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this manager and "regional manager" never heard o the words CUSTOMER SERVICE ~!!!! STAY AWAY FOR THE HIGH PRICES THEY WANT YOU TO PAY . PLUS EVERYTHING AROUND HERE IS TORN UP

Cleaned and painted...only lived there a few months...I have a shoes off household...Got dinged on carpet cleaning, general cleaning and painting...I even got touch-up paint from the maintenance guy and carefully touched up minor holes from pictures and any scuff marks on the wall. It was perfect. Manager confessed that NO ONE gets all their security deposit back. No matter how much they clean and no matter how good the paint looks. They have to "Rehab" the unit every time. B.S. Their policy precludes, "normal wear and tear" as defined by the state statutes. Why should the tenant directly contribute to overhead? But when you move out of state...what are you going to do...other than YELP! Total rip-off. But I feel better telling you what to expect.

Such a noisy complex and rude staff. Only regrets

Not worth the money. They added 100 extra dollars to the rent with no warning due to the recent tree trimming

Definitely listen to the other reviews. Warren is the man but aside from that, this place is a no go. We have lived here less than three months and there has been toilet, sink, sliding doors and patio light issues. The parrots are loud and annoying for an hour in the morning and at dusk. A drug dealer with a backpack full of marijuana was caught just outside my front door. He's selling pot at the kids park and by the pool. My motorcycle was stolen 20 feet from my front door in a well lit assigned parking spot between 9-10pm. It is not safe. We have heard about all the break-ins and hope it doesn't happen to us. It looks nice but there is some shady stuff going on here.

Management is absolutely awful at this place. Paige, the new manager, has just taken over and is the most unprofessional and idiotic individual I've ever dealt with. She is unqualified, irresponsible, unintelligent, and rude. If management were to change hands these apartments might not be as awful but she does not care about any of her residents. Maribel, the old manager, was accommodating and professional and living was relatively pleasant. Under new management it is miserable and difficult to get any issues resolved. Do not move here you will regret it.

Moving in, arrived at 2 AM, security guard who sae us arrive had our rental and personal vehicles fully loaded with belongings towed. $800+ to get back. Also, don't fall for Achilles fake customer service. He is of NO help after you sign the contract. Save your money.

I feel like writing this review is very important, many of us who want to find a place to live want to find a place we can afford, and we can be comfortable in and this is not the place, Before moving to Mariners Cove I spent many months looking for a home for me and my son. I came across Mariners Cove because my daughter had just moved in. This complex and some of the units are being rented out for individuals on a fixed income. For example, instead of having to make 2 to 3 times the rent your income has to be less than 60,000 a year to qualify. This was great news considering how difficult it was to find housing. It was only 300 cheaper than the normal rent advertised just easier to get approved. Well, I never got to see the unit prior to moving in. I was ok with that considering I was getting a place for me and my son. That was my first mistake. Please make sure you tour your apartment. I guess since my apartment was 300 dollars cheaper, we didn't need anything upgraded. We had scratched up wood flooring, very outdated wood rotted cabinets, dishwasher that didn't fit in the hole it was made for, a refrigerator that barely closes. I can go on and on. I didn't complain because again I was grateful. When moving in I had no idea how poorly the units are built, if you have sensitivity to sound (stomping neighbors) you will go crazy. It is awful even communicating with my upstairs neighbors (we get along great) it is horrible you can hear everything possible. There is no peace in living here do not plan to relax they have leaf blowers every single day blowing nothing but air, (definitely a waste of company money) I have a downstairs unit and I cannot put anything on my patio because the leaf blowers blow all the dirt on your patio. I would not advise anyone to go swimming I was sitting at the pool with my daughter and a older man started shaving in the hot tub it was the dirtiest thing I had ever seen and then went into the pool with blood on his legs. I reached out to the management and sent her pictures and never got a response. Management is a whole other issue. Very unprofessional, she only responds to you when she feels like it. I have tried to communicate with her many times. It's pointless. She definitely plays favoritism and I definitely feel like favors her own race. I have proof of that but won't post that on here. I have many problems with management and cooperate when trying to make payments on rent. I was hurt badly at work and put on disability. I received some help with rent from some resources in our community and when attempted to pay rent they denied taking payments from my outside resources. This has made it hard for me to live here. Be aware that your total monthly rent will be higher than what you think when moving in lots of different fees. They will raise your rent 8% every year. I have dealt with so much in one year of living there. I even had maintenance come in my home without giving me notice, we have touch pad locks on the door so they can enter at any time. I still do not know to this day why they came in. My daughter moved out after a year of living here as well. My next-door neighbor moved out because he couldn't handle the neighbor upstairs and his 4 kids running and stomping all hours of the night (I could hear it in my apartment as well.) I know I sound like a total Karen in this review, and I have never felt the need to write a review on a apartment complex, but living here for me has been absolutely awful. If I can save anyone the hassle just keep looking elsewhere don't settle because the price seems good, it's all a trick to get you in. Being on disability for a year now and trying to make it work in this complex has been the worst experience ever. I really hope they can make some changes, or they will have some major lawsuits pending.

