Villa K Apartments - Chula Vista, California

Judith

The following is my review after being a tenant at Villa K for nearly four years. During this time, I dealt with a variety of issues regarding the upkeep of the apartment. First, the buttons on the stove broke off. This was no surprise since they are extremely vintage electric appliances. The manager offered to replace the button with a makeshift plastic. I did not make it a big deal and dealt with it the best I could. Next, the dryer in the small laundromat broke down. I thought to be a good neighbor and put tape on the coin insert so no one else would lose their quarters. I immediately sent a text message to the manager so that I'd be refunded my quarters. Unfortunately, all this and I was told that due to someone else claiming the breakage, they would get it first. I explained that due to my schedule, I could not come into the office first thing the next day. Again, I decided to let this go and took my business elsewhere. Next, the caulking in the restroom started to come off. Rosemary decided to do the job herself after the plumber explained that the bathtub had to be replaced. The caulking lasted about a week, and then it had to be redone. Of course, Rosemary would not be at fault, and it always seemed to be our doing when something went wrong. Next, a bubble started building up in our restroom. Turns out the caulking job that she put in the upstairs restroom leaked into our restroom. She tried to convince my husband that all she had to do was wipe it down and everything would be fine. We stood our ground, and it ended up being replaced. It did leak but, again the clauking was redone and so it stopped. The final straw wad when I noticed the mold build up in the closet of my unit. I made Rosemary aware, and she initially brushed it off. I notified the city of chulavista and reported the mold violation. The outside area of the apartment was fixed within a week but, the inside did not get addressed. This was never discussed. I notified the manager a second time and she came into the unit with the owner. Who processed to bleach the spot and told me that it would go away. At this point, my children and husband were starting to develop skin rashes and asthma attacks. I brought this up to the manager and gave my thirty days' notice. I never withheld rent, but i could have because the mold was making us extremely sick. Now , I am still having to deal with an invoice that I received from them with a balance. I am just ready to be done with this.

Natalia Gonzalez

Not recommended. There is lots of furniture sitting next to the trash bins and it sits there for weeks. Tenants don’t place trash inside the bins. Tenants have balconies filled with things. The place just looks ugly. Rules are not enforced here. There is also no visitor parking and street parking is always super crowded.

**Update~ Republic Services is on strike. City of CV is accepting trash in Otay Mesa area at no charge. I recommended the owner/ property management hire someone to transport trash to address issued by the city. As you can see, they don't care about tenants. I was told owners were on vacation and it was implied they would not pick up the cost.

James Cowan

I have lived here a year and a half. This property gets 1 star only because the manager is terrible. The owners of this property should be ashamed to have her managing. She tried to evict me because of a supposed noise complaint at my apartment except I wasn't even in the state at the time and no one was at my apartment. She wrote me a parking violation because she saw a car that looked similar to my parents car parked on he other side of the complex. Wasn't even the same kind of car. Then she lied and said she took a picture of both my parents sitting in the car. My dad was out of town and my mom was at the doctor. One time she tried to get me to sign an intent to vacate the property by mixing it in with a bunch of other papers I needed to sign and only showing the signature part so I wouldn't know what I was signing. Over all worst apartment manager ever. Took her 4 months to order new dryers so we had 8 washers and 3 dryers for the whole apartment complex. It's a Damn shame the owners let her get away with this.

Briana Cantor

Where to start?.. BEWARE of the TWO-FACED manager! She acts cool with you to your face then hits you with warnings on your door. Her parking rules are ridiculous to say the least. Lies about complaints, she just loves to be in your business. Is hard on some with rules like having guest over yet some people have clothes drying on balconies (which is not allowed). The only way to live in peace here is to be on her good side and pray she is feeling nice. I've asked for her bosses number multiple times and she ignored my request each time. There is no way to get around her! These apartments are old, outdated and run down. Also very cheap but if you want to live comfortable I suggest you look elsewhere. If anyone has the direct number to her boss please contact me!

Nathalie Barba

The manager is so rude and disrespectful. Right when we arrive she approach us aggressively telling us to get out. Didn’t say hello how can I help you and all she did was be disrespectful didn’t even let us talk on why we were there. She followed me got in my face telling me to get out that I had to get out then come back in when I was there visiting my family.

Karina Hernandez

When we first saw Apartment 50 it was clean. But once i moved boxes and seal food to store in the fridge, inside the apartment; all these roaches started coming out within two hours of one day. First I saw a baby roach crawling on the kitchen counter, so i decided to investigate. There was two live roaches and two roach eggs inside the cabnet below the kitchen sink. Four live roaches nesting behind the fridge. And two baby roaches and a big fat roach crawling on the wall between the outside of the fridge. A roach ran quickly across the kitchen floor. And I saw four roaches crawling on the living room walls, two coming from behind the cabnets. I smelled a stench in the closet in the small bedroom. I then saw two live roaches on the wall inside the small bedroom. That same day, I personally asked the tenants in apartment 49 and apartment 51; and they both said they have roaches also. Another lady who lives in these apartments said she has lots of roaches every day. Rosemary said I could squish and sweep the roaches away. The next day the Manager Rosemary brought San Diego Pest Control to spray apartment 50 supposely a third time. San Diego Pest Control wrote in a report to management that there was live and dead cockroaches in apartment 50, on the third time they went to spray. 24 hours after Pest Control sprayed there was still four live roaches, and two dead pregnant roaches. So my husband sprayed, put roach traps out, mopped, vacumed, and sealed cracks and other openings between cabnets and walls; and a big hole around the pipe from the electric oven. Live roaches still came day after day. I even saw two roach eggs on the stairs going up to apartment 50. Balboa Realty and Rosemary did not want to send out San Diego Pest Control again to apartment 50. They did not want to ask the neighbors in apartments 49 and 51 to have their apartments sprayed to try to get rid of the cockroaches. Balboa Realty and Rosemary did not want to resolve the roach problem.
The other bad thing is Villa K Apartments falsely advertise that theres bar b ques in two court yards. I say this because all four bar b ques do not have a metal tray to put charcoal in; so a tenant cannot properly use the bar b ques in the two court yards. These four bar b ques are delapidated. Im not sure if the pool has the amount of chemicals it needs to be safe for people to swim in. The car spaces for the apartment tenants are very tight to park an SUV. The shingle roofing needs to be redone on the apartment buildings behind the first two. When shingle roofing becomes shabby it can be more of a fire hazard.
I give Villa K Apartments two stars for refunding me my full months rent and deposit, since we had the apartment for less than a month.

Jesus Roque

i don't suggest moving in these apartments the manager shows you the apartment looks really clean but when me and my wife moved in the first night ordered pizza and they were roaches inside the pizza box. inside the cabinets dead roaches, mold under bathroom sink, outlets lose some don't work, parking horrible, her rules are ridiculous

Martha Ortega

It was the worse experience I have ever lived. So sad that they can still your entire deposit right in front of your eyes. I can't believe that the owners allow people to work there that have no common courtesy, that are rude, and just plain mean. SO SAD!!!