Carmel Park Apartments

I just moved before a week, I started seeing lots of insects from day 1, management doesn’t pickup calls, have to follow up again and again, this is totally unacceptable.

This apartment is only tolerable if you sign a short lease. The walls are very thin. You can hear your neighbors talk and kids screaming all day/night long. If this is your only option, invest in some good headphones. Management is never responsive and never communicates with tenants regarding maintenance issues or construction. Frequent plumbing and hvac issues with hot water and heating. Laundry machines rarely work. Technically good price for the size of the unit, but there are much better... options out there. Lee mas

I've been regretting moving here nearly every day for the last 4 months. I cannot go one day with peace and quiet because of the extra thin ceilings. If your upstairs neighbor has kids, you're out of luck. This place is also low security. They claim to have surveillance but it's virtually inexistent. People have been robbed around us and had their car broken into, then one day at 1:30AM my wife caught someone just about to jump into our patio.

They began construction here like 2 months ago and... said in a letter that there would be access to the laundry room. That did not happen until weeks later...and only for about 2 or 3 weeks. They have now destroyed the path again without notice and I have to go to another laundry mat...again. We've had issues with hot water twice and repair requests that were ignored. If you're running out of time and options....it could be worse, but if you have the time, look around a bit longer. Lee mas

I have been living in these apartments for ~5 years and never felt leaving this place. Seen couple of managers who managed this property but current manager is managing it really well. She is trying to keep society safe and clean like never before. These are old apartments and sometimes need more maintenance, I have requested maint* couple of times and she responded reasonably well. I would request management to keep price control a bit, which has gone high in last 2 years specially.

I left Monterey/Carmel apartments for a few reasons but the main cause - “other tenants”.
Let’s state the obvious: Monterey and Carmel Apartments are very old buildings and with them came many issues. I had plumbing problems. Toilet backed up. Laundry had NO HOT water, yet they still charged full price to do a wash. Pools were not in the best shape and as of late, they began to charge for water, garbage and sewage. Having said that, every time I had an issue in my unit it was ... solved very quickly by the new managers of the building - Sabina and her husband. They were cordial, respectful, and always gave me notices before they came into my place to make repairs or any changes. They were also good to my kids but specially Sabina was very sweet to them. I often ran into her while she was either cleaning the windows of the main entrance, vacuuming the hallways, cleaning the tables by the pool area, or cleaning the laundry room. I must confess though that I often felt sad for the hard work she was putting in, which is one of the reasons why I left.
Within a couple of hours and often times within 15 minutes of Manager cleaning, these areas were very dirty again and this was due to children running wild sometimes with parents around but most of the time without parental supervision. Lee mas