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I moved into San Croix Apartments in July, 2011 and it was the cheapest place I'd ever lived ($675/month). A spacious wide open apartment with all the amenities I needed. I had great laundry amenities, a wonderful shower (I remember the first week I'd lived there, I found myself absolutely falling in love with how great the water pressure was!), perfect working dishwasher, and open space in the living room to enjoy for my entertainment center I got in January of 2012 while living there.
Compared to the other properties I lived while in Las Vegas (Dolce by the Lakes, Tivoli Apartments, Palms At Peccole Ranch) San Croix was just absolutely the best! However, one major flaw I discovered a little too late. In the Summer of 2013 (I had renewed my lease to live there an additional year since I loved it so much and that's the FIRST property I've ever lived in more than a year other than where my fiancée and I currently live) I experienced major problems with my A/C unit. It was one of those Mercury capsule powered deals that had to be positioned in a certain area to turn on the cool. It made my apartment so unbearably hot, that I ended up staying at my fiancée's apartment for about a week while they tried to fix the wall unit. They eventually replaced it with a digital unit, but when the weather cooled towards the Winter, just before I moved out in about January of 2014 I couldn't get the place to warm up!
It turns out, that you had to open up the fuse box with the switches listed for the power components in your apartment and turn the one labeled for 'A/C' OFF so that no cool air would blow through your vents and the heat would come through instead...WHAT KIND OF SET UP IS THAT?! Seriously? In a car I can understand this kind of design but for an apartment? WTF?!
Anyway, that one item aside, I enjoyed my 2 years at San Croix and I would happily recommend it to others. Very affordable and friendly staff. I think one of the girls that worked inside the office actually had a crush on me because she would always be happy to see me when I picked up packages and was sad to see me go when I came in to state I wouldn't be renewing my lease.
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