Agave Apartments

I lived here for one year, and just got out of my lease last month. I couldn’t have been happier to escape this apartment complex. I’m honestly surprised looking at the good reviews it has on Unilocal,because it definitely didn’t reach my expectations at all. I lived in the so called «agave suite» which was a 3 bedroom 2 bath that I lived with my boyfriend, and 2 other roommates. I actually ended up moving out a month earlier than my other roommates because it was that bad.
First off, I’d like to say that everything broke at least once while we lived there. There was no garbage disposal so our kitchen sink was always backed up. Multiple times it got to the point of being full of water and wouldn’t drain for days. The maintenance tried to fix it multiple times, but they really aren’t the best help either. My shower was a sliding door and that fell off the hinges really often. You could only open the shower from one side, if you tried from the other side it would break. Almost 80% of our window shades had fallen down by the time I moved out. The toilet in our second bathroom was always making noise because it was broken. If you thought all this was bad, imagine not having air conditioning.
Yes, we barley had air conditioning. My room during the early summer was usually around 85 – 90 degrees. I’m not kidding. I had 3 fans faced towards me on my bed every night while I slept. I took a picture of my thermometer in my room and showed the office and they did nothing. There was no central air, it only came out of one area of the apartment and never made it to the back of the apartment. They told me all the apartments were like that and there was nothing they could do. It pisses me off to think that they didn’t give a fuck about how hot it was. Like there are people with families that lived there with babies who sleep in that heat. Unacceptable if you ask me, I would shut them down.
We had problems with cockroaches and crickets as well. Thankfully, we had a cat so it killed most of the crickets but they were still defiantly an issue. Also, while I lived here my car got broken into and robbed. They stole about $ 1200 dollars worth of stuff pretty much out of my trunk. I’m a hairstylist so I keep a lot of equipment in my car for on the go. I never felt completely safe here. My laundry never got stollen out of the laundry facilities, but I heard of other residents who that has happened to. They do have security guards at night which helped me feel a little bit better, but I mean if there was break ins to cars and laundry facilities I don’t really think they did their job very well.
We’ve had small parties there and had the cops called on us before, for not even throwing a big party. Our neighbors were really rude and got mad whenever we would play music or anything. Most of the residents didn’t speak english so it was hard to communicate with them, and so if they wanted you to be quite they would just call you in. And our upstairs neighbors were super super loud. I’m not sure if this is because the floors sucked or they just sucked.
I’m not sure if every single apartment was similar to how bad ours was, but the staff defiantly didn’t care about all of our problems so I’m assuming they didn’t care about the other residents problems either. Also, while we lived there, there was a lot of construction going on in the lot next door so that woke me up pretty much every day.
If you think I’m exaggerating or joking in any way about this, I promise you I am not.
Honest good aspects about this apartment. It’s cheap and it’s really close to campus if you attend ASU. I saved a lot of money by living here, but I wouldn’t treat it as anything less than a shitty college town apartment complex building. Oh and the website makes is literally a joke compared to what it actually is. «Upscale student living» is not a term that should be used for this particular apartment complex.
If I were you, I would move onto another apartment complex and not even consider this an option. Anything is better than this.

Close to Asu, great staff, large apartments. Great rent prices, I would highly recommend living here.

I have lived here for 4 years. Its original name is The Villas. RIght now it changes to Agave. After that, the neighborhood becomes better and better. The staff in the leasing office is helpful. There are no bedbugs. The neighborhood is quiet and it is near ASU campus.