Ravindhran Sankar

Review of Northpark Apartments

We stayed @ North Apartments for year, and left th...

We stayed @ North Apartments for year, and left the place feeling extremely tired & angry with the management there.

First lets get the good part out of the way - the facilities (gym, swimming pool, basketball, park) at North Park are great! Well maintained and well taken care of.

Now for the downsides -
1) Management. The management folks are the worst I have experienced in my 8 years in the bay area. Very unresponsive to issues. Many times complaints will just get ignored (perhaps because of the large community) When we decided to move out, they made it deliberately painful in very menial ways.

For for a single instance - we had set the rent up on auto-pay & ended up paying an extra $1000. They flatly refused to return the money back. After we moved out they sent us a bill for $800 (cleaning services et all) & a $200 cheque. Infuriatingly bad ethical standards. I will have think hard before staying at an Irvine property again.

2) Parking is extremely limited. On average I spent 10mins everyday looking for parking, somedays 25mins. Huge pain!

3) Houses aren't the most modern in the market. We found better houses (larger by 200sq ft, modernized) less than a mile away at lower rents. We love the current community's management.

Poor management is an avoidable pain that is recurrent. Just my 2 cents..