River Walk Villas

I lived with my boyfriend and fur baby Aria for about 1 year and only moved because I was transferred to the bay for my job.
Pros: the property is gated and everyone’s good about keeping them closed. The apartment is beautiful (wood floors, granite countertops) and spacious with a patio. I never had any bugs except for spiders and pincher bugs which are pretty standard. It is kept clean because Greg, the amazing manager, goes out every morning with a trash can and picks up trash! Which I’ve never seen a manager do. Also there is a pool and a gym.
Cons: questionable area (but the gates keep the drifters out) and I had a bad upstairs neighbor but it’s an apartment and it happens. Greg was awesome and brought us together and we talked it out.
Overall the new management company RW Zukin is doing great, they recently repainted the property and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there

I couldn’t be happier with my decision to move here. I have a very spacious 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment home. The kitchen is big the counter tops are granite I have a microwave, dishwasher, gas stove (I hate electoral stoves!) the appliances are stateless steel. It has a full sized washer and dryer that I can wash my comforters in. Central heat and air .I have two huge walk in closets. The living room has a balcony which lets in so much light, and the ceilings are higher than typical apartments. The whole layout is perfect for me. The whole community’s is gated and it is actually secure. All the gates are locked and kept closed except for the main entrance (the only entrance) and it’s open only during the leasing office hours. The on site manager is very professional and seems to have everything In order. The grounds are always kept clean and I’ve never seen any trash or anything inside or outside of the grounds ever. There is a pool, spa and a gym with mostly cardio equipment. You are required to have renters insurance here which isn’t but 15 bucks or something. They had a pretty cool move in special too ! :D On two occasions I had a small maintenance request and they fixed it immediately when I say immediately it as with an hour the second time was with 15 minutes. Amazing ! the manager even followed up to make sure everything was fixed and I was happy even though it was a Sunday and the office was closed.

Most of the negative reviews are super old. Lived here over a year and very rarely ever hear my neighbors. The whole time I’ve maybe seen a total of 3 spiders. Never ants, never roaches or anything else. The apartments are fairly new and have really nice features (huge walk in closets, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, full sized washer and dryer). The manager is out every morning cleaning up trash around the complex and they are constantly doing things to maintain the appearance. I wish the surrounding neighborhood was a tad better (I would love to be able to walk or ride a bike in the neighborhood). I was a little irritated that they not only raised the rent $ 100 when I signed a new lease, but my water bill went from a set $ 35 to $ 75 a month, I am now required to have renter’s insurance (which is actually a pretty good idea except for those who don’t want it), and it kind of sucks having to pay PG&E AND Smud. Otherwise, love, love, love my apartment, love the complex!

I have visited a friend here several times in the last year and have found it to always be very clean and the neighbors are nice. I have never witnessed any sort of bug problem or heard any noise. The pool area is clean and the fitness room has all the necessities and is well kept.
I have parked both on the property and out on the street and my vehicle was always as I left it. The maintenance gets done quickly and correctly, which is a good thing!
As an added bonus, it is close to the river and to the freeway and as we like to go downtown, I find it to be very convenient to heading out to a night of fun.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend here!

HORRIBLE! I guess if you have no other choice but to live in this area, then these are the nicest apartments you can get. All I know is the night that I was moving into my unit, I start seeing roaches crawling on the walls!!! HUGE COCKROACHES! They sprayed in my unit I don’t know how many times, but they still kept coming back. I have never lived in a place with roaches.
The office didn’t want to let me out of my lease or even move me to another unit. I was there maybe 3 weeks, and the entire time I didn’t stay the night there. I never used my kitchen either. I stayed at a friends house. I moved out immediately!

I have lived here for the last 3 yrs now. The property was recently bought by FPI Management. The previous owner who actually built the place lost the property named until recently GARDEN VILLAS. Look up 4 reviews under that name as well.
Horrible place nowadays!!! It is a very unsafe neighborhood and the community itself got pretty unsafe as well. Since the new owner took over, it got worse and worse and worse. They removed the surveillance cameras stating that it is a very safe place, nothing happened in the past 6 months since they took over. Really???
–My neighbor’s car was vandalized,
–drug dealers in front of your nose and NO ONE says a thing,
— weed smokers everywhere
–Should we forget about 2 crimes that happened here few yrs ago?
The new management seems not to care about these issues, but they do care about 20k they invested in landscaping. WTF cares about their plants? I want to be SAFE! I want to have the assurance that no one will knock on my door and have a gun on my head.
I will be moving out in few weeks, all of the old tenants are moving one by one. I am really sorry that I have to leave because the apts look nice and are pretty new.
The new tenants I think are the real problem, very low class people. I guess this is what the management is looking for.