Form 15

It’s so crazy that I see all the negative talk about this place when the reality is we love living here and not once have we ever had any bad experiences with the staff. We absolutely adore everyone who works here and not once have we ever been ignored or not have our issues addressed.
As another tenant just recently posted, the hot water has been out since Sunday. Yes, it is an inconvenience… yes, we all pay a lot of money to live here, but what the individual failed to mention is that 3 of the employees live on property and they have been inconvenienced just like the rest of us. The hot water issue is completely out of their control and instead of telling everyone «oops, sorry, figure it out yourselves» they did attempt to give some sort of a solution. No, going to a gym is not ideal and my husband and I did not use that option, but they did what they could to make the best of a crappy situation.
People need to remember, this is in fact an apartment, so you are going to have to deal with noisy neighbors, etc. but every single person who works here has been amazing. Unfortunately, you just get people who have nothing good to say about anything. I hope anyone who considers living here, take everyones reviews with a grain of salt… good and bad… and judge for yourself. We instantly fell in love with everything this building had to offer when we toured the property back in June.

I lived here only for a year. The place has awesome amenities such as saltwater pool, fire place, roof top and 2 story gym. Cons: the management team is not very helpful. I had to follow up on most of the things with them instead of them with me.

The hot water went out in this complex and they actually offered a day pass at Fit gym for a shower, unbelievable could have at least offered one night at a hotel or a hotel at a discounted rate. The water has been off since Sunday and parts will not be in until Wednesday afternoon.

We researched a ton of apartments prior to relocating to San Diego. We eventually decided on Form 15 after several conversation with the leasing staff (leasing rep we worked with left prior to our arrival). Our red flags were up as of Day 1 based on the lady, I won’t name drop, and her lack of customer service. She was great on the phone, though! After the lease was signed communication became a lot worse.
We had a Budget truck full of furniture and after traveling from out of state the agreement was to sign the lease and then stop over at the apartment upon arrival and do a walk through and make sure it was a suitable unit for our furniture, etc. We finally find Form 15 and go in to introduce ourselves and tour the units as discussed. Upon entering the office, the gal was at her desk and the former assistant manager was in his office. No prospective leasers were present. So, we say hello and then ask to see our unit. To our utter shock, we were told they only work on appointments! What?! We already signed a lease and are here with our Budget truck to check our place out! We are then told we would have to schedule a time to come back. Seriously. Nobdy was there. I then ask if she was serious and that we needed like a 2 minute walk through and that’s it. She said no. So, wanting to bail on this place at this point but not knowing what we’d do, we schedule and appointment for a couple hours later, park the truck, and headed to the beach for lunch. We are then on the I-​5 on the way to our appointment a couple hours later and she calls and asks if we could reschedule until later because some potential renters showed up. What? I thought you only worked on appointments? So the walk-​ins can tour a place but us that drove from another state and already signed the lease and got shut down and then set an appointment are now being asked again to reschedule? Unacceptable. We said no and headed over. Of course when we got there there were no tours. I was confused. Literally the worst customer service I had seen. Very pathetic to be honest.
So, long story short we tour, it looks nice, and we come the next day to move in. After a car being parked in the loading dock and having to wait to move, we got everything moved in and were happy… for about a day. I have never, let me repeat, NEVER lived in a building where you can hear every footstep, toilet flush, dog yipping, etc as transparent as it was here. Yes, I’ve lived in several apartments, yes I understand it’s an apartment, yes I’ve heard the «apartment living» line before. This was beyond that. This was a guy upstairs and his dog who walked like he had concrete on his shoes and you could hear the little doggy scratching and barking. We started sending emails regarding the noise and basically were always told they’d talk to them. Eventually it got to the point where we couldn’t sleep at night, even with a fan, and I emailed again. Basically in a nutshell we were told there was really nothing they could do. To make it worse, we were above a garage door that we weren’t told about so the floor squeaked and rattled a bit when it was opening and shutting. It was a terrible experience.
We asked if we could still honor our lease and move to a top floor, since they apparently don’t do anything if you’re loud, but we were told that they would not allow us to move units but they would allow us to break our lease for free since we weren’t happy. So, we broke our lease and moved out. Very disheartening. I think if you had, and maybe they do now as it’s been a couple months, a better leasing staff focused on customer service it would be a better experience. Granted, you will have the noise which tells me it’s built very cheaply but the staff could have made the experience better.
I do have to give a shout out to the manager, Kevin M. as he was great to work with and has been very nice following up with us and getting us our deposit back. I wish we could’ve dealt with him the whole time.
The other very bothersome thing that we noticed, the «dog park» area is tiny and it’s right next to the fireplace and chairs. You literally cannot sit there without smelling dog poop. It’s so strong. It’s nice that there is a place for dogs but building it right next to the common area where the chairs and fireplace are was not a good idea. I tried sitting there several times but the stench was overpowering. People also use balconies for storage. It’s tacky.
The location is prime for East Village and very close to a grocery store. The gym is small but nice, the bike storage room is so crowded it’s hard to even find a spot and even harder if you find a spot to get your bike out when you need it. The community room is pretty cool and has coffee for you and a nice sitting area and TV. If I was Form 15 I’d really stress the importance of customer service more and be a bit more honest when selling your property in regards to the noise.

