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| - I signed a 14 month lease with this apartment complex the year before last and was very excited to move in. The area seemed nice and convenient and we moved in at the end of summer when the availability was high and prices were low. However, I started to realize, on my first day there, that Positano wasn't as nice as it originally appeared.
APPEARANCE:
Firstly, when we toured the apartment complex, we were in awe of the newly remodeled clubhouse and the redesigned model apartment. During our walkthrough of our actual apartment however, we saw what a facade they had put on to get us into the apartment. They used paint, plants, and fancy furniture to disguise the fact that the apartments themselves are extremely outdated. The cabinets throughout the apartment were disgusting, all of the appliances were at the end of their lifespans resulting in the you having to call maintenance consistently to fix one thing or another, none of the doors or windows were properly sealed which resulted in poor insulation (higher heating and cooling costs) and a lack of a sound barrier between you and the outdoors.
NOISE:
The walls were extremely thin meaning that this apartment was terrible for roommate style living or living with a small child or baby. I recall once hearing my roommate's boyfriend whispering near our front door while i was on the other side of the apartment, in the master bedroom, behind a closed door. I could hear every time she entered or exited the apartment as if i were two feet from the door, I could hear her set things on the kitchen counter (the kitchen shares a wall with the master), I could hear the downstairs neighbors watching TV and they could hear us walking around our apartment (they placed a noise complaint every other night for the first month of us living there). I had to refrain from using the drier, watching television in the living room, or playing any music at night, in the morning, or anytime my roommate wanted to squeeze in a nap (we're very busy people). Although the apartment complex is hidden away on a side street, any noise coming from the road or surrounding apartments could be heard.
LOCATION:
Although the complex was conveniently located near some of the best fast food restaurants, target, and a freeway entrance, this was contrasted with the fact that traffic down Eastern is heavy during nearly all hours of the day (really, rush hour in Vegas and specifically eastern lasts 3 hours) and grows increasingly heavier with each passing year. Not to mention the constant roadwork up and down easter that takes place constantly. I worked 13 minutes away and had to leave a full 40 minutes early to be sure I would arrive to work on time.
CRIME & SAFETY:
I think we can agree that north of the 215 is run down and generally not an area you'd like to live in. During the year that I lived at Positano, that run-down character crept it's way into our apartment complex probably due the section 8 housing located right next door to it. About halfway through our lease we started to spot shady characters walking around the complex both by day and by night. The apartment leaves their gates wide open during the day for anybody to come in, it's easy to follow somebody in at night when the gates aren't open, and during my daily walks around the complex I watched several people crawl through a huge hole beneath the back gate. I also received several emails throughout my stay there regarding robberies that had taken place in the apartment complex. I think that Positano is in denial of the lack of safety in their complex. They are very much in need of a gate guard and an effective security team.
PARKING:
Parking was the absolutely worst part about living in this apartment. Regardless of how many rooms your apartment has, you are limited to one parking space. If you don't happen to be the first person home that day, you are forced to drive all the way to the back of the complex and walk 5 minutes to your apartment. God forbid you just got home from a grocery run or have to carry more than one light object inside. Moreover, they claim to tow people that park in your spot but actually do nothing about it. It is the most infuriating thing to have to stand back and just deal with it when a stranger parks in your one spot that you paid to use. We complained again and again about the perpetrators and were told that the office would handle the situation but I doubt they even stickered their cars. I've never ever ever seen anyone actually get towed and people know this. Additionally, during some weeks of the year, for whatever reason, parking would be nearly completely full all the way around through the back of the complex.
MAINTENANCE:
This was the only redeeming feature of the complex. Maintenance was friendly and hardworking.
Positano is complete facade and by the time you realize this, you're already locked into a yearlong iron clad rental contract.
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