Seaport Village Apartments

I’d actually give this place 2 ½, but in moments like that, my theory is to always round up.
Once we got settled into our apartment, things were fine. However, there were plenty of issues when moving in & moving out.
Moving in:
I showed up on my assigned move in day only to find out that that day was the day I was supposed to just fill out forms & then do a walk through before scheduling a different move in day. That was never relayed to me so when I showed up with a truckload full of my stuff, I had to beg to let me get my keys that day with the understanding the place might not have the complete clean it normally would. Fine. Whatever. It then took some time to get them to actually come & fix the few things that needed to be fixed before we could fully settle in. Their maintenance turn around can be quite long.
We lived in our place for about a year, and over that time, things were fine for the most part. Then we started feeling like the complex was just letting anyone live there as long as they could pay. Our building used to be quiet, but quickly became extremely loud. Almost as if we were living in some college dorm rooms. There were even a few times when we genuinely felt like we might need to call the police on some of the people in our complex. Where were the onsite security during those times?
During our time living here, the complex was bought by another company. Only issue there is that when they did, they were no longer open on Saturdays. My wife and I worked up in LA so that meant we were never around when the leasing office was open. That made getting in contact with them extremely difficult as we could never reach them on the phone when we tried to call them.
Moving out:
We put in our notice that we would be moving out, and just never heard a single thing from the leasing office. We had to call them to confirm that they had received it. They apparently didn’t send us the move out procedure list that we needed. Good thing they got it to us with just a few weeks before we moved out. We also requested a walk through by maintenance so they could let us know what we needed to fix/​clean in order to get our deposit back. They never got back to us. So guess what? After we moved out, we found out that even though we cleaned everything the best we could & filled in all of the holes in the wall, we were not only not getting any of our deposit back, but we owed them money. (I’m sure some of the things we had to pay for were things they didn’t do before we moved in since we were only there for a year).
We also got a very cryptic final invoice from them. It took us well over a month to get a hold of someone who could break it down for us so we knew exactly what we were required to pay. It honestly almost felt like they didn’t care if we paid. You’d think they’d want to get every penny from us. Needless to say, we had just as much trouble moving out as we did moving in.
Another thing to note: the amount they quote you for rent is never what you pay. There are so many other ‘fees’ that they tack on that you’re always paying at least $ 150 extra per month. Why they can’t just put fees like trash & pest control into the monthly rent is beyond me. They also charge for water, but they charge based upon the whole complex, not individual use. It was just my wife and I, but we were paying a BUNCH for water because there are plenty of families in the complex with 4+ people in a unit. That’s just not fair.
It’s been awhile since I’ve lived here so I might be forgetting a few things, but bottom line is that once you’re in, this place isn’t too bad as long as you have respectful neighbors. Also, don’t expect quick turn arounds on any requests made through the leasing office. And just brace yourself for a difficult move in/​move out process.
Hopefully the new owners have fixed all of these issues or will be soon.

This place is hell.
Let me tell you why.
First we was overcharged in regards to our security deposit by one of the workers there.
Boom he got fired we never seen that money again. They stated they will apply it to our future monthly rents. (I will get back to that)
Then you get charged for random things that changes every month.
Like the hell is a pest control fee and allocated water fee. They divide the water fee amongst tenants in the building.
They changed management an ample amount of times since I lived there, and I only been there for a year.
So hear me out.
I went home one day with a notice on my door to pay rent or quit.
Quit where? I paid my rent. Went into the office they stated they never received it.
I’m like that is impossible. Then they told me I need to pay that 1,300.
I said nah check your cameras. Idk what you think this is.
I showed them my stubs then they was like ohkay we will check.
I was going to file a police report but they stated they will do all that. (This why I have trust issues)
They then stated I should get a refund from money gram. Mind you it was 30 bucks out of MY pocket to process a refund AND seeing that we were moving we had no address to send the refund too.
I informed them I am not paying when they were the ones who lost our rent or was able to have someone steal it.
They should take care of it like they stated they would. And that 30 does not include me paying for stamps and wasting gas to go to the post office. Manager stated she will take care of it.
This was during the time we was moving out, which is another issue I’m about to address.
So we moved out. We got our letter stating we owe about 3,100.
How Sway? How?
Apartment was clean, nothing was broken, no fixtures was installed in walls nothing!!!
What happened to taking care of the rent that «randomly» ended up missing and applying the over payment with the security deposit to our future rent.
DO NOT MOVE HERE.
Management sucks.