Think twice about signing a lease here. The management are incredibly rude and unprofessional. My car was towed out of my own reserved parking space and when I went to discuss the issue I was thrown out of the leasing office. We have also had a number of issues with flooding and burst pipes.

I am so lucky that I realized how horrible this place is early on, so that I never had to actually live there. Based on the customer service experience I endured, I wish I could give this place 0 stars.
My husband and I recently moved to San Diego and scheduled a viewing at Form15 while we were searching for apartments. We arrived for our appointment a few minutes ahead of time, but we had to wait an additional 25 minutes before we could take a tour. The management team was extremely rude and unwelcoming to us, and acted as if we were an inconvenience to them.
When we finally were able to go on the tour, I was appalled. The apartment itself was dirty and smelled terrible. The hallways smelled like a dog park. Clearly dogs are allowed to use the bathroom anywhere they want in this building. The elevators were extremely slow, and the amenities (fitness area and pool) are very lacking. There are much nicer buildings in downtown San Diego that are less expensive, have better amenities, and are in better areas.
The worst part of the entire experience was absolutely the management team, Holland Residential. Each person we dealt with at Form15 was rude and unprofessional. Whenever I asked a question, the woman showing us the apartment acted annoyed and defensive. I have never experienced such bad customer service in my life. For the amount of money this place wants per month, I would expect them to at least treat people politely and respectfully.
Avoid this apartment building at all costs!

I’m happy this was our first place to call home after moving to San Diego. I’ve been here for a year and will unfortunately be leaving in a few days because the amount of space just wasn’t competitive enough for the rent increase to renew.
However, they have the best leasing staff I’ve ever worked with. They are friendly and know how to run a smooth operation. The building itself is always clean and the amenities are hard to beat. Parking is included and everything about this place is convenient. It’s next door to albertsons, close but not too close to gaslamp, and you can walk anywhere downtown.
There is always security but at night it can get sketchy outside of the building. It’s the area and it’s still up and coming. One block away on Island is a completely different vibe and full of homeless so they linger around all the time. That’s the only bad thing I could say about living here.
We moved in when it was rare to see someone else in the building and it is at full capacity now. The apts always do tons of events for residents if you’re interested in socializing.

