Lakeview Square Apt Homes

Zero stars. I hate to sound bitter, but Lakeview Square Apartments is an absolutely terrible place to rent if you are looking for great staff/​maintenance. The town homes are okay, plenty of space and nice layout. HOWEVER, looks can be deceiving. The staff is rude, short tempered, and don’t care whatsoever about the happiness of their residents. Putting in maintenance requests is a waste of time because it takes weeks upon weeks. The amount of insect infestations is ridiculous and they refuse to take care of it. The «front doors» are in the back of the homes near wooded areas and it makes it impossible to use that entry point. If you want earwigs, centipedes, daddy long legs, ants, and spiders as your roommates, then it might be the place for you.
Justin, the property manager is so rude that it’s unbearable to speak to him. He treats residents as peasants and has an attitude of a 13 year old girl/​diva. Absolutely impossible to reason with this guy. He will run Lakeview Square into the ground with his management skills.
Another downfall is the fact that the office will charge you for anything they deem necessary. Trash comes Mondays and if your trashcan is still out Tuesday, you get charged a $ 50 fee. Late rent fees are outrageous as well.
Although it’s great they have a 24 hour gym, it’s not big enough for more than 2 people, there’s not a working fan, the leasing office staff drinks all the water from the gym, and there are no cleaning supplies for the equipment (which is extremely unsanitary) speaking of equipment, there’s not a whole lot to choose from and what they do have, often doesn’t work or is broke. Obviously fixing their equipment isn’t a priority because it takes them forever to replace it.
Parking is free at Lakeview, however, the lots are small and you will often have to park down the street from your home.
Air conditioning units break often and in the summer, it can be a scorcher. I spent three summers at Lakeview Square and each summer, my AC unit needed replaced.
Theft is another downfall in this community. Cars are constantly broken into and the leasing office doesn’t file reports. They claim to have an officer patrol the grounds but in my three years living there, I had never once seen this imaginary officer. The amount of property stolen from us was a tough one to swallow. My neighbor’s car was even broken into while it was parked in the garage.

If I could give this place zero stars I would. The apartments themselves are big and spacious. It was a good deal when we first moved in. A lot of closet space. Good neighborhood. Pool is nice when it’s actually open. It was probably closed 5 – 6 times for broken glass this past summer. The issue is with the staff and ownership.
My sister and I lived there for two years. Always paid our rent on time. No complaints about us and we didn’t complain about anything. Maintence is the worst I’ve ever encountered. We put in two work requests for a few things, leaky toilet and sinks and couple other things. After a month, nothing. So we called a few times and still nothing. We submitted the first request February and it still wasn’t fixed when we moved out in September.
They raised the rent a substantial amount, and that wouldn’t be a problem if they fixed anything. I’m still in a battle with them now about my move out charges. We got the final bill and of course it was over our deposit. I was told by an employee they were upgrading our apartment after we moved out and they still charged us for stuff they were going to replace anyways. Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures so I have no room to fight it except the water bill. Our water bill was never more than $ 12 a month and when we moved out they charged us $ 48 for lasts months water. I also got a bill from the water company that said the bill was only $ 9. I’ve talked to them twice ans they say they will call back but never do. They are just trying to kill time before it goes to collections.
Also they don’t use pest control. Be prepared for spiders, stink bugs, and house centipedes EVERYWHERE. This summer they had really bad web worms in the trees that they wouldn’t do anything about.
I would not recomend this place to anyone. Those were just some of the bigger issues we had. Their business practices are shady and the staff is rude after you move in. It’s really not worth moving here for any price.
Update 5÷26÷15: had to call 4 times for them to finally realize they charged us for a different apartments water. They said we would get a refund on our deposit. That’s been almost 3 months, no refund.

The air conditioning units freeze over at the start of every summer and the maintenance staff let themselves into the apartment with no warning or call ahead, even when they are specifically asked not to do so.
I have made multiple noise complaints about the loud music my neighbors play but since they deny it, the office won’t do anything about it.
After one year, the rent was raised by $ 60/​month which was a shock. I expected an increase, but had a I known that it would be so much, I would have begun a house hunt much sooner.
My overall impression is that the first 6 months are great… And then the true colors come out.

I spent 5 years here largely because it was cheap and because moving sucks. Between the leaky windows, incompetent staff, and atrocious air conditioning it cost me nearly $ 250/​month during the summer to heat my apartment and despite myriad calls they continually claimed nothing was wrong with the A/​C — until, in fact, they called an actual expert who suggested replacing the unit.
Next, when our neighbors opted to blast music to the point where it could be heard through the walls lyric for lyric both upstairs and down, their suggestion was «we’ll let you out of the lease early so you can move.»
Finally — they had the audacity to charge me a «cleaning fee» for the apartment when we moved out.
If I had it to do over again I’d have never opted to live here in the first place save for the price.