Foothill Garden Apts

Been living in this apartment complex for 7 months now. It is exactly what I expected: old buildings, decently maintained, occasional loudness from nearby Greek houses, overall not bad. It’s not a luxury apartment and doesn’t claim to be. The price for rent is very reasonable.
There were some ants hanging out in the bathroom; we sent a maintenance request and the ants were taken care of in like 3 days. We had a little scare with some termites. (They are very common in CenCal; keep a lookout for little dark pellets, that’s termite crap) Within 24 hours of our maintenance request submission a McNamara handyman arrived with some spray. That didn’t really work. Two weeks later we still had termite pellets, so we contacted management again and they brought in a professional pest company. That finally got rid of the termites. The buildings here are old and tenants don’t always take good care of the place, but the maintenance system is fast and they do a good job. We had to get several things including our garbage disposal fixed when we first moved in, and all of the problems were fixed within a day or two.
One problem we have is package delivery. The on site manager has office hours from 8 pm to 10 or 11 pm. That means there is no office that collects packages when they arrive. They either get left beside the office door or in front of your apartment door. One of our packages was stolen over Christmas Break when practically no one was here at the complex. We didn’t have problems with our other 10 – 15 packages that were mailed here. SLO has a low crime rate so it isn’t a huge problem, but it is definitely irritating.
There are some people who smoke weed behind our building and Friday nights can be a little loud, but generally the complex is very quiet and not problematic. The windows are new so they drown out sound nicely. There is no air conditioning so we had to learn to pay attention to our blinds in summer; having curtains decreased the temperature several degrees.

While these apts continue to be rented be careful of getting your security deposit back!!!
Does not matter if you leave with a perfectly professionally cleaned place. they will still charge you at the end for: light bulbs, cleaning, carpet cleaning. It is just another way for McNamara Realty to get more money from you!
0 rating… the staff just keep shifting you around with no responses.
Manager of apt. (lives on site) never returns calls or answers phone!!! Leave a note in Monica’s front door.