We moved here so excited because the schools in Cedar Park are so great. The location is decent in terms of shopping/local parks (Brushy Creek is lovely). That's where it ends though. The place is maintained for the most part and has landscaping (as all places do basically) but I wish we paid closer attention. A week after moving here we heard drunk neighbors revving their engines, coming home all hours, slamming doors- stomping around upstairs, loud yelling. And these aren't teens they're grown ups acting like this. It's a crapshoot with apartment living usually. We've lived many places but this is the hardest in terms of hostile neighbors/weird vibe. Usually seeing a cop car patrolling the complex makes me feel safe unless it is numerous cars, daily. At least once a week something major happens here. For some weird reason the hot spots of crime are near the playground area/those buildings. Super scary. 'Gangster' teens and random men walk around and there's plenty of drug dealing happening. I've witnessed it multiple times in the daytime and a man was selling to teens. They don't even try and hide what they're doing. We tipped off the cops and they can't legally do much unless it is happening in real time I guess. So it's hard to rid the place of that element for that reason. The gym has cameras in it but they're not working/aren't hooked up to a real surveillance tape. They're 'prop' cameras. The complex raised the rent but is clearly not reinvesting in any of the propery which is a shame. The cameras in the gym need to work as drug deals happen there regularly. I have seen the same guys meeting out front and in the bathrooms like clockwork as a 'neutral' zone to sell drugs. It's scary too as the windows in the gym have no blinds. If you're there working out at night it's like advertising you are there alone. I can't tell you how many times I've been in there and had creepy guys walk past and leer inside at me, very intimidating. Three days ago we saw 6 cop cars swoop into the parking lot, sirens blaring (our kid was terrified, crying when she saw this) and the cops questioned a man who was trying to beat down a door to take the girl who was inside. We saw it unfold as we walked past to get to our car. We heard and saw it all. I only know hearsay since the office will never tell you why the cops were here. Several neighbors I know who live even closer to where it happened and said the man was trying to take the girl away from the apartment. I do not know if it was an ex of the child's mother or what. Point is, plenty of domestic alteractions happen here. It puts me on edge to see the cops here so much and this is a place where such negativity is I implore anyone who considers moving here to think twice. From just observing and talking to people I know of 7, count 'em 7 so called 'parents' who have had their kids taken away by Child Protective Services for neglect, etc. That's insane. The parents in at least 3 of the cases have been drug users (I know this as I have seen/heard the parents high on their own porches...nice). Sad for the kids and this is NOT the kind of people you want around your own kids. Like I said, the nice hardworkign people lay low- because they are smart and protecting their own kids from being around these nutters.
Even something simple as having friends over becomes weird. Know what is awkward? Having friends over and passing guys sitting on their porches (on LaZBoy chairs they dragged out from inside) who swilling cans of beer - daytime with no shirt on and tattoos all over. The guys stare angrily at you and your guests for no apparent reason. Spooky and surreal. If you are clinically obese, on welfare and covered in tattoos you will LOVE this place.
It's very expensive to buy out the lease so once you move in and want to leave it will cost you. The office staff is terrible, apathetic and unresponsive. The drug dealers all walk around a lot I guess looking for new 'clients'? They're just everywhere. The pools, gym- even near the park where kids play. Management does not make people clean up clutter and trash from their porches either. Tons of bikes, old mattresses, rugs hanging over railings- I even saw a freaking wooden broken makeshift 'gate' one someones porch. I've seen the regional manager here (some woman with overprocessed bleached hair and doesn't even look like she could manage a Sbarro in the mall) who wanders around and just rides golf carts carrying a random clipboard (another prop?) but can't get this place cleaned up if her life depended on it. Why does she even visit the property? You can see broken , filthy blinds, ripped curtains, etc. The lifers (as I like to call them) who live her hilariously set up shop and deck out their porches with all sorts of soo dads and decor (even planting outside of their gates, bless their hearts!) They also need to make this place look better and start holding tenants accountable or evicting them after warnings.
Which brings me to my final grievance. There are ZERO repercussions if you have a complaint it goes into a black hole. The girls up at the office can only do so much on their own. No one higher up follows up or enforces rules. There's an 800 corporate customer service line. You call it, automated voice tells you leave a name, number, apt. number and why you are calling. No one gets back to you. Ever. There is a new worker in the front office almost weekly not kidding. I have no idea where they find these workers; they have more intelligent people at gas stations. I'm pretty sure someone could commit a homicide and still stay on their lease here. Once the regional manager maybe sorts out her hair. Might I suggest some long layers, less brassy color and perhaps a much needed deep conditioning? Maybe stop wearing Dress Barn suits from 1992? It's a living caricature) she could actually do her job and triage some of this mess over here. That would be splendid.
