Royal Pines Apartments

Pros: Great location next to Bart, hospitals, shopping centers, library, police department, resource offices
Cons: building is infested with cockroaches, poor maintenance and management, run down
This place is absolutely disgusting! Please DO NOT move your family into these apartments. For $ 2000 a month it is definitly not worth it! For a couple hundred more (or even less) you could find a decent apartment complex elsewhere in Fremont. If you have read other reviews, what you have read about the coachroaches is TRUE. Sadly I do live here and am an unhappy tenant. No matter how much I clean, they still come because it is an infestation! Once in a while the landlord/​apartment manager will have some company come and apply some deterent for the cockroaches but it has not solved the problem. They are everywhere! Too bad you couldn’t charge them rent as they will be your roommates for however long you live here.
Another valid complaint I have is the maintenance. The only time there is maintenance is when you move out and they re-​do everything in the apartment so they can sucker another family to rent here. As of now they are changing countertops to granite. This will not change the cockroach problem in your cupboards running across your pots, pans, plates, utensils, cups, etc. For those that are current tenants, maintenance is a joke. The apartment manager will have you fill out a maintenance request form. What happens next is a mystery. You might play the waiting game and see if any action will be taken, be told some excuse that they already have too much work and will get you next week (which hardly ever happens because they hope you’ve forgotten), or if you’re lucky you might get a job halfway done with parts that are from another apartment.
I can guarantee you rent will increase as there is no rent control in Fremont. This does mean all other apartments will increase as well but as I have said before, at least you would be paying for a nice apartment instead of Royal Pines. Rent has increased at least twice since renting here. First it was $ 1525, then it went up to $ 1645, and now they are demanding $ 2000 for this Royal Pity of an apartment complex.
Do not use the laundry rooms here! Somehow clothes come out dirtier than before they went in. My guess is that there is no maintenance on those machines either.
The property is dirty and run down, mostly because of the kids that run around unattended leaving their wrappers, drinks, and trash wherever it falls.
The fire lane that is set up on the side of the building is used as a parking spot for the apartment manager’s truck or for when the landlord comes. Otherwise it is used to store the recycling bins so if there is a fire the firetruck will be blocked off with nowhere to park.
The only positive aspect of this apartment complex is the location. It is close to the library, bart, hospital, shopping centers, resource offices, and the police department. This really doesn’t have anything to do with the apartment complex itself. It just happens to be in a great location.
I truly hope this is beneficial for someone looking to move to Fremont. If I can deter even one family from Royal Pines I will feel happy to know they did not make the mistake to live here. Come to Fremont… just not here! Do NOT call Royal Pines your home! You will be sorely disappointed.