Avenue R Apartments

Finding a nice apartment at a fair price is difficult. Luckily, Avenue R provides good living at an affordable price. I have been looking for a place near the action at a good value.
The front desk employees are extremely helpful. They streamlined the entire application process to make the filing process more efficient.
The amenities include everything I need such as a gym, pool, bbq grill, yoga room, penthouse, and doggy park.

It’s hard to find a great apartment at a great price in Houston, but I’ve found one at Avenue R. I have lived around the Midtown area for a couple years and was looking for something still near the action, but at a great value.
The staff has been friendly and incredibly helpful and the property looks great. Amenities are exactly what I’m looking for. Having a great gym and pool is important to help me decompress after a long day at the office, so I was pleased to find that this community takes pride in making these things a priority.
They seem to have streamlined and simplified the application process as well. This was handled completely online and was much quicker than handling in-​person.

We are moving from Dallas to Houston for job related reasons. The bf and I had a weekend to find a place so I was pretty nervous with our limited time frame. We came upon Avenue R after viewing one of their sister properties. Megan has been really helpful with the application process and getting everything ready for us while we are still in Dallas. We are very excited to move into our new home at Avenue R. The property looked great and clean and they have some very nice amenities. If you have pets, this is definitely a pet friendly property as well.

I have driven by these beautiful and modern looking apartments countless times but never actually went in. After going to check out the apartment floor plans and amenities (sky lounge, gym, yoga studio, 5 grills, two pools) it was a NO BRAINER that I needed to live here. I will be expediting my move in date because I simply can’t stay away from this complex. Perfect location! Easy access to the freeway makes my commute effortless. I will update my review after a couple of months of living on the property but I don’t see my rating changing.

The apartments look great with great extras. The office staff have been very nice and accommodating so far. Michelle gave a very thorough tour. The application process is one of the easiest that I have completed. You can do everything online which is great for me as I travel quite a bit for my job.
I ended up requesting a different apartment from the one that I applied for and they were very helpful in making the change without any problems. They have also been very responsive and accommodating regarding final move in and remote/​lease signing, again because of my sometimes unpredictable work travel schedule.
I did ask about some of the negative comments I. Unilocal.Michelle informed me that Avenue R has a completely new management company now and I should not experience the problems mentioned in the past. I’m looking forward to moving in and experiencing the community atmosphere
–Brian

Just filled out an application to move here this Spring! We loved all the amenities available to residents

Omg. I decided to move in galleria area. My first stop was at Avenue R. Everyone ther was so friendly and nice to me. The property is beautiful wit many Amenities. They had great specials to offer. My consultant took me to see the 1 bedroom and it was beautiful. First stop and didn’t hv to look anywhere else. Yes go chk them out!!!

great location and great amenities, Michelle and Megan are awesome people! great management…

I’ve looked at a lot of apartments and Avenue R seems to be the best for for me. The property looks extremely well kept and it has tons of amenities. Megan at the leasing office has been very helpful in getting everything I need together for my upcoming move. I’m looking forward to it!

I live here and i’m very unimpressed with the quality of service. The hallways are often littered with cigarette butts and dog poop, and these would sometimes remain for over 24 hours! The leasing agents never respond to emails and their phone lines appear to have been programmed to default to voice mail. They are however very adept at having a tow company tow away your car if it doesn’t have a parking garage sticker.
The floors aren’t labelled, so after driving through a very windy parking garage, you might realize you’ve actually parked your car on the wrong floor. People speed through the corners, so you also have to be very careful when driving in the garage.
The only thing I’ve been impressed by so far is the fact that maintenance replaced my bulbs the very next day after making the request, hence the lone star.

The management is horrible– I was fined $ 50 for a moving box left outside my door for an hour but then had to personally take two neighbors trash out bc management did not enforce their rules on them. Both times neighbors trash was left out for over a week and they did nothing about it. I had to replace all of my groceries and had to remove a plethora of gnats due to the neighbors. I told the management about it, they came and took pictures but didn’t remove the neighbors trash. It was the worst thing ever. They never notify you if you have packages or will return them to the sender if its convenient. Animal feces in hallways. Parking is ridiculous and dangerous as people fly around the tight corners. The gate which is the fire department entrance incase of fire was broken for over two weeks. Do not move here.

I’ve just signed a lease based on the fact I like the cleanliness of the place and the amenities seem to be nice. However, the proof is in the pudding and I hope it’s not as bad as the write-​ups I’ve seen on the place. I’ll update my comment in 6 months time. The Property Mgr has been good in dealing with my requests so far. I’m staying on the positive side and looking forward to living there. I moved from Remington Apartments as very displeased with the management and the location with the new Walmart development is a nightmare.

