Sofi Poway

We moved in a few months ago and love it! Great place to raise a family too. The location is centrally located in Poway and is within walking distance to Sprouts, the theater and many restaurants. Great schools, clean community that was painted outside recently and wonderful staff. Wonderful living experience for us so far.

I’ve been living at Sofi Poway, formerly Summerlyn apartments for the past 2 years and I can tell that Sofi Poway is trying to rejuvenate the property with new projects around the community. I think they had temporary staff when they took over, but now they have permanent people and everything runs smoothly! Ive had several mainentance issues and all of them were handled by the end of the business day! They have been amazing!

DO NOT MOVE IN!!! Warning!
Firstly during the summer (which feels like year round in California) the AC unit will only keep the living room some what cool, however the bedrooms will be unbelievably hot during the day and night, so if you like sweating in your sleep this is the kind of place for you. For the price of the rent one would think this place could do better. I can’t wait to move out to a place with proper AC and heating. Secondly. The place is cheap, I laugh how they advertise about the fake wood floor and fake kitchen tops but hide the fact by trying to use fancy terms. Lastly if you want to be harassed all the time about what’s on your patio (which will happen), by all means move in. I wish I could give them less then one star.

Sofi Poway is a great place to live if you need to or want to rent an apartment that is close to shopping, movies, parks, restaurants, bars and work out at the gym in Sofi Poway and take a dip the pool or in the jacuzzi after a long day of work. You are assured to have a casual, cool and bright place to relax after a long day in the office. A nice pool and jacuzzi with a clean room to do your laundry just steps away and a dog playground close by for your small pets with bags for you to clean up your dog’s mess during your stroll with your best doggie friend.
In addition to these great items, the office staff and the maintenance staff are top notch all the way around. They are all quick to respond in a private and upbeat attitude with knowledge to match what needs to be done and they do it with care and a smile always!

This place used to be amazing when summerlyn owned it a few months back, everything from maintenance and other concerns were taken care of promptly and kindly. Now that «Sofi» took over everything went down the drain. With new management comes new people working in the office (not the brightest ones) I have to tell them how to do their job, maintenance is rude, there’s termites AND ants. It’s a shame because it completely took away the enjoyment for this place. As much $$$ as it costs, you’d expect more than what you get.

Ever since Sofi took over Summerlyn it has been nothing but problems, can’t wait for my lease to be up so I can move to a place that has their s*** together. Stop worrying about your signs being up and get your online portal to work properly! Plus there are definitely things that suck about the apartment itself. First thing, the water heater in the closet. And even though the apartment is spacious the layout is horrible. NO storage space. Another problem I have is that you cannot turn off just the fan in the bathroom, so it’s either lights/​fan on or neither. That’s just a few of things that annoy me about the apartment. I will NOT recommend this apartment complex!

Updating my review on Sofi Poway makes me happy because for a little while I definitely did not like this place and it’s little imperfections, but after the new management has taken over it looks like things are going great so far. I’m only rating 4 stars because there are a few things I still don’t like about the layout of the apartment, but other than that I’m very pleased living here and commend the management team for being so helpful, kind, and understanding. This has to be the nicest and most responsive management team I have encountered!
Now on to the nitty gritty. These are things I don’t like about the apartment itself so I’m hoping that in the future management can do a few changes here and there. The water heater is located in the walk-​in closet. It takes up a chunk of space. The fan in the bathroom stays on and there’s no other switch to turn that off, so that bothers me when I only want to turn the light on without hearing the whirring noise of the fan the whole time I’m in the bathroom. There is not a lot of storage space. I wish the front yard/​patio section for us first floor residents were enclosed so we could have a bit more privacy. The stove fan does not do itself justice. Every time I cook I turn on the stove fan and the fire alarm goes off every time; even when I’m using the oven. Overall very dim lighting as well as light that goes through in the apartment itself. Use well lit lamps or else you’ll feel like it’s dark when you’re inside all the time! No option to pay via credit card on the web portal; no option either to split up payments between yourself and your roommate (s) on the web portal either when it comes to splitting rent, you have to submit separate checks for that.

As many have said before, I wish I could give negative stars. Don’t bother with this place. False advertising, poor communication, terrible facilities, incompetent staff, the list goes on.