Seaside Laguna Hills

My wife just arrived back from 3 weeks vacation and found surprise that both of our cars was missing and towed from our designated parking areas. All of our rent and monthly dues was paid off.
Big Surprise !!
Beware of this community !!

As the comments before me state, this place was nice and then in the past six months or so has gone to shit.
First when moving in my wife and I were in the middle of filling up the moving truck the night before moving, when we got a call from Ronnie at the office. Keep in mind we are already approved and utilities paid. Ronnie can’t seem to find our application and says he needs it within the hour or we can’t move in… WTF. So we had to unpack our printer and computer so we could print out a copy and FAX not email him it.
Next we show up the next day to sign papers and he had changed the amount we agreed on for the first month. Not to mention he was of course not there that day.
After being all moved in we come to find out we have pill popping neighbors below us that smoke inside and it seeps up thru the vents of the dryer. Luckily one of the neighbors overdoses and dies leaving the lonely abandoned roommate to party none stop till his rent ran out.
Finally the oxygen thief is gone and we «HAD» piece and quite… FYI we moved here because my wife works graveyard as a nurse and Ronnie reassured us that this place was really quite with a no tolerates for noise… Bullshit.
Now we are dealing with a family of 8 living below us in a 2 bedroom apartment.
Oh yeah this seems to be the new norm for Seaside.
Since all these wonderful people are moving we have had our cars broken into, keyed, and no parking. Yeah!!!
Tried breaking lease but will cost about 5,000+

Terrible parking. I come to the complex to help a friend once a week and end up spending 15 minutes to find a parking spot. Often having to walk pretty far at night which isn’t safe especially if you are a women. Because of how horrible the parking is I would never recommend leasing there and if so good luck having anyone come visit without getting a ticket warning to get towed or getting towed.

Mediocre at best! My wife and I moved into these apartments on short notice without the opportunity to do much research first. We decided to lease here because of the friendly staff and the general appearance of the property.
CONS:
–About a month after moving in we had a problem with a neighbor who we shared walls with. The tenant there was involved in some kind of domestic abuse, made ridiculous amounts of noise at all hours, and grew marijuana in his unit. Literally a whole room. Eventually we filled complaints and requested we transfer to a different unit. Property management was kind enough to allow us to do so, but after this kind gesture is when everything went downhill for me. They tried to claim all our deposit from the first unit and said that the unit was in need of paint and new carpet. I remind you that we had been in the unit for no longer than 6 weeks and we are very clean, tidy people. Then they required us to place a new deposit for the unit we transferred into. This was eventually worked out since they violated housing code and we ended up getting our deposit back.
–We had roaches. The unit across from us moved out who had a major infestation. After they left, they exterminator came and sprayed that unit which flushed all of them into our unit. It took about 3 visits from the extermination company before they were gone.
–Pipe broke in unit above us. Flooded our bathroom.
–AC unit died
–PARKING IS HORRIBLE
–We receive notices about our patio being cluttered because we has 2 – 3 water jugs on there at any given time from water delivery service.
–Our work vehicle was towed at out expense because there was no decal on it and no way to retrieve a temporary pass after the leasing office closes at 6PM
–Lots of steps. Doesn’t seem to be very handicap/​family with small children friendly
PROS:
–Maintenance crew is great! Accidents happen and when the do they are very prompt and friendly
–Tennis courts, pools, spas, are all somewhat convenient and kept up well.
–Near great parks and shopping centers
–Clean property. The buildings are nothing great to look at, but they are not an eye sore either.
WE WILL BE LOOKING INTO OTHER OPTIONS ONCE OUR LEASE EXPIRES.

Worse lease experience EVER!
Our little family was here for one year and boy was it a roller coaster ride. We were lured by the price of a two bedroom two bath unit at a pretty nice location off of Golden Lantern in the city of Laguna Niguel.
It’s an average looking apartment complex. Management did «renovations» while we were there which consisted of adding plants and changing the cement. Too bad it looked fairly the same after everything was completed.
Highlights & Low-​lights:
*House warming gift courtesy of Shea Aparments
*Pretty friendly staff
*No club house available for rent
*Packages get dropped off at the office
*Super strict on what is out on your patio (a wetsuit was out for one night since we were cleaning out our closet & we got a notice to move it the very next day)
*Pools, gym, & tennis courts (can be quite far if your apartment isn’t near them)
*Pre-​paid laundry facility is available if you don’t have a washer or dryer in your unit
*Pretty lousy laundry place if you ask me– only four of each & our particular one had a broken washer & was never fixed for the entire year we were there (gets filled quickly)
*Two toned exterior
*Nice floor plans but the apartments are small in general
*WE HAD A RAT & MOUSE INFESTATION-​EEWW!!! I didn’t report it because I didn’t have time (wrong move)
*They nickle and dime you upon move out– so make sure you report EVERYTHING wrong with your apartment (that’s a mistake we made)
*They do inspections of your unit and let you know via sticking a flier on your door to pre-​warn you
*A lot of units have multiple families living under one roof (I don’t know if management knew that)
*I don’t want to sound racist, but a majority of our neighbors were Hispanic & some of their teens would be drinking booze and wandering the walk ways at night (just stating the facts)
*Trash digging seems to be the next best thing around here
It was nice when we first got there, but it’s just not the place for us! I don’t think I’d ever recommend Seaside or stay here ever again.