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| - Rancho Murietta is a decent option with some good and bad aspects.
The GOOD:
The apartment is spacious, and came with good working appliances including a dishwasher and washer/dryer. Covered parking is included, with lots of extra parking for visitors. Maintenance has always been very quickly responsive to take care of any problems in my apartment. The complex has a high wall and only one entrance or exit, along with a security patrol at night, so things seem fairly secure to me. The A/C works well to keep the apartment cool. The location is also pretty good from my perspective - there is a 7-11 and a great taco shop a short walk away, and the free Orbit Mars bus goes right by the apartment complex allowing you to commute for free to ASU.
OK, now the BAD:
Above all, make sure you DO NOT get an apartment right next to the courtyard with the pool and basketball/volleyball courts. Before school starts in the summer, and well into the fall, there will be sizable groups of people out there after the 10 pm quiet hours making a lot of noise that carries through the thin apartment walls. I had to call the courtesy patrol almost nightly for a long period, and if they don't answer then the non-emergency police line takes forever to respond. If there's no enforcement of the quiet hour rules, then there is honestly no reason to have them, because they are ignored by inconsiderate people all the time.
My other gripes are fairly minor. Another problem due to other residents: dog poop being left around was a big nasty problem when I moved in - even though there is a fine it isn't well enforced just like the noise policy. That seems to have improved a lot. The apartments are also pretty old and feel kind of cheap; this means the fixtures aren't the nicest (although everything works), and if your neighbors upstairs don't actively try to not stomp around and bang things, you're going to hear everything they do (including their crying baby). I also had a problem with ants for a while. The weekly pest control is a nice service, but it doesn't solve the problem permanently - I had to poison the ants myself to get them to go away. That's about all I have to say!
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