Flamingo Chateau Apartments

My partner and I have been hopelessly searching all over California, for months, with no luck. We came across the ad for this apartment on Craigslist, and Renee went above and beyond her duties as a manager to help us find a home. Of course people only come on to review sites to complain, I’m here to complement. Every place has it’s issues, nothing is perfect. What sets a company apart from others, is their customer service and respect. We were updated step by step, kept in the loop, and most important, we weren’t given up on when our credit and rental history wasn’t the best. I’ll post another review 6 months from now with my living experience. :)

I stayed at the Apartment for a 6 month lease term and I hated EVERY day living here! RUN RUN RUN!!!
Management team changes every couple of month (wonder why), everybody tells you a new story. They got us moving in by telling a story about getting a new dog park with grass for our puppies and a gym upgrade for my husband. Well, both never happened and when we inquired about we always got the same answer «we working on it» yea right…
The «gated» community is not really gated if the gate never closes since it is broken non stop. The few days out of the year the gate actually works, the gate code is the house number and every junkie living close by knows the gate code.
Strangers can just drive in all day and night. The mailboxes get broken into on a regular basis, so you HAVE to check your mail daily before nightfall, otherwise it will be gone in the morning.
Lot of Drug activity! Different dealers and their junkies live in this community. The police is present about twice a week. When you complain about the drug activity or not working gate all they say is «nobody complaint about it yet, we were not aware of it». Which is obviously not true since many neighbors complain and they all get the same answer. In the end nothing changes.
One night I heard a car running in front of my bedroom window, It run for more then 10 minutes, so I opened the curtain, to see If there was a crime in progress (which is very common in this community). Well, I looked right into the windshield of a car where the prostitute which lives in this complex was going to work giving oral sex.
Also, pests are a very well know problem to management who doesn’t really care. Within the first week we found 6 Scorpios in our apartment, which we collected and brought to management. As always the same answer «we are not aware of it, nobody else complained yet». Well, coming to find out the neighboring apartment was infested with Scorpios and that’s where the ones in my apartment came from.
Washer and Dryer in the unit don’t work. We got our replaced 5 times in the 6 months, they don’t give you a new one. They just swap out different models out of empty units which don’t work neither.
It was the worst time of my life living here and I would recommend everybody to please just pass this complex and NEVER rent here. It will save you a lot of trouble and bitterness.

This place is not worth the $ 700 a month. If your more concern about the travel because you work at the Strip. Then ya its worth it. But quality of this apartment, NO!
I got stung by a scorpion couple days ago. woke up it was laying in my bed hiding for 8 hours i was asleep unaware. Woke up and wham! Stung hurt like shit! Called EMT and Fire Fept. They both came and said If I see one scorpiom there are a lot somewhere. Because a mother scorpion breeds 100.
Im lucky I didnt get an anaphalyptic reaction. I can sue this place. Pest control in this place sucks! I see bugs in my bathroom time to time little insects coming out of tiny holes that they didnt close well in the walls. I do not want to live here anymore.
I do not recommend this place. The gate also sucks. No separate gate key to open. Always have to put in the damn key numbers. Also the gate looks deformed. And makes a horror squeek sound like you coming out of a horror house.

So my mom just moved out of these apartments after a year. The office workers and maintenance changed so many times in a year we couldn’t even keep track.
The bad service started on day one, when they wouldn’t let us see the apartment before she signed anything. The apartment was a mess from the day we got the keys. Horrible run down conditions on top of leaking air conditioner, broken microwave and dryer, scorpions!, etc. They say they are upgrading the place but we’re not impressed or convinced. The place is gated but half the time the gate was broken, so it remained open.
My mom got a great show one morning while sitting on the patio… neighbors cars being broken into, she called the cops, but the thieves were gone before they showed up. The mail boxes were broken into once. A neighbor had their place around the corner burglarized. The people that lived above were so noisy, had 2 big dogs and liked to exercise extremely early in the morning, we complained but it didn’t help.
Don’t rent here, go somewhere else. It’s not even that cheap, so it’s not worth your trouble.