We live on this community for about 2 ½ years now and the complex has been going through a couple management /​owner changes over the last few years — what probably explains a lot of the bad reviews here.
The current owner /​management does a real good job in getting improvements done and taking the community to a next level. The apartments are spacious and all have a lot of natural light coming in. There’s multiple pools which are well maintained, same for the common areas such as gardens, curbs and parking structure.
It’s also a very safe place, there’s ²⁴⁄₇ camera surveillance and security team patrolling during the evening hours.
The people working in the office and the maintenance team are extremely helpful and very knowledgeable. You can feel that — since a couple of months — there’s a ‘different wind blowing’ through this community.
This being said, this community is really on its way up. If you consider to move to this area, it’s definitely worth a visit to check out the apartments despite the negative reviews from over the last years.

If it was possible to give zero stars I would! I had the worst experience dealing with the management at the leasing office! I lived here for 6 months and needed to break my lease and let me tell you they made my life hell. They made all sorts of claims that were not mentioned in the lease. In addition, when I complied with their verbal demands, they screwed me over. I am now in the process of suing them!
Don’t rent here… It’s so not worth the drama!

So my friends and I drove all the way from Chula Vista to go see this apartment. We had our appointment at 11 am. As soon as we entered the leasing office and told them that we were there for our appointment, they just told us that they cannot assist us because they didn’t have the current pricing for their apartments. Like SERIOUSLY? We drove 113 miles just to make it in time for our appointment that they made, and then all of a sudden they will just say that they cannot help us and give us a tour around the apartments!!! Their management is horrible! We’re never ever going to this place once again.

after finding them on a website i decided to take a look at the reviews cause i noticed they only had one star (most apartments only have 2 – 3 stars) and wanted to see why. judging from the reviews it looks like everyone has the same issue with this place. thank god i didnt waste my time or money. shame really, it looked like a nice place from the website i found it on.

I am writing this review for my daughter who is too kindhearted to write this.
She has lived in this apartment complex over a year and it has been the worst situation for her. Personally, I have not seen an apartment complex this bad. She is in a 1 bedroom /​1 bath unit for just over $ 1100 per month. It is definitely NOT worth the money
First of all, there are more roaches that live in this complex than people. She called the management office on 7 separate occasions to have someone come out to spray. After they sprayed, the roaches were gone for about a week, or so she thought. Apparently they just moved next door temporarily. They were back after a week. Each building needs to be tented and bombed. I realize it would be expensive to move everyone to a motel for a week, but it needs to be done. Secondly, her utility bill was not just her utility bill. There is 1 water meter per building. When the meter is read, the total cost is divided between all of the 8 units in that building. That would be alright if there weren’t more than 15 people living in some of the units. She is paying part of someone else’s water bill. Not fair.
The police are out there several times per week settling a domestic disturbance or trying to get people to keep the noise down. The outside grounds are kept up well enough, but it doesn’t cover up all if the problems at this complex.
If I could give a 0 rating on Seaport Village, I would.

I will never again feel comfortable living in this apartment complex. Recently the maintenance workers let themselves into my house without any notification. I was sleeping in my bed wearing only a bra with my room door closed, my one year old son was sleeping in the room next door. One of the men bust into my room and without saying a word continues to stand there looking at me and then had the nerve to take a picture of my room then leave and closes the door behind him. I feel extremely violated and I will never be able to sleep well again. I even had to call the police. When I asked them the name of the unknown man they told me they didn’t know the man’s name. This was very shocking. They allowed this strange man to enter my apartment and they didn’t even know his name!!! You will never be able to call this place your home. I asked the manager if I could receive letter by mail and she read the lease to me basically saying this is just the way it’s going to be. She didn’t even try to work out a plan to make sure I actually receive the letters. If you decide to live here just know that you will never REALLY have any privacy. Think twice before you move here. Thank God my son was ok.

