West Oak Apartment Homes

Worst place I've ever lived in by far. I cannot wait to get out of this place and I have felt this way since day one. Do not move here if you value both your privacy and your peace in a living space. The floors and walls are paper-thin, and having lived here 9 months now, I am able to hear about 85% of my upstairs neighbors' conversations and movements. Each and every footstep reverberates throughout my entire living space like thunder, and I have recorded sounds from footsteps above 80 decibels too many times to count throughout my stay here. The noise is BY FAR the worst I have ever experienced, and I used to live right next to a fraternity's party house in grad school. Every day in this apartment reminds me that moving here was one of the worst decisions I have ever made, and I have had ample time to think about that while lying awake at night listening to the thunderous cracks and pops of footsteps until 4am. These units are listed as "newly renovated," but don't be fooled by the pictures. All of the work done to renovate these units is done in a week or two and is slapped on with little attention to detail. The baseboards in my "newly renovated" unit are loose and pop off when bumped (revealing rot and dirt), they didn't bother to paint behind the toilets, both shower floors have chipping paint that flakes off and sticks to the bottoms of my feet, the floors are uneven and creaky, there is a fist-sized hole in the wall in the laundry area that was here when I moved in, and the door to my bedroom has a poorly patched hole and sticks to the frame such that I have to jerk it open every morning. The washing machine also doesn't have a cold wash cycle and only runs scalding-hot. These units are somewhere in the ballpark of 800 square feet, but there is hardly any storage within them. Your storage consists of two small bedroom closets and one outdoor closet. This might just be the standard that I'm not used to having come from apartments with great storage, but it's definitely an inconvenience that comes with a cheaply built place. Is you're willing to overlook the above issues, then have at this place. The one great part of living here is that it's within walking distance of Joyner Park, which is a fantastic recreational facility. Other than that, there's not much good to be said about living here, and I've been here nine months. Save yourself the headache of living here and go somewhere that offers a better quality of life.