Village At Fair Oaks

Note to people looking for bad reviews on the village apartment in fair oaks. Most of the bad reviews over the past 3.5 years have been removed by management by threats of sueing for your our bad tenant reviews. Any questions about this complex robberies, drug selling, cooking labs complaints, stabbing, fire that displaced 12 apartments,
check with police department for cases. complaints to fair housing board conditions ie mold in walls… Check child molester site. Investigate legal sources before moving in this complex. Lived there 3 years, left late 2015.

I moved in a year ago. My lease is expiring on 10÷1÷15. And I’m already moved out.
I lucked out and got a second story corner lot tucked into a dark corner. Anywhere else and I would have gone insane.
I had to complain the day before move in because the idiot downstairs had piles of liquor bottles stacked up outside so high you couldn’t get past to move. Disgusting.
If you’re a stoner you’ll be in great company. My neighbors were a couple OLD guys that spent all day at the apartment — jobless of course, getting high and talking so loud you knew everything going on. Expect that most of your neighbors will be stoners.
If you like flashing red and blue lights you’ll love living at the Village. Sheriff will be called quite a bit to handle the domestics after you’ve had to sit there and listen to the shouting matches and breaking glass inside an apartment filled with 4 – 10 people who can split higher rent on their part time minimum wage salaries.
Strict rules! No pit bulls, Shepard, large breed dogs, no smoking! …But all you’ll see are large dogs, pits, and stoners sitting around getting high. When I first moved in I would sit on the balcony after I got home from work and watch the guy below make his drug deals, passing rock to whoever would come out of the gutter.
Management. EDITED: SEE BELOW. I found the staff had limited resources in answering simple questions. They were polite and sweet before the lease was signed, then never available OR extremely rude and off putting after you’ve signed your soul away for a year.
They used to take debit/​credit for rent payments. Now they made it only credit. And charge a large fee.
Last month a building burnt down. WHAT?!
Yes. 12 units were destroyed. Right next to my building.
Someone smelt someone running a barbecue (illegal and against lease) and called management over and over. And over. And over. Management let that building burn down and a massive lawsuit is in the works.
So if you want to risk all your possessions and life, we’ll go ahead and move in and pray that a stoner doesn’t get high and drop his bud or light a barbecue at TEN IN THE EVENING resulting in an entire building reduced to rubble.
I moved out. My lease expires on the first. I still have to pay for 10 days of my 30’days notice. That’s fine. Worth it just to be able to get away.
Instead of flipping my apartment now and/​or getting it ready for the displaced families that lost everything in the fire they let happen, management refuses. But they get more money in the end, and they need it for the class action lawsuit in the works. Yikes.
Rent for a tiny two bedroom is now around 1100 bucks. Expect a lot of trash to be on the complex as groups of people who split the rent will be able to afford it. (EDIT: well I’m paying 1500 for a 3 bedroom, 2 (full bath not just a sink by a counter), 2000sqft house on a half acre. So guys there’s options out there trust me.)
If they say they have a gym… it’s a laundry room as big as the apartment living room with a couple treadmills.
Don’t live here. Please. Management won’t help you and it cost 12 families everything. Look somewhere else and don’t settle like I did. I know moving is exhausting and frustrating but don’t punish yourself by settling for this dump.
EDIT AND UPDATE: I have reviewed my post which was made while angry and bitter toward a horrible business. I made rude side comments and insults which were not necessary and took away from all the facts and personal experiences. I made personal insults directed toward at least one member of staff that were not necessary for a review and I will be removing them. However, my negative experience and interaction with said person (s) will remain. And I will continue, as I have since I moved in October, to guide people away from these dangerous apartments.

We’ve lived here for several years. Recently our rent was raised and to tell you the truth we weren’t very happy, and probably projected our displeasure towards the staff, which of course is not fair. Actually, we love living here. Stephanie and Emily treat us very good. They always address any issues or concerns promptly, and consistently display a genuine care for the residents. Even though we have to pay a rent increase, the benefits of living here outweigh the added cost. Having both Stephanie and Emily as our go to persons is a tremendous value. We’re going to live here until we buy our home. I truly believe this is the best apartment complex, period. Many thanks to Stephanie and Emily for ensuring this is a great place to live!

I have been a resident here for 5 years now. I love my home, I’ve always felt safe, and the staff has been accommodating. I wish they were just a little cheaper, but other than that I don’t have any complaints. I’m honestly a bit thrown off reading these other reviews… A neighbor made a scene in the office while I was there. She was angry that she had received a couple notices that her rent was past due, and continued to name call the girl at the desk (Stephanie i believe) All I have observed are good people doing their job here, and angry residents lashing out however possible. I recommend this complex to anyone from single females to a family looking for a safe home.

wow!!! I have lived here almost 2 years and got along well with the staff but as of late there has been a lot of bad activity in this complex. when talking to management about it we are told they have no control over what people do and that having security only makes the apartments look bad. That is not helpful, they have no security and a kid just got stabbed in the neck in the parking lot (both involved live in the complex and my kids and neighbors kids witnessed this). The police activity report for the complex shows a lot of activity also. NOT a safe place for a family to live. Think twice before choosing this complex.

I cannot wait to get out of this complex. The layout is great and works for us. Its the supposed on site management! Stephanie is stuck up and rude and likes to play «GOD» and Emily just doesnt know what she’s doing. If they don’t like you, don’t bother trying to get anything fixed.
Beleive the other reviews here, its all true. Walls are thin, the neighbors that live here are rude, jump up and down so you have no choice but to think your celing will cave in, loud tv’s and radio’s and they will let their cars «warm up» for 30 mins… infront of your bedroom windows! Just walk around and you see fences falling apart and wood rot! You can see the place falling to pieces. Waste of good rent money.

Where do I start?
Never in my apartment life have I had so many issues before. Starting with the moron in the office Stephanie, all the way to the AC not being fixed, oven being broken more times than I can count, plumbing issues beyond belief, washer broke twice, disposal broken on the sink, the maintenance guys sadly do not know what they are doing and get treated poorly for everything. We have complaining neighbors that have been nothing but loud and they complain about everyone. This is the worst possible place.
The best part about them is the fact that it’s in Fair Oaks, otherwise it is sadly a terrible investment and way over priced. I have had nothing but hassles, even attitudes for things that were out of my control. I advise you look further unless you want to be locked into misery for a while. I am finally free of this place and gone. So happy to be living elsewhere.