Tenant Reviews for 2929 DUNVALE RD

I have been living in these apt complex for about a year now. For the price I am paying compared to the Sq.footage, this place is nice. What is not nice are few of the tenants whose presence make this place a living hell hole. If I were to be a single man, I would have overlook what goes on in this complex, but being living with wife and young kids, the shouting, the horrific cursing, the verbal and physical fights among tenants and abuse in between spouses is just too much to bare. I have never lived in any place like this where I hear so much crap around me almost every night. I just can t wait to move away from this place. I know it s not the management s fault who leases an apt, but with some background check, at least they can control who leases from them. So if you want to raise your family at a decent and peaceful place, You will regret moving here.

I just signed e lease a few months ago, The managment is very helpful The maintnece is good and my neighbors are great

This is the worse place ever. If you like strange people coming in and out through a continuously open entrance gate, then this is the place for you. Or if you like strange people parking in your spot and then NOT moving, then this is the place for you. I once had an unknown vehicle parked in my spot for FIVE DAYS!! Each day I would tell management and they would say let me check. Nothing happened. They would keep repeating some stupid thing about changing parking spots. I'm like, "Dude. I want this idiot out of my spot. It is my spot." Finally I got a manager to tow the sucker. But for a whole week I had to find a parking spot each time I entered the lot. The actual homes are nice and they maintain the surroundings well, and they are relatively cheap, but they are awful when it comes to customer service.

Rolido Parque Apartments look great when viewed from the office parking lot. The apartment complex doesn't look too bad when being showed the property behind the office, either. As the saying goes however, never judge a book by its cover. At first sight, the beautifull landscape in front of the office, the well-maintained interior and exterior of this office, and the advertisements of a gallery area gated community; this property is quite attractive. In reality though, the grounds flood during small afternoon rains, the neighborhood is closer to '------' than it is to 'galleria', and the secure gated community is anything but safe and secure. For example, 25% or more of the property's buildings have stopped up gutters that result in falling walls of water during rainstorms, water collects along pathways sitting as much as 6 - 9 inches deep, sidewalk gates that should be accecssible for emergencies are welded shut, the gates to the tenants 'secure' parking areas are always broken and freely left unfixed and open for weeks at a time, and it is not uncommon to see area retailers' shopping carts littered throughout the community. Oh, and not to forget, some of these shopping carts are in fact used by the apartments very own maintenance and cleaning personell; it's quite disgusting! Personally, I have many times complained about the gate situation. The way they advertise a "gated community" it is only fair to assume that is portion of the cost of your total rent, and that these gates would be among top priority when broken or malfunctioning. Far from it! I was once told that fixing the gates has to be approved by the owners of the property and that such situations take some time. Well, I think I could understand this awful explanation if when these gates were fixed it were done properly so as to ensure that years went by before they were not working again. I think they penny push the maintenance on these gates in such a way it just costs them more money in the long run; they always need fixed! That said, I think it is only safe to assume they never fix them properly. Just last week a vehicle was stolen from inside the gated area. You know, from one of the communities "secure parking" lots. Go figure, the gate was wide open as usual! This having happened almost a week ago now (management well aware), the gate IS STILL WIDE OPEN AND REMAINS TO BE FIXED! Twice in the last week I also had to tell visitors that they were parking in someone elses spot. "Oh geez, I'm sorry; I had no clue, the gate is wide open... I thought the open gate was visitor parking". These visitors wouldn't have even had access without the tenant they were visiting allowing them to enter the 'visitors' parking area had the gate been working in the first place. To the manager, "What in the world are you doing except collecting rent"? Come on! So, if you're looking to live in a community with waterfalls, rivers and ponds along sidewalks, secure gated (but always broken) parking, and management that talks the talk, but far from walks the walk; then well, Rolido Parque Apartments is the place for you. Welcome home... it's a mess over here! Speaking of which, I'd love to sublet you my apartment; I want the hell out of here...

I live at rolido and I used to live at richmond chase where erica garcia worked and it turns out she stole movey from residents there. when i saw her in rolido's office.... awe no! do not give your rent to her!... or any other money! she is a proven thief. i saw the paperwork from my bank... with her name and account information on it. BEWARE!!!

