the railroad tracks or the fact that F Street is apparently the fire department’s favorite route to respond to calls in North Davis.
You’ve read the other reviews and it’s true; the trains are loud. However, as bothersome as they were at first, I eventually got used to them. After a couple of weeks of living there, they became background noise and no longer woke me up on those precious Saturday mornings when I was trying to sleep in. My girlfriend however, could not get used to them as she only visited for a few days at a time. Apparently it takes sustained exposure to the noise and movement associated with the trains to adapt to them.
The apartments are old, but mine was in pretty good shape. There were cracks in the wall and it looked like there were about 40 layers of paint, but those are minor cosmetic details. The plumbing all worked and I never had any major maintenance problems. The biggest problem I had during my time here was with the outlets. Only the outlets in the bathroom and a few of the outlets in the kitchen are grounded. I had constant problems with my electronics in this apartment and I think it’s because of the old electrical infrastructure.
When I first moved in the laundry room was all coin-​op and looked ancient. They updated the facilities sometime in 2010 to a card system and did a minor remodel. Much nicer than it used to be and the card readers make doing laundry much more convenient than having to carry around a roll of quarters.
There are plenty of nicer places to live in Davis, but not many as affordable as Parkside. If you’re looking for a cheap place to live where you won’t have to have roommates, it’ll probably come down to Parkside, College Square (or Aggie Square, I could never keep those two straight), and Americana Arms. Make sure to visit each before you decide. The choices for cheap rent in Davis are pretty thin, so personal preference goes a long way.

I waited a long time to write this review so my emotions would cool down and the review would remain coherent. I’m a 28 year-​old lawyer and my girlfriend is a 24 year-​old high school English teacher. We lived at parkside last year while my girlfriend was getting her teaching credential at UCD and student-​teaching in Sacramento. I was studying for the NY bar exam, which I passed in February (though I didn’t swear in until June).
In a very safe city, this apartment complex is just about the only really dangerous place to be. The fact that rent is very cheap here and that they offer one-​bedroom apartments (rare in Davis) means that the seediest elements in the city (usually «townies» rather than UCD students) flock to Parkside. The nighttime security agency is basically no help, and often fails to record who calls them and who complaints are made against. Add to this, the very real problem of inadequacy in the management of the complex. While we were boring grown-​ups (a 24 year-​old grad student/​high school teacher and a 27 year-​old law school graduate studying for the bar exam), our frequent pleas for help from the threats and intimidation against us by our obviously meth-​addicted downstairs neighbor went unanswered for months. Only one person in the office seemed sane or rational — the man with the middle desk. But he clearly had to kowtow to the lady that runs that office.
It doesn’t help that the buildings were clearly made poorly a very long time ago and are, in many cases falling apart. Even the «renovated» units are often only partially-​improved, and the sound-​insulation is probably not even to code (we could hear through our bedroom wall when the next door neighbor played video games, even though the sound couldn’t be heard in her own living room). We didn’t get to look inside our unit when se signed up for a place and were shocked to find that, despite being told it was «completely renovated besides the air conditioning being old,» the place was in shambles, with a nightmarish kitchen and a bathroom that began falling apart the day we moved in.
It might be easy enough to assume, if you want to stay near campus and downtown, that you can put up with the difficulties of living here, but there are many better smaller complexes and buildings in Davis to consider first. I am sure our bad experience is unique in that the troublesome downstairs neighbor we had was so uniquely frightening and cruel to us on a daily basis (even shouting at my visiting 57 year-​old mom going through chemo at the time), but the way the management avoided dealing with our concerns for so long says something about their competency in general. That said, even before the bad neighbor moved in we weren’t very happy with the place. The bathroom and kitchen were a nightmare and the bike rack situation led to my bike being stolen within a month, despite being double-​locked. The layout of units are also weird, with no ideal place for a TV and a strange entryway. And don’t expect your unit to look like the ones they show you, ours were several degrees worse and I think it’s fair to assume that’s how many of them are.

I lived in Parkside for two years, and while you can hear the trains from most apartments in Davis, I always liked to say that at Parkside, you don’t hear them — you FEEL them! but like living next to an airport, it tends to fade into the background and you don’t notice it anymore. The gym is minimalistic, but could be worse — pool is actually very nice — laundry facility has plenty of washers and dryers.
These apartments are older than the average Davis apartment, but they make up for it by having bigger rooms than most of the newer places. The rent is definitely on the cheaper side, too. However, you really only get the bare minimums — nothing fancy here. (Our place didn’t even have a dishwasher). It is really easy to bike to and from campus, maybe 15 min avg. Unitrans is *extremely* convenient (and Yolobus, too, actually). Parking is not too bad, (you have lots of street parking usually), but the trees always cover your car in pollen within a day of your car wash.
Neighbor-​noise wasn’t ever unacceptable — or maybe the upstairs folk were just really nice. My bedroom didn’t have a shared wall, tho. One thing that really bugged me was the couple next door always smoking on their patio — which always drifted into our place through open windows — but it’s too hot to close them!
Oh, also, I’ve heard people on the north side of the complex complain about the Saturday morning noise from the Little League games:
:Crrrack!: «GO!!! GO!!! GO!!! YEAAHHH!!! WOOOO!!!»

I lived in Parkside for one year in a 4 bedroom unit. Location is decent if you’re a student at UCD. It is located close to three bus stops, one on each end of the complex and another across the street, so you have at least two or three chances to make it to campus. The cons, however, do include being along the train tracks. You may be woken up by the noise and slight rumbling. On weekends I sometimes got woken up by the baseball games taking place right next to the complex.
The rooms are a good size. My room has a built in desk but was an awkward shape; not a square or rectangle like the others. During the winter, the two rooms closer to the living room were cold and the two further down the hall were usually warm. The kitchen area is small and couldn’t fit more than three people comfortably at a time.
I never had any issues with management. They threw some parties and advertised them around the complex, but I never went. We had a bug problem in the kitchen. Once reported, someone came in a day or two to fix it. The employees were nice and usually said hi as I walked by.
The price was decent and since the apartment complex itself is old, you can’t expect too much from it. Minus a star because my friend had a naked guy standing outside her window. I never had an issue with safety but this occurred a year after I moved out.