This place gets more and more ridiculous. This building is supposed to be brand new. We were the first ones living in our unit and recently, the morning we were supposed to leave on a plane for our vacation… I woke up to the sound of what I thought was rain, but it ended up being a leak dripping from the ceiling. My boyfriend also woke up after he heard me scream from the bathroom after finding this leak which started to come down from multiple places in the ceiling. We heard it from our closet, opened the doors, and it was coming down hard onto all of our clothes and belongings. Then another area over our bed. We rushed to get buckets to place underneath only two leaks and then it started to FLOOD. It was up high to 2 inches of water in our small studio. Thank goodness we happen to live next to one of the management staff and she called maintenance and they came but the look of pure terror was on everyone’s face. It came down for almost 2 hours before it stopped. We all thought maybe the upstairs neighbor left the water running but when the older maintenance guy came in to check on us he admitted that this was his «perfect building and he should have fixed that pipe.» So broken pipe huh?! The manager of this place was the last person who came into our apartment. While my boyfriend and I sat on our couch, avoiding the river that was flooding from our bedroom into the living room… He never acknowledged us or said anything to us but he sure did say a nice F word while looking at the ordeal. Mind you, this happened the morning we were supposed to leave for vacation. The maintenance people came to suck out the water and this was done at least a couple hours later. Our furniture was damaged, our personal belongings in the closet, and our mattress… This water was BROWN and disgusting. All over our things… We had to toss a lot of personal belongings because of the water damage. Thank goodness for renters insurance. But while on vacation we had to deal with this everyday and make a million phone calls to see what the heck was going to happen. It was a hunt to get any information from our property management company. I even asked for them to provide documentation that the pipe was fixed and that there was no MOLD growing. The manager seemed dumbfounded I was even prepared to ask such a question and still to this day has NOT shown any type of documentation that it’s safe to live in our place. The property management also said they were going to clean the place up for when we got back… But we opened our door and the place was mildewy and smelled musty. This place is supposed to be brand new and it is not cheap to live here. They couldn’t even be decent people to move us in another apartment until ours was actually cleared to live in. That would have been the right thing to do… But this place continues to amaze us and they’re lack of giving a crap for their residents. We just put a wreath up to hang on the outside of our door for fall and they asked us to take it down. Really? What’s next? We can’t wait to get out of here and stop paying for a damaged and musty apartment.

Wonderful complex. My friend just moved in here and he invited me to a residents cocktail party. Boy the residents are so lucky. They’ve got great customer service here. The staff were so friendly and their security guard was helpful in pointing me towards the right direction. They have this rooftop grill/​patio area that absolutely perfect for events. So modern, so clean, so nice.

I have only been here for a couple of weeks but I can already tell that this place deserves a five star review.
Right off the bat, I want to give a shout out to Kevin and Peter from the leasing office who are shining examples of what it is to manage a building. They are always so friendly and responsive and levelheaded.
Besides the staff, the amenities are wonderful. It is resort style smoke-​free living like a nice hotel. The pool is wonderful as are the workout facilities. Everything is crisp and clean. The units themselves are really gorgeous and very high-​end and modern feeling.
The neighborhood is up-​and-​coming and the facility/​complex is extremely secure. I feel safe at all times especially with the security guard, who is very friendly, patrolling the area nightly.
I look forward to calling this place home for a long time!

I recently sold my house and am in limbo between purchasing my first downtown condo so I was needing to rent for a year while I wait for my dream home. I went to every apartment complex in downtown today and my first stop was ultimately where I returned to signup; at Form 15. The kind, friendly and informative customer service I received from Araceli and Brooke is what swayed me to Form 15.
My logical thinking associates friendly/​happy workers with a friendly/​happy environment to live. I reconfirmed that by asking a few residents what they thought of living here and they all were raving fans and echoed that positive, upbeat vibe I was searching for. Some other complexes around town are drab and pretentious, and I’m not looking for that, at all. Form 15 seems like a ‘down to earth’ community with hard working late 20s/​30s/​40s young professionals who either are entrepreneurs like me and/​or work a pretty cool job and enjoy living in a happening environment with the work hard play hard mentality.
I did not sense the college dorm room lifestyle here at all and everything about the complex seems classy but still fun! In short, I believe people who live here take pride in their community and it seems like a great social vibe to meet new friends and be around creative people with goals in life.
Form 15 is stunning. The gym is top-​notch and I already canceled my gym membership! The pool, while small, is pretty cool and has a jacuzzi as well as ample seating around the pool deck for tanning and chilling. The parking is great because the spots are large and the garage is not dark like some of the other complexes I toured today. It’s well lit, with plenty of spots and even a few guest spots.
The rooftop is simply ‘sick’ haha. Such a cool view and a neat bar top with lounge chairs, table tops, bar stools, flat screen TVs, BBQ grills and a complete urban/​chic chill spot for evening wine nights with a date, or pre game drinks with good friends, or summer time cookouts, all while taking in the killer Downtown SD view.
Whoever designed this building and all the decorations, layout, etc is a true artist. Everything flows and you get the happy/​excited feeling walking through the hallways and into the various rooms /​common areas that abound Form 15. I truly feel this will be an exciting next few months while I search for a house to buy… and who knows, maybe I’ll enjoy it so much, and stay longer. Thanks for the awesome service y’all!
***After having lived here for a month, I’m still stoked about the complex and everything is great, however here are 3 big gripes for me: It’s always hot as heck in the hallways, especially the top floor, and the garage and storage areas are very warm. Also, the complex does not allow UPS, FedEx, USPS up past the lobby, hence it’s a major inconvenience if you shop online a lot or get business package deliveries. It requires you to go down to get it in the office during their operating hours. If Form 15 can add A/​C or figure a way to cool the hallways down, this would be a 5.5 star complex. Also, All of the staff are awesome — Peter and Kevin too. So all of them, including the maintenance team are great people.

