Camille Apartments

The management office /​staff is manipulative, the building is old and smelly.
Every time you go inside the building, you smell something like dead fish or trash. The door to your apartment has such a large gap underneath that you can smell everything from inside of your apartment. You cannot escape the foul smell. The pipes are old too so more bad smells come from your kitchen sink, bathroom sink and the tub.
The management office (Re. Veronica the property manager) is quite manipulative. They are always friendly and smily before you rent, once you have paid the application fees, they mandate you to move in a few days earlier and start paying rent earlier, just because they don’t want their unit to be vacate for those extra days. Yet they do not tell you this up front before you submit your application fees.
We lived there for 13 days and had to move out, they wanted to charge $ 195 for a light cleaning, and another $ 90 for carpet cleaning, even though everything was the same as when we moved in. We decided to hire our own cleaner who cleaned the entire place, including the carpet for just $ 55. So the placed looked clean and tidy, then she decided to charge us for the wall painting. Again, we lived there for only 13 days without any furniture, and because they couldn’t make money from the cleaning charges, they came up with an excuse to paint the entire apartment. Furthermore, they created a «spot» on the carpet so that we have to pay for the carpet spot cleaning fee. In the end, they deducted $ 200 from our deposit anyways, for something that we did not do.
What we should’ve done was to take pictures of the entire place, of each corner on the wall and on the carpet right after our own cleaning, because the place really was immaculate, yet they fabricated all these «spots» and «marks» that were never there.
Our lesson learned was to always take pictures as proofs. Either way, we just want to warn others against this place overall, and especially against the manipulative management staff there.

I don’t live here, but I the complex I live in, Village Square Apartments in Sunnyvale, is owned by the same owners. I used to think the owners and California Property Services is great. However, after 3 years and a several managers, I’ve come to believe that these people are crooks. I heard from neighbors that these people lie and over charge you when you move out. I didn’t believe them until I saw one. A neighbor moved out and left the place in very clean condition. Later they were charged more than their deposit, including $ 175 of cleaning fees and $ 300+ for new carpet. If I hadn’t seen it personally I wouldn’t believe it. These people prey on those who don’t fight back. Stay away.

Well, I lived in this apartment for 2.5 years, and recently moved out from that place. Before I moved out, the manager wanted me to pay the cleaning fee $ 258 in advance, therefore, I can get our deposit $ 900 back. But in fact, this is a lie.
After two weeks, the manager just called me, and told me that I need to pay for the stained carpet for half of $ 2321 (since the life of the carpet is five years, and we just used it for 2.5 years), which is about $ 1054. That totally surprised me, and which means, we couldn’t get our $ 900 deposit back, but we need to pay another $ 154 for the carpet.
Total to get out of that place: $ 900 + $ 258 + $ 154 = $ 1312
Yes, that’s how much you need to pay to leave that place. Other than that, this apartment really needs some pest control. We found rats coming to our place several times, and the manager gave us the mouse traps to help catch them.
Several friends of mine had the same issues with deposit. So if you want to move in, think twice before you make decision though. And prepare to lose all your deposit for no good reasons. Think about it.