St George & Associates

St. George is so unprofessional and unorganized. When my housemates and I moved in, nothing was cleaned or repaired. They were not empathizing and made verbal agreements/​promises to many tenants. Without written agreements, we couldn’t pursue St. George. As for late fees, they charge an excessive amount of 10% of the total monthly rent, while normal range is 3−6%. So beware. They also charged us a move out fee even though we paid to get everything cleaned, extra charges on repairs that were unaccounted for and utilities. We paid for all our utilities on our accounts, so it didn’t make sense that they charged us for utilities. I would not recommend St. George to anyone unless you want to take that risk.

Avoid St. George at all costs. Seriously, don’t walk, run. They are the worst, and I would never rent from them again!

TL;DR: My experience at the Campus 880 apartments, owned by Saint George & Associates, was ATROCIOUS, I would strongly advise against staying there or at any property associated with this company. They are only interested in your money, not your living experience nor the community as a whole.
There are 15 reviews preceding mine, all with the same rating. These aren’t the spiteful comments of former residents; they are a clear and uniform message that these people are crooks. You’d be better off biking from Goleta.
I lived upstairs in one of the Skyloft apartments. (4 – 5 People, on the 2^nd/​3^rd floors). Notes on the apartments:
* The bathroom cabinets are held onto the wall using a latch constructed by drilling a screw through a thin, ½ square inch of porous wood; akin to worn driftwood. Because of this, myself, and at least 4 other people/​apartments, have had their cabinet fall off the wall and hit them, which is quite painful and a result of negligence on behalf of St. George and Associates. The maintenance guy who came laughed and said it happened all the time.
* Multiple parts of the apartment were in disarray from the previous owners, including broken blinds and a messed up stairway-​carpet. Funnily enough, one of the old roommates came by early into the year and noted that they had been forced to pay St. George for the damages (they were the first residents), and yet nothing had been done to repair the blinds with the $ 800 the previous residents had paid (for the blinds alone).
* We were promised a dining room table in our lease agreement, which we requested from the beginning of the year, through multiple people, occasions, and means of communication. We were assured that it was on its way/​about to arrive until the last month or so of the year, when it finally did, only to be 3 feet wide, round, and bolted to the floor in the middle of the kitchen.
* The apartments are loud and catch a lot of noise from the street. There is a large window on the upper level, but it is completely inaccessible; you’ll have to choose whether you want it open or closed more or less permanently.
* The apartments along Camino Del Sur suffer from an interesting effect, where the wind is much faster on the street side than the ‘front-​door’ side. On windy days, when the balcony door is open, and you open the front door, the large pressure difference causes air to rush through the apartment and out the front door. The result is that the door slams shut with extreme force, shaking the entire apartment. To emphasize the force of the slam, I would expect it to break the bones or remove the finger (s) of a caught arm. I would hear the slams from my neighboring apartments frequently. In an effort to remove this safety hazard, I spoke to the staff and submitted a work order within the first few weeks of the year, but was told it would not be done.
* The internet service is poor; I was told at the beginning of the year before moving in that they were installing a T1 line, however all apartments are capped to 2.2MB/s SHARED download and upload. 2.2MB/s, cut between upload and download, and then further between 4 – 5 people in an apartment leads to quite poor performance. Furthermore, only one of the many ethernet ports in the apartment was connected, and so all wired connections had to run across the apartment to be split from a single access point.
A few notes on Campus 880 in general:
* If you walk in you will see a gaudy array of aluminum sheets, which do a fantastic job of raising the temperature of the already sweltering all-​concrete yard. Not too long after their construction, a section about 10’x10’ fell from the top (3^rd story) vertically onto the ground. Fortunately no one I know of was hurt, but I expect that if anyone had happened to be underneath they would have suffered serious if not lethal injuries. One of the construction workers had supposedly commented that it had been secured with a piece of twisted wire.
* The staff was changed multiple times over the last year, and they were all terrible, with each issue taking multiple iterations, forced follow ups and generally way too much time and effort. Interacting with the staff was like the stereotypical trip to the DMV; after being ignored due to the staff texting on their phones for a period, you identify your complaint and then are directed to another line, where the process starts over. In fairness, I would say the most recent iteration (Mike and I believe his wife), are the best of the bunch, but it’s clear that they have way too much work cut out for them and a shakey infrastructure to work with.
* The end of year fees are exorbitant, and to think I had been wondering why the security deposit was so high? They clearly overcharge and take any opportunity to issue those charges.