Lived there for over a year and it was a roof over my head;however, many improvements are needed. You are charged a monthly for pest control fee but in over a year, only two sprays were conducted. They give instructions to empty all cabinets and closets, and after all that effort; they come in and spray for 5 minutes or less then leave and roaches remain an issue. The smell of people smoking weed, music blasting early as 3:00 AM, and neighbors yelling at 6:00 AM is just a few issues you will live with staying here, and all of this takes place under ‘armed security’.
The pipes constantly are plugged from neighbors, I had no heat in my apartment (reported it and nothing happened), when it rained it rained in my apartment, and the supplied dishwasher did not work properly after being replaced the entire time I live there. After all of the above, they still raised my rent after a year in my apartment. I had erroneous charges on my bill so I called the apartment office, they blamed the management, I called management and they blamed the office; this went on more than once. I was told by the office just ignore it, It never became an issue; but that is bad business.
One night the maintenance men left water running over night in an empty apartment next door and it flooded my down stairs area of my unit. They did come in and vacuum the water up;however, I was charged for carpet damage when I moved out. Speaking of moving out, the staff do not do a walk
through with you, they send a maintenance man with you and they take photos to determine what damage you are responsible for.
I emailed the manager more than once about all the discrepancies above after receiving the emailed address from the staff, but I guess I did’t rate a reply even about my unit having no heat.
The back parking places provided was a ‘pigeon coup’, the back of my unit looked like the pavement was covered with a pigeon poop carpet. If washers and dryers broke down, you had to call the number on the machine and coordinate repairs on your own; the staff didn’t care.
If you must stay here as a last resort to avoid being homeless then it’s ok, but if you can avoid living hear unless you want to pay for substandard living and service. I could go on about this place but if you don’t get the message from the provided information, then you won’t get it.

So me and my roommate found these homes, not sure how. The day we came to view we were told to come back an hour after our appointment time because everyone called off and they were overwhelmed. We should of knew then smh but we loved how they looked so we came back. Long story short we signed our lease, we were told our exact apartment would be ready way before the move in date (about two weeks). After we signed our lease we scheduled a time to pick up the keys the day before the move in date. The leasing agent we were dealing with calls us an hour before and tells us that the apartment isn’t ready and we won’t be able to move in until the afternoon instead of morning. Of course we were upset because we had the movers ready for the morning but what could we do smh we picked up the keys and during the walk through the apartment still wasn’t ready !! It was dirty, marks on the wall, the leasing agent even said she wasn’t happy with the condition of it. We moved in and had to have a plumber come out not even 6 hours later because the bathroom sink was backed up. Within that week we had painters, plumbers, maintenance men all come in. Every day it was something new wrong which lets us know the apartment wasn’t ready in the first place. The first time it rained both bedrooms got rained in really bad, causing the carpet to get soaked and the paint to come off the walls in the bedrooms. We all know things like that cause mold right? We were told that our apartment wasn’t a priority because others situations were way worse. The next few times it rain we woke up to water in our walls. We ended up having to get an entire wall in our living room re done … Management is unprofessional ! They all will tell you a different thing and unless you have time to go into the office you’ll almost never reach anyone … I’ve placed up to 10 calls in one day and never received an answer (trust I have the records to prove it), the managers are rude, it’s just a mess ! Outside of our complex is always dirty and when I asked are they cleaning, the guys tells me yea but it gets dirty fast :/​lies ! We have no children in our complex, everyone is barely even outside so why would it get back dirty after two hours :/​over all it’s horrible and we def won’t be living here another year, we kept seeing everyone move out after our 2^nd month there, now we see why … And jus so you know we are current tenants, haven’t even been here 6 months smh

I made an appointment to look at a one bed they said they had a few available. I had to wait a week because they didn’t have anything sooner. Anyways when i got there they told me they didnt have anything available. The guy Sam at the complex office was in such a bad mood. He made a call and like magic they had one available for a higher price then what the lady told me when i made the appointment. Horrible communication between the ppl booking appointments and the ppl and the complex office. Waste of time. But after reading all those other reviews I’m glad i didnt move in.

