Review for Gretchen Kafoury Commons Apartments

The Gretchen Kafoury Commons is at first a great place to live. Its close to everything one might want with in Downtown Portland, OR. True it does many great amenities: a beautiful lobby (when cleaned), 24 hr. laundry room with new front load washers and dryers, a fitness room, parking and a Safeway only 2 blocks away.

On the flip side Ive had a bike taken from the bike storage, the sprinklers went off for hours flooding the 1st thru 3rd floors! Yes imagine the sprinklers that are meant to go off if a fire takes place, just decide to go off by them self! Getting LOTS of water all over EVERYTHING in your apartment!!! (TV, Computers, Sofas, Chairs, Beds, Your pets, Carpets, ect&..!!!) That sucked!!

A few times, they have been false fire alarms. We could go inside after they gave the all clear. But, it often takes them a while to turn the alarm sound off!

All in All I will give the Gretchen Kafoury Commons and 2.75 out of 5.

Its close to many things. The staff is always polite. Modern apartments and facilities. However its in a bad area of town, many crack heads and what have you are all ways around. Hence things getting stolen and broken into. The building has some kind of problem if the sprinklers or going to just go off. Or even just the fire alarm on a normal basis. And yes, I think the walls are a bit to thin& Its kind of a cheaply made building.