Coming up on a year here and honestly I can't wait for my lease to be up. In the past year I've been completely unhappy with spending the amount of money I have for the quality I receive. First lets talk about how much you spend on parking just to not have a space if you get home after 10pm. Your $10 per car a month doesn't grant you a spot at all. Well actually tons of spots are open under the covered parking but they charge $30 to park under the sad excuse for covered parking. When you do find a spot just except that your doors will be dinged up because the spaces are way to small so even your best parking job will result in you being to close to the car next to you. Also everyone is paying for parking ( which judging by the parking they are changing more people then available spots) and the roads and lots have potholes. Where is all the money going from the parking then? The places are falling apart. Granted maintenance will show up and fix it pretty quickly but you will be putting in maintenance request for pretty serious issues like water damage from leaking dishwashers, dry rotting wood on the patio, paint just peeling off the walls sometimes around mysterious cracks in the wall. All the trim is just cheep paint over ugly old wood same as the kitchen cabinets and drawers are that are also a cheep and/or old. You will get ants, they where coming out of our wall outlets when we moved in it took about a week to get someone to come out about it. When it rained we where infested and not in the kitchen where there is food or near the trash cans but oddly in closets with zero food. They had made a freaking home. We had thousands of ants! We called office they told us that if we wanted to have our place spray for ants we should have put out names on the list to have it sprayed regularly. They kindly added us but couldn't tell us when someone would come out but it would be the next week... Thousands of ants and we would have to wait a week. We ended up going to war with the ants with raid for the next week until the guy came out. What I don't get is why they aren't spraying everyone on a regular basis? I'm paying for it yet I have to ask for it? It was so stupid. What really seems to be the most dissatisfying aspect is the office staff. You can tell them something several times and it just seems to just go in one ear and out the other. Just some examples when I moved in I did the paper work and put I had a dog ( the paper work even ask the dogs name) when we got ready to make our first payment they didn't included the pet rent. I asked and one of the agents seemed annoyed and said " you didn't say you had a dog" we had a back and forth with me instead of him just say " oh I must have forgot or missed it" he just keep insisting I hadn't told him. Even after pointing out its in the paperwork he give an apology you could tell was to make sure I wouldn't complain and not because he made a mistake ( this should have been a warning that the office employees where not going to give a crap about much else) . Another incident accrued with my roommates car. She was on deployment and her car stayed in the same assigned parking spot. It collected dust sure but I cranked the car every so often. Because the car was dusty from staying under the covered parking I got a phone call saying that I couldn't have a non operational vehicle parked there and that if I didn't take care of it they would tow it. She didn't ask if it ran she just assumed it didn't calls with treats of towing because it wasn't clean. She was totally rude and I had to speak to a manager. The manager listened to the situation and simply asked I covered the car. Why it didn't just start that way is beyond me. After that I started getting letters about having a mat hanging on the side of my patio( which was there for a day to dry and down for days before the letter) a piece of wood outside a patio gate that was there when we moved in (and did a walk through with another agent) and some vague " unauthorized" items to which they couldn't tell what they where. She even told me that I should have the gate on the patio that was installed long before we moved in. It was the same agent that called about the car so to me it felt like she was just being petty. Also they sent a letter of money owed because my new roommate added a car and they didn't say that the parking was due right then, they gave him a sticker and let him leave, they didn't call or email just let it go for two weeks giving us a letter saying that we owe money and not paying could result in eviction. Evicted because they didn't say he needed to pay $7 for parking. And now I'm paying for 4 spots even though technically you can only have one spot per lease holder. Can't get a call back about it. So the office is the worst part of this dump.

Don't be fooled by the amenities, the fancy gates or the "leasing office" this place is a nightmare. They are the biggest bunch of fools I've ever seen doing a job 1 person could do. They don't communicate with each other and renting from them is a bit of a cluster-fuck. There are cockroaches all over this "wonderful community." They are rude and inconsiderate and so is the staff here. Try elsewhere before it's too late. They are rubbish and overpriced. Bad vibes coming from management.

My husband, our two dogs and I have lived in a 1 bdrm apt since October 15th. The ONLY reason I am giving this two stars is because of the location. I go to PLNU and a 10 minute drive to campus is amazing!! Not to mention the HUGE dog park less than half a mile from us. Good things: -dog park -gym -pay rent online -location -allows bigger dogs -pool (but its always piss warm and salty) Bad things: -its a cave, 2 windows on the same side of the apt -its tiny -we are paying $1399 ($100 pet rent, $20 parking for 2 cars) **RENT INCREASED BY $100 since my first review!!!!!!!!!!! -using a community washer/dryer is a friggen hassel! -people look into the windows -no way to track who comes in or out of the "gated community" which btw the gates are wide open -no security or cameras -its expensive -no AC and yes, it gets uncomfortable enough to want one -the pool is piss warm and salty! and the spa needs a scrub down blegh! -the CONSTANT hum of airplanes -Sea World does this thing every night, during the summer with fireworks around 10pm...ya it was fun the first few weeks and now it's just pissin me off! Let me tell you my story and why I am so bitter and why we absolutely will not be renewing our lease in October... We were living in Spring Valley in a 2 bedroom, 2 car garage, small yard paying $1299 which included utilities and we had our own washer dryer but in my attempt to move closer to my school and the time frame we had before our lease was up AND the fact that every single stinking posting on CL about apartments allowing dogs had a 25 or 40lb weight limit, we were desperate!! We found this and I was impressed by all the amenities and didn't think that we would be sacrificing that much and boy was I wrong! My husband had wrecked his motorcycle last june/july and we were slowly fixing it and gonna sell it to get rid of our debt and we finally got it finished, it took a lot of money that we didn't have to do so but hey, we were going to sell it and get our financial business on track right? WRONG! He finished it on a Sunday evening, put the cover over it, and parked it in the same spot as his car (which he had done for over a month) and I get a call tuesday morning while I was studying for a final, from my husband saying that his bike was gone. I called the towing company hoping that they towed it because it was sharing a parking spot and we weren't paying the monthly $10 but nope! It was stolen!!! when calling and speaking with the stinkin leasing agent that was so eager to get us in the apt she had nothing to say but "sorry, there is nothing we can do" ARE YOU KIDDING ME LADY!! a gated community!!! $6500 just rolled out of your safe gated community and we are left making payments on something we don't have. needless to say they did nothing..no suggestions, no sympathy...nothing! The "security" around here is Harbor Patrol but do you think we ever see them?? NOPE! I also went for a run from gate to gate and once I crossed over to the other side, the side farthest from the leasing office, I felt so unsafe. I got the feeling that I had to constantly look over my shoulder...I haven't been over there since...so take heed and learn from all of our mistakes...DON'T MOVE IN HERE! Every time I hear leasing agents say pretty things to potential tenants I want to scream (and once I did) "DON'T DO IT!" so yes, Mariner's Cove leaves an awful taste in my mouth and October 15th cannot come soon enough! We want out!!!! **update** these yahoos are now asking for $20 ADDITIONAL to pay to park under the covered parking which forced 90% of people out of their parking spots and i now have to fucking park 1/4 mile from my fucking apartment...bad news, i didn't get out when i should...fuck this place

I am currently a resident and I can not be happier to move out in January. If your looking for a place to move into, do not suggest this place based on my experience. I have been living here for a year and it was mostly convenient for me to get to work. Here are some major issues yes they have plenty laundry rooms around the complex but only have one machine to add money on the card although when I first moved I was told they were going to install more, its inconvenient for residents that live at the back of the complex because the complex is fairly large. Also I had issues with spiders and a couple times I seen roaches, I keep a very clean apartment so this bothered me, I reported it to the front office but I never had anyone come and spray which is also a issues since you pay a monthly fee for pest control and I have never not once seen anyone around spraying. Before I moved in there I read a review saying that the management were con-artist and this is true. Not only do they make you pay 10.00 extra for parking if you come home after 7pm you are forced to park on the street or pay an extra 20.00 for assigned parking and since there is more 20.00 spots than the other you are forced to give them more money. You would think since you lived here you would would at least get one parking spot not here you pay for a spot that your probably will not have depending on your working hours and since I'm in the military my hours change. Also they will tow your car even if you live there and sure you get a discount but why should I have to worry about getting towed at a complex I pay rent for. I went outside late around 1am and I see this guy just running around with a flash light looking for cars to tow. They only come in the wee hours of the morning so they will be sure to have a least one person to tow and I'm sure mariners cove get a little cut out of the money residents pay to get their car back. The first time I got towed, I was towed twice by the way, I talked to the front office to talk to them, I asked why don't they give the tow company a list of plate numbers of the residents she explained that they don't give out personal information but I'm sure residents would rather have the tow company have their plate number instead of waking up to no car and paying 170.00 to get it out. I also asked what would I need to do if I lost my pass and the front office was closed she told me to park on the street. I was furious I'm like really that's really how you treat your residents. Also when I first moved in the residents beside me had a issued with mold which they had people come and clean but who is to say how many other apartments may have mold that has not been seen or reported. I am choosing to move because the prices are steady going up and the apartments are not worth what they are asking for, there is no parking and the management has no problem towing resident cars. Its obvious this place does not care about their residents but more concerned with how they can get more money out of the residents pockets and into theirs.