So I moved in January 2014.
When we did the walk through it smelt like cat piss. I mentioned this to the lady and she said we had to fill out a work order.
Really? We haven’t even moved yet and I have to fill something out to have the room cleaned… something that should have been done before I even walked in the door.
Took WEEKS to get that fucking smell out. So you’re welcome to the next people.
Anyways my boyfriend and I loved the area, it was very close to work, mall was right down the street, parks. Etc It was more than enough room for our son to play.
Well here are the cons:
–its a gang affiliated complex
–cops are ALWAYS here
–windows are thin, I can hear every fight and every time a kid is being beaten (heart breaking), I can also hear when people are fucking.
–registered child molestor lives in the complex
–drug deals are made on the daily
–my neighbors are pricks
–don’t bother calling management they don’t know wtf they are talking about
–spiders are EVERYWHERE
–parking is atrocious
–everyone pays for Orkin every month but I saw them spray twice in the 13 months we lived here
–if you aren’t an early bird good luck! Lawn guys come bright and early and with those thin as windows you will be woken up.
–no AC in the place and it has wall heaters
LASTLY–
I am currently in the process of renting a house. We have been waiting a week for the manager at seaport to fill out a piece of paper and fax it to my new landlord. It still has not been done. They keep giving my the run around and I’m so irritated I want to scream!
I’ve called every single day and they told me they were really busy and would try to have it done by Saturday. Then Saturday I find out the manager has been out sick. Really? Doesn’t sound like the manager is sick, just incompetent.

I had to accept an apartment here because I had no choice due to some circumstances. I am writing this review because I have lived at an apartment with roaches before and dealing with the leasing agent. She had come across rude when I had asked her if any of these apartments have refrigerators (they don’t). I wasn’t told beforehand that these units lacked a refrigerator until I got there. Its my fault for not researching the their «amenities». So now, I have an extra expense of renting a refrigerator.

DO NOT MOVE HERE! This apartment complex is absolutely terrible. Everything from the security guard to the tenants. Management is horrible and the property is unkept. Don’t be fooled by the appearance and «amenities» that this place offers. Police is always getting called out here every other day. The residents are some of the worst «ghetto» people in the area. This might just as well be a section 8 apartment complex. Save yourself the disappointment and headache and look elsewhere.

I am so glad I did not apply to this place. Seems horrible. Management sounds a mess and roaches? Wow! Thank you all for your honesty. I won’t bother wasting my time with unprofessional staff, racist guards, or roaches.

I have lived at these apartment for about a year. I moved out in 2012. This place is nasty. Bugs and roaches everywhere, ur they have pest control to spray the place but it doesn’t help. U have assign Parkin but someone was always takin a piss back there or they will park in ur spot. Security is pointless. When I moved out I cleaned the entire town home but didn’t get my deposit back instead they tried to charged me some crappy fees so they can keep all the deposit. On top of that they tried to charge me extra. I’m glad I’m moved out. The management could have been better. Although some workers r nice but they really don’t do anythin to help. My toilet was always backed up they tried fixing but the problem happen everyday to where it over flows itself. Cheap apartments

