Live here if you want to be in a neighborhood where you can cut the tension with a knife and don’t mind the smell of dog feces and urine. There are over 130 dogs in this apartment complex and it smells like it too. Many dogs can’t hold it anymore at the end of the day when their owners come home and it ends up in the hallways/stairwells. Or, as soon as they make it out the doors outside, they release themselves. So the entire perimeter of the apartments smells like dog waste. Even the mulch has turned green from all of the dog waste build up. You can smell it before you even reach the apartments - it is that bad. The neighbors are fed up with all of the dogs going in their yards. More and more neighbors have started to put up signs in their yards about keeping the dogs off or have started to install retaining walls, fences, rock out their yards, etc. Many of the dog owners do not respect these signs, even though it’s visibly damaging their yards/plants, so it makes sense that the neighbors have become very frustrated. I’ve even seen a verbal argument break out when one of the neighbors politely asked someone to please respect their signs and keep their dog off their yard. The dog owner argued they couldn’t control where their dog goes and that basically the dog should be able to go in their yard. Which is just crazy. No one says hi to each other and keeps their heads down whenever you go for a walk in the neighborhood. Like I already said, it is very unwelcoming and you can cut the tension with a knife. Additionally, the parking is absolutely terrible and you end up parking two blocks away to get a parking spot if you don’t pay the $115 a month for a spot in the garage (on top of rent). And that’s if you have an apartment with a bedroom. If you get a studio apartment, you don’t even qualify to rent a parking spot. For the cleanliness/safety of their residents, and the sanity/tension of the neighborhood, they should really limit how many dogs live here. The costs and being a "newer" apartment is not worth dealing with this environment.
