Sierra Village Apartments

Lived there for 7 months, here is a brief review:

Cons:
1- You have to pay a high security deposits if you haven't lived in the US or have a bad credit history, mine was $1,725

2- The contract cancellation fee is very high, double the rent amount you pay, ask about this before you move in, I paid $2,300 because I have to move to the other city to get closer to my work. I don't blame them for this, but you may have good options somewhere else.

3- You will lose all or a big number of the… Security deposits, depending how much the manager or the staff dislike you. They charged me around $350 for cleaning, I left the house as clean as I moved in and I have videos to oroof, there were some normal tears and wears which I understand. But charging that much is high. At the beginning, I was told that I am going to lose all, but went there several times with my contract arguing about it, it was a hassle, even decided to fill compliance and go to the court.

4- Maintenance was very slow, I had to follow up several times after submitting online requests by making phone calls and visiting the office to get things as simple as mouse traps, on one occasion they closed the request without delivering the service. The house had pest and mouse problems. Oh, yes I have evidence to back it up.

5- The home appliances were old, the oven ventilation didn't work. The electric systems was not working for some outlets, didn't bother to request for maintenance.

6- It's a noisy place, there were always something going on to disturb your peace, doesn't matter if it was night or day.

7- The rent is high comparing to the other complexs for the same services.

8- No inside complex park or BBQ area, not even a designated place for kids to play. This might be too much to ask, but I have seen areas that have these.

9- The complex is located at the very end of the street, the main road was either a dumping place or camping location for homeless people

10- On occasions, there were gunshots and police sirens next to the complex

Pros:
1- Plenty guest parking available
2- Really can't think of any other pros except that this was my first residential area after I moved to the USA, I will have that memory with me.

Final findings:
There are other good locations to choose from, I would not live there again. Read More

This complex is for people who work hard blue collar jobs and need an affordable safe place to come home to without having to be subjected to gun violence and heavy drug activity. Realistically, It's in North Highlands! the demographic is of all shades, shapes, and more over, income brackets. The grounds are kept scaled by professionals and the modern upgrades are on-going and there is on-call on site security. The staff is friendly and they don't allow bull crap that will harm the integrity of… the tenants. I've lived here for almost 7 years, and it's my home. Read More

First off there's MOLD, BLACK MOLD, every where and I have yet to report it because maintenance is a bit slow and just let themselves in when ever they feel they should actually do their jobs for once (even if you haven't given permission to enter by the way..not cool!) and also, for my neighbors all they did was paint over it and say it wasn't mold...okay?

And now, management has decided they'll be fining you for keeping things on your balcony or for speeding in the parking lot and for playing… your music too loudly. (I'm not worried about being fined I wouldn't pay anyways, but come on?)
They also let us know if our cars are an eye sore they'll be towed, (so even if it runs and you drive it daily if it doesn't look good then it's outta here).
The pipes are rusty and it shows in the shower it's stained red and there's nothing I can do to keep it good.
There's stray cats every where, and the pools tennis court etc (which we pay for..) are always ALWAYS closed, the tennis court is used for storage for old appliances for example!
There's no storage at all in the apartment it's self and for my lay out I can only open the fridge standing in the corner, the other lay out from what I've seen you have to open a drawer to open the dishwasher.

There ISNT ceiling fans, and the upstairs floors have hard wood flooring so no matter what it's loud.
The safety railing on the stairs isn't even bolted in properly and the balconies are all molded to the point where I don't feel safe standing on them (oh but don't worry they're slowly fixing them if you look around you'll see brown posts-new and old posts-white.)

We received a letter saying there would be maintenance on our central air and heat systems (in December.) and that never happened.
The door on our system is so old it doesn't even stay in on its own.

They DO NOT clean the apartments before they move people in and if they do they don't know how to clean obviously because there was still food in my cupboards!
Our door knob fell off so we had to purchase our own because maintenance never came to fix/replace it.

Just a few of the things I figured I should mention...
There's more but I can't bare to waste anymore time on this JOKE of an apartment complex. Read More

I see people saying that management is great but that's far from true. Nancy is rather lazy and I hate dealing with her in any way I avoid it at all costs. She's extremely rude and immature.
They've switched how we pay rent to online payments but then the site they use charges US the tenants an extra $27 a month.
They should either drop that out of our rent or cover it for us.
My rent is suppose to be $825 but with all the fees (and water.) it's usually about $940.
The neighborhood isn't the… best at all and the gate is broken so often there's no point in having it. A lot and I mean a lot of homeless people are hanging out around the apartments all the time.
Some of the apartments don't have all the amenities they like to claim they have. Read More