Wake Forest Apartments

Where to start…
Our place had terrible insulation, or overkill insulation, idk. All I know is it got to sauna-​level heats in the summer. Which me, being a privileged, luxury-​loving snob, thought it would be a good idea to have the AC on sometimes. False, the AC smells like burning asbestos for all 10 feet of the apartment that it actually cools. I look forward to the multiple types of cancer in the coming years.
Need to take a shower, or wash some dishes? It might be one of a hundred days out of the year they decided to turn off the water. They might even tell you! Actually, you aren’t gonna want to take that shower because your light/​fan switch are the same, and the sound of it is like Satan having sex with a blender. Also, did I mention a sauna? Your shower handle will probably be broken and always stuck on just below scalding temp.
Before we moved out, they gave us a day notice to clear out our cabinets because they were painting them for the new residents. Not sure if this breaks the lease, but I’m pretty sure you can’t make your tenants do arbitrary work that isn’t in their self interest at all. Anyways, they got paint on some stuff, they threw other stuff in our tub, and our apartment had noxious fumes for 4 days. When I went in to complain, they turned it around on me saying our floors were trashed. The same floors they probably haven’t changed in a decade…
The management takes their posted hours about as seriously as Don Draper. Repair requests? Package to pick up? Lol. Prepare to make up superstitious theories as to when they’re actually gonna be there.
What else? Oh yeah!!! They tried to steal ¹⁄₃ of our rent one time by claiming my gf didn’t pay. When she returned with a picture of the check they cashed (with their signature on it) their apology was about as sincere as when my dog apologizes for vomiting on the carpet.
Some good things; one of the ladies in management (the one who was actually there most of the time) was really nice (the other one’s voice haunts my dreams) and the maintenance dudes were chill (but when aren’t they?).
TL;DR This place sucks.

This place doesn’t even deserve one star! Funny how the model town home they show people looked gorgeous yet the place you’re given is a piece of shit! I had a huge list of repairs needed for this place and they only helped me with two. The AC is downstairs and it doesn’t even reach the living room or bedrooms upstairs, the only place it sends air to is the kitchen and the hall way. When you need to speak with them, they are never available during their hours and they give you huge attitude. I seriously can’t wait to move out of this junk! Stay away for this place!

Very rude broke into ur apartment (even into you room) without any consent.
Dont never pick this apartment
I will move as soon as the lease is ended

This place is the worst!!! The apartments are really old and when you walk upstairs you can hear the woods squeaking. Management was never on the property their office hours were three days a week for like 4 hours and half of that they wouldn’t even come. The place is really ghetto but very good neighborhood. Now all these are manageable, what frustrated me the most was the fact that they tried to steal our deposit at the end. After calling them about 5 times in the period of two months they finally picked up and said that they sent it last week but then it didn’t show up for another month. We were finally able to get our deposit back from them after threatening them to sue AFTER THREE MONTHS!!!

Do not live here unless you’re very desperate for a run down place!
Pros:
— it’s close to campus
–okay price
–not so bad overall state of rooms
Cons:
–BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE
(They do not listen to you, but give you attitude instead, VERY RUDE PEOPLE)
–once you move in, it seemed decent, then everything starts to fall apart. Like old appliances.
–One time, the pipes were broken then they took FOREVER to address the issue.
–ONCE AGAIN, they just take their sweet time. DO NOT LIVE HERE, UNLESS it’s your last option!
SUPER BAD. THEY DON’T EVEN DESERVE ONE STAR!

I lived here for two years and couldn’t wait to move out. The apartments were built in the 60s and haven’t been updated since.
As far as I can tell, there are about 4 good things to this complex:
1. The maintenance staff is SUPER nice and tries their best to help you. That said, there’s not always a lot they can do to help.
2. It’s close to campus and the U-​Mall.
3. It’s on the C bus line. (It used to be on the B line too, but not anymore, apparently.)
4. It’s cheap.
Everything else is terrible.
There were five different managers in the two years I lived there. I believe this is more an indication of how difficult the property owners are. The managers all wanted to help, but couldn’t really do anything because the property owners refused to update the property.
You can’t live here if you own a car. You can pay a lot of money to park in the parking lot (more than I could afford), or you can fight the freshmen to park on the street, but whenever someone tries to come over, tell them to be prepared to walk a ways to your apartment — there’s no close parking.
The apartments themselves are falling apart. There were bare patches in the shag carpet. There were mold stains in the showers, no matter how hard I scrubbed or how long I let bleach sit there. There was water damage in the ceiling. When we called maintenance to repair the air conditioner, they realized there was a burnt, exposed wire that could have burst into flames at any point. When that was fixed, the air conditioner still only cooled one room. The doors had no insulation and we could see an inch of daylight all around them. At one point the manager had to shut off the water without warning because a pipe burst. Yes, there are washers and dryers, but usually at least one or two are broken.
Another reviewer wrote that «if you haven’t been spoiled by luxury amenities such as central AC or in-​unit washer and dryer, you would probably be quite happy here.» I suppose this is true, but then I grew up in a house without central AC and didn’t mind toting my laundry around. I guess I have been a little spoiled by expecting to not have cockroaches, or to have an apartment that isn’t shoddily made, hasn’t been kept up, and has some truly harrowing standards. This complex reflects poorly on the community of Davis and is in desperate need of renovation.
Live elsewhere: This complex is not worth your time or your money.

