Park Victoria Apartments

My first apartment. Its actually been good to us. Maybe things we’re bad before we arrived. Staff is good with handling things when they need to be done. Its a pretty big apartment complex with 3 pools and 3 laundry rooms. I have not had a major issue since moving in. The community is diverse. A lot of kids out everyday and sometimes loud. But what can you do. The maintenance staff cleans up Monday through Friday.
Pros: pools, ac, play room, water and electric bill in one, balcony, staff is friendly
Cons: Only 1 parking space (I hate parking outside and sometimes no parking anywhere down and up Lincoln), some people don’t throw the trash in the open trash cans, sometimes the pools are closed with no reasoning, no gym, people honking when someone else parks in their spot (call the towing company people)
Recommendations: Cameras at both gate entrances and small gym ;)

I see this one review telling his experience. At first I thought he was mad at the owner or something. Until I checked it out myself. That guy who wrote a bad review about this place should have a reward. Because I checked it out myself and it was terrible. It was exactly what he said. I saw great reviews and pictures of the place. So let’s start with the bug problem. There were bees, flies, spiders, ants and Cockroaches. Then the people that were there were rude and loud. I am so sad because I was so happy to check this place out and move in. But never mind!

Wish this site allowed to award Zero stars on all points as this complex is less than bad on all counts.
First off… We lived in a 2 bedroom 1 bath unit with carpet (one of their older units) management is extremely bad and seems to only be there to take your money and do nothing else. They charge 50 dollars per day as a late fee which is technically illegal. I Lived there for nearly 2 years with my girlfriend and it was a terrible experience. The security drive thru gates malfunction or are broken at least 4 days a week. The walk in pedestrian gates are often jammed with paper so they don’t latch, or wedged with rocks. Cars are constantly being broken into. Our carport storage that was bolted by 2 latches and 2 locks was broken into and she lost alot of adored items, which we found the empty boxes sitting next to the trash cans a month or so later indicating that it was a fellow tenant that did it. There was an old honda hatchback with flat tires and an inch layer of dirt on it sitting for nearly a year and a half. The neighboring carport to ours was a really old classic car that the owner kept covered but it leaked gasoline from the gas tank very badly. We came home one night at 2am in the morning and there were a couple young guys sitting in our carport, playing music really loud and visibly drinking beer. I confronted them, which resulted in one of them taking a swing at me and starting a fight. Later i found out they were fellow tenants. Parking is absolutely terrible, my girlfriend lived there a year before i moved in. When i moved in, she tried to get a carport for my car, but since i wasn’t on the original lease they refused to give us another carport forcing me to park on the street which is always jam packed with people with big SUV’s that park their car in between 2 spaces so nobody else can park there. On the inside of the complex, there are usually about half of all their parking spaces are empty and unassigned obviously for the fact that you see all of the empty spaces day in and day out. Also with parking, the setup of the buildings and location of the carports and parking spaces is a tremendous distance, at least 50 to 100 yards from the apartments on the average. If your lucky enough to get a carport beneath your apartment, you have to climb a wicked narrow and steep set of stairs that are about 30 stair steps. The next issue on my list is how dangerous the grounds are. The walkways are steep and curved because of the complex being on a hill, and they don’t take care of their very large and aged trees on the property, so the walkways are all contorted and don’t match up at the seams. The management has made an attempt to fix it by slapping a rough asphalt patch to attempt to smooth it out, but done very poorly. Near our apt there were 2 dead trees that the management did nothing about. The first tree finally fell over and hit the opposing building, which took them about a week to clean up, which was only about 20 feet from another tree of the same type that was dead, so rather than taking precautions and removing the other dead tree, they also just let that one fall down… thankfully nobody was injured with either of the trees falling down. Another very dangerous situation that management is turning a blind eye to, is its painfully obvious that there is a massive water leak or drainage issue behind one of the walls of an entire section of carport below an entire building because most of the time there is a massive amount of water pouring out through holes in the back wall of the carport, you can also see the cinder blocks are completely waterlogged as well. One of these days the entire section will collapse and the apartment building above will cave into the carport below. Another failure of management is when we made friends with a neighbor who turned out to be fairly unstable. For whatever reason, this individual somehow changed the dead bolt in our door and swapped it out for their own dead bolt to supposedly to protect us… we had to go yell at them to get the key because we couldn’t even get into the apartment… when we reported it management told this individual that she wasn’t allowed to speak with us anymore rather than kicking her out for breaking and entering. Another issue that we’ve had is pests both inside and outside of the apartment. While living there, Ive seen a skunk, a racoon and a possum in the complex. All of which ran and hid underneath the first floor balconies, so they obviously live there, as well as constantly chasing down and killing incredibly large cockroaches inside the apartment. The management actually came out and sprayed, but it was only a couple weeks before we started seeing the cockroaches again. Another dangerous situation is the fact that the water heaters are actually in the closet of one of the bedrooms in every unit, and when you have been out all day and come home and go through the door, there is a musty mildew smell.

Apartments are a bit expensive. The girls that work in the office are friendly and can be helpful. Maintenance is a pain sometimes to get ahold of when things need to get done. The laundry room facilities are kept clean for the most part. I do like the game room but it does need to be cleaned up and updated a bit more. It is usualy a quiet apartment complex. Not the best but not the worse to live in …