Creekside Terrace

Well, it is not a luxury penthouse so by 5 star don’t expect to say wow when you see the apartment. But let’s be honest. You get what you pay for! For the money you pay for this apartment, you will enjoy living there.
Location: First of all, it is Walnut Creek! Who doesn’t enjoy living in such a beautiful city?! Easy highway access and being close to shopping and restaurants are privileges of this apartment. There is a free bus that takes you to the bart station. It stops in front of the Apartment! Do you need more?!
Facilities: well, you have 2 clean swimming pools; and lots of closets in your apartment.
Manager: Omg! She is awesome! She tries hard to save you money when we want to move out! We had heard, managers usually charge $ 300 for cleaning but she didn’t! She also gave us a closer parking when we asked for!
Negatives: the screen doors don’t fix properly.
During the summer, you hear neighborhood kids playing outside and screaming! They don’t live in this apartment but still you hear them!
And you have just one parking spot which is a nightmare in CreekSide Drive!

Creekside Terrace is located in a great area of Walnut Creek. The management here is great. McKinsey was incredibly helpful in finding an apartment and she is extremely caring! I would highly recommend moving here!

I just moved across the country. Creekside Terrace was so helpful and understanding throughout the process. Many places I encountered did not recognize the difficulties associated with such a move, and were not as flexible working with me over the phone and through email. There were no hidden fees or paperwork, all information was provided up front and I moved in with ease. The property manager, McKinsey, is super friendly and helpful! She made the experience so positive and easy. I am so grateful to have found my new home here.

I’ve lived here for 3 years now and honestly, only becuase I don’t have the money at this time for movers and a new deposit. This apt complex has fit my needs for the most part up until recently. The units are close to downtown, have lots of storage and has a small yard if you are on the first floor which is necessary for my service animal (pets are not allowed as of last year, unless they have service paperwork.) I also love my maintenance guy– he’s always prompt and not creepy. That’s about where the positives stop.
The location has a small laundry room that they screw you with– it’s $ 2 to wash and $ 2 to dry! Insane. They also use quarters and rarely work which is highly frustrating. My rent has gone up $ 100 every year on average since I moved in. (Costing me more than $ 300 more a month.) Also, they charge water, trash and sewage with your rent (sounds nice) but this fee has also gone up by more than $ 40 in the last 3 years (currently $ 60/​month). This increase is likely due to the neglect of the plumbing and sprinklers on the lot. Many are broken and after the sprinklers are on, you’re left with flooding and water waste. The pipes are old in the building so there is little water pressure and when taking a shower the temperature consistently varies drastically. The units were built in the 70’s and have all original fixtures. Might I add that although my rent has increased significantly, I have not seen any upgrades to my unit. The other tenants here are polite for the most part, but there are a few «questionable» ones (and don’t forget the guy who yells and plays a piano at all hours!) The walls are very thin and you can hear everything from people upstairs, to the garbage trucks, to the crazy guy who thinks he’s a musician or maybe even killing himself next door! The units are very dark due to the overgrown trees and plants on the property– good for shade… and SPIDERS. Parking is also a problem– though I can’t really blame the complex, it’s just Creekside. You get one covered parking spot at the location and the rest is street parking, which is lined with red and it doesn’t help that WC meters are now 24 hours. I did find that you can rent a spot at Elk’s Lodge down the street if necessary– $ 70/​month if available. Management is nice but when there’s a concern, only tells you what you want to hear with little follow through.
I will be moving at the end of my lease term. Do NOT move here.

It’s times like this I wish that there was a «Zero» star rating. «Eek! Methinks not» doesn’t even come close to how horrible this place is.
I currently live here, and have since April. It’s horrible here. I’m not talking about the actual units however, so I suppose they’re worth at most 1 star. The main issue that I’m having is the management.
The landlord has a very «when it bothers me» approach to managing the property. I have had her complain during the early afternoon, morning and evening about average amounts of noise coming from my apartment, yet when my neighbors play their loud music into the night, complete with a pounding sub woofer, she’s nowhere to be found. She herself even sits outside late at night talking loudly and laughing a laugh that could only be compared to Rosanne Barr.
Maintenance doesn’t follow up appointments, let alone return calls. I’ve been waiting 2 months for my cabinet to be repaired. I had to wait 4 for them to fix an outlet that was a fire hazard.
Lastly, if you enjoy a 5 am «wake up call» from either the garbage company (which happens to come three times a week at this hour) or the various resident psychodramas that occur on a more than regular basis, then this may be the place for you.
However, if you’re like me, and don’t like landlords who are combative, like maintenance that actually does their job, and walls that aren’t so thin you can hear every squeek, moan, and dirty phrase that you’re neighbors are using that evening as you try to sleep, then this may not be the place for you.
April 2011 cannot come soon enough…

To say I am ill impressed by this complex would be to say the least.
Between a ill kept grounds to the management staff who was atrocious.
Her professional manner toward current tenants and possible future tenants is horrible, I have personally witnessed her berate someone in a very hostile manner to which I would liken to the Gestapo of Germany.
The other thing I liked was the one marked handicap spot has a sign over it that says no parking (so good luck to my disabled friends).
I would defiantly tell anyone who asked or was listening DO NOT RENT HERE!
I might recommend a nice refrigerator box behind a dumpster as the box might be cleaner and the rats treat you better.

I visited friends here and the management is attrocious! We had a BBQ on the patio and at 3 pm the manager came over to tell us the landlord was complaining about noise and was upset that we were BBQ’ing on the patio. The manager pulled my friend outside and said the landlord was upset. The landlord, Laura, came over smoking a cigarette and verbally accosted my friend. She spoke aggressively and was sloppy, not as professional as you’d expect a landlord to be. My friend reminded them that in the contract he signed, the quiet hours don’t start at 3p.m. When my friend asked the manager which part of the agreement was violated, the manager couldn’t give an answer. My friend mentioned to the manager that there are loud children riding bikes around the complex screaming late in the evening, but the manager shrugged it off.
My recommendation: don’t live here! I’ve lived in both White House and Archstone apartments, in Walnut Creek, and was appauled at the way tenants are treated at Creekside Terrace. I noticed a lot of vacant apartments in the complex, I guess I know why now. You’d think the apartment owner would care, maybe if they see enough empty apartments they’ll start to care…

Every now and then I think to myself «gee whiz I’d really like to get in on some of that ‘extorting wait staff for free food and engaging in public feuds with restaurant owners’ action I keep hearing about, but then shit like this happens and I’m all «MUST. USE. POWERS. FOR. GOOD.»
Both times I’ve visited my friends in this complex they have been scolded by the management for being too loud and having people over. Both visits occurred on a Saturday afternoon and involved no (actual) filming of amateur foot fetish porn.
My friends certainly did not deserve to be «dressed down» and tut-​tutted in front of their guests by the management, especially when there was artichoke dip ready to come out of the oven and a bunch of vegetarians in desperate need of a distraction from all the fucking steak and sausage around them. From now on at every party I attend I will designate someone «party scapegoat» who can take the heat and hear the complaints from neighbors so that the host (s) does not need to pull away from the kitchen and I am not left looking like an asshole with a bunch of chips and bread in my hands with nothing to dip them in.
And there, my friends, is the silver lining: though the management here have cost themselves their professional reputation (and the chance my friends will renew their lease), their cruelty and wackness have helped introduce what will surely be the best addition to party culture since the «don’t tag photos of people having sex at your party unless you know for sure they’re listed as in a relationship» rule.