My daughter rented an apartment from St. George in Isla Vista when she was attending UCSB. This company does not have integrity. They make promises and don’t deliver. Our mistake was that we did not make them write it down. They took advantage every step they were able to.
Make sure you do a walk through with them before you rent.
Have everything in writing.
They give you the apartment dirty and dusty when you move in. But they charge you a hefty cleaning fee (more than $ 300) after you move out. My daughter had emptied the apartment very nicely with no real dirty spots. It does not cost more than $ 300 to clean a very small empty apartment!
They charge you for painting walls that were damaged by a water leak that they negected to fix.
The upside was that my duaghter really learned what she needed to do when renting from scums. Thank you St George for the great lesson. And I hope that your greedy business practices catch up with you soon.

Rented one bed only out of 5 and was charged $ 470 for carpet cleaning (no carpet), room painting, smoke alarms, light bulbs, shared space cleaning and painting and blind repair. If my roommates were charged the same did they keep $ 2350 out of our group of deposits? I drove 7 hours to meet all roommates there prior to move out to have a shared cleaning day so we could get our full deposit back. Called office throughout the year and usually did not get a phone call back. Difficult to get a hold of. Gave them current address but still sent refund to wrong address. Nice place but only if you have money to give away and don’t expect full deposit back no matter how spotless you leave it.

THESE PEOPLE ARE SHADY AS HELL AND THEIR GOAL IS TO STEAL YOUR MONEY! They charged us for so many things we did not ever receive like a trash bill for trash bins that did not even exist… They lost our file so many times and had to start a new one for us every time. They took out 12 000 dollars out of 16 000 charging us for carpet repairs and steam cleaning even though we had ONLY tile in our house! Are these people idiots? I swear to god these people had no education let alone any brain in their tiny heads. Do not get involved with this company. You will be sorry and you will leave traumatized and broke. My housemates and I had the worst year sending multiple of the same complaints and messages reminding these morons and correcting them basically doing their job for them and they still can’t get anything right. If i could give them zero stars i would just like everyone else. If you are reading this st george, f u! someone needs to shut you down and you all deserve to lose your jobs.

I can’t even believe the lack of integrity this company has… This was probably the worst experience of my life. We had problems throughout the entire year with St. George. Beginning with the fact that they made our moving in the most stressful thing to deal with (they had a very disorganized and not very bright employee working in their office who had no idea what she was doing).
They added so many administrative fees ($ 50 each month added onto our trash fee, because they «didn’t want to change the name on the trash bill to us») not to mention that the trash cans we used weren’t even on St. George property.
They randomly decided to charge us for bills such as electric several times during the year, and added a 1400 utilities charge that was taken out from our security deposit after we moved out.
We just got our security deposit back, they took $ 12,000. Our house spent days scrubbing down our house, yet they sent us a cleaning bill of about $ 900. Funny thing is that they sent us a copy of the cleaning bill and one of the charges were «Carpet Steam Clean». NEWS FLASH St George, you sketchy assholes, we don’t have a single square foot of carpet on that property. So next time you try to rip college kids off, maybe you should do your homework.
I’m pulling myself off cause I’m about to lose it. But seriously these are only a few of the things they have done to screw us over and all the tenants I’ve run into under st George have hated them.
They have beautiful houses but don’t let that fool you, the insides are not very well structured and they’ll rip you off and probably get away with it.

St. George is a greedy little fuck
Avoid at all costs
St. George & Associates have no intention of maintaining their properties, it is very obvious that they are purely in it for the money. They will do anything they can to take as much money as they can from their tenants. They look to fine you wherever they can.
They tried to charge us for a 13^th month of rent and it took multiple interactions with them to remove the unnecessary final month’s charge.
It took them more than seven days to respond to a maintenance request and come out to fix our clogged kitchen sink (we washed our dishes in the bathroom for over a week).
There is a complete absence of ventilation in the bathroom. You can either shower with both doors open and a window open in another room, or you can accept the fact that mold is just going to pile up and you will inevitably have to clean it away later.
When we first moved in, I noticed a piece of blue painter’s tape on the crusty wall that had the words «PREP/​PAINT» on them. I figured they were aware of the appalling bathroom and were preparing to paint and fix it. However, they never did anything to the bathroom during the twelve months of our lease and that piece of tape remains.
You want to have a BBQ outside? Nope, apparently that is outdoor furniture and it is not allowed. They’re going to take pictures of it, steal it, then fine you with an unsympathetic message via email. They do all they can to avoid personal interaction, such as knocking on your door. Instead they would rather sneak around outside and leave notes and email messages as clues to their impending fines.
They do not define push pin holes as «normal wear and tear,» so expect to be paying for the walls to be completely repainted if you want to hang your favorite poster up.
Additionally, the stories of the infamous ants are all too true. They are EVERYWHERE (including your shower and your bed)!
Never sign a lease with St. George.