Do. Not. Rent. Here. The community itself is really pretty but damn it is SO MISMANAGED.. Paige and Achilles have no clue what they are doing and never call you back or follow through with what they say they will do. Parking is a nightmare and even though I paid the fee I still have to park nearly a mile away if I come home past 830.. I've tried to call security but it's not listed on their website, my lease, in any emails they've sent me, and the maintenance hotline doesn't even have it. The paint on my walls is so tacky that my glasses have literally broken when trying to take stuff off the shelves. I had to peel my clothes off of the wall because they got stuck! There are so many other places to rent. Do yourself a favor and rent elsewhere. The grass is nice and so are the trees but I'd rather pay $100 more to rent an actual house closer to the beach with way less of a headache than this place.

Roaches are everywhere as soon as you move in because the whole place is infested with them. They are nice when you move in and then threaten to sew you any chance they can so that they can take your deposit towards the end of the lease. This place is full of empty units for a reason. And like a sales person there trying to make as much money off you as they can. I 100% regret moving here and you will too . If the sales staff don't get people to rent they don't get paid. Look at all the lawsuits this place has before you make a decision. We have lived in an unlivable cockroach infested apartment for too long everybody in our unit has them and they won't address this problem. We have made multiple attempts to contact the office, the only time they contact us if after we write a bad review on Yelp

I went through the whole application process and tried to get ahold of the leasing office for over 2 weeks. Once I got ahold of them the leasing manger totally forgot who I was. Then she told me if I don't come in with all my documents she is renting the place to someone else. As I told her when I was available due to me being a full time student, single mother and full time job and told her when my availability was. She then again threatened me if I don't bring in the paper work she is canceling my application. There was a scheduling issue on her end and she had to reschedule, there was no follow up of confirmation email sent and there was a miss communication on the date and time. Once I called again to confirm she told me I missed my appointment and canceled my application to then call me rude and unprofessional. This is so frustrating and sad that they have people working here that are one unprofessional but then calling future tenants out of their name. I honestly can't believe they would have someone working here that treat people like this. I am hard working and I think for her to treat me with so little kindness or respect or even understanding. I don't know even know why she would work her. Definitely disappointed and very unprofessional. I believe there is favoritism when it comes to applicants and how she moves forward. Very unfortunate for such a wonderful location and building facilities.

I was giving this place the benefit of the doubt for the entire year but the truth is, rent is insanely high, the staff is extremely nice until the second you sign these lease. They are all about the deposit dollars, because once you sign, all customer service vanishes. They will ignore every call and email after you sign the dotted line. They have a great sales pitch, don't believe a word, it's false advertising. They had a great bit about how they will fight for you if you have bad neighbors, but really they just ignore you until you go away. Youll never have the chance to speak to anyone. There's a reason this place has bad yelp reviews. Honestly, the leasing staff ruins it all. The location, apartment, and grounds are great. But be prepared to pay the amount of a used car once a month to be here. The washing machines smell AWFUL and moldy and they breakdown all the time. This may seem like a small problem but you LIVE here and wear those clothes on your body...and at your job... Also, the water pressure is so bad in the kitchen that we've had to wash dishes in the bathroom. The dishwasher is cheap, disgusting, and useless so we haven't used it all year. I'm guess the water pressure is to blame there too. I just tried to go to the pool one my ONE day off in the week and it was closed for a party...no signs, just rude residents telling me I had no right to be at the pool I pay almost 2 grand a month for access to. Went to the leasing department and they were VERY rude when I told them what happened. Also, you have to pay a ridiculous amount for parking. We have 1 car but because we want a guaranteed spot , we are paying for two. Also, we are paying an extra $110 A MONTH in rent for an adult dog and adult cat who cause NO damage to the apartment. Speaking of pets, the fleas are insane here! My babies never get fleas, they are always on meds and we've never had a problem until we moved here. Be ready for that infestation. We've tried hundreds of dollars worth of treatments but nothing works. I know OB has a flea problem, but when we lived on Muir for a month when we first moved here, we had zero problems.. When we first moved in, I had to scrub the place top to bottom because it smelled like smoke. A LOT of dirt came up when I did. But I ignored that red flag because everyone was sooooooooooo nice when signing the lease. I tried to convince myself this place wasn't so bad but being treated the way I was at the leasing department today about a legit complaint was the last straw. Whatever price you think you are going to pay for your apartment here, just add a couple hundred bucks in their nickle and diming charges and horrid landlords who want to push you out for the next deposit check, then rethink your decision. Fun tip! If you call the number and press 2 for residents, they won't answer. But if you press 1, for potential residents, there's no delay in getting your call answered! How about that?

Worst place I ever lived. My family could not have been more unhappy.

Absolutely AWFUL and fraudulent business!! Do NOT trust this property with money for a deposit if you are trying to secure a rental there. My friend gave them (Warren, Maribel and Jennifer) a $500 deposit to hold a unit and they told him if his application did not clear, for whatever reason, he would receive the deposit back in his account within 5 business days. It has now been 9 business days and HE IS STILL WAITING after many calls and emails to management and supervisory personnel at Mariner's Cove Apartments. They continue to either ignore his emails and calls, or when he has gotten a response they have excuses (admitting, even, that they had not properly processed the request for a refund in the proper timing.) Interesting also to note that when he gave them the check for the deposit, the funds came out of his account that same day, and now when he wants it returned, he is having to BEG them to conduct themselves professionally and ethically. SHAMEFUL.