I've been living here for almost 6 months and honestly I don't plan on seeing another 6 with this complex. It's not bad, but most def not worth the amount they charge you. I'll start with the good first. The location is awesome. Almost everything you need is close by: banks, Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Subway, The Galleria, a movie theater, resturants, etc. You don't have to go to far to get what you want. The staff, most of them, are really nice. I don't know why Linsey has been called out so many times. I thought she was very polite, professional and easy to work with. On my side-the side facing Westheimer-I don't hear cops or see hookers/drug dealers. The trash pick-up is pretty cool too. I'm too lazy to go to the trash can so I think it's awesome that they come and get it. I'm glad that they allow pets. The pool was alway clean and most of the people I come across are pretty nice. The condition of my apartment is not bad at all-at least I don't think so. It's not ran down and everything works. My apt looked nice when I moved in and not like it was in the ------. I think they could do a better job on the townhouses facing Westheimer but aside from that I think the complex looks pretty decent. <br><br>Now with the bad. There are stray cats everywhere and as a result there are fleas all over the place. Every since I've lived here I've had problems with fleas. I called and told them twice. Once no one ever showed up and the second times it took them too long to show up. By the time he came I either forgot about it or got my own flea killer spray from Wal-Mart. There's this leaky thing on my ceiling in the tub-after it rains the water makes so much noise hitting the floor of the tub. I have to put a towel down just to quiet the noise. Sometimes when I turn on the water, it looks rusty. Kinda like it does in Iraq-a yellowish color. If you've ever been there then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. The biggest complaint I have about living here though are the people/pets. People have their huge horse dogs crapping everywhere and now when I go outside it smells like a toilet. They let their dogs go anywhere and don't even have the decency to clean it up. Just walking outside you're bound to walk into at least 1 pile of it. It's annoying and it stinks. And the cost of having a pet is waaaaayyyy too much! They should go off the breed of the dog or size because $300 for a chihuahua or something that small is just too much. You should only pay that if you have a German Sheppard or something. Now for all this, $550/$595 is just too much to pay- AND THEY DON'T EVEN INCLUDE ANY BILLS. So you have to pay the rent ultilities. If they're going to charge you that much, they should at least include 1 ultility. I'm really hoping that I can move across the street and pay $625-at least that's all bills paid. They should either pay a bill or lower the rent because frankly Rolido Parque is not worth what they charge.<br><br>Oh and that laundry card machine charges too much and shouldn't be in the front office, it should be in the laundry room. I don't like having to wait until the office opens to put money on my card. I should be able to do so at 3 a.m. if I want.

The management SUCKS, they cannot keep track of paperwork and lose rent payments which they expect you to pay again after admitting they "lost" your check/money order.<br>Maintenance is slooow, it takes several days to get anything repaired, the management staff is very rude/condescending.<br>They do not apply rules and property policies consistantly.<br><br>They are not exactly honest as they tend to leave out negative aspects of the community when you are looking to lease.<br><br>Their internet advertising is not correct as they say online that they accept cats with a deposit but tell you none are allowed (for only some people as it turns out).