My girlfriend lived under the tyranny of St. George for two years in different apartments, and both were awful experiences.
The first had a broken washing machine which they would simply not get around to fixing, ceiling beams riddled with termites, and only provided two washers and dryers for the entire apartment complex of about 15 units. However, it was normal to have only one set working at a time.
While the second was much nicer, the management problems continued and even intensified. The apartment complex was the newly built Campus 880. There were countless problems, so I’ll only go over the highlights. After signing the contract promising housing for the 2013 – 2014 school year, St. George moved the move in date to two and a half weeks past the start of classes forcing the residents to find other housing for that time. At the end of the year, they also ended the lease before finals were over, forcing the residents to pay an extra higher per day rate for the last days of finals and for graduation. Also, while cable, a tv, and wifi were promised, they were not provided until halfway through the school year, sometime in late January. While they were not charged for the two weeks housing was not provided, there was no reduction in rent for the lack of amenities.
On top of all of this, I would like to reiterate what Kyle M. said about the mandatory cleaning fees. You WILL NOT get your full deposit back. Please don’t be enticed by the nice apartments, management is much more important than you think for enjoying your living situation.
MY Recommendation: KAMAP. While my girlfriend dealt with all that above, I leased with KAMAP. They may be a little more expensive for what you get, they are a great company with really responsive people. There was never anything wrong with the construction or infrastructure of my apartment, and when I informed them of my need for a plumber, one was at my apartment within two hours. They really are great landlords.

St. George and Associates do not run a reputable business. As mentioned in previous reviews, you will loose your deposit. They will not give a walk-​thru when you are vacating because they have NO intention of giving your deposit back. As support of stealing our deposit funds they used photos that were not even the same apartment! It was a fantastic housing experience for students attending SBCC until St. George took over. I don’t think there is a grown up, professional working anywhere in this organization. If there is, he/​she should come out of hiding and get to work fixing this mess.

To put it very simply, do not lease with these people. I lived at Campus 880 when it first came out and though it looked nice the management was horrible and the amenities promised were not delivered. You will lose your deposit not only on the TV but also the security deposit no matter what. They will charge you mandatory cleaning service fees even when you left the apartment better than it had been upon arrival. They will find any way to illegally take your money. If you don’t want to lose a few thousand dollars, then do not lease with them.

I was lucky enough to be living in beautiful Santa Barbara in a apartment complex that wasn’t too nice but was close to campus. St George and Associates bought out the apartment complex I was living in and I was excited about the new management… at first. They tried to implement a new parking structure, which was needed, but they decided to use all of the guest parking as a storage area for all of their plants, personal cars and only allowed two parking spots per 2 bedroom which was a problem since all 4 of us each had a car. I attempted to call them to ask for suggestions on where we should be parking our other cars and I was told multiple times to send an email so I sent one, and another and another and another and got NO response back. I literally just felt ignored.
Then there was construction, all day every day. Saturday and Sundays were the only time I had to relax or sleep in but I was either abruptly woken up by chainsaws, yelling tree guys, chippers, painters or construction builders. One morning I even woke up to a guy who was staring at me through the window while painting on a scaffold. I felt like my personal space had been violated.
They changed the office hours from 9AM-​5PM to only having a ONE HOUR window where you could come in and talk to someone and most of the time someone wasn’t there or they were somewhere else on the property.
When I finally had to move out because my car was being threatened to be towed everyday, I sent a email with my 30 day notice. Turns out 30 days later they NEVER received it even though I put a second copy of it with my last rent check. They told us we should hire someone to clean the apartment so we get our whole deposit back ($ 2,000) so we hired a company and paid them $ 600 to clean the whole place. When we got our deposit back *two weeks late* they gave us $ 300 back… and then ripped apart and gutted the apartment! SO THERE WAS NO POINT IN HAVING IT CLEANED! We felt scammed to say the least.
I do not recommend renting from them unless you like being ignored completely, you like late payment threat emails f your rent isn’t in by 12AM on the first of every month and you don’t want your deposit back.