Went to form15 apartments the end of May with my husband and today with my son so what does that tell you? Hee hee. yes we really like the place, so far from all the other newer places we’ve seen this is more us. Both times we had Brooke who was amazing very attentive and patient! She has a wonderful personality! Hopefully this will be our home soon.

I moved in a week ago and am very impressed. I have a studio and it’s laid out very well and larger than comparable ones close. I also saw the larger and smaller units and all are very nice. Everything is brand new, which was the main selling point for me. Beautiful floors with elegant floors. Not to mention a salt water pool and jacuzzi, and a 2 story gym. Araceli, Kevin, and the whole staff are very nice too. All around a terrific place to live

This is a pros and cons review. And if tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) then just read this: after all pros and cons I’m giving it 5 stars. Better yet, I liked this apartment building so much that I signed up to Unilocal just to give it a review. I’m currently living in a studio of around 600 square foot, it is not big but for the price I pay it was the biggest I could find and the best of them all.
Cons:
1. The first and most annoying one is the noise through the floors: I can hear the one above stepping, BUT I honestly think that the noise is not loud AT ALL even when they seem to be stepping hard and I have never had to complain about the noise. That said, the neighbor bellow me, complains about me a lot, my wife and I have to step on our tips all the time, we have learnt to do that without thinking, but you might want to consider get an apartment on the first floor if you have kids or an apartment on the 6^th floor if you have a very light sleep so no one wakes you up.
2. You cannot use the common areas after 11pm, BUT on the other hand this can also be a pro if you don’t want to be disturbed by others at night.
3. Elevators. There are three elevators in total, distributed in two areas: main entrance area with two elevators and back area with one elevator, which in theory is fine. BUT, in the main area, only one has roof access and most of the times that I want to go to the roof; I struggle because the wrong elevator comes first. Then, the back area is 50% of the time reserved for people that is moving in, so you have to go around to the main area when this happens. I would suggest getting an apartment next to the main entrance if this is going to bother you a lot.
4. Dog fee: 500dlls deposit and $ 50 each month for common areas (I think this is PER DOG)
Pros:
1. Constant common parties organized and sponsored by the building. There is not much to say about this but that the building is trying to create a social culture among their residents to obviously attract more residents. These parties usually start at around 6:30 and last for ²⁄₃ hours. There are different types of alcoholic beverages and food, although you can bring your own drinks to share.
2. Very friendly neighbors. As the building is new, the community is new so I haven’t heard people complaining about new residents, only greeting them.
3. Common areas are amazing. We have a salt-​water pool, salt-​water Jacuzzi, a dog shower and hosed water plate for the dogs, a dog area to go do their stuff and run around freely, and a walk area to walk them (very dog friendly installations). We have 2 areas with grills (one in the roof and one next to the pool. We also have 2 tv areas. One with a big tv and one with a freaking big tv and many other amenities in those areas. You don’t need to reserve any of the areas, first come first served, but you can also reserve them, a comment to this: even when people reserves these areas, they are very friendly and some times welcome you to even join them.
4. Location. The location of the building is right where you want it. There is an Albertsons in the same block (for when you are just in a hurry or too lazy to go to a Walmart or something) and a Grocery Outlet a couple of blocks away if you like to walk to do your groceries. Also, there are multiple dogs’ day-​care and even a 7-​Eleven half a block away. The building is in East Village (just at the entrance of downtown) so you won’t have any problems finding your way to the building by car when streets are closed due to events and at the same time you are at a walking distance from those events, perfect for people that like to party but not be in the middle of the party all the time. Horton plaza: 15 minutes walking distance; Seaport village: 30 minutes. My wife and I got bikes and we do 10 minutes to Seaport Village :). You can always rent those new bikes that they are putting all over downtown.
5. Bikes. The building has bike storage.
6. Storage. You can also rent extra storage, this is new and I don’t know much about it. But it is there if you need it.
7. Very, very, very friendly personnel: The Security Guards, the Maintenance Manager, the Administration, they want you to be so comfortable that you will never have an issue with service.
8. Gym. There is of course a gym, it is not big but not small either and it is never full (I go to the gym at 5:30/6am though.). The only thing that I wish is for it to have some extra machines for squats and bench press. But other than that it is well equipped. NOTE: please do not drop the dumbbells to the floor; try to keep it new as we all share it.
9. Price. The price that I’m paying for a studio is around 1,600 with services and building maintenance. But keep in mind that this is downtown; prices I’ve seen are anywhere from 2k to 8k so this is very affordable in comparison and all the amenities are way more from what other buildings offer.
10. Can’t hear anything through the walls between apartments so you have good privacy.

