West 8th Apartments

Don’t trust a 5 star review! West 8^th management has had numerous gift card giveaways for tenants based off of a good review on Unilocal… This right off the bat should tell you something is up.
I don’t want to be completely salty, so a few perks are: Our neighbors were amazing and became close friends very quickly. The location is fantastic, all 5 golden breweries, hiking and tubing within walking distance. The apts look really nice. The grilling/​fire pit area is a great chill spot all year round. It is a fairly quiet community. The view is outstanding, sitting on your porch with a cup of coffee watching people parasailing on lookout mountain is very cool.
HOWEVER! If you want to pay too much to live in an apt built on «Affordable» housing tax credits, then look no further. My girlfriend and I have only been in our 1 bedroom for a year and became increasingly more and more frustrated as time has gone on. The down side of West 8^th is:
No matter what you are told, the neighborhood is not dog friendly. We signed our lease based upon the on premise dog park, move in day we were told it is not a dog park, and we were wrong for even thinking so. Golden police have also been known to camp out in the parking lot across the street ticketing dog owners for «off leash» when residents are sitting on their own private porch.
Lynd Co Construction crews have used our electricity without refunding it back to us.
We are at this moment locked out of our garage (management doesn’t have a key) with a «hopefully we can get someone out here this week to fix it» response. As a construction worker, I tend to keep my tools in the garage, so this week I will be out of work I guess.
We have had unknown costs posted to our account without warning, then charged a late fee because it was not paid. Just 1 example: we paid our rent on the 1^st of May, then an unknown second water bill was posted on the 3^rd of May, we were charged $ 20 on the 4^th because the 3^rd was our last day to pay it. Management’s response was that we needed to check our online renters profile daily and this wouldn’t happen.
The common area lawn has mold growing, and standing water is present almost all the time.
Management will show up unannounced under the pretense that they need to «do a walk through». If they have no problem walking right in when we’re home, what do they do when we are not?
Maintenance issues are at the quickest taken care of around 7 days or more, even if the issue is a hot water heater.
The parking is worse than when we lived downtown Chicago.
I hate to leave a review with such a harsh tone and wish I could have been more objective, but you don’t openly and blatantly mess with someone’s private living space, not ok.

BEWARE. Noisy in a significant way, at least for the first floor unit. Disclaimer — I rented unit for less than 12 hours after discovery of problem.
My short experience and objective findings.
First thing that I noticed was sounds of footsteps overhead, loud footsteps. They could be heard in garage, kitchen, living room, and hallway. The adults above were of smaller size and no kids.
I was able to hear a man cough in the living room above me with my doors/​windows closed.
I was able to hear conversations and TVs playing from inside apartments on 2^nd floor from halfway up stairs from 1^st floor to 2^nd floor.
Lastly, and probably the most disturbing example of thin walls — I played a song on my iPhone (phone only, no additional speakers), volume on max and phone was placed in center of kitchen. I exited (and closed) my front door. I was able to hear the exact song/​lyrics playing 10 feet outside my front door. I walked further down hall, I was able to hear music being played from my apartment when I was 20 – 30 feet away, half way up stairs to 2^nd floor.
I picked up my keys and viewed my apartment for first time on a Saturday morning (I highly recommend you view during times when occupants will be home). Unfortunately, I will lose $ 750 as deposit and application are not refunded. They did refund my June rent which is fortunate. The manager, Laura, was very nice, prompt, and helpful during this entire process. The apartments appear well maintained and clean.

Love living here! I’ve had mostly bad experiences with apartment living but this place tops em all! The units are modern and spacious. We have a 2 bedroom and I absolutely love the layout. Best part of our unit is the kitchen hands down! I love that’s it’s a new building… you can smell the fresh paint as you walk through the hallways!
If you love dogs or are a dog owner, this place is most certainly for you! They have a dog park ON the property! Amazing! I’m pretty certain this place was built for dogs and I guess humans can come along too. If you live here, you know exactly what I mean!
The clubhouse is very homey. There’s plenty of TVs and beer everyday on tap! Yes, you read that right, beer on tap in the clubhouse during business hours! The gym is kind of small but there’s enough to get the job done including free weights. Meredith who works in leasing is awesome! She’s easy going and keeps the place in check.
The location cannot be beat. We have a unit facing Lookout Mtn! So sweet! We can walk to downtown golden in like minutes. I love this location so much!
All in all, I’m so happy we got to move here… there were no units when we first checked but we got lucky with someone moving out around the time we were looking. Best apartment ever!