Apartment Review for The Park At Canyon Ridge - Denver, CO

It's a mixed bag of reviews but most are bad, I'm afraid. I'll start with the good, though! The management is nice (we've lived here for three years now and only once or twice have we had unpleasant experiences with them, and the management has changed during that time) and maintenance is pretty responsive. A few of them live on the property to help with the upkeep. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to extend to refilling the doggy pick-up bags very often in certain parts of the complex. The really bad thing is the noise. A previous review of this place under its last name of Colinas Pointe described the walls as paper-thin and I have to agree. I'm of the "you have to make allowances for other people living different lives in a close apartment community" school of thought so I try not to let most noise get to me. But even my patience can be tried. The thing is that you hear every little noise. I'm talking about cabinets closing in the kitchen, clothes dryers running, dogs barking, people walking around if you live downstairs, doors closing, conversations, college kids playing their acoustic guitars, et cetera. It's to be expected if you want to live in this location, across the street from Bel-rea. The college kids, I mean. If you're allergic to the smell of pot, stay away. The main problem comes when you have inconsiderate neighbors. It is sooooo easy to irritate each other here. I've had a few really awesome neighbors over the years and one set of REALLY bad ones. I'll give you examples. I close my front door and they stomp on the floor, like they think I can't hear their door close too. They sit on their porch smoking cigarettes and spit all over my steps and litter them with butts. I don't smoke myself but one of my friends thought I'd taken it up after seeing all the butts in front of my door. This is a worst case example. If you don't have the patience to wait out the bad neighbors (they inevitably move) and ignore the inevitable, unavoidable little noises from good neighbors then don't come to the Park at Canyon Ridge. If you can't be considerate of your neighbors within reasonable limits - I'm talkin' loud music before or after 9 am/pm, not picking up poop, littering - then don't come to the Park at Canyon Ridge. However, if you can stand all that or you're half-deaf anyway, and you want a relatively inexpensive apartment with a nice management team in a great location with plenty of parking, come on down. Updated: Have to edit this review to take my rating of the management down quite a lot. Three times I've been woken up at 7 in the morning by music (so loud that I can hear every word of the Justin Timberlake songs) and had to go knock on their door to turn it down. It's especially bad because the only wall I share with them is my bedroom wall. So I go and knock and the woman who answers says she's turned it up to annoy her neighbors upstairs whose kids are pounding all over the floor or something. I said, no, you should go talk to them not annoy even more people to get back at them. The second time, they won't even open the door, just yell at me that they're getting ready for work. The third time, they still won't open up to talk and say that I'm not allowed to knock on their door. Not allowed to knock on the door. Told us to go to management. Generally, I try to avoid involving management because I don't want to get anyone's rental record damaged permanently and, hey, why tattle to the grown-ups when we can be grown-ups ourselves and solve it by communicating with each other directly' But they told us to and wouldn't come out to talk at all. We go to management, leave a written complaint because the apartment manager is not there that day. The apartment manager calls us up the next day and says no, we're not allowed to knock on their door to ask them to turn it down because the woman says she's afraid of me (short female here). The manager further threatens to evict ME. They don't believe that the neighbor is playing music like that, think that I'm lying just to harass her. My previous live and let live attitude is pretty down the tubes at this moment and I'm seriously considering that it would be worth it to break my lease just to avoid the headache of all this. In all my time here, I've only ever gone to the office with a concern once. I've used the poo bags or my saved grocery bags to clean up after my dogs, never leaving a smelly surprise for anyone. My boyfriend and I don't party. We don't play music outside of headphones before 11 a.m. (in case neighbors are sleeping in) or after 8 p.m. And now we might be evicted on the word of a woman who just moved in, lets her little shih tzu run around outside without a leash or even the owner in sight (I saw it peeing in the middle of the sidewalk while walking my own dog!) and plays her music loud enough for me to recognize title and artist and distinguish words through my bedroom wall. I take back my remarks about the niceness of the management. They are crazy!