Orchard the-An Edward’s Community

We have only been here a couple months. Lots to love, and lots to not love. Love the layouts and all the windows. Windows are old and horribly inefficient. Hearing and cooling. We haven’t been here for cooling yet. But will tell you that you will be hard pressed to find a happy medium on how to hear the two story apartments. The upstairs runs 10 degrees different. Trying to figure out what vents to close and keep open to try to get the upstairs rooms to heat comfortably is like trying to do a rubix cube… blind, with no hands, inside a box. We have just stopped trying. The layout of the apartment, the grounds, the clubhouse area (the exercise area is mall and leaves much to be desired), all are nice. Second floors creak unlike anything you have ever heard. Remember this wild stairs you use to walk up very slowly as a kid and they creaked so loud they would wake everyone up in the house? That’s the entire upstairs… every single step. Everywhere! Even our dog makes them creak. Neighbors seem to think that picking up their dog crap is for others to do… even if it is right in front of your apartment. Be prepared to be vigilant there. I’ve said something to three people now who were seemingly going to leave their dog crap in front of my patio. Not to mention the common dog areas… walk over there at night and be prepared for that smell to follow you back in as it seems like pet responsibility is for the birds to many of these tenants. If that’s what they do with their pet responsibilities, I can only hope they don’t have kids.

I was a bit confused whether to give 3 or 4 stars… pros are the apartment layouts, really spacious units, well maintained and good looking community with the ponds and ducks, excellent staff at the office especially the manager Megan, great community center… the computer and printer can be accessed even after office hours unlike at other apartment communities I have stayed so far… and yes free popcorn too just outside the media room which is also open after hours. The gym though not big isn’t that bad. Now the cons: very bad leakage through the windows. .which they have plenty of and was one of the feature which attracted me to the apartment as more windows mean more light… but it also translated to heating and cooling issues. If you want hot water for your shower you have to switch off the heater 45 mins prior to your bath. For that you would have to keep an alarm to just do that. …and go off to sleep but wait there’s no heat in the house… how can you sleep in the cold. so you have to choose between a warm home or warm shower & yes horrible maintenance… Loved staying here other than that.

I’ve lived here for a year. I live on the third floor and we have had no noise issues. Yes, I can hear people talking outside occasionally but it has never been a problem. The units are nice and having laundry inside our apartment is great.
Rent is not cheap ($ 1200 for 2BR) but I the value of the place just about justifies the cost. Being 5 minutes from the highway is great and 10 minutes from sawmill means that virtually anything you want/​need is close.
The only downside I have is the small gym and the small fridge my unit came with. Don’t know if appliances are consistent across all units but our fridge is pretty small for 2 people to share.

I have lived here about a month. We really like it so far! Yes there are some things I would change (new exercise equipment, better windows to keep hot and cold air out, and soft carpet (or no carpet at all). But the positives our layout (Macintosh II), the helpful people in the office, and our really nice neighbors make up for the little blunders!
I will update in the heatig and cooling cost thought the year!

Uggggggg — I hope you’re hard-​of-​hearing if you move into this place. All the floors creek, the windows are as thick as paper (thus you get to experience everything happening in the parking lot) the neighbors slam doors that make your apt shake and the geese… well they aren’t cute after they wake you at 6am every day. Prepare to spend big $$ on this «luxery» apt that — if you look close — have NO CLOSETS! Let’s just sum it up this way — we moved into a 3 story, 5 bedroom HOUSE and now have cheaper utility bills then this place…