Review for Timber Top Apartments

If you're like me, you see these strings of over-the-top, frightening reviews of apartments saying you'll find everything from crack houses to drive-bys at any given complex, and this just isn't true. I don't understand where these people get this stuff--do they make it up just for fun' Are they disgruntled at the complex for whatever reason' It completely takes away the purpose of sites like these when you mislead people who are looking for the honest truth about a place to live.

Anyway, with that rant out of the way, I can tell you that Timbertop Apartments is a wonderful, beautiful deal. We lived here from 6/08-8/08, and were very happy. We moved from Wooster, OH, which is a small town out in the country. Being around nature was important to us, and we were worried that would be hard to find moving to a city like Akron. Timbertop is located in the Cuyahoga Valley, very near to the national park and Blossom Music Center (we actually went there for a Fourth of July concert). The clubhouse offers a beautiful view of the valley, and our apartment faced one of the many ponds at the bottom of the hill. We walked in the creek, fished in the ponds, and took many walks around the property.

As far as our apartment goes, we lived in a one bedroom in building 50 for $495. It was a little dated as far as the wallpaper goes, but it was clean and all the appliances worked, and we never had a problem except with the closet doors (we broke them off their hinges a couple times!) Twice I had a problem that required maintenance; the screen on our screen door ripped, and our toilet was leaking water. Both times, my request for help was answered promptly and politely, and I never had a problem again.

The one critique I have for my apartment is that it had no windows that open. Timbertop has many floor plans however, and a lot of them do have opening windows, but ours didn't, and even though we were on the 1st floor, it did get quite hot. Another problem was that the walls were paper thin- we could hear our neighbors above, below, and next to us all the time, and I'm sure they could hear us. However, this is common for apartment living, and I don't consider it a problem. Sometimes there were parties of college kids-- I wouldn't recommend Timbertop for older people who like their peace and quiet.

I have no idea what the idiots on here ranting about crime and section 8 housing are on about. The only apartment across the street is the Waterford at Portage Trail, which is a pricier, upscale complex compared to Timbertop. The only place they might be talking about is the small complex across the street from the clubhouse, which has a different sign, showing that it used to be an independent complex. However, Timbertop now owns this complex; I know this because when we came to look at apartments, one of the ones they showed us was in this differently named building. Perhaps it might have been a problem once, but I think the fact that Timbertop bought it shows that they took the problem seriously and are getting rid of it by controlling who lives in the old complex.

We were very happy living at Timbertop. It is a breath of fresh air away from the city. There is a nice laundromat at the bottom of the Portage Trail hill called Nicole's Connection that we used to always do our laundry and get ice cream at. I whole heartedly recommend this place, and please don't let internet reviews scare you-- I can tell you they are probably complete crap.