Fountain Park

If I could give this place negative stars I would. This was by far the biggest joke for an apartment complex that I’ve EVER lived in. Let me list the positives. it was cheap when we moved in. That’s it. Now for the negatives.
1. apartment was nowhere near the same shape as the one my boyfriend got showed. Since that was a model apartment and this was not. first big disappointment.
2. took them forever to fix anything. We went two weeks after we moved in before they fixed the door frame from the previous tenants having the door busted down by the cops. Mind you they knew we were moving in a month before we had even got there so it was 6 weeks total with the broken door.
3. Office staff were completely rude bitches. The property manager was fake nice until you had a problem that you needed solved. (example: my front door was almost impossible to open for me because the frame had shifted when it got warmer, I told her about it and she said it was going to take two weeks to get it fixed so I brought up the fact that I needed to be able to leave my apartment to get to work and not be late and i needed the door fixed asap and she just gave me a nasty look and said «i heard you».) Also they were extremely shady when it came to things. We had complained enough about the noise that they offered us an apartment on the other side of the complex away from the pool but refused to let us see it and i had to give my decision before it was even available to be seen.
4. my apartment had mouse crap in my cupboards and a bunch of move in maintenance that needed to be done and it was never checked on or completed in the 10 months I lived there.
5. Noise level was unexcusable. You either had a bunch of unsupervised children screaming and yelling right outside your windows, trains, sirens, or my favorite was the loud music coming from the clubhouse every single weekend.
6. Said unsupervised children were playing with balls and bikes out in the parking lot right next to our parked cars. I infact had my tire slashed within the first 2 months out here.
7. Bugs– I had everything from slugs, ants and silverfish and was never taken care of.
8. White trash neighbors. Seriously every person around me looked like they should have been on an episode of jerry springer or they were making meth upstairs.
9. It reeked like weed 24/​7, I get it’s legal but it’s my choice to not smoke it I sure don’t want to smell it coming in my apartment when I could stand to have my windows open.
10. it took me almost 3 months to get my security deposit back, and when I did get it they took over half of it to «clean the carpets» and a «sanitation» clean. (funny cuz when I moved in i found mouse crap and a dirty diaper behind my hot water heater. that’s not clean to me)
11. Laundry rooms were a complete joke as well. When we moved in we had 4 washers and 4 dryers that had worked, when we moved out only one washer was working.
12. Pool was CONSTANTLY filled with kids and dirty.
13. Lots of mold in the winter, old windows with metal frames that leaked cold air and rain inside.
Just a bad place to live.

Theres always two sides to an argument, i feel its necessary to show the otehr side for these apartments. Having moved across the country to find that my job had fallen through I had to find a cheap apartment fast. What my fianceee and I found was very reasonable and friendly staff, the maintenance men knew us by name after only being there a few weeks. We had a few minor problems that were fixed immediately. The rent ended up being just under 700 for a medium sized one bedroom and that included everythign excpet electricity, even CABLE. Now i have lived in apartments for the past 10 years of my life and never have I had a place that had free cable and was clean.
Now yes there are kids running around everywhere but hey families need a place to live, they were never intrusive or loud and if anything were really fun to have running around playing. As far as safety goes unless your scared by a few unemployed guys smoking a cigarette at the driveway you will be fine. Never once had any break ins, actually when moving in a few of those «shady» guys out front run up and moved our couch in and then left before we could say thank you.
Not every place is perfect and especially when your paying under 700 for an aparmtent 15 min outside the city, but we loved our first home and fountain park made it very special for us.

I lived here two years ago and I can see not much has changed. This place is filthy, moldy, and dangerous. There are break ins, cars damaged and stolen, and domestic violence issues on a regular basis. Add this to the kids and dogs that run around unchecked. Not to mention they want to charge insane prices for minor things. They wanted to charge $ 750 for a tiny one bedroom because they claimed they just installed new mailboxes.

There is one thing that is «ok» about this place and that is the location. But… there is one thing that is also bad about the location and that is the crimes that go on here. I have lived here, and I liked it at one point, but that all goes away after a month or so. My panties were stolen from the laundry room (sick), my apartment was broken into ($ 4k gone), a guy was hiding in a bush one night with wire cutters to do who knows what. The management are these obese harpies that are unprofessional and clearly illiterate. I will just make it easy for you… the cheap vinyl and paint job and «friendly» staff are all just to suck you in. Dont move in until its too late and the paint wears off. and if you think you can get around all of this, theyll get you when you move out with an overpriced fee to «clean» etc.
i have to let people know how awful this place really is so they dont make the same mistake i did.: (

Having lived at Fountain Park Apartments for nearly 4 years, I am running out of patience and forgiveness. The proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back was the absence of running water in my apartment for at least 18 hours, from yesterday afternoon to this morning.
I had never been to Oregon before when I visited in July of 2005 in preparation for a move from Arizona. The location of this complex is convenient; walking distance from the MAX line and easily drivable to grocery stores, restaurants and other conveniences. A large part of their budget apparently goes toward lawn maintenance and the planting of new flowers every few months. The rent was very affordable to begin with, but rises substantially with each expiration of our lease. The initially affordable price means a lot of seedy characters as neighbors.
Our two bedroom/​one bathroom unit is spacious, approaching 1000 square feet with a sliding glass door out to a small concrete patio. Adjacent to the patio is a sizable patch of rocky dirt in which nothing will grow.
Our water is frequently cut off for hours at a time, and generally we are given no advanced warning of this. We returned home one day to find the concrete walkway up to our apartment destroyed (again with no explanation). We had to walk across a wooden board (and step around a bright orange cone) to get into our apartment.
We had to call the police at about 4am a couple years ago because a man was violently shaking and removing the screen to our bedroom window. My fiancé chased him off before he got into our apartment, but we don’t know his intentions. I have called the police a few times for domestic incidents and other scary situations right outside our front door. A forensics van was in the parking lot recently after at least two vehicles were broken into. At one point, someone smashed the glass door of the management office in order to steal rent checks.
Our washing machine and dryer are inexplicably located between our kitchen and dining room (with no door to conceal them). The location of these machines and the insufficient ventilation in the apartment means a big mold problem. The ceiling above our shower has an area about 5 inches in diameter that is apparently rotting from above. When I called maintenance, they simply put a fresh coat of paint over it. The 2^nd floor balcony above our 1^st floor patio is also rotting and falling apart.
Shame on us for living here for so long. When our lease is up in November, I plan on moving. In short, I highly recommend choosing somewhere else to live!