I hate this place! It’s disgusting. I’ve stayed with my boyfriend here for the past year and we’ve experienced nothing but trouble.
In the fall quarter, the upstairs apartment had a bursted pipe and our bathroom was completely flooded, as well as the housemates’ bedroom. Believe me they were livid.
In the winter, something was wrong with the water pipe where there was not hot water for about two weeks. It was horrible! Especially since the heater did not work either. We sometimes ended up boiling water and waiting for it to cool because it was that bad.
In the spring, our kitchen and bedroom window kept getting flooded because of lack of proper roof draining pipes. This also led to more mold and hassle.
Now, in the summer, we’ve recently experienced an epidemic of ants, coach roaches, and maggots. Honest to God, my boyfriend is one of the cleanest guys I’ve ever known and I’m kind of a clean freak myself so we have no idea where these disgusting pests came from.
That’s the stuff that’s been happening to us all year at this place. Now on a regular daily basis:
1)parking sucks because there’s never any street parking after 5−6pm or you have to pay like $ 180 for a non-​covered parking spot or $ 240 for a covered spot – which sometimes had leaky pipes in the winter.
2) there are always some type of pests in your house as insulation is horrible – ants, coach roaches, flies, etc. Seriously, no matter what I’ve brought I can’t get rid of them. And management won’t do anything about them.
3) the ac sucks in the summer and the heater doesn’t even work in the winter!
4) door are drafty. I can literally bend over an look under the door and see the inside kitchen of my apartment or any apartment here. It’s ridiculous. They should have measured the doors correctly before installing them. No wonder huge coach roaches keep getting in.
5) there are rats here. My boyfriend and his brother saw two of them in front of our apartment and heard more in the drain pipes.
Side note: Maintenance is horrible! There was a huge mold problem – ceiling, walls, and tub was covered with toxic mold – in the bathroom and maintenance did not come until after a month of constant bugging.
The only good things about this place is that rent is cheap and close to campus. So, don’t live here unless you absolutely have too.

The apartments are humble, but are actually decent if you get to know them. If you haven’t been spoiled by luxury amenities such as central AC or in-​unit washer and dryer, you would probably be quite happy here. The apartments are very big and inexpensive. The community is usually really quiet. The property is close to UCDavis and conveniently located from everything else you could think of, either via city streets or freeway.
Don’t pass this place up because of the stories you’ve heard. The complex has improved quite a bit in the past 1 ½ years. The current management team has been working very hard with the current management company, Jon Berkeley Management, to turn around the apartments.

I lived here for two years when I went to UC Davis, and it was a pretty unpleasant experience, though there were some positives.
First, the good:
* Close to campus — This complex is about a mile from the Quad, so getting to class quickly was very easy.
* It has a hot tub and a pool
* Rent was pretty cheap
* I made friends with several of my neighbors — Mostly students live here.
Then, the bad:
* cell phone reception was pretty weak inside my unit
* there’s only one dumpster area — I lived on the far end of the parking lot, so our trash tended to accumulate a bit.
* the management changed around a lot — During the 2 years that I spent here, we had something like 10 property managers. Therefore, a lot of things slipped through the cracks.
Now, the ugly:
* Everything broke — once the water heater was out for a week. My oven caught fire (not kidding here — this took forever to get them to fix because they thought it was just dirty, but it was a technical problem). The toilet had to be rebuilt. There were carpet tacks sticking out. We lost Internet connection all the time because of crossed wires. The air conditioner never worked, at all. The kitchen sink overflowed with the upstairs neighbors’ dishwater THREE times.
* They had the audacity to keep our entire deposit because the carpet had to be replaced, even though it was probably original to the building and — get this — one of my roommates found out that they hadn’t even replaced it before the next poor saps moved in.
* I heard someone’s apartment had bats. I dunno, that’s just something I heard.
We had some good times there, but it was essentially a hovel. Don’t live here unless you’re desperate.