Brookside Meadows

While Brookside Meadows looks great on the outside, there is a lot not to like on the inside. For the rents that you pay (a max of $ 2250 for a townhouse), it’s highly overpriced. The walls are razor thin, I can hear the people next door use their bathroom. While the kitchens are nice, with nice cabinets, the counter tops are very basic and cheap laminate. The light fixtures are all basic, carpets are thin, and any second floor two bedroom has no balcony or deck. I paid $ 1880 for a 2 bedroom with a den. They make you pay monthly rent for the washer and dryer indefinitely, and you pay amenity fees every year. The 2 bedroom den units are almost 1700 sq feet, and the central a/​c is not adequate for that size, we had two rooms that were always running hot. The blinds they supply are nice, but storage space is very limited, and there is no storage facilities on premises. The gym has only two treadmills, one bike and one cheap elliptical. The clubhouse is not really for resident use, not much there to do. The pools are nice, but the deck chairs are cheap and they are short umbrellas and chairs. They say capacity is 50 people but last count there was about 30 chairs. Their are charcoal grills scattered around the property, but absolutly no benches or picnic tables their to sit. This summer was very dry, and all the grass died. For the rents they charge, they should be watering the grass. Parking spots are limited, and residents with garages use them to store and take up other parking spots. Residents commonly throw their garbage in front of the dumpster. Basketball courts are always littered with empty water bottles, etc, and it is a combo tennis court and basketball court, which they did not tell us before we moved. Kids from surrounding apartnents always come in to play with resident kids, sometimes there are like 30 kids playing in there. When I first moved there, in a brand new building, the water heater leaked the first weekend. The central ac is very touchy, will sometimes stop blowing out cold air… I think it’s the size of the apartment. They only give you one key, any extra is $ 30 and you have you have to pay $ 30 for any additional keys. There is a coded front gate, but all residents give out the code to anyone they know. In closing, I will say Belinda is a great property manager, always very helpful