If you're just looking for any place to call your own, Rolido Parque will do you just fine. If you're looking for something upscale for a low price, this isn't it. You do get what you pay for. I'm the starving artist type, a designer and a journalist, and so I need some place low-rent to accommodate the fact that people in media don't make nearly as much as others think we do. Problem is, low rent tends to attract other types that you may not want to deal with.<br><br>The apartments are compactly arranged, and nice enough for the price, though my little one-bedroom costs far too much to cool in the summer, and I can't blame it all on Reliant's rate hikes--my front door has a gap under it so large that I can see my welcome mat under it from across the room, and I get hordes of insects coming in as quickly as the cold air goes pouring out. They do free pest control on request, though, very prompt about that--and in my experience, living here less than a year, the management staff is very sweet and accommodating (save for one particular person, can't say I like her, but I never have to deal with her much, either). <br><br>Since I don't have a car and tend to be up and about all hours of the night, living across the street from both a 24/hour Wal-mart and a theatre is great for me. Truthfully, my neighbors are my only real complaint. They're loud, and quite nosy--I've had people try to cruise my place, and I can't be sure they weren't casing it--and since I live on the first floor I have to deal with the noise of people thundering up and down the stairs and trundling what sounds like a sack of elephants across the floor above me--not to mention some people seem to think that outdoor conversation with the person next to you requires shouting at the tops of their lungs. For a while there were problems with people playing horrendously loud music, loud enough to shake things off of my shelves, but that hasn't happened in a couple of months. Every once in a while we get a screaming weirdo on the property making trouble with some tenant or another. <br><br>There's little security, which bugs me a bit; there's supposed to be a rent-a-cop, but the one time that a few neighbors noticed someone peeking in windows and called, he never came out. The grounds are all right; they clean once a week, and I'd rather put up with the noise of the leafblower than deal with the mess that can accumulate. I don't mind all the stray cats around--in fact, I feed them sometimes--but it really annoys me that people take their dogs out for walks around the grounds and let them...y'know...all over the sidewalks and grass, as I get a good noseful any time I go out to get the mail or even just head out my front door. I like that we get front-door trash pickup three days a week, but it would be nice if my neighbors could remember which days, as they tend to toss their stuff near my door (as they're above me) and I'm sitting there with their trash on my patio until the next pickup day, when the dumpster is less than 100 feet away and it wouldn't kill them to take a walk. Also, there's a huge problem with people leaving Wal-Mart carts everywhere. When I moved in I was told there was a strict rule about leaving the Wal-Mart carts in the Wal-Mart parking lot, no matter how I have to kill my arms carrying everything home in one trip. Still, I do it. On rare occasions I have snitched a cart, but the moment everything's unloaded I take the cart right back to Wal-Mart. Still, so many other people don't that at times we have trains of carts stacked up in the parking lot near the dumpster, and sometimes they'll just leave them in the stairwells or on someone else's front area (I'm getting sick of having someone else's stolen carts parked in the dirt/grass just past my patio).<br><br>Like I said, the average tenants really are the biggest problem. I'm a fairly quiet person, work from home, so I keep to myself a lot--so when they're a problem for me even when I rarely have to see them, that should tell you something (other than that I'm uptight). To be blunt, most of the residents are rather...------, and this place was my last choice--I've got a good renter history, but bad credit, and this was the only affordable place that wouldn't run my credit. You know how it is--you make mistakes when you're younger, and spend the rest of your life dealing with the repurcussions. So for the credit thing, I was grateful. But that doesn't change the fact that this was the last place on my list of apartments in this vicinity, as I was really much more interested in the Arbors across the street. It's not safe here, and half the break-ins can be traced back to the residents or their friends. I usually go out to do my Wal-Mart shopping at about three a.m. (I'm an insomniac, plus prefer to avoid the insane day crowds) and yet I'm always looking over my shoulder, and I hurry back quickly.<br><br>I've even avoided taking an out-of-town vacation for more than two or three days because I'm nervous about leaving my apartment unattended for that time; while there are two deadbolt locks on the doors, only one locks from the outside, and the door wouldn't be that hard to break down. A lot of the downstairs apartments have fencing around their patios, affording them more privacy. You'd be better off in one of those unless you like people occasionally peeking in your windows or snooping around your front door.<br><br>I haven't seen the prostitutes that others complain about, but then I don't make a habit of hanging out in the parking lot after hours, either. Though some of the banging I hear is pretty suspicious...who knows. Can't pass judgment on that without seeing proof, and frankly I'd rather spare my eyes.<br><br>Addition, 08/03/06:<br>I've just about had it with this place at this point. They've gotten in the habit of making "modifications" to my apartment without my permission, and sending people in at all times of the day when I'm trying to work, usually on phone calls that can't be interrupted. Do they knock? No. They just unlock the door and walk right in. Not only that, but sleeping at night is impossible. If it isn't the tenants, it's the police coming after the tenants and leading them out at gunpoint, yelling and screaming the entire time. There are strange people wandering around day and night that I'm pretty sure don't live here, and I'm damn tired of going outside at night to see people camped out and living next to our goddamn pool.

If you are looking for hookers, drugs, guns and the frequent break-ins. This is by far the worst place to live in SW Houston. I would rather take my chances in Iraq. At least I wouldn't have to pay as much rent in Iraq. This place is a dump and the person who wrote the review before me...must work for Rolido Parque. No one in their right mind would agree with the review below. Management is a joke and they know that the place is crap. My least is up soon and I told them that I would be moving. Even the manager said that she didn't blame me for not renewing my least. <br>There is always a problem with the water and they are constantly saying that a part needs to be replaced. This is at least 3 times a month when the hot water is out and it usually lasts for a few days. <br>Gangsta wanna-be's are always walking around with their pit bulls and some are not even on a lease. I've been living here for about 5 years and it has never been this bad. <br>But if you like strippers and need a quick blow job you can get it from just about any of your neighbors. <br>And oh yeah...Lindsey is a -----!!!!

I have lived at Rolido Parque for several years and since the new Management has taken over it Rocks! The office staff have gone above and beyond to help me with maintenance requests and any problems I might have. Thanks Rolido Parque!