Woodlake Apartments

I moved in on Saturday and have been going through the process of applying and signing for the last month. I have spent almost six months looking for a decent, clean, affordable place to live. Most listings have truly terrible ratings and reviews, and didn’t have a great location to boot. Woodlake is sufficiently far from the main roads that it’s amazingly quiet, yet close enough to them that it isn’t a hassle to go grocery shopping. The little creek that runs through the property makes for an excellent white noise generator if nothing else and the trees keep the place cool and shaded.
Stephanie, the apartment manager is amazingly helpful and very well informed, she made the moving process easy and has consistently checked to see that I am happy with the place, which I most certainly am. She even provided a gift bag with cleaning supplies upon move in!

Can I not give zero stars???
This place will squeeze every penny out of you that they can. My rent started out at a reasonable price, but each time I renewed they up’d the rent and fees until I was paying the same price that larger units were offered at when I moved in. Also, every time I got my water bill it was higher. There are also problems with the staff… one lady working in the office even opened a box I received in the mail (a federal offense). And you can’t put any confidence in what they tell you…
Upon my move out I was told that only a small portion of the carpet would be replaced. This was actually a piece of carpet that got shredded a few inches by my front door due to the carpet nail board being about 5 inches away from the edge so nothing was holding the carpet down. However, once I was gone they would not return my calls and I eventually got a bill stating that the entire carpet needed to be replaced, contrary to what I was told. I was also charged for «dirty walls» on my move out bill. I am a very clean person and was even told after moving out of my previous apartment that they have never seen one so clean on move out. I’m not sure how I could have gotten the walls cleaner, considering they use flat paint that just comes off if you try and rub it at all. This paint was a huge problem in more ways then one, as it also peels off and get in and on everything. Kinda scary when you take dishes out of the dishwasher (that didn’t clean hardly at all) and they have paint chips on them.
The «lake» was nice looking when I moved in, but got extremely dirty during my year and a half there. It also was in very bad shape with the bottom canvas piece floating up to the top and showing on the sides all the time. Not very attractive and somewhat stinky as the ducks pretty much took it over.
On top of all that, there seems to be a problem with theft as multiple cars, including one of ours, got broken into in the parking lot.
Unless you like giving your money away, I wouldn’t live here, ever.