Worst place ever!!! My place was broken into and they stole everything, when I reported to the office they were like "too bad". Not to mention the tires to my BMW were slashed and on 2 different occasions cops were doing a drug bust! Not safe for young women or families. Its a shame since it is a great location

Worst apartment community every. Horrible management, they overcharge for everything, and the insect and rodent issue is a REAL problem! I think it is ridiculous that tenants are charged extra to be able to park in the parking lot, especially since these lots are not well maintained at all. I drove over the same enormous potholes the entire year I lived here. I mentioned this to management before and nothing has been done. I've also mention my concerns about the "high tech" gym. These machines are old, out dated, and have not been taken care of. They need to be serviced or calibrated as some of them do not work properly, and someone will hurt themselves. I've never felt so unsafe living in a community before. There's so many druggies and shady ass people roaming around. I've seen people living out of their cars, parked in our lots. I've seen people (homeless, I'm assuming) passed out under trees and on the lawns. I saw one man defecating on a tree too! Yet, this is supposed to be a gated community? I stopped doing my laundry there, because I couldn't tolerate the laundry facilities anymore. The washing machines smell. It seems like no one has ever cleaned them. The pest problem is outrageous, too. My patio was so infested with spiders, that I could not use it the entire time I lived there. And yes, I have used the professional pest control service that the community offers, however it did little to nothing, as all the spiders came back within a week of them spraying. I've had ant infestations, and am actually amazed these buildings are still standing with the amount of evidence of termites I have seen around the community. Oh, and at least one of my neighbors below me had a rat infestation! Everyone that has given a one star review on this community is telling 100% the TRUTH! DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!!! Disgusting community to call "home!"

I wish I could give zero stars. This is the worst place I have ever lived. I've had an ongoing mice issue for over 6 weeks, and the lack of communication, professional courtesy and responsiveness is beyond disappointing and frustrating. In fact, my complaints have escalated to their regional team who have yet to call or email me back as well. I highly advise folks against this community. Rent may seem reasonable but it causes major headaches later. To add, if you're a working professional with an 8-5, the complex staff is extremely unaccommodating. Can't wait to get out of this place!

The location of these apartments is great - close to shops, the beach and freeways. The lanscaping is always really nice too! This places charges you to do anything. When they implemented the parking fee, I just photoshopped a fake sticker and put it in my window. I suggest you all do that! That was what pretty much made me want to move out. They called it a "recovery fee" 5 bucks a car, but they never said when they would be done "recovering" fees. In fact, the management said the fee was to cover curb painting and carport lightbulbs. If you do the math, there are 500 units and at 5 bucks a car per month times 12 months that is $30,000 that AIMCO makes a year and some units have two cars!!!!!!!! BTW, did you all know that your tax dollars went to AIMCO? Yes, the stimulus plan awarded AIMCO a lot of money to make addordable housing available to dirtbag section 8 people all over the country. So essentually, they raised the rent on everyone, now charge for parking and now get my stimulus tax dollars to help the poor and lazy! YELP took down my homeless people pictures - I took them from my apartment when I lived in MC because they are always hanging around inside the dumpsters. Shame on Yelp for censuring what the Cove actually looks like. Oh, last but not least, dont expect any of your rental deposit back. Its a very low deposit so that you wont sue them in small claims court. Basically, they tell you to get touch up paint in the office and fix the walls and clean based on the inspection list and then they take all of your money and send you an invoice from the cleaning company (probably owned by AIMCO). There are PITBULLS EVERYWHERE on this property but it's your job as a resident to ensure that you notify the office of where the pitbulls live so they can do NOTHING about it. I would give this place zero stars if I could. DONT MOVE HERE, RUN AWAY FAST.

THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE. I'm military and I lived there for @ 2 1/2 years. the first year are so was fine but the last year was horrible. I was sucked in the cove b/c it was close to base, has a gate and look nice from the outside. You have kids that jump the gates daily, sell drugs and hand around the pools. Management does subsides housing which means ppl pay by what they make, which means a bunch of low life's and there kids get to become your neighbor. I was paying 1,500 a month for a 2 bedroom and they told me i had to make 4,500 to be eligible to move in. I get there and low life thugs are my neighbors. LOL /new management comes in and trys to clean up but makes it worse. They come out with a new decal every few months and tow the cars that don't have the new one. Out of 30 months living there my wife drop of the check 2 days late and the hit us with a late fee. I have seen ppl get there cars stolen and kids nearly raped. If you have 1,500 bucks for rent don't live here. Move to a nice place with a higher class of ppl. The turnover rate is high amongst neighbors but the low life's stay bc they have too. I moved out as soon as my lease ended. DON'T BE FOOLED BY MANAGEMENT POSTING NICE REVIEWS TO GET YOU TO MOVE IN. BE SMART AND SAFE.

If I could give this place zero stars I would. I lived here last year but just recently made a yelp. Let me tell you a little story about my experience at mariners cove. I was so excited moving into them! So close to the beach and they seamed clean and safe! WRONG! There is dog crap everywhere, the staff is extremely rude. They moved us into the wrong apartment and told us in order to get the one we originally applied for we would have to pay a huge fee. Our refrigerator had a leak for two weeks before anyone came to help. There were countless of things wrong when we moved into the apartment that took WEEKS to fix. Oh and did I mention we had a spider infestation that no one would do anything about?! The moment I saw a spider crawling on the face of my TWO WEEK OLD NEWBORN we broke our lease. Mariners cove also has a flea infestation. My dog has never, and I mean never had fleas. And after moving here she got them so bad we had to give her shots for them. Parking is a nightmare. The spaces are TINY. Being 9 months pregnant and falling down because there's only a few inches to get into your car isn't fun. Not to mention there were signs up telling us to not leave anything on the patio, because people were stealing things. This place looks nice, but it's deceiving. I'm now living with my mother in law because not even that is worse than those apartments. Please please take my advise!

If I could give this place zero stars I would. I have lived here since September and as soon as I moved in I wanted to leave. Right after signing my lease I was told I wouldn't be guaranteed a spot and no carport spots were available. They do not have enough parking spots for people living there. It also costs money to even be able to park in the complex even though you aren't guaranteed a spot. I have come home after 7pm a lot and there be literally not one spot available. They do a terrible job of monitoring "guest" parking and people parking here without permits. You are never guaranteed a spot near your apartment even if you request a carport spot. Someone also went around keying people's cars so I got a bunch of keyed markings all over my audi. The paint on the walls, cabinets and doors are so incredibly thick you can tell you do not take the time to sand down previous paint and redo it properly. My cabinets are all withered and warped at the bottom. There are giant cracks around the drain of my bathroom sink. The bathtub creeks every time I step in it and I am not a heavy person. I have to body slam my door every time I go into my apartment because the paint is STILL sticking to the wall and I've lived here for 10 months. The toilet is beyond "low flush" and just to flush toilet paper down the toilet takes two flushes. Trying to get any remourse or help form the property management is a joke. They do not care about your needs or your problems. I was told to "just pay with a credit card" when I was having financial difficulty during the COVID-19 breakout when it first started and I was unemployed. My dog was attacked by two cats with the owners present costing me over $2,000 in vet bills and the property management has done nothing to help me and nothing has happened to the tenants. They do not do a good job of enforcing the "no smoking complex" policy and people are constantly smoking weed and cigarettes by my apartment. They treat the back of the complex way worse than they do the front of the complex. There is a running joke that the back of the complex is "section 8 housing" because of how shitty it is. The grass almost never mowed and is like a foot tall most of the time. There are raccoons all that raid the trash cans at night because they do not close the dumpster lids. the dumpsters are always overflowing and people leave mattresses at the end of my street on a regular basis that just sit there for weeks. The gate is also a joke. It's broken most of the time and open so anyone can come in. They never change the gate code. Homeless people are constantly in the complex either trying to use the laundry rooms or syphening through the dumpsters for bottles and cans. Run far from this place.

