Astoria Park Apartments

I love the office manager Whitney, and all of the maintenance crew and the office staff… We are under new management and they are the best. I love it here.

If I could rate less than one star, I would. I have lived in the complex little over a month and am stunned at the lack of personal privacy and lack of professionalism. When I moved into the unit there were a laundry list of maintenance requests ranging from rotten food in a broken garbage disposal to broken windows to 3 A/​C vents being painted closed. On top of all of that the unit was filthy– I’m talking toenails on the ground, cobwebs, dead bugs in the corner, and a sticky substance in the cabinets that took sandpaper to remove. The assistant manager here is childish and lacks customer service skills. She’s sweet at first, but as soon as you complain she turns into a child. I cannot stress enough how much I regret moving into this complex. Stay far away.

It will do… And the office people are always nice.
Buuuuuut…
It’s not the worst place to live… but it’s not the best either. My first apartment was robbed and they wouldn’t let me out of my lease so I moved into another apartment in the complex and have had no problems other than my hot water lasts for 5 minutes.
But whatever. its affordable.
I wouldn’t suggest moving here to a friend unless you honestly can’t afford anything else.

This place is absolutely terrible. The worst aoartment complex I have EVER lived in. From the start it was a downhill spiral. The day I picked up my keys I had to wait for over an hour before the apt was ready. when I did my move in inspection, I had to ask for someone to go with me, that should be common practice. There were numerous problems witht he apt. The floors were dirty with construction debris as I got a «remodeled» apt. The paint job sucked. The «fancy» knobs and pulls on kitchen drawers are cheap plastic and break if you pull too hard. My refrigerator had mold growing the seals, and when I asked for a new fridge they said they would clean that one… so I cleaned it myself. My bathtub has been refinished so many times it looks like it has a disease. The toilet didnt flush when I moved either, and the tub drain was stopped up. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the 3 ft long crack in the cieling!!! This was DAY ONE!!!
I have now lived here going on 5 months, and here is a rundown of the problems I have had… a neiighbor was letting her dog defecate on the sidewalk going into the building. After attempting to resolve it with her, I had to contact the corporate office to get the issue resolved. The office staff entered me into the wrong apt in the computer, so all of my work orders were completed on the wrong apt for over a month. My neighbors all set their trash outside their doors in the common areas instead of taking them to the dumpster. I adressed this issue with the office, too no avail. I have had so many work orders «lost» in the system, it isnt funny. I literally haver to print the confirmation and take it to the office to get anything done.
The parking areas around the dumpsters are generally trash strewn. The ponds in the complex seem like a nice idea, until you see beer cans and diapers floating in them.
The walls are so thin here you can hear your neighbors tv at a normal listening level, or people walking above you. The laundry room is filthy, but its ok since the laundry machines are worthless… about 5 dollars to actually dry a load. The storage closets are a joke, looking like they have been broken into with missing locks and whatnot.
The kids in the complex are terrible. When they get off the bus from school they will walk down the middle of the road and not move, but dont try and adress it with the office, they wont care.
As far as appliances go, bring your own. My stove has burners that dont even go to it, and this was their answer to a broken stove burner to begin with. My dishwasher literally fell out from under the counter, my faucet leaks, as does my toilet which has been doing so for over a week now… but that goes back to the whole work order thing.
I recommend owning a gun also, there are a lot of unsavory types with poor choices in friends, so it may be needed depending which part of the complex you live in.
Overall, i only gave this place one star because i had to give it a star. Save your money and your sanity and find another place.

Moving here was a HUGE mistake. I’ve lived here for the last year, and I can hardly wait for my lease to be up.
The whole complex is GHETTO. The police have been here twice in the last month, the last time they were investigating gun shots fired.
A drug dealer has moved in to the building next door and there are constantly drug transactions going on in the parking lot.
The woman downstairs has parties every weekend, after the clubs close, and so there is usually loud music until 4 or 5 am. The courtesy officer has only come once out of all the times he’s been called, that was at 8 pm on Sunday eve. If anything happens after 11 you’re out of luck, he stops answering his phone.
There are cars parked illegally, blocking other cars in every night, there are tow trucks here all the time. I’ve had to call the towing service 3 times in the last couple of months, for my private, paid for, permit only car port, and one of the cars belongs to one of the employees.
There is usually garbage all over the parking lot. Many tenants are either too lazy, or not smart enough to lift the lid on the dumpsters so they throw their garbage on top of, or in front of the dumpsters. Then the animals get into it.
If it snowed on Friday or Saturday the sidewalks were never shoveled or salted until Monday or Tuesday. I finally had to buy my own shovel and salt and do it myself or trudge through a foot of snow on my way to work. (And I don’t go to work until 10 AM)
Getting things repaired is like pulling teeth. It takes numerous phone calls before someone comes to fix the problem. That’s ONLY after someone in the office decides to pick up the phone. Most of the time you have to leave a message and maybe someone will get back to you in 2 – 3 days. It took me 2 months to get a refrigerator that worked. Many times the repairs have to be done over, and over because of the cheap materials they use. My kitchen faucet broke so many times that I finally paid for it to be repaired myself.
There are laundry rooms, but they are so FILTHY that it would probably ruin your clothes to use them.
The storage lockers, in my building, have had all of the door knobs and locks ripped off of them. I was told that they were in the process of repairing them when I moved in a year ago. They are still unusable.