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I recently visited Raleigh, and really liked the area. I visited Camden Crest @
5200 Summit Manor Ln, Raleigh, NC 27613. After reading some ratings, I am wondering are they representative of the service received at these apartments.
I cant tell if these are real complaints or just people talking bad about it.
So, can someone offer more reliable apartment reviews?
Last edited by resnostyle; 03-17-2008 at 06:10 PM..
I lived at Camden Crest and posted a review on apartment ratings sometime around the July/August 2007 timeframe. I have looked back at the subsequent ratings recently and many of them reflect the same problems that I mentioned in my rating.
In my opinion, the ratings that really bash the office staff are probably sour grapes. We didn't have major issues with the staff, although the turnover was pretty high and there were only one or two of the same people on the office staff the whole time we lived there. The maintenance staff seemed more stable.
The quality of the buildings is subpar for the rent you will pay. You are required to pay for cable with your rent, and now I hear all Camden properties charge a mandatory fee for someone to pick your garbage up at your door (even if you choose to carry it down yourself, you still pay). To me, that is unacceptable. Not to mention, at Camden Crest you pay for recycling along with your city water/sewer/garbage fees, but there are no recycling receptacles other than for cardboard boxes.
My main problem was with noise. I could hear my upstairs neighbor urinating in the bathroom like he was in the other room. Sometimes it sounded like he was going to walk right through the ceiling. I could also hear my downtstairs neighbor in my bedroom when she was on her balcony at 3:00 am on weeknights. The management did not take preventative measures to keep belligerent people out of the pool area at night; instead they told us to call the police when people were out there making noise, throwing furniture in the pool, etc. This meant I had many sleepless weeknights since my apartment bordered the pool.
The grounds are kept as well as they can be despite the messes left by residents of the complex, which is unfortunate. I would often find trash left in the breezeways and in the stairwells.
The apartments themselves are nicely appointed and have nice details, but the overall quality of the building overshadows that. Our apartment still reeked of cigarette smoke after they cleaned it and we moved in. It was by far much cleaner when we moved out!
If you are going to pay rent at that pricepoint, I would look elsewhere, possibly at Thornhill, which is right across the street from Camden Crest.
I currently live at Northridge. Unfortunately have a neighbor upstairs who creates too much noise in her apartment. Complained twice to Northridge Mgmt - they have done nothing about this problem.
I live in Camden Crest now. The apartments are nice inside. The high ceilings and archways give them a nice, modern feel.
I live in a big two bedroom and so far like it pretty well.
Some notes:
The noise from neighbors can be pretty amazing.
I have a family living above me: Two parents, a daughter, a toddler, two dogs. Sometimes it's so loud that my walls shake. I don't think they're especially noisy. It's just that there are lots of them and the construction is hardly sound proof. I can hear the baby crying sometimes in the morning (if there's no other noise), and when they vacuum -- ugh. But I don't get upset about it because I don't think they're banging around up there on purpose.
The grounds are well-kept, and most of the staff is responsive to issues. I've had problems with one person in the office who I find difficult, but the rest have been nothing but kind and helpful.
Some of the community areas look good on the surface but then are a bit of a letdown. There's a little movie theater, which is cool, but when you actually go to use it, you find many of the chairs don't recline or fall apart. In the clubhouse, which you can rent, some of the equipment is broken (this may be fixed by now).
All in all, I'd say Camden Crest is nice, and the location is good. But it's not perfect, and from what I hear, you can certainly find cheaper places to live in the area.
P.S. There are mandatory fees for cable and "valet" trash. I don't mind the fees. I like having the garbage picked up, and I get cable anyway.
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