Antelope Ridge

Antelope Ridge has been a great place to live. I've been living here for 4 months or so in a Dakota Acres 3 bed 2.5 bath. They are currently redoing roofs, porches, doors, and a few other amenities. Overall, the apartments are very good, I just wouldn't personally like to live in Box Elder because of remoteness, weather, etc.

Here are the pros and cons:
Pros: maintenance is prompt and good at what they do, if you don't mind some gruff people on the phone, management is very helpful, the social… activities are fun, spacious apartments, pet rent is low, community recycling is available, lots of green space, garages are a decent size, plenty of parking, very family friendly, I've never seen a solicitor, and breaking your contract is only $200 a person (but rent goes up if there's anyone staying). Plenty of things to do in town (restaurants, bars, touristy things, shops, etc.)
Cons: Not a whole lot of community amenities, cops like to hang out near the subdivision, and it's about 20 minutes from anything particularly interesting. The commute to base is also 10 minutes even though it is literally right next to base (like I can see my office close). If you don't like moths, moth season is ATROCIOUS outside of Rapid City. I don't ever open the doors while the lights are on inside at night. The yards are very small, and there's some pretty bad hardwater. I've never been here for a winter, but the summer storms can be pretty brutal, with high winds and driving rains and lightning. Read More

We moved in last month, and the town home is great!!! Staff is very nice and easy to work with. Rent can be paid online, and set up for auto pay, which is extremely convenient! Rent may seem high, if you are searching for a new place, HOWEVER, consider all that is included!! For the rent you pay, you get 24 hr maintenance service, they even replace burned out lights bulbs!!! You don't have to mow, or shovel snow!! They maintain the roads beautifully summer and winter!! ALL your utilities… are paid!! The only thing you pay is internet, phone, and cable. Appliances, except washer and dryer are furnished!! They even have a program to rent those to you if needed!! SERIOUSLY, Antelope Ridge is truly the most and best bang for your buck!!! We love it here!!!!!!! Read More

Places look nice from the outside, but it is in sharp contrast to the insides of many of these properties. They are over 30 years old and not well maintained. Apparently they where build for climate guidlines for Texas as that is where the company is based.As a result, they have sustained a lot of mold and water damage due to leakage and improper piping for the South Dakota climate, which in turn created a black mold problem. There was black mold growing under my kitchen sink and a portion of… the laundry room ceiling chipped and fell down exposing black mold underneath.I began getting very ill whenever the blowers for the heat or air conditioning turned on, so most likely, the vents are also full of mold.The deck was severely chewed by the previous tenants dogs and was not repaired .The carpets where dirty and it was obvious the house had not been cleaned and made move in ready. Many of the properties are in disrepair and maintenance is hard to get ahold of.Upon speaking to others about this development, I found that there are pockets of decent houses within the complex, but I was not lucky enough to be in one of them.There is even an entire portion of the development that is so bad, it is unrentable and has been left abandoned. Rules are not strictly enforced and I experienced rude and argumentative attitudes from some of the office staff. Some of the managers are very nice and try to be helpful, but it seems they are overworked and running an uphill battle.It seems that the company is trying to get as much money out of this development as it can while doing as little as possible.From what I understand, the land the development sits on still belongs to the Airforce base, but is leased to the Hunt company for a certain number of years. Once that time is up, should the base decide to not renew the contract,the development with go back to being base housing and all non military tenants will have to move. This is something that was not disclosed, at least to me.Had I known of the mold problem and disrepair of these houses, I would have never moved there. Read More

The noise rules here don't seem to be enforced. People drive up and down the roads at high speeds, spin out, rev up the cars/trucks and it usually takes place at night. I have a 3 year old that's in bed by 7:30-8pm. With that kind of noise right outside his bedroom window...it's not surprising he's up a few hours..

We were supposed to have a cubby installed for the shower water control. We have over (from what the maintenance person said) over 7 YEARS worth of mold in our bathroom walls! My bf… (who is military) has only been here for 5 years and I've been here 3 with him; so the previous 2 years..there was no care done. Our kitchen floor creaks A LOT, and they overcharge to have the back lawn mowed. It's a VERY small yard and we get charged (last time anyway) $150 for that LITERAL (I timed it) 6 minute job which is mostly weed eating. My bf has severe allergy issues and I have a massive fear of mowers. Luckily we did get a number for someone who would do it for $25. I love the gas stove, especially since winters here get so bad, in case power goes out we have the stove still. I really don't have much to say on the positive side about this place.

There needs to be speed bumps around here, I noticed a sign for them...but none in sight. There are a lot of kids around here and that seems to be very dangerous, especially since they're tighter roads with people parked on the sides and whatnot, even on the WRONG sides.

I'm glad utilities are included because it does save some money. Read More