The Paragon At Kierland

Beautiful common area amenities. Huge closets in apartment. Bathrooms and kitchen, so so. Friendly staff.

Pros: Great staff! They care. The staff is what makes this complex worth moving in. Great location. Great pool and decent workout facility. Maintenance (although I had little to no issue) very responsive. Parking is easy. Golf course units have a great view. Complex grounds are kept up very nicely.
Cons: Month to Month Rental premiums are really steep. Rent went up several hundred dollars in a few months time. Apartments need to be renovated to have more upscale finishes given the price range. Also, be prepared to add a couple hundred dollars in utilities a month. Really, cons are only the rent ($$) given the units finishes and month to month premium.

We’ve lived at Paragon for 3 years and have had a great experience. They have a great, resort style pool, nice gym (which is hardly ever crowded), and you can’t beat the location. It’s across the street from Kierland and Scottsdale Quarter. I would recommend to anyone looking in the Scottsdale area!

Disclaimer: I am not a resident at Paragon. I went in looking for a 1-​bedroom apartment.
I am on the hunt for an apartment and I took myself through north scottsdale today, stopping in at paragon on my tour. I would say that just about every apartment sales office that opens on sundays (some don’t, granted) opens at 12PM and stays open to 4 or 5PM. I arrived at 12:45 to find out that Paragon doesn’t open until 1PM. lame. I toyed with leaving and not seeing the property, but didn’t listen to my instincts (mistake #1). I waited it out and came back at about 1:05.
I walk inside and there is no one at reception, well fine, i’ll just wait. Someone yells from the back «Morning!!» I don’t know if they are talking to me so I say nothing. «MORNING!!!» again. «oh hi there» I reply. «You are just going to have to wait, I’m setting up still!» Huh? Who says that? I wasn’t complaining about waiting, and besides that, you don’t talk to clients or prospective clients that way.
Iris walks out and offers me a cookie as she walks by saying «you know we don’t open until 1PM» me: «It is one, isn’t it?» her: «barely.» UGH! Why didn’t I leave?! Then we are talking and she’s getting my info and she asks my price range and then tells me «oh well you won’t find that here.» and yet I didn’t leave (mistake #56 at this point). So for the first half of the tour and explanation she is a big puffed up elitist telling me how exclusive this is or how fancy and amazing that is. Amazingly by the second half of the tour she was telling me she could get the price down to my price range (through flagrantly faulty math) and saying she could really picture me here. Yikes, no thanks lady!
A 1-​bedroom here runs $ 990 a month with no utilities included. The apartment and the complex are nice, but I have seen apartments that are equally as nice with the exact same amenities for $ 250 less per month. And with the offensive attitude of the sales person, I simply cannot imagine what kind of elitist douche-​bags actually live here. if you are a normal person living at paragon, god bless you i don’t know how you do it.