Run for your life!!!! Drug dealers, theft, and the most vile management office whose evil rule you will live under! Not to mention the actual apartments are expensive ($1600/mo for 2 bedroom) and are pieces of crap and completely falling apart, roach infested, and are dark depressing caves. The pool up front and the workout facility is nice. That's where it ends. I have had my car broken into, my apartment broken into, 4 bicycles stolen off my patio (where you have to keep them as they won't let you lock them up anywhere), there was an identity theft ring being run on the property, homeless people sleeping in the back of my car, homeless people sleeping on the kids playground, homeless people bathing in our Jacuzzi, did I mention the drug dealers, and finally the cause of all of the problem's here.... the management office from hell. I hate to blame the actual people who do the work in the office, as the entire office turns over once every few months. Their indecency must trickle down from upper management who have no concept of human decency and clearly no business sense as well. You want to make more money? How about spending your time cleaning up the crime before harassing elderly tenants who have lived here for 20+ years without a single late rent payment over a few plants that actually bring some color to such a depressing place to live? Why don't you get your acts together in that office and quit being such accusatory assholes to the tenants who pay their rent because your paperwork is all f'd up? Maybe your units wouldn't turn over so much and you wouldn't have to invent more ways to make money which continuously piss off your tenants. If you took care of your tenants, you wouldn't have the worst reputation in town, and you might actually keep some and even attract some tenants you could keep paying your ridiculous rent.

RUN AWAY! DO NOT LEASE HERE! Let me begin by saying that I am a realtor here in Point Loma and I will literally help you find a different rental FOR FREE! Please do yourself a favor and avoid Mariners cove at all cost. I have had nothing but terrible experiences here. To begin with, for 10 months of my year-long lease I had a hooker and her pimp living beneath me. The hooker had "clients" over at all times of the day and night. This meant strange, creepy men around all the time. They also drank and smoked heavily and had parties all the time. It was the most unsafe, uncomfortable living situation I've ever been in. Management is a nightmare to deal with. I am a very low maintenance, easy going person but when my fiancé is getting howled at by the thugs living beneath me everytime she comes and goes, I'm going to certainly raise hell with the powers that be. The leasing reps are all nice enough, but there needs to be a serious management overhaul. The units are cheaply painted (paint was literally tacky all the time a year after move in). They will literally lease to anyone because they are desperate for any business they can get. The beauty and "charm" of this place is an illusion. Your money is better spent elsewhere and, as I said above, I will gladly assist you FOR FREE to help you avoid a terrible living situation.

Terrible Management Super expensive apartments first of all. You see all the good reviews, they are actually hustling their current residents to leave a review for a $1000 by the way. Im almost certain of it nobody has ever won that money. Okay problems: Old property, Planes flying over you every 5 mins, Loud noisy environment, lots of robberies, my electric bike got stolen from outside my patio, my friends car was towed from outside my apartment, paid $400 AND horrible management. When you offer the right money they treat you all nice and well until you see those hidden charges. Just my moving out process has been a nightmare to deal with them. They illegally charged 3 days of the month AND charging me late fees for not paying my 3 day rent on time, i never got notified for those charges until the final deposit request, instead of returning my money they are charging for all the small stuff. We cleaned the apartment and left it in a tip top shape, they still charged us for "professional cleaning". This is a classic catch 22 situation and i got locked out of my own apartment the second day, could not even access my left over items. They are running a mafia at this place. Do yourself a favor, Please look somewhere else.

The level of unprofessionalism is astounding. My husband and I just left there, and I can guarantee we're never going back. My husband is in the navy and I have his power of attorney, something I made clear to them every time we spoke or rather I tried to talk to them. They never returned any of my calls, even though I made it clear that my husband was deployed and couldn't speak with them. And the one time I did speak with them (before I moved out) they didn't at all listen to anything I said, and called my husband back in. Luckily he hadn't shipped out yet, because clearly I'm not important enough to speak with, again even though I had the authority to do so. Other than that, the property was nice, the apartments were okay, nothing special and very dark, but the location was nice. 10/10 would not recommend, take your money elsewhere.

My apartment is currently flooding and the office is not open yet. The complex website has NO emergency phone number listed, so my apartment continues to flood as I am waiting for the damn office to open. So unprofessional.

This place was once so great and fun to live in, now it's basically a fenced in monster. They tow resident's cars and don't notify the owners. Security drivers stalk the parking lots with a tow truck at night, while residents are SLEEPING. No maintenance of buildings and having to pay for covered parking is putting the people who can afford it on high. To even ask someone in section 8 for the very reason they can't make rent, and expect them to pay 20 extra dollars for parking is ridiculous. Don't move here unless you can utterly and completely live by such strict standards. They only care about bringing in new residents and not even their current ones. The location is all it has going for it.

We lived in one unit for 3 years and then moved to another unit. Shortly after moving into the new unit we discovered we had bed bugs. It was a 6 month nightmare of washing, re washing, removing all of our items in our house into trash bags, etc. etc. We had to dispose of $4000 of furniture. The management sent out people to treat which did not work. If a hotel has them in one room they treat the surrounding room thoroughly. Our home was never treated thoroughly because you cannot treat it thoroughly with people living there. We finally decided we have to move because they were never going to go away. We gave notice on 7/3 to be out on 8/10. We wrote letters to the management and the management company detailing the grief and expense incurred. We had to replace all of our furniture when we moved so we have now thrown away $4000 worth of furniture and spent another $4000 replacing it, not to mention all the other things we bought like new mattress covers, hundreds of dollars to wash all our clothes, bedding, etc. over and over. All we asked was to be let out of the lease early without a penalty. Well no suck luck, they are billing us through 9/4 which would have been 60 days. Thanks Mariners Cove for the bed bugs and rip off. Hope the new tenants don't get them. It was 4342 unit F 2 story closest to playground and pool.

