Mira Vista Apartments

I just have to say that I am shocked at all the bad reviews this apartment complex has received! I have been a resident here for 3 years now and have lived in 2 different buildings. First, I want to say that I have never experienced loud parties, suspicious behavior, dirty breezeways, etc. In fact, these have been the quietest apartments I have ever lived in. All of the girls in the office go over board to help out with anything. They have all been very professional & nice. The maintenance staff are awesome as they respond to requests right away. I continually see maintenance power washing the breezeways and trying their best to keep the grounds clean. The location of these apartments is fantastic and the views are beautiful. This has always been a very peaceful place to live and I am proud to call it my home. The apartment community has had several events for residents such as Halloween parties, breakfast at the gate, Christmas party, & pool party! This apartment complex is by far the best value for what you get in this area and they have some of the largest one bedroom apartments I have seen.

I’m a UTSA student and employed full time. They’re honestly good apartments. Do they look dated? No. Are some young neighbors loud in the night at times? It did happen by once I called the police everything went silent and never happened again. What about the valet trash? If you put it out at the right time they will always take it… I don’t get people on here. Btw, never met anyone rude in the office yet so I don’t get where those complaints are coming from. Do yourself a favor and stop by these apartments if you’re interested and see for yourself, you’ll be surprised how deterrent these reviews are. Keep in mind that when people are happy they don’t care to write reviews. It’s the ones that don’t get their way that decide to leave their note of frustration. This is my unbiased opinion.

First and for most I’m going to say if people are saying negative things about this apartment complex and have lived here more than 1yr then don’t acknowledge their review because their still here. I’ve lived here going on a year and absolutely love it here. My husband and I are moving due to school but if not I would’ve stayed here. Front office women amazing they go out of their way to help you. I say screw all the negative comment and try it yourself because some people get all butt hurt when they don’t do what they want and post bad reviews. Remember it’s an apartment complex they go by order in fixing things it’s not your home where you pay someone to do it so your their first priority. Their is more than 1unit and people call for different things. So give this place a shot I promise you’ll love it

This place is awful.
Without a doubt a terrible waste of a location! Do not be seduced by the views and location, because the management at this complex is very rude and extremely incompetent. They are run by a management company called Management Support, and if you do your research, almost every complex that is run by them in san Antonio also has terrible reviews. Everytime you go in to the office for something the women there are always RUDE!
I lived here a few years ago while attending UTSA for my graduate studies. There were always loud late night parties at the pool that the staff never attended to. One time, we had a really bad rain and wind storm and the wind took down one of the carports. Instead of fixing it up, they just decieded to leave it the way it was, then eventually they just removed the whole thing and never built a new one. Can you say LAZY!!!
As other reviews mention, the gates are ALWAYS broken.
Maintenance takes days to repair orders and all they do is drive around in their little golf carts pretending to act busy.
The apartments are old, and very outdated. White appliances? No thanks. Lots of cracks in the walls, leaving it very easy for insects to come in.
Do NOT expect to get any of your deposit back. They will lie and make sure they keep every penny of your deposit.
Quite frankly, I think a section 8 complex is ran better than this dump!
Oh and btw, analog thermometers with very poor insulation will ensure sky high energy bills.
Every time there is a thunder storm and the power goes out the capacitor of the air conditioner unit will fry out needing to be replaced. This happened a few times. And the maintenance dudes take forever to come out and fix it. «
The lights to the basketball and tennis courts are always non functional.
Cars speed around here like crazy including school busses and ups trucks. They need speed bumps here.
NO ONE picks up after their dogs. It’s disgusting.

I’m very happy here! Very quiet and great location with wonderful views. Just renewed my lease for another year. The two car garage is awesome. Very hard to find an apartment with an attached 2 car garage! Office staff have always been very friendly and accommodating.
I would be happy to recommend Mira Vista to anyone.

