Review for Avalon At Pacific Bay Apartments

The office has finally cleaned up the parking situation but they are still illegally using a towing company located in Santa Ana for cars without a parking permit. Basically if you are a female by yourself you do not want to go pick up your towed car alone. Yes this includes residents who forget to put their permit in their car. For example, if you have a one-bedroom apartment but two cars, you can have designated parking space and one permit (not two), where the car with the permit has to find an open place to park. If you want to switch where the cars park and forget to put the permit in the other car, too bad. You get illegally towed NOT to the nearby lot in Huntington Beach, but all the way to Santa Ana, several cities over.

We are supposed to have security but I haven't seen our rent-a-cop that sits around and talks on his cell for over a year. We were once accidentally locked out of our apartment during daytime business hours and all office staff were away at a meeting and the maintenance man never answered his door. So we called security. Seems reasonable right? They told us they cannot help us and that we have to call a locksmith ourself.

Rent increases at about 10% every year. Imagine paying $1200 for a 750 sq. ft. 1 bedroom apartment in 2004 and having to renew at over $1300 for a 12 month lease (or over $1400 for a month-to-month). Rent never stays the same, much less goes down.

The speed limit in the parking lot is not respected or enforced. I believe it is about 10mph, but people will race around the parking lot. If you have a garage, you cannot see who is coming as you pull out. You will be halfway out of your garage, but people driving by will refuse to wait for you and will try to squeeze by instead of simply waiting for you. All you can do is hope you don't hit them.