Ok so one star might be harsh but Mariners Cover Apartments are complete money grabbing crooks!!! Firstly, My husband and I are currently breaking our lease due to the fact we are purchasing a house, these people expect 60 days notice and a FULL MONTHS RENT penalty, so they have us financially liable for one 1/4 of a years rental. This is insane!! I would have accepted 30 days notice and one month full rental penalty but 3 months? talk about a chunk of our hard earned savings going to the dogs!! Secondly, they allow predatory towing to continuously go on in the complex. It is ILLEGAL to tow away a vehicle from an apartment complex without having the property manager or owner call the towing company themselves for each individual car. I highly doubt a property manager was on sight this morning at 1am when I watched them tow away my sweet new neighbors car. Lastly, only half this complex looks nice and well kept, the other half seems full of run down apartments with shady people living there. The gym they boast about is full of non working equipment, there's about 3 good machines and free weights. I mean this is what your rent is paying for, could they at least have working equipment? Lastly, this morning I received an email stating proudly that "Mariners Cove now accept creditcard payments for rent for a small courtesy fee" (which would never have appealed to me until we had to fork out 1/4 years rent.) so I reply asking what they charge for courtesy fee? reply $38!! $38 for what??? So of course I asked if this was a bank fee or another Mariners Cove made up fee? to which I am still waiting for a reply! Th only thing that I will say about this money grabbing place is that I made some amazing neighbor friends! And the repair guys are great! Lesson learned - no matter how friendly and nice and great the leasing agents are when you sign up, watch out for all the hidden things you will have to pay for!! Dont stay here on principal!!!!!!!!!

Hey people if you looking to rent a apartment in here so be aware don't go on there big smile faces as once you sign the lease everything is gonna be over as they promise something else and deliver something else it's been almost 6 months I have requested the maintenance department to looking into my matter but there is nothing has been done until now and when I go and complain in the leasing office all they say is they gonna look into my matter I pay a good amount of rent and been living here for two years now it's been hell of journey with the management I am looking forward to complete this leasing and go to a nice place where people treat as people

My roommate and I lived here for over three years and at first it was good but then the management company changed and it went downhill. I would give zero stars if I could! The gate almost never worked, the laundry rooms always had multiple machines that were broken, the plumbing was a nightmare, I never lived somewhere that lost power as frequently as we did here, the water temperature was either too cool or scalding hot (even if you didn't touch the faucet) and trying to get a response from the new management team was impossible. We've been moved out for almost a month now and still have yet to receive our deposit back... it was sent to the address we just moved out from, that makes zero sense and seems to coincidental to me. What would they do if tenants were no longer amicable after they move out? Sending one refund check is a terrible idea. We only stayed for three years because of the pandemic, because there weren't many other reasons to stay. Heed the warnings from all of the reviews, there's a reason there's so much turnover in this community!

This place is a dump. If you want to live in an extremely cheap complex and pay an outrageous amount of money, welcome home.

CRIME CRIME CRIME!!! DO NOT LIVE HERE!!! I have lived in Mariners Cove for a year and a half. I am in the process of looking for something buy or I would move out immediately. It is covered in Section 8 people that sit in their houses all day, smoke weed and steal your stuff from each apartment. I have had my bike, 3 amazon packages, my car registration and parking pass stolen all within a year. I have never experienced such theft in my life. As a single woman, living on her own this is a serious problem. I do not feel comfortable in my own home. I always have to park far away from my apartment because there is never any parking. And who wants to pay an additional $30 a month for a car port? Parking has always been included in every apartment complex I have lived in. I have written emails, made phone calls and dropped by to let them know what a problem I have been having and they have said nothing but, "we are working on it." How? Because I have had so many things stolen. Even when I said I had my visitor parking pass stolen they were going to charge me $50 to replace it. All because they cannot keep their theft problem under control. You would think with the high rent they could afford a 24 hour security service. Also, the laundry rooms are always broken and work poorly. STAY AWAY!! I cannot wait to move out once my lease is up.

This place is terrible to live. Everyone that I know that has lived here has hated it and I wish I had never moved in. Since moving in, I have had a leak in my bathroom that lasted a month, a broken refrigerator, a leak in the kitchen. I've had two leaks in the sinks and when I moved in, the dishwasher and stove were broken. The service that I have received has been awful. People are unhelpful and at times downright rude. The only really helpful one has been Melinda. This place stinks. I can't wait to move.

STAY AWAY! This is by far the worst place I have lived. Initially the staff is great until you sign the lease. I started renting in February and at first it was nice. Since then it has all been downhill. Here is a list of the issues I have had: Since February I have asked numerous times to get these issues fixed to date they have not 1. Kitchen sink leaks 2. Both bathroom fans are broken 3. The closet doors (not easy to open and close) broken 4. Cannot use my porch being the sprinkler sprays all dirt and leaves on it (sprinkler off but left the porch a mess) 5. Infested with spiders inside and outside the apartment 6. There are termites 7. Mold grows all over the apartment 8. Rent website goes down frequently from everyone trying to pay at same time (Since July I was told the late fee would be refunded...... I am still waiting) 9. Our dishes and groceries stick to the cabinets Here are a few small things that are irritating that I would not normally complain about but I HATE this place: 1. 10 dollars a spot (if you do not get covered parking) no guaranteed spot typically have to park 4 buildings away 2. The spas are ALWAYS dirty 3. I was told to take plants off my patio (cleaned it when I first moved in but realized quickly it was futile due to sprinkler) Apparently it is ok for some, empty alcohol bottles are also welcomed! 4. I can hear my neighbors go to the bathroom in the morning... gross! 5. The sprinklers spray the sidewalks mostly (have to walk in the road to not get sprayed if possible) Worst when you have clean laundry and have to walk through them to get to your apartment. 6. Office does not accept packages, drivers told to throw packages over porches. My roommate and I always want to yell don't do it when we see perspective renters. Also the staff is totally fake. They only acknowledge you if they are in front of perspective renters. My roommate and I are on the hunt for a new place ASAP!

I moved in here exactly one month ago and as of this morning we are looking for a new place. Although it looks decent from the outside, you will quickly discover that the tenants here constantly attract the San Diego PD (we have drove in to see a trio of police cars near our unit a total of FIVE TIMES in one month). There are loud tenants late at night, a constant smell of cigarettes, and insufficient guest parking. They are a pet-friendly community, which means that you may have to shoe off cats from your car every morning before you leave to work or school. Parking is another issue, since many tenants have friends that seem to ignore their restriction to "GUEST PARKING" and will park in your spots. My roommate and I have also on numerous occasions have tenants park in our RESERVED spots that we are being charged an extra $20/mo for. The only remedy is to leave a note on the car (which then makes it awkward if the vehicle belongs to a neighbor) or tow. Again, another charge for something that we are not getting value out of. If that were not enough, there were an abundance of problems upon move-in. Our carpets were not cleaned, and after they were initially cleaned, had to be re-done the next week. The bathroom power outlets were not working; one of the burners on the oven does not heat; we were without hot water for 2 hours one morning (with no explanation or apology), and WORST of all, the security gates surrounding the community have been WIDE OPEN for over 30 days. The leasing office has yet to fix the problem, despite sending out emails saying that they will be doing so. I'm sure there are worse apartment communities out there, but for the price we are paying, this is NOT WORTH IT. Please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere, and avoid having to break a lease and move out. Staff is courteous but essentially unhelpful, as the first agent we spoke with, Nalee was completely incompetent, and Jocelyn, who is nice enough, will speak to you in a way to get you off the phone or out of her office as quickly as possible. The only helpful rep. in the office is Julia. DON'T LET THE NICE LEASING OFFICE FOOL YOU - AVOID MARINER'S COVE!!!