DO NOT MOVE HERE!
Take this review from someone who has lived here for 3 years.
Don’t get me wrong. From the outside, these apartments look gorgeous. Nice looking buildings, perched high with great views. But basically thats it. What you are paying for is location. you are paying for the La Cantera address. This complex has been riding on the coattails of the success of la cantera. In fact when you drive on la cantera Mira Vistas presence isn’t shown on the signage.
The breezeways are FILTHY. They are filled with lint from the laundry vents. In the three years that I’ve been here, I think only once they have pressure washed the concrete. The stairs are gross looking too. Lots of blackened stains which I understand are hard to remove, but can be reduced with a good pressure wash.
If you are looking for a gated community, keep looking. The gates are ALWAYS broken. And when they do get fixed, it stays that way for maybe one or two days tops before it is broken again. There is only ONE way to get into the complex. The back gate which used to function perfectly to go in and out of the complex has been changed to an exit only. I’m not sure why management decided this was a good idea. A few months ago, a fire truck was responding to an emergency at one of the buildings inside the complex and they attempted to use the back gate, obviously not knowing it wasn’t functioning. It took them such a long time to back up their huge fire truck and drive around to the front gate.
Based on what I’ve seen in my building alone, I am almost certain that Mira Vista does not perform background checks on residents. I had a neighbor on my floor who was a drug dealer. There were many times where the entire breezeway smelled like marijuana. Not to mention the constant flow of random people visiting his apartment for five minutes at a time, every day. They would park their vehicle, go to his apartment looking very suspicious and leave right away. One time on of his clients/​customers knocked on my door confusing his apartment for mine. Very dangerous. Thankfully he’s gone, but I still see him at the complex, as I think he moved to a bigger two bedroom apartment. I guess business is going well for him.
Another neighbor who lived on the second floor, was a prostitute. I know this for a fact because she propositioned me a few times. She’s gone also, but I feel for the new residents who took over that apartment. I just hope that management did their job and cleaned that unit up and down!
Another time, I came home for lunch and I heard a loud pounding on on of the doors. I looked outside and there were three UTSA police department vehicles. I stepped outside to see what I could and the police broke down the door of a first floor resident and arrested him. You would think that management would give us a call to inform us of what was going on as well as to keep us safe, but no. No phone call, no text message, no notice on the door. Nothing. Not a peep.
There are some good things to say about Mira Vista.
The first being that they recently got brand new gym equipment and parking is never an issue. HOWEVER, the door lock to go into the gym has been broken for a while. There have been times when I work out late at night, and begin to wonder how easy it can be for someone with bad intentions to come in and do something. In fact, a few months ago, the clubhouse was broken into and a tv was stolen.
When you move in, they give you a huge clunky gate opener that looks like it came from 1985 (pointless because gates are always broken), a key card to open the gym/​laundry/​business center (pointless because the locks are always broke), and a key to the pool gate. Most complexes offer some kind of remote/​transponder that opens all these things, but I guess Mira Vista hopes that you lose one or all of them, so you can pay up when it comes time to move out.
When I moved out I asked the maintenance staff for pointers to ensure I get my deposit back. They said that since my apartment was older they would be changing lots of things including my microwave from 1998. They said they would be installing new ones. Upon move out they billed me for a broken microwave. These guys are con artists. They installed a brand new microwave and want me to pay for a 17 year old microwave that they were replacing anyway.
My bath tub had to be resurfaced three times. Each time I had to leave for at least two days because of the fumes. Of course management didn’t provide me with any kind of living alternative. I had to pay for a hotel out of pocket. These apartments are old and falling apart.
The ladies at the office lack customer service skills. They all look miserable and could care less about treating residents with respect. And speaking of which, since I’ve lived here, Mira Vista has not had one resident function. They don’t appreciate their residents.
Don’t waste your time here.

This is a waste of a beautiful location and decent buildings. Terrible management and RUDE staff. I have been treated so terribly by EVERYONE on the staff the whole time I’ve lived here. Save your money and find another location with nicer people! I will definitely not be renewing my lease with Mira Vista Apartments. And to think I was so thrilled to be living in such an amazing community. I was beyond wrong.

Just don’t come here. Unless of course you enjoy waking up to roaches, spiders, and poisonous scorpions. Front gate hasn’t worked right since I moved in (my friends car got crushed in it) and the «emergency maintenance» won’t respond to anything after 6 pm they are usually hours late to come look at anything and always making excuses. The management here is the WORST I’ve encountered it’s all smiles and hand shakes till you bring up any kind of complaint. At the point they will just make more excuses and say they have the best lawyers then they will not answer or return your calls and if you catch them they will hang up on you or just leave the office. Counter tops, cabinets and lighting fixtures are all dated and falling apart and it seems like every day someone’s AC breaks including mine. Even heard there’s been people completely with out AC for an entire month during summer. Just condemn this place already and for goodness sake fire the management.