eaves Mission Ridge

I had a problem today with my garage door. Even with it being on a Sunday Mr. Conrado came with in a very short time and fixed the problem in a very short time. Thanks again Conrado for taking time on your day off to make it right.

A few days ago I noticed something is wrong with the toilet — it took forever to fill up and then we disconnected it and also noticed a leak. I opened a service request late Sunday night and on Monday morning at 9:20 (mind you, Avalon offices are closed on Mondays) Conrado was already here, ready to have a look and fix it. 20 minutes later the toilet was working again, filling up quickly and with no leaks — hurray! Thank you Conrado for a quick turnaround time and a job well done!
The maintenance team here in Eaves is always responding to service requests so quickly — makes our lives here very easy :) We absolutely love it here :)

All of our friends say they think we found THE PERFECT APARTMENT in San Diego but too bad we’re relocating back to our home state of New Jersey and can’t take this place with us.
If you’re in search of a place with great amenities, a ton of space in an amazing location, you really need to check out 8093 Nightingale Way which is the PRIME location at Eaves Mission Ridge!!! It truly is one of a kind!
So here’s what we’ve enjoyed the last 2 years: a spacious 3 bedroom apartment home nestled in a cozy cul-​de-​sac location with a semi-​private side yard. The apartment offers some hard to find features in SD which include a full size washer and dryer IN THE APARTMENT, Air conditioning, wood-​burning fire place, a large kitchen w/​island, two full bathrooms, a super-​large outdoor private patio (the only one in the complex! –see pics-​) and a private garage! Not to mention that the neighborhood is excellent, safe, has a community-​feel and is centrally located near 3 major highways and just minutes from downtown SD & beaches. This place is more like a home than an apartment and we hate to leave! The maintenance team here is tremendous. Jose and his staff are attentive, fast, friendly and efficient in maintaining the grounds and servicing the apartments as if the President himself lives here! Austin & everyone in the leasing office are really helpful in so many ways too! There only downside some would say is that there is limited parking for guests however residents do have a parking space in their garage as well as TWO additional spaces they can use in their driveways. So if you manage it right, your guests will have parking! You can’t have everything but after all this is San Diego and parking is limited everywhere! So, to sum it all up: we moved here 2 years ago from the East Coast skeptical about apartment living and to our surprise we uncovered a true gem here at Mission Ridge. Don’t believe me? Here’s just a few pictures to tell our story. Like they say, pictures are worth a thousand words…

Beautifully landscaped community, amazing office staff, personable and reliable maintenance staff. Thank you for your hard work to make sure your residents are happy and love coming home! Location is central as well… you’re within 20 minutes to some great areas but only a $ 10-​$ 13 über trip to North Park, Gaslamp, Hillcrest, etc for the times you may not want to drive :)

The maintenance guy Mr. Conrado is great. He comes to the apartment moments after I put in my requests and he is able to fix everything.
Thank you Mr. Conrado for your hard work, I highly appreciate it!

Don’t move here they raise the rent at maximum increases of 20% each time you resign a lease. Its unfortunate because this community has potential. You never get an opportunity to get to know your neighbors because they trick you by bringing you in on shortened leases of 6 to 9 months then spike prices to the point they are unaffordable and you are forced to move. Believe me I’ve lived here 3 years and I tried to hang on to keep stability for my children. I’ve watched at least 20 families cycled through my building alone, you never know what you’re going to get.
I prefer a community with loyalty to their well paying customers. This place absolutely does not care. You’ve been warned.
They claim to be smoke free but its not enforced if this is worrisome for you then I would steer clear.

BEWARE of the lease agreements when moving in here. They will hold you accountable for your roommates share even if you paid your share. They don’t do efficient background checks or employment history checks at all. When trying to vacate (at the end of the lease) they stated that I was tied to the lease unless everyone moves out or if I get released by the existing roommates? Absolutely ridiculous! I only signed a 1 year lease but I can’t move out unless everyone else does? This is BS. Also, they start racking up the utilities before you know it and in case you never heard of it they charge for hot water, on top of the water bill and SDGE you are already paying. It’s a nightmare trying to deal with them because they are a big company so no one cares to help you they just follow their ridiculous unheard of rules.