What an awesome event!
I was invited to an event in this amazing establishment called «Form 15» near the Gaslamp district and i was blown away! The set up was on point, The food was delicious and how can you go wrong with FREE beer and wine :) They planned this event to its maximum potential with live art, home tours, photo booths and many more exciting additions that made this place stand out above any other community in town. I appreciate customer service of this caliber and look forward to potentially moving in next spring.

I have been a resident at Form 15 for about 2 months and I absolutely love living at Form 15. The building is fantastic and the people just make it that much better. The staff is an amazing team of young professionals who will totally take care of you and help you in any way they can. The atmosphere in the building is great and friendly. The amenities in the community are fantastic and I use all of them! My apartment is great and offers great value. I feel very safe in the building, there’s night security and being a young female living alone, I can say I feel very safe. I feel perfectly safe coming home at night and I would highly recommend this community to anyone. I don’t have pets, but it’s a pet friendly community, yet the pets don’t bother me and the building is very clean. Residents pick up after their animals and the building remains clean. Parking is great-there’s even guest parking! Pretty cool for downtown. The gym is good enough where you won’t need a gym membership, and this building is super hip and technologically advanced. I’ve had a lot of friends come visit and everyone is pretty impressed!

To start off, Form 15 is a brand new apartment building with tons of amenities for just about any person. These are considered luxury apartments and I would agree. I came in about 3 weeks ago after I helped a friend move in here. I went to the leasing office and got to meet a couple really friendly people. I toured the community and really liked it.
The location is in the fast growing East Village, where it’s really easy to just walk to everything.
I ended up renting a 1 bedroom apartment with the larger kitchen and I just love it! Everything inside the apartment is nice and I am the first one to live here which Is a nice perk. The amenities include a two story gym with weights and cardio machines and room to do yoga if that’s what you prefer. There is a salt water pool and a jacuzzi as well. There is a nice fire pit along side the pool. On top of the building is a roof top deck with a fire pit and pretty much a full sized kitchen with a bbq. There is secured parking with 2 levels below the building. The building is still relatively empty so you should get your choice at this point on what apartment and where. There are over 40 floor plans! I love it so far :)