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| - I recently moved into the San Melia Apartment complex, and my experience here has been hit and miss.
I'll start with the positives.
The grounds are beautiful. It feels like a park and is very well maintained though there is some trash floating over parts of the lawn next to the 50th Street side gate walking path. Putting a garbage can in that area would probably alleviate that problem because it is obvious no one cleans up that area too often since it has been there for a while now.
The pool is exquisite and makes you feel like you are living at a resort.
The people here are all so friendly and polite.
Ahwatukee is a great, unexpected place to live, and feels like Phoenix's best kept secret. It is so convenient and has tons of stores and restaurants. It is just a great area, so no issues in that respect, but it is when you are in the apartment that all the issues seem to arise.
I live in a three bedroom, premier apt, and though, the layout and storage is wonderful, and the newly renovated kitchen and bathroom vanities are so pretty, everything else is and was extremely half-assed.
It's as if no routine maintenance has ever been done in this apartment, from an A/C filter that looks as though it hadn't been changed in years to running, dirty filthy toilets, a broken bathroom exhaust fan and very, very used, downgraded, cheap appliances.
It does not fit the "luxury" apartment living as described.
The wood like floors, though a nice upgrade from carpet, were installed very sloppy with waves throughout the floor.
The bathtubs in both bathrooms have been re-glazed with drip marks and peeling and chipping everywhere, and they even re-glazed the shower drain with hair left in it, and the shower doors are so caked on with dirt and mineral deposits that the shower doors stick and don't roll easily. It looks like a cheap, dirty hotel. It has loose tiles on the bathroom and kitchen floors, leaky pipes in the bathrooms, clogged garbage disposal, broken blinds on almost all windows, paint spots on the brand new granite countertops.
The list is endless.
It seems to me, it would have been much more beneficial and cost effective to have installed one piece fiberglass showers and bathtubs and taken out the shower doors and replaced it with a shower curtain rod because the shower doors and glazing are gross and poorly done.
There was just no attention to detail, and besides being upgraded, I don't think this apartment was ever serviced for routine things after the last tenants moved out.
Eric, the maintenance supervisor from Denver, has been quite helpful in getting most of these issues rectified, as it is our understanding they are short staffed here and are having issues with their maintenance staff.
It just seems as though we no sooner get one thing repaired, and another 3 things go wrong. It is very frustrating, especially after moving here from another Aimco property where you could literally eat off the floors it was so clean when we moved in, and the maintenance staff was so timely and efficient, and the appliances were beautiful and upgraded, unlike this cheap oven that doesn't even have a self-cleaning feature and the tiny refrigerator.
I hate to be the complaining tenant, especially after my last experience with Aimco was so positive, but we are paying quite a bit of money to live in a luxury apartment to be having so many issues with it, and I hope management addresses these issues and hires a more efficient maintenance staff.
All in all, it isn't a terrible place to live even with these minor gripes, and I look forward to better days.
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