If you’re thinking about moving into the 1BD/​1BA here think again. There are way better apartment complexes that are worth the price and don’t have problems such as this place. I can’t say anything about the 2BD/​1BA however since it’s just me and my boyfriend living here.
The one bedroom communities here suck. And for the price that you get for a mere 500 sq. feet does not do it justice at all. I feel like I’m living in a college dorm room than an apartment. The living room is teeny tiny. When we first moved in we found a hole in the wood part of the breakfast bar. That, obviously, was not done by us. The kitchen is falling apart, some of the wood underneath the sink is coming loose and gave me a few splinters. And one of the refrigerator drawers were broken when we moved in too. The lights in the bathroom flicker when you turn the switch on and it’s getting so annoying. The «patio» that they provide is directly in front of cars and garages. I can’t even enjoy our «patio» or what little of it we have since I don’t want to inhale carbon dioxide every time.
Besides that… it’s like whoever was building the place really had no interest in double-​insulating the walls or making the units somewhat soundproof because we can hear everything going on around us. The floorboards above us creak it sounds like our neighbors above us are stomping. They constantly annoy us by stomping on the floor and dropping things on the ground or running around and talking so loud it’s like they’re on opposite ends of each other when they’re not. When they play their television or music too loud we bang on our ceiling (their floor) to turn it down but they still keep it loud. It shakes furniture in our apartment. Seriously?!
Living on the bottom floor of this complex is like living in hell. Thankfully, we live on an end unit so there is only one tenant above and to the left of us. We get a lot of noise due to our neighbors that live above us and their disrespectful and inconsiderate attitude about those who live beneath them.
Our lease ends in August but we’re moving out early July. We can’t wait to get out of this crappy apartment complex.

Never ever again will we rent to this company, all they want is to suck money out of you! Ever since our old leasing manager left (wonder why) this place has fallen out of order. The new leasing people are RUDE as heck and talk down on you like their shit don’t stink!

When we were moving in years ago the person told us we’d be living on the street not right by juvie, but when we went there with our moving van day of the move there were people in our supposed apt. The girl (don’t know if she still works there) put us on the wrong street. Wow. They gave us a slight discount initially for this, as I recall.
The parking is atrocious and no one ever wants to visit us. To be fair it’s partly bc we all use our garages for storage and not parking… They are constantly leaving notices in our door about ongoing maintenance or reminders which could probably be consolidated to save paper and annoyance. The landscaping people love to be loud right outside our windows in the morning and some mornings you can hear the kids in juvenile hall doing their exercises (sounds like you’d expect from a prison). Sometimes there are helicopters.
We have had bee invasions, dirty water periodically backs up into our shower (not sewage, not sure where it comes from), the oven is old and faulty (and runs 50 or more degrees hot), the fridge is old and cracked in multiple places, and other problems. Living on the first floor it’s hard to keep the patio free of leaves, and while they leaf-​blow the stuff off the main walkways, I did catch them blowing them right onto our patio once and kind of gave up trying. The exercise room is not air conditioned as was advertised when we toured the place years ago, and if you exercise with the door closed it will fog up the whole room.
However, this place is a good deal and conveniently located by a gas station, a 7 – 11, a florist, and a Mexican food shop. It is also right by a freeway onramp. It does get congested during hours when people are coming and going to the hospital though, and the street towards the place is confusing and tons of people don’t know how to drive it and often veer into the wrong lane. The living space is huge (big enough to fit a pool table), which is nice. The staff in the office is very friendly and helpful and any visit I have had there has led to a fast resolution of whatever I went there for.
It sounds like I listed a lot of negatives, but my husband points out we have had an overall good experience, and it’s a good deal for the rate.

Pros: $ 199 deposit on a three bedroom and central ac and a one car garage… but the cons outweigh the pros by far!
Cons: dont be fooled this place is like a good used car salesman! when u first arrrive you think its this pretty nice complex .but living here is hell. PARKING IS THE WORST. i used to live in ocean beach and pacific beach and parking here is wayyyy worst then ob or pb!!! and the lady two reviews down is totaly right, the parking cops are dicks i got four tickets so far and i got two in two days!!!
Also, my unemplyment was three weeks behind so my portion of the rent was late but my roomates paid their portion, so about ²⁄₃ of the total rent was paid on time ! so finally on the 20^th i was ready to pay my part of the rent and if u try and pay over the phone they charge u an extra 45 dollars!! wtf? then they tell me that they sent me to LITEGATIONS!!!(so they are sueing me) im dead serious! becuz i was 20 days late on rent! so on top of my rent they r sueing me for a $ 561 dollar late fee!?? this is rediculois, i called the managment and they said theres nothing they could do, i told them well i cant afford to pay this $ 561 dollar late fee, they told me well then u got 3 days to vacate! and i would have to finish paying for the rest of my lease!!! i mean do these people have no hearts or consideration??? honestly they are money hungry assholes… do not move in here, plz do not be fooled by first impressions like we were! .Also how they do the water bill is rediculous, they add the water bill up from all the appartments, and devide it by the total number of tennents! so every person has to pay the same amount. it doesnt mater if ur apartment hasnt used a lot of wtaer ur paying for everyone else to use water!!! wtf

Pros: The staff are incredibly nice, and the maintenance guys are FAST. We generally have problems fixed the same day. The apartment (3BR/​2BA) is spacious; friends comment that their downtown apartments can fit in our living room! Each unit has a garage (large enough to park an Expedition) and a driveway/​park space.
Cons: Parking is horrible. Local businesses’ employees tend to park all along the streets. Since many of them are hospital staff for Sharp and corrections staff at the Juvenile Hall, parking is a problem all the time.