Super expensive apartments first of all. Old property, Planes flying over you every 5 mins, Loud noisy environment, lots of robberies, my electric bike got stolen from outside my patio, my friends car was towed from outside my apartment, paid $400 AND horrible management. When you offer the right money they treat you all nice and well until you see those hidden charges. Just my moving out process has been a nightmare to deal with them. They illegally charged 3 days of the month AND charging me late fees for not paying my 3 day rent on time, i never got notified for those charges until the final deposit request, instead of returning my money they are charging for all the small stuff. We cleaned the apartment and left it in a tip top shape, they still charged us for "professional cleaning". This is a classic catch 22 situation and i got locked out of my own apartment the second day, could not even access my left over items. They are running a mafia at this place. Do yourself a favor, Please look somewhere else.

I would like to reiterate a previous review: DO NOT MOVE HERE!!! You cannot even trust what the management says. They are trained scam artists. The leasing agents definitely misrepresent the units, from billing to maintenance. One thing I noticed recently, is that we are now being charged for trash, even though we were told at signing, that this would not be the case. Our leasing agent also indicated that he had no idea what our monthly utility fees would be, despite the fact that the company has now included our conserve bill into our monthly rental bill. I'm just completely over the nickle and diming of this company. They charge us for parking, even though there is not enough parking. We have to purchase laundry cards that constantly break. The apartments themselves are full of silverfish and moths, and nothing is in working order. The amenities close early and open late. I could go on and on. With all the extra little fees, our rent jumps by over $100.00 per month. Totally unacceptable. I wouldn't be so irritated by all of this if rent wasn't so ridiculously high. I chose to rent here because I felt I would get good use of a heated pool (not) and clean jacuzzi (gross) after getting home from a crap day at work (9pm). I waste so much time looking for a parking space when I get home, that I barely get to enjoy any of this. I can't wait to move!

So I am glad to hear that I am not the only unhappy tenant living in Mariner's Cove. I am getting ready to move because after being a good tenant for two years they have told me that they will not be renewing my lease. I have always been on time for rent and never had any complaints from fellow neighbors. Because I am on unemployment now the leasing office has decided that I do not qualify for the apartment. Let's just start by saying that we have neighbors who are always in domestic fights and dogs who bark non-stop but they are going to be allowed to stay. I on the other hand have been nothing but a good tenant. The leasing office is not willing to work with me. I guess it may be a blessing in disguise seeing that I feel like I am being treated like section 8 when that is so far from the case. This complex is no longer safe. I had a domestic violence fight happen the other night right below my patio and also have a friend who had both of his arms broken after being attacked in the parking lot. The parking fees are crazy seeing that there is never any parking. I should also mention that my boyfriend is a Veteran and we have been told to move out but they will rent to anyone on section 8. Maybe we should think about having 4 kids and going on welfare and we would def qualify. I can not wait to get out of this place. DO NOT RENT HERE

This place is a money trap, they will try to charge you for breathing if they could get away with it.

For one I have learned to rely on yelp reviews, Starting I would give everyone the benefit of the doubt on this site.If I WOULD HAVE READ THEE REVIEWS ON THIS PLACE I WOULD HAVE NEVER MOVED IN.Yes, the move in deal is wonderful. The prices for water/trash/sewge that they do not inform you on a diffferent story its atleast an additional 350. Also, lets play into par that they allow ANIMALS as a vet tech that is why I supported this place. Yes san diego is full of fleas and i know theyre everywhere but this place is infested.I have a kitten who is indoor and we have a serious problem as well as my neighbors.They will con you into water/sewage/trash that you will never know thee expense and dont get me started on parking.They con you into every buck and love section 8 which I have nothing against but they thrive on it.

Do not rent from this complex. Rooms and property are fine. They have a private tow company come and tow residents and residents guests on a nightly basis. They even have a flat rate for residents. They tow you from areas that are marked as public parking. If you are okay adding $200 every night to your rent for tows, then go ahead and rent. Otherwise, stay away. This place should be zero stars. It is a scam and awful maintenance and management. RUN

I cannot wait to move out. I have no idea where the even remotely positive reviews are coming from. The pool? That's about the only positive thing about this place. The rent is WAY too high for this place. Then, on top of that they add all kinds of additions like paying for uncovered parking. Really? I think they would charge you for keys if they could get away with it. The buildings are old. The entire complex is relatively ghetto (things are stolen off first floor patios all the time) as they one of the few apartment complexes to offer low-income housing. The dog area has 3/4 sand in it, which is not maintained at all and has crap everywhere and with that... comes parasites and bugs. My dogs have gotten fleas from the dog area twice now, so I just stopped going over there. Just... keep looking at the other reviews. Then, just keep looking.

Theres one security guard who will stalk you and will ask you if you live here and tell you to leave the area while youre standing on your doorstep and question you if hes sees you again going to your own damn apartment overall these apartments are in a nice area but the guards and some of the neighbors are unbareable

This is the worse place i have ever lived in, it looks nice at first glance but the parking issues laundry problems and the host of other issues listed by everyone else speeks for its self. I called the customer relations number and got the run around on the issues I DO NOT RECOMMEND MOVING HERE when my lease is up im gone. I"m tempted to break my lease and move.

FRAUDULENT!!!! I went to check out this place and thought it was a good option. In talking to the leasing agent WARREN he offered some discount program and it seemed like a great deal..... .....as the saying goes, IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! When all was said and done visiting the units and property he then asked me to pay deposit to hold the unit (500dlls) and after two weeks of back and forth's finally the leasing agent told me I couldn't get in the program so I went to get my deposit back; WARREN said I will be getting it within 5 business days that was almost 2 weeks ago!!!!!! I called back to inquire about my refund and WARREN informed me the refund had not yet been processed and that it would take another 3-5 days!!! I have spoken with the Manager MARIBEL and other staff members JENNIFER and left voicemails to CUSTOMER RELATIONS. I have also written emails to their Regional offices. MARIBEL keeps making excuses and avoiding me at times. Have still not heard from her superiors and at day 10 I still haven't received my 500.00 dlls that I gave in good faith. Funnily enough the money came out of my banking account that same day and it's taking two weeks and counting to get it back! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PROPERTY FROM ANYTHING MANAGED BY AIMCO and if, after reading my review, should you chose to go for it do not give any money upfront and do not believe any promises.

