Phoenician Pines

So, my boyfriend and I have been at the Phoenician Pines a little over a year now. For the price and location, it's good. Not blow your hair back great, but good. We have a two bedroom two bath we're getting for under $800 a month. We're right by the loop 101 and I-17. It's a very average phoenix neighborhood--not the most upscale, but not the slums, older homes with families. I would say this is a great transition apartment if you can afford it. If you're probably in your mid-twenties to mid-thirties and need a "grown up" living space but aren't quite ready for a house, this is a good location. Lately a lot of younger kids (late teens and twenty somethings) have been moving in, but it's not enough of an issue at this point to drive me away.



HOWEVER--please be warned. I keep seeing reviews about the staff and I'm surprised any of the renters have even been able to see the staff. I've tried at all hours of the day, every day of the week and no one is ever in the HOA office. If they are, they apparently refuse to answer the door. They take ridiculously long breaks (they are now closed for a week off for 4th of July...seriously, a whole week) and are regularly closed for "training" days. The posted ours are Monday-Friday 9-4. They are never available and do not respond to calls or emails.



That being said, it's nice that they leave you alone. They aren't always hounding you about things or nit picking your living. On the flip side, they don't enforce rules. A lot of neighbors don't pick up after their pets in the community areas, which isn't punished. A lot of neighbors have patios riddled with weeds or cigarette butts. There is often scattered trash in the parking lot. Again, these things don't affect me enough to leave, if you're living in an apartment you have to realize you're living around others who don't live as you do, so no matter how respectable and clean you might be, others won't be the same. Some of this the apartment can't really enforce unless they kick people out.



The apartment itself is great. Good size, good price. Out unit is perfect space for two. Laundry in unit.The building is older so we've had some garbage disposal and air conditioning issues, but thankfully I'm handy enough to fix them myself. Again, not needing the office staff, which is good because I know I wouldn't get any help. From what I hear from my neighbors, even if you contact the staff for repairs it can take them weeks to get to you.



Haven't had any issues with break-ins or theft. Each apartment has an alarm but we've never bothered using ours. We keep to ourselves but we made a point to meet our neighbors. We're always friendly to those in the community--its always a good idea to build that support, it makes it so we look out for one another. That being said, it feels like a pretty safe area.



Sort of going off of general lists: the noise is average for an apartment. You're by a busy street so you'll hear traffic and an occasional loud vehicle. Most neighbors are quite, at least around us they are. The grounds are kept pretty well, aside from trash every now and then that flies out of the trash on pick up days. People tend to not pick up after pets, but that's not the apartments' fault, per say. Safety is good, the gate breaks on occasion (usually because idiots drive into it) but they get it fixed relatively quickly. All of the apartments to my knowledge have alarms so that's a plus. Maintenance is below average. Don't expect speedy service. Can't comment on the staff as I have never actually met them.



So, out of 10 I would give this place a 6.5, maybe a 7. If you can handle apartment living, this is the same as most places. You'll fight for open parking and deal with idiots, but that's any apartment. Just be prepared to do repairs yourself and not rely on the staff. Honestly though, I would recommend this place to friends that aren't needy renters.

I live here at the Phoenician Pines and have had a completely different experience. I enjoy my apartment and most of the people here. But then again, any where I have lived there have been a few people that seem be unhappy in life and feel the need to make others unhappy too. My apartment is beautiful! I workout every morning and the gym is very clean. My boy friend and I use the pools on the weekends and they can get busy but very refreshing. I have not needed many things done but they always are willing to help me and repairs are done promptly. I would recommend anyone to come here.

Do yourself a favor and dont ever rent from these people. They have been a head ache.for.me and then some for the past year. Theyre staffing is extremely rude and unproffessional in every way shape and form. And good luck if anything breaks our drier didnt work when we first moved in it took them 3 months to fix it to their standards. A.d by their standards I mean they never foxed the problem. It would take 3 hours (no exaggeration) to dry 3 towels!! Huge waste of money. Not to mention you have to give them 60 day notice to move. If you choose to put in your notice however they can find a new tenant in that time and kick you out in 5 days. Also whem you put in your notice you then go into a month to month basis. We paid 985 dollars for 15 days. Which is 50 dollars higher.than our normal rent was for an entire month!!! DONT RENT FROM THIS PLACE ITA NOT WORTH IT!!!!!!Read more: http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/AZ-Phoenix-Phoenician-Pines-1559466.html#ixzz2E83jJxTm