Diplomat

I signed a 1 year lease with diplomat apts and only a few months into the lease I am sooo ready to move out! First of all the parking sucks! there is very limited parking, if you do get offered a spot I highly reccommend paying for it because the street parking is horrendous! Not only do you have to park on a hill but it is very limited and most nights if you come home after 7pm you must trek uphill maybe 0.5 miles to your apt, def not ideal especially on move in day or when you purchase grocercies. Moving on, the «beautiful fountain» is never on, nor does it even have water in it. and the «free shuttle» to sdsu is a joke when compared to all the other luxury shuttles nearby… unless you like the feeling of being squeezed into an old van with upwards of 15 people. Keep in mind there is only 13 seats and one of the back doors is constantly jamming so you are literally squeezing in. Thankfully the drivers are very nice however your better off getting a bike or walking. Finally the thing that irriates me the most about this complex is that they are CONSTANTLY coming into your apartment, literally every month there is a note on the door of why they must come in, and mind you it is not just 1 person coming in, it is an entire crew! there have been numerous occassions where 5+ people have come into our tiny 1 bedroom apartment to «check» on something or «fix» something. Sometimes they are in and out in 5 minutes, other times they are there the entire day from 8am-​5pm. I find their actions to be competely frustrating because most times you will have less than 24hours notice that they are entering regardless of the project size, by far the most frustrating time was during finals week, a company geared at student apartments, would begin installing bathroom fans, completely disrupting the entire complex as a cheap labor crew tore through every apt turning everything into a construction zone. Making it absolutely impossible to study for finals from all the noise of the saws, drilling, demolition and loud/​obscene conversations amongst 20 years old guys. And I referenced there labor crew as «cheap» because everything is installed poorly, the tub is not level so water is constantly piling up in 1 corner and molding, also because it is not level the shower door is constantly sliding open during your shower, you can clearly see damage at the corners of eroding walls, the carpet installed is not tight so there is always a ripple of extra carpet, The ceiling are very old so with all this past rain you can see water damage in the closet, which i mentioned to the maintence guy however he never came back to fix it or even asses the damage, lastly the windows are almost to the celing and they have blinds installed however the stick to open/​close the blinds is soo short! I am 5’7 and I have to stand on a chair just to be able to open/​close my blinds-​poor craftmanship such as this leads me to believe they hire cheap labor. Not to mention their crews are very young, act as though they are uneducated and show up to work in gym shorts. Lastly, I found it very shocking that i signed my lease july 17 yet come january 1 I was told i had 30 days to renew my lease. Like really? I was maybe 6 months into the lease and im already being told if I want to renew i must do it by the end of the month, and let me tell you they did not ask once if we were going to renew but at least 5xs, pressuring us through constant notes on the door and emails to both lease signers. so irritating!
The only positives about this complex are the amazing bathtubs, yes they are amazing! The bathtubs are huge, have jets and the water here is always hot! There is nothing better than a nice hot, jetted tub after a long day. (1star)
Also the apts have high vaulted ceilings, with many windows throughout making the apts pretty nice and airy, full of natural light– another postive. (1 star)
Overall I would only reccommend this complex if you are a student who does not mind having people constantly coming in and out of your personal space/​apartment.

Best place to live as a student at SDSU. Our current manager Marisol is excellent and friendly, but the company that owns these apartaments is a bit shady.
The people on the permanent maintanence staff are nice and friendly, but the work that is contracted out is the cheapest labor around which leads me to question if larger corners are being cut. The balconies flood during the few days of rain, the cox internet often goes down for days at a time, and our rent has been raised 11% or $ 115 monthly without so much as a ‘here’s why’.
This will be my second Unilocal review as the first one has been filed away as ‘not a recommended review’ and is not reflected in the star rating system.

Now that they have a new property manager (as of about 6 months ago), Marisol, things have greatly improved! This is a beautiful complex with spacious rooms, vaulted ceilings, near SDSU, free shuttle to campus, etc. We have lived here for a year now, and we were set to renew, but then ended up buying a home! If we were not buying, we would continue to rent here. The property manager, Marisol, makes herself very accessible, and is great about understanding and addressing your concerns. She has been very accommodating to some particular situations we have had.
I would highly recommend this complex to anyone!

The apartments are ran by a great staff who care about the people living in there. I had the chance to work with them on transportation and they had 1 thing on there mind and it was the safety and well being of there tenants. What more can you ask for? that said a lot about what type of people run the apartments.

Wow, I get first on here too! I stayed at Da Dip on a friends couch for a summer before moving across the street to hell hole. It was one of the best summer’s of my life in a many ways. Immediately, we met the downstairs neighbor whose patio our balcony overlooked. They introduced us to their next door neighbor and ours. There was not neighbor on the other side of their apartment, so if you do the math, we controlled that whole corner of the building. We were able to all hang out together on the adjoining patios and call up and down to each other from the balconies. You can only imagine the kind of trouble we got into.
So, there was a nice fountain in the courtyard, which was right in front of my friend’s apartments. The pool was kinda weak at three feet deep, but they do have some grills in that area. They were kinda strict about what you could have on the patios, they made my friends get rid of this old ratty party couch that they had. They are also pretty strict on kegs («One Eyed Joe» is the security and he will take your keg and file a complaint against you so be careful. This place really comes alive sometimes though and it is really fun. We always felt really safe here and never had any problems with unwanted people coming in. The parking is tight, but at least it’s not the stupid tandem spots from across the street. Still, way too expensive for what it is, but if you don’t have a car, what can you do? (A: find a cheaper apartment somewhere else and get a car).