This place is definitely in Mission Valley, San Diego not San Clemente, I think the address is wrong but if you read the description it says its in SD. These apartments are located off the 163 on Genesses next to Sharp hospital & the juvenile hall & the old folks home. meadowlark & nightingale.
This was my first place I lived in SD from Norcal. The apartments are pretty expensive, but it’s corporate, what do you expect?
PRO: We got a 3 bedroom, 2 bath. The rooms are really spacious. The living room is really big, the master bedroom has it’s own bathroom, and the kitchen has a bar island. There are laundry units in the apartment, walls aren’t paper thin, and everything works pretty good. The pool is pretty big, small fitness center. one car garage with a space for another car behind it. It’s a really nice apartment itself. Avalon usually have really nice apartments.
CON:
PARKING: Parking is really hard to find. You get a garage and a space behind the garage, which is good for a family. But if you are planning to have roommates, I say this is the worst parking area. I think I got 4 parking tickets because the parking cops are so anal. ESPECIALLY this one parking cop name Officer LOPEZ. He probably did some shady business when he was a real officer and ended up on probation as a stupid parking cop. He’s such a douchebag so bitter. He gave me like 4 parking ticket. One of them because he didn’t see my temp registration on the back window (car window tinted) so I put the freaking registration next to the vin number so that dumbass can see it. others were because I parked there 2 weeks and didnt move (i live close to work and didnt need to drive). If you double park he’ll give you a ticket, he comes around 8am and 3pm. he’s so anal, so watch out for your car. We were moving and we parked the moving truck on our garage space but the butt was blocking the sidewalk and he told us to move it. We told him we’ll be done soon then he started writing us a ticket, so we had to move it across the street and it made it harder to move especially moving heavy things across the street. Also all the hospital workers & juvenile hall workers park on our streets, so parking is even harder to find. and those hospital workers & juvenile workers are RUDE, and they work all shifts of the day, so they constantly steal your parking space because they are too cheap to buy a permit and park where they work. OH don’t even think about parking in loading zones, or partially in red, YOUR CAR WILL GET TOWED. Sometimes you have to park soooo far like near the juvenile hall/​old folks home and walk to your complex, parking is so HARD when you work pass 7pm.
FEES: WATER. We paid 120 for water per complex a MONTH. yes, that’s right a MONTH. Other places (like the one I live in now 30 a month) WHY? Because these jerks were using limited SD water to water their grass 6 times a night! When the new regulation on water came out that limited your water use, they didn’t follow regulations! They still watered the grass more than 2 times a day. I stayed up and counted how many times the damn sprinklers came on, and they watered the grass 6 times in 2 hrs. I REPORTED them to the city of water dpt and they limited it to 3. Good enought, but by that time I was already going to move out. So it wouldnt affect our water bill, but at least I help the other people out. And it’s suppose to be 2 a day, so they are still breaking the law.
SAFETY: I thought it was a safe place because it’s in a nice part of town (mission valley/​birdland) BUT my roommate’s car got stolen! They broke in and hot wire her car and joy ride (lucky she didnt have gas) and it cost her $ 500 to fix the part that they broke to hot wire her car. The police found it a week later. And the juvenile hall, it’s literally in your backyard, you can hear them do their physical daily. It’s annoying.
$$: They take all your money. Even if your apartment is squeaky clean at the end, they give you NOTHING of your deposit money back. They try to squeeze EVERY penny out of you.
Thank god I only lived here a year. my new apt complex is ghetto byt its so much better than this place. I rather choose ghetto area & not so nice apartment then this place. Corporate apartment homes are the worst, the management are there to get a pay check, and they dont know their residents. They are slow to response (laundry machine broke and water was leaking, they got to us in 2 weeks) I say do your research on the corporate first and the apartment. we got it because of location. I’m sure avalon is not bad everywhere but i heard from other people that lived in avalon at fashion valley, mission bay that it was pretty much the same.
Avalon should be ashamed of themselves, taking advantage of people in a hard ecomonic time like this, especially with all the foreclosure and people having to rent apartments.