Roaches, roaches, and more roaches! …Mutant Ninja Roaches!
It’s the most beautiful roach motel around, lol. I went to check out the unit before moving in and it was really nice and SPACIOUS! They did a great job with paint and finishes. Water and electrical worked just fine. The folks in the Leasing Office were super nice to me. However once I moved in, I found out why… ROACHES!
I notified management about the issue and they called a pest control company. The pest company arrived the very next day and sprayed my unit. That got rid of the BIG roaches for just a few days. The small ones never left and basically took over the kitchen. I managed to get in contact with the Pest Company afterwards and they provided me a copy of their report. Now in this report, they recommended to management that they should tent the entire complex! In summary, simply spraying the unit would not help the problem. CRAZY infestation of critters! I ended up breaking my lease. I was only there for 30 days. What angered me the most is that they only gave me back half of my deposit because they [quote] «need to sanitize the unit.» However, I just let it slide because in the end I just wanted OUT.
While I was moving out, there were two other units leaving also. I spoke with one of the neighbors and she said that she had bed bugs AND roaches. She was throwing away furniture! She couldn’t afford to move out when she wanted to and had been saving her money. She was finally able to move after 6 months. She said that in the time she stayed there, THREE people have moved in and out of the unit that I was in!
EEEWWWWW!!! DON’T DO IT! I wish I would have read these reviews before I moved there. *shivers!*

This was the WORST apartment experience I have ever had. First of all my apartment building had a cockroach problem. I brought this to the attention of the management office and it took them about a month to get someone out. I was really disappointing that the exterminator guy showed up a day early because I wasn’t able to properly clear out the kitchen how I was told to do. So, they instead used a less effective bait all around the cabinets. The roaches were only gone for about a day or two and they came back just as bad. They would come out through the dishwasher and the plumbing in the kitchen and bathroom. I was finally able to get rid of them during the last few months of my year lease by purchasing 100 dollars worth of heavy duty bait that had to be re-​applied every 2 weeks.
Besides having a roach problem I was later informed by my neighbors that the building has also had BEDBUGS and BIRD MITE problems.
The paint looks nice, but its cheap, so it chips. As a result that’s taken out of your deposit.
During the long year I was here I was also being harassed to pay an amount of money I had no idea where it was coming from. Apparently, at the time of move-​in the manager had given me a move in special and prorated rent that didn’t actually apply to my contract.
The apartments do not have AC, so they allow you to put up your own as long as its installed by one of their maintenance guys. I went and bought a unit. I made like 5 appointments and no one ever showed up to any of them.
I am extremely happy I do not live here anymore. This place was an extremely stressful place to live in.

Don’t fall for the window dressing. We moved here summer of 2012 and everything seemed great to start with. For the last two years we have dealt with sporadic water temperature in the shower, after about a dozen work requests, it’s still not fixed.
The security guard is so unprofessional he makes Barney Fife look credible, he loves to speak in ebonics towards tenants, talk down to people and only enforce the rules on people who are a different ethnicity than him.
The leasing staff puts on a façade of being professional and friendly, however, they basically say whatever necessary to get you out of their office. They also like to say they are closed prior to the posted hours and give some nonsense story about how they can close early if they feel the need too.
The most frustrating issue has been last week when they switched the mailboxes. We have not received mail in over a week, meanwhile, they have fixed the problem for some tenants but not others. They are blaming the post office for the issue and have been giving us the same song and dance for the last 4 days.
If you want to be treated like garbage, come on over!

i’ve been a resident in these apt homes since august of 2011 and management was great! i loved the ladies that ran the office, they were very pleasant and professional. sometime in 2012 management /​owners changed and they are the worst!!!
office hours were 9:00 to 6:00 which was great for the working class tenants in the complex because you had time to stop bye the office after work if needed. now with the new management they have reduced their hours to 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. cutting business hours down by 1.5 hours, leaving you
no time to visit the office during the weekdays,
then on the weekends i have experienced where there was absolutely no one in the office the office would actually be closed during business hours… lol smh.
and since new management has taken over you can tell that their tenant screening is little to none since i’ve moved in. parking can be horrible depending on the day. lol
new management as upgrade all of the vacant apts by adding new interior paint, but what about the tenants vacating the apts? all of those apts have at least 10 cotes of old paint on the walls and old carpet. they need to upgrade those to especially the ones who pays 100% of their rent, they also accept section 8.
new management needs to get it together!!!