Park on Spring Creek

This property is awful. Staff is ineffectual, the apartments are old, and the prices are excessive considering the condition of the units themselves. Don’t be seduced by the proximity to the Jack Carter dog park. That’s the one huge thing Parks at Spring Creek has going for it.
We had nothing but problems with the management staff. Christian was rude and uncooperative.
The updates consist of faux wood linoleum in the common areas which was constantly coming unglued due to the excessive humidity coming through the foggy & unsealed windows, cheap carpet, and the hastily painted over walls which resulted in pipes and walls being covered in at least ten years worth of paint.
The first month we lived there a heavy rainstorm blew through and flooded through the top of the window to the floor adjacent. The remainder of our time there we endured the usual apartment issues from paper thin walls to flooded bathrooms caused by old pipes being backed up by a feminine napkin to used condoms in the parking lot. But the location is good so we endured these and the consistently increasing rent.
The apartments themselves are old and severely out of date. The foundation of the whole property is in extreme disrepair. We often found bulging and cracked Sheetrock, bad seals around every window, upper patios untethered from their supports, as well as evidence of water damage throughout. This eventually lead to a leak in the apartment above us which seeped into the circuit breaker, rusting out an entire side of the panel. We were lucky the first sign of this fire hazard was a blown circuit and mushy Sheetrock.
However, the last straw came with the rat problem the building endured in 2013. The proximity to a major creek allowed for some grace here but it was the lackluster and underfunded response of the maintenance staff which pushed us out for good. Instead of addressing the problem immediately through actively finding the intrusion, glue traps were laid. These traps were a joke and only lead to rats dragging sticky paper throughout the common areas of the apartment. My cat was more of a deterrent. When one of these pests would finally die underneath some cabinets it was not retrieved bit left there to rot! Management apologized and told us there was nothing to be done and to endure it. Their only solution was to pour industrial grade deodorizer on our floors. This was not deluded at all and ultimately served to make the smell worse and kill any house plants we had. Then it happened twice more. While we waited for the pest to decompose, the shoddy seals along to floor allowed the maggots that had burst out from the dead pest to crawl along our floors. We were forced to kill these ourselves as they moved too quickly for the sad, overweight, overworked, tired maintenance staff to come and kill. Those that did not escape from under the cabinetry matured into flies. A steady trickle of 2 – 3 flies at a time kept us company during the Spring months. These were the only ways we could confirm the pest was truly dead and rotting.
And even then, we were prepared to walk away and move into a home, remembering these two years as those ‘necessary evil’ years. However, today I learn that a year after the fact, our account with the apartment was sent into collections because someone in the management office incompetently lost our forwarding address. We only learned of it through our own annual CR checks. I’ve had it with this place. It’s trash and needs to be torn down and rebuilt into something really befitting the wonderful dog park and green space. I’ve never lived in a complex with so many issues. It needs to be run by a company who gives a damn instead of one content to half-​ass this complex, continuing to bilk its residents at ‘market rates’ for an unmarket worthy apartment.