Sage at Cupertino

I lived here for close to 3 years & recently moved to another apartment for more space.
What I like about Living here…
1. Maintenance is awesome & people in the office are very good. Shanon was super good in attending to requests & solving them quickly.
2. Kid friendly apartment. My kid had a great time here.
3. Good layout & gated community
4. Good schools
5. Close to Safeway & Main St…

AVOID
I wish I could have liked this place more. I was lucky to get out with my deposit and rent refunded. The manager, Tish, is very nice. Unfortunately, this complex is too old and expensive for what they offered. I had to leave my unit due to uninhabitable conditions.
1) I experienced mold, cockroaches, spiders, and fleas within one month of moving in. With brand new furniture purchased locally, I can only deduce that these critters have been living here long before me.
2) The 2 BR apartments have only one AC unit to cool down the whole apartment (it never did).
3) Windows and walls are poorly insulated, so you experience extreme temperatures.
4) The exhaust above the stove does not suck the air out of the unit, but rather, blows it right back into the kitchen.
5) Doors are not hermetically sealed, so it’s hard to maintain good room temperature.
I cringe every time I think about this place…

This apt complex tries to be among top league apt complex in Cupertino and hence now is asking high rents (almost at peak of Cupertino rents) too.
But the realty is that the apt is extremely old (don’t go by the newly renovated kitchen for which they are charging extra rent).
Every week you will get one maintenance issue as something or the other will break.
They will fix it but it will again break the next week. We stayed there for 3 years and this was the story for us.
The real picture comes when you are going to leave the apt. They will make sure that they charge you for everything so that they can do renovation of the apt at your cost. All the fitting in bathroom and kitchen are old and they will wear out.
But after you vacate it then they will put extra charges and send you the invoice for it.
If you try to talk to them about the unreasonable charge then there is no say. They tried to scare me that if I don’t pay those additional charges then they will spoil my credit history.
So this is advice for new tenants not to get lured by sweet talk by management and pay extra for this old apt. You will have to shell out extra $ when you leave as they are not bothered about building any relationship with the ex tenants.
I would not recommend this place to anyone unless you are ready to be robbed in terms of high rent and pay extra when you leave the place.

Saw Sage Apartments today the lady there was very professional and very nice …
showed us around and was very patient and sweet.
the apartments looks dull and old from outside but are adequate inside and layout is good enough. Definitely small in size.
the activity center is really nice and the grounds are big enough for kids to play.

Update: I got a call from the property manager, who took the time to explain me the reasoning behind the package tag rules, basically these are instructions from the carrier.
She also assured me that she would brief the staff about handling resident requests gracefully & communication. I was impressed with insight she has about resident concerns and the plans she already has to address those.
And as mentioned already in terms of property maintenance, cleanliness and security i can rate Sage a 5 star, and i am sure the one off rude office interactions i had will be a thing of the past.

THE worst place to live at and here is to why:
— Laud — NON STOP, DAY AND NIGHT, I lived here for 2 years and wasn’t ONCE able to take a nap. Waking up in the morning at a time you wish is out of the question 5 — 6 am is a standard time when this chaos begins and going to bed at your own time is as well out of the question but just to give you idea — 2 – 3 am they MAY quiet down.
— Smell — cooking goes on DAY AND NIGHT, impossibe to open the windows and have fresh air summer time AND THERE IS NO AIR CONDITIONING.
— No parking — there is nowhere to park a truck to move anything in or out, you leave your truck for more than 10 – 15 mins and it’s towed, EVERY APARTMENT HAS A LOADING ZONE, this guy’s went and painted everything in RED like they had no other color and keep towing people left and right with NO REFUNDS even though they promised so and apologized for it.
— Apartments itself — SPIDERS ALL OVER THE PLACE. The buildings are such a poor quality that you will hear your neighbors go to bathroom and sorry to say this but get the aroma as well.
Dishwashers SUCK — you may as well wash your dishes by hand.
— Cars and apartments getting broken in to left and right!
— You have TONS of kids SCREAMING AT ALL TIMES AND I’M NOT EXAGGERATING — AT ALLLLLL TIMES!!! TO THE POINT THAT THEY WILL DRIVE YOU INSANE AND THEIR PARENT DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE OR WHAT THEY DO CAUSE THEY’VE GOT 3 MORE AT HOME…
Maintenance department is the only good I can say about, they respond quickly and repair what needs to be done.

Great manager and staff. Needs camaras thieves stole are car. Bad parking next door apartment uses the spots. Needs to tow cars or something. Staff is great however. Fix parking and theft and five stars

My roommate at the time and I had picked this place cause it was close to work but after a year here, we were more than ready to move out.
Parking sucks at this complex. You get one spot for your unit so if you have a second car and get back any later than 7pm, prepare to drive around aimlessly and then park 5 blocks away on a side street.
Also, if you’re not a family with 2 kids, all the kids running around gets really annoying pretty fast. We had a unit next to the pool which was a mistake since that’s where a lot of the kids congregate but they’re both loud and annoying.
In unit washer and dryer were pretty small; they were the stackable kind. They functioned fine for the 1 year we were there.
We actually had one of their «remodeled» units which meant decent kitchen and bathrooms but for the high price of rent, parking trouble, and kids running around, it wasn’t worth it.
Plus, the whole time I was there Archstone Cupertino would be looming right above us reminding me that I picked the cheap place.

Dont let the model apartment fool you! just moved out in April of 09′,
If you like high rents $$$, poor service when work is needed in your apartment, and NEVER any parking available because other people park in your space… then this is the place for you! Cars are always getting broken into here as well. You have been warned.

$ 1475 for a 1 bdrm at around 650 sq. ft. it is a small apt. i attempted to put out a fire that they had in a dumpster in their parking lot while walking my dog. my dog got sick, mgmt said they would pay, they lied. mgmt never even told any of the residents that there was a FIRE on the property.
we had our bathtub reglazed because they the paint was rubbing off. yes, they used white paint to cover the metal on our bathtub. we had to stay at a hotel which they said they would pay for. they did not reglaze the first time. so we had to stay another weekend. they only paid for one weekend.
we have numerous bugs in our kitchen and i get spider bites when i sleep at night when the weather is warm. we have had them spray once in our kitchen and that did nothing to solve the problem. we have had 3 sprays in our bedroom and i am still getting awful spider bites that have pus. our across the hall neighbor has a pigsty and the bugs are coming from them. mgmt has not done anything about their mess.
my emblem off my car was stolen while i was parked in the apt lot. they said that we would all be moving our parking spots. then on the day that it was supposed to change they changed their minds. our parking spot is not close to our apt. parking is difficult to find. not a good place to live if you have more than one car.
they say the pool is heated, it is not.
we are more than ready to move.