I’ve been here since the beginning, and I simply cannot wait until my lease is up this fall. We have had issues with noise for most of the time we’ve lived here, with very little being done to help. Parking is a nightmare, half the garage is empty reserved spots. ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ shot if they inform us of packages or if they can find them. Almost impossible to get a call through, they leave the answering service on most of the time. The thing that pushed me to write this review though, is the emails the management has been sending lately. They are passive aggressive and petty. The management is trying to power wash the garage (why???) and have been informing everyone through email, threatening to tow if cars are not removed within a certain time. Instead of making good on their threats, they continue to send email after email telling everyone to move their cars, and get passive aggressive about it. Just tow the cars, I’m tired of getting 5 emails a day about it. Also, instead of typing out a message, they’ve begun attaching a word document with the message. How hard is it to copy and paste instead of making me download a document? We get email after email, daily. Its obnoxious and annoying. The management has become a joke. And there are break-​ins (my unit was broken into, the door was kicked in seemingly easily and quietly), the management did nothing but send the mandatory notice out to residents. They fixed the door, but never repainted, so its a constant reminder of the break in. The management is simply inept.

I would not recommend this apartment to anyone. The management is the very worst I have ever experienced. Nasty petty emails are sent to all the residents on a regular basis. They threaten to evict tenants over very minor infractions such as guest parking in drive way and noise complaints. The management will NOT help you in the office. I had to go to the office 4 times just to get a replacement access fob. The young man in the office was going to turn me away the fifth time except I threatened to call Morgan Property corporate office. The crime is very bad here. Break ins are common. Parking is very hard to find after 7 pm. The rents are very high for very small units. My unit had very ugly gray cement floors that are badly cracked in many places.

I moved in here in the first few months the apartments open mainly because of the location and new complex. I would not recommend anyone living here unless all you’re doing is coming home to sleep. The walls are so thin I could hear my neighbors tv on regular volume, not to mention I could hear the stomps from upstairs. Never did I complain but I sure did have noise complains when having 1 or 2 guest. My motorcycle got vandalized twice and management did nothing. 3 months prior to my end of lease my motorcycle got stolen from the 2^nd floor parking garage in my reserved spot which I was paying for. Not to mention the security guard was working the front gate. Once again management did nothing and police were never able to collect the video from the garage entrance. When I first moved in the refrigerator would make a loud noise would took them 3 visits to finally get it fixed. I would have to say this was my worst apartment experience and it was only a year lease. Like I said the only thing good about this place is the location, the gym and the interior of the apartment as far as looks.

As we were one of the first residents at Avenue R, we did experience the growing pains of a new complex (no remote fobs, no mail boxes, etc), but in only a few months, they have worked through all the kinks.
The location and the appeal of a brand new apartment is what drove us to Avenue R. The location has yet to disappoint as we are in the center of the galleria. The new fixtures on the other hand are subpar at best. The floors do scratch incredibly easy and the dark color highlights each one. The countertops are also difficult to clean. The shape and backrest of the bathtub make it next to useless as a soaking tub. In the A2 unit there is limited storage options.
The one and only time I called maintenance, it was promptly answered and our issue fixed the same day.
Overtime, finding a parking spot has become a problem. All of the closest spots to the door are reserved, and until recently I have always found a spot relatively close to the apartment, without paying $ 35/​month, but those days maybe over. There is also no assigned motorcycle parking, so they take up spots marked for cars. Be careful driving up to your spot, as the corners are sharp and some residents drive fast.
The pool area is great. If you choose an apartment with a pool view, you will always hear the water feature, as well as any other conversation or noise that occurs in the courtyard. There are also 4 grills in the courtyard which are kept clean and easy to use.
The gym is larger and better equipped than most. Yoga is also taught in studio onsite 2 weekday nights and both weekend days in the morning. The 4^th floor lounge also has a lot to offer, but have not personally done anything but tour it.
If you choose to live on any floor other than the 4^th, you will also be keenly aware of your up-​stairs neighbors movement. Every stomp, I mean step, reverberates through along with dog barks and whines.
In addition to rent, you are also required to pay for a valet trash service. Sunday-​Friday one can leave a trash can outside the door and it will be picked up for you between 6pm-​8pm. I am stumped by the appeal of this service as the trash chute is only a hallway away and I typically require a trashcan when cooking dinner, which proves difficult when the trashcan must sit out for 2 hours. T few times we have used the service, they did not pick up the trash until 9:30pm. You will also be fined if you leave your can out passes a certain time in the morning.
The office is hit or miss. We have had great service from some and not so great from others. My biggest complaint outside of the stomping neighbors, would be communication from the office. We received many emails alerting us to a pet photo contest, but one evening when the water mysteriously shut off for several hours, we were never notified of the outage, or received an explanation after its resolution.
When it came to renew our lease, we were asked to pay $ 200 more a month for our apartment, which we politely declined.
Overall, the apartment is not a bad place to live and you are in he heart of uptown.