Need Feedback on Parkwood Terrace Apartments in Round Rock (Austin: rent, gated community)

[JustAGirl]

Looking for feedback on the Parkwood Terrace Apartments in Round Rock. Anyone have experience with this property? Any problems?

[AustinTraveler]

No experience with it personally but I Googled Austin Apartment Ratings and got a couple of websites that have reviews and ratings. Of course, you always have to take these with a grain of salt since people are more likely to complain than compliment. But, here's a review of these apartments:

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate...d-Terrace.html

[Ballira]

Originally Posted by JustAGirl

Looking for feedback on the Parkwood Terrace Apartments in Round Rock. Anyone have experience with this property? Any problems?

I've currently lived there for six months. Let's just say I'm less than pleased.

To start things off, they have rules. Plenty of them. Yet the only rules they really enforce are the ones where they collect a seventy-five dollar fee if you pay your rent late for the month.

People treat the place like one giant playground since it's a gated community so children run around without surpervision usually. With that said, you normally have to watch your plants if you're on a ground level since the kids will normally pick flowers out of your pots. There have been several accounts of vandalizim on the propperty. There are signs posted outside of the gate stateing no loud muic, but no one ever turns down their music. So you get this constant 'THUMP! THUMP-THUMP-THUMP!' every hour or less. What's more is the people in the office throw up their hands saying, 'Nothing we can do'. Even if it's a repeat offender, you have their license plate, car make, car colour, and everything.

To add insult to injury, maitnence isn't exactly timely. We had a leak in the bathroom fixtures for about five of the six months we lived there. They finally sent them when we said forget it, we're getting ready to move, and don't want anyone in the appartment. We STILL had wires sticking out of the wall in the closset by the time we moved out. There was an actual hole in the floor under the carpet too that they simply covered up. For a while, any of the other odd jobs (broken fixture or anything else) were kept to wait. We waited three months for them to come fix the door leading to the back porch so we could open it more than three feet even. Dureing that time was around Christmas, and every time we inquired about the things that needed to be fixed, they would always say, 'There's an emergency he needs to take care of.' Once, one of those 'emergencies' was putting lights on the roof for Christmas. We asked about that and they literally said, 'It take priority over your fixings.'

Also on one of the walls of our bedrooms (we had two bedrooms) there was a light fixture that came on at night. The walls were so thin you could hear it humming LOUDLY all through the night untill it turned off at about seven-thirty in the morning.

They have 'security' that 'patroles' the appartments, but any time you call the security, they say there's nothing they can do about things. There was a loud party going on in the appartment bellow us. About an hour after eleven in the evening, we called security. After another hour, we had to call again because they still weren't there. YEt another hour passes. We called AGAIN. Finally at two in the morning, we called the police. The cops were there in twenty minutes and things were turned down.

I'll admit, the people at the appartment ARE nice. It's mostly the office we had problems with. So if you can bare through those few 'small things', go ahead and move in. I would simply suggest not to. ^^;