Fair warning, this review will be extremely extensive, but necessary in making your choice to live in this hell hole.
Let me first say that in August of 2013, I came down looking for apartments and decided I wanted to live here. They were gorgeous on the outside, and brand new. We would officially be the first ones living here. I had driven down on a Tuesday, and said I would be moving in on a Sunday because I started school the very next day. I come that Sunday to move in, and was told I couldn’t because they did not have my key ready. My father had to pay money to put me up in a hotel for the next 2 days. When I moved in, within the first 2 months, there were more ants than you would find swarming a goddamn picnic basket. In our kitchen, in our beds, in our bathrooms. We had this problem for months, and the management said if we wanted the ants cleaned up, we had to pay a member of their staff or do it ourselves. Time went on and things seemed to be fine, so we decided we wanted to strike up a lease for the following year. We were never told that we would have to pay them an additional $ 1800 deposit in the beginning of the year, even though the had the $ 1800 we had given them not even 6 months prior. We told them we could not afford to give them that deposit until after summer, so they terminated our leases for the upcoming year. After this fiasco, we began having people knock on our door at least once a month trying to break in, and harassing us. We would be woken up a 3am and have to call the police. After the 5^th or 6^th time, the ever so proactive St George staff finally gave us a goddamn peephole, which they did not think we needed previously. In addition to their rude staff and disgustingly unprofessional management, they find every loop hole they can to get all of your money. Not only do you deal with bullshit on a day to day basis, you can’t even do it in a nice air conditioned room. As much money as you pay for rent, cheap assholes could not even provide air conditioning or some sort of a ceiling fan. If you are facing any financial hardships, they find no way to work with you. If you cannot come up with the money, not only do they take you to court, but they ask you to pay their expensive attorney fees, filing fees, and any other bullshit fee they can come up with to help with the payment of one of the owner’s many cars he drives around in. Although the apartments are beautiful, it is not worth your sanity. I would rather live alone in my car than in these apartments dealing with these pathetic excuses of people who run this awful business. I would never recommend this apartment complex to my worst enemy. You will not only lose money paying for fraudulent charges they come up with, but you will lose your goddamn mind.

I was planning on leasing a place from this rental company and the realtor told us to turn in our apps and wait for processing we wait three weeks he tells us we still have the place then tells us now that he gave the place away the day we turned in our apps and he just said he was too busy to tell us. Absolutely the most unprofessional dick move ever don’t lease from them they’re absolutely horrible. And now we don’t have a place to live thanks.

Honestly, its my first time writing on Unilocal,but im warning future college students to avoid this place at all times. It looks good outside, but there are a lot of problems. They never pick up the call, which is so unprofessional, they ignore people a lot, so many residents are at the office all times because they have problems with them. They are famous for disorganized and unfriendly. Deposit is way too expensive and i doubt they would give back. They ignore if u gotta a problem just to avoid and get away with it. I cant say anything good about them. Rooms are way to small and they screw up on many things and i have seen it.

Do not try to contract there. My daughter tried to rent and security deposit for $ 1,700. She found roommates were smoking marihuana and terminate lease. They accepted termination of lease and return the check for $ 1,700. After we deposited it at the bank and they suddenly changed mind and refused to return. Nobody answered my phone and did not give me any explanation. I think they are very unprofessional. I have never experienced this kind of unprofessional business. Be careful when you deal with them!

You have to wonder how does a company have so many 1 star negative reviews and then these glowing 5 star positive reviews. Yes, I also believe the 5 star reviews are fake. READ THE FILTERED REVIEWS.
I seriously hope social media and the ability to inform other people of this disaster of a company opens their eyes to their problems and they fix it so that they have happy tenants rather than tenants who want revenge and will sink this company into the ground with lawsuits.
FIX THE PROBLEMS ST. GEORGE and STOP SCREWING YOUR TENANTS.

Owner cares about students and his properties, doing each walk through personally. Lived at 6640 abrego, great experience, stayed in the same apt for 2 years straight. competitive pricing with awesome amenities, washer dryer, dish washer and hard wood floors. highly recommend over other property management groups in area. they even help set up if you are short a few people to fill an apt. only thing is they could be faster at fixing broken things. still a good place to call home. Go gauchos.

CROOKS– do not rent from them, wonder why they provide a maid? because they take advantage of there leasers.

Worst experience of my life for so many reasons. I will list a few for a general idea.
1) Breached contract they double leased my apartment
2) Failed to take accountability for their mistake
3) Failed to apologize
4) Offered a replacement and assured me that it was «comparable». I refused to accept it with out viewing it of having pictures taken.
A) I drove 7 hours (gas is 3.76 and I am a poor college student) to find a literally 8×10 room with a small window built off of a dining room… no way comparable to my initial leases unit’s room.
B) Refused to stay an extra hour on Friday to meet with me on Saturday or Sunday.
5) Told me they would send a copy of the lease…4 weeks later and 6 emails and 3 calls from me later… no lease.
6) Told me they would send me reimbursement for my check 21 days later… no check.
7)Asked to speak to the person’s manager…3 times. Never was the mattered escalated within the company.
8) Lied to me telling me that my lease was void because of their mistake (I checked with a law professor, complete fabrication on their part).
I can go on and on. In the end they prey on poor college students and they probably get away with it a lot of the time. In the future if some one tells you that they know their rights and they are a pre-​law major. It is time to stop your scam and give the person what they are entitled to.
I now have to go to court and I dont know if i will be able to go to school cause I cant find housing. Thanks St. Georges. See ya in court.