Although Mariners cove offers many great amenities, Mariners cove has recently become more greedy and started charging for under cover parking, making it so that there is absolutely no parking. I drove around the complex several times last night after coming home from work, only to discover that I was going to have to park outside of the complex in the rain. There never used to be a problem with parking before, but now their greed is making impossible to just come home after work....The rent is already to high for this place, but now they want you to pay just to park!!!!! Don't waste your time, don't sign a lease here

You couldn't pay me enough to say anything positive about Mariner's Cove Apartments! I left after living there 16 years, and watching it become a more and more unpleasant place to live. The third management company to buy the buildings, (The land is owned by the Federal Government.) is the worst yet. Not only are they extremely restrictive about any personalization of the outside of your apartment, they have gone so far as to throw away items that they didn't want on the ledges of the short walls around the patios. They want uniformity, conformity. They also do not want any low income people living there. Because the Federal Government owns the land, they must rent 10% of the apartments to such persons. I personally know of three people they forced to leave because those people were on Section 8 housing assistance. They are clever. What they do is to harrass these people until they give up and leave. They make it very un-pleasant for them to live there. The kinds of things they do are: Threatening to evict those people; being especially restrictive of what those people display outside their apartments, to the point of removing any of those items. I had two plants removed from the ledge around my patio, that isn't the worst of it. I'd planted a jade plant, the very same kind that is planted all over the complex, when I moved in, 16 years ago. I asked the management if it was ok, and was given guidelines for where to plant it. Because I planted it, it was dug up, chopped up, and thrown in the garbage. That was my last straw. There are many other things which were done in their attempts to make me leave. Such as sending me a 30 Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit every month, even though management has known from the day I moved in that I get my Social Security check on the third of the month and can't pay my rent until then. The initial owners of the complex understood. Besides which, a person on Section 8 has until the 5th of every month to pay their rent. Section 8 pays 75% of the rent amount on the first of every month. A guaranteed rent! Two of the three low income people I know of that were harassed died from the constant harassment. Yes, they were harassed to death. The third person has visibly aged. I left before that could happen to me. I intend to enjoy the last years of my life. I will not sit still and be harassed to death. There's more. When I first moved in there was a gardening company with many gardeners who came every week and took beautiful care of the grounds. Now there are two gardeners who try to take care of the grounds, which are extensive. The complex has 500 units. The grounds used to be park like. That's why I wanted to live there. Now many of the trees have been cut down. Of those that remain, many have been mutilated by chopping off "dangerous" large branches. There also used to be 5 maintenance men. Now there are 3. It's to the point that those 5 men can't speak, even to say "Hello," because they are overworked. There's more. There is an ongoing presence of drug dealing. About five years back, there was even a "sting." Those drug dealers were caught and arrested. Others have taken their places. I know because I saw drug deals going down on my walks. Yes, I was frightened. That's not the only kind of crime. Many times Navy personnel who go on deployment come back to find that all their belongings have been taken by burglars. I personally witnessed one such attempted burglary. Those burglars were caught. A rare occurrence. The gated community is not true. The fence along the wetland preserve is ordinary chain link fence such as you might put around your yard. At the back of the complex on the side that borders the wetlands preserve, the fence has been broken down and homeless who camp in the preserve, just walk over it. When they do, they steal small items on patios, and inside apartments if the patio door's been left open. The fence that's at the front of the complex is often breached by people who don't want to walk to the pedestrian gates. The fence isn't very sturdy, and it's easy to kick out a slat. Those slats are replaced every few months. Which brings me to the gates. The gates are set so that three or four vehicles at a time can enter. All a person has to do is wait in line to get in. If they bother. The "gate code." All that needs to be punched in is 1,2,3,4, and the "secure" gate opens. Pedestrian gates are locked. That is except the one that has been welded shut. That was done because homeless were taping the gate so that it could be opened without a key. Then they found out that all they had to do was wait in line for a car to open the gate so that they could easily ride their bicycles in, carrying their bags of cans and bottles. That's enough for me for now. All I want is for you to not move there. Even if the management is nice to begin with, believe me, they won't stay that way.

I've spent two years here and it's been pretty good. Now they are forcing people to pay more to park...complete ripoff! I just got home at 6 on Sunday and there is NO WHERE for me to park -- unless I fork over additional cash for the now "premium" spots. As a result, there's no parking for me and absolutely no guest parking available either. NOT the terms of my original lease, so I'm going to look into breaking it. There is no longer safe and adequate parking here. Tenants are being forced to pay $30 a month to park at Mariner's Cove -- like our rent isn't high enough! Horrible.

DO NOT MOVE HERE management is so sketch and we got completely screwed out of our deposit when we left the apt in mint condition. Called aimco the main office to make a formal complaint but the management at mariners left no paper trail of us paying the full deposit... Maintenance men are creepy as well as security at night... there are a bunch of addicts that live on sight and some lady literally tried to hang herself in front of our apt outside on a tree. Hot tub is always broken, our bathtub was always clogging and they would shut off water randomly all the time, washer & dryers half worked and didn't work. Pretty expensive for the actual worth of the unit.

It saddens me to write a negative review for this place. My fiance and I lived in this complex for a year, and quite enjoyed it. Parking was fine, our neighbors were quiet, and it was in a great location. Things were going well, until they increased our rent by $100. My fiance spoke with someone in the office, and he was helpful (do not know his name), and told us to file an appeal to see if we could get this increase reduced. Unfortunately, it did not go through, so we had to move. Another gentleman stopped by to do our pre-check out, and told my fiance that everyone is charged $100 regardless for the apartments to be professionally cleaned, which is very frustrating. We moved out about 2 weeks ago, and i just received our final account statement and apartment inspection report. These people charged us $120 for "partial apartment painting" and listed "some marks" as the reason for the charge. I don't know of anyone who has been charged for normal wear and tear of apartment walls, because everyone hangs things up on their walls. We used small thumb tacks to hang everything, and were told we would not be charged for this in the pre-check out. I just called the office and spoke with a woman named Ida Williams who was EXTREMELY rude. Absolutely no customer service skills at all, and so much attitude. Ended up hanging up on her because I was so frustrated with her. She stated that in order for residents to not be charged for the apartments to be repainted after move out, they must be living there for at least 5 years. I find this extremely ridiculous and we were never informed of this when moving in/out. Because of this terrible experience with the move out, I will not be recommending this place to anyone who asks me about it. Very sad, as our experience was mostly positive.

This place is absolutely TERRIBLE! When I brought my items at 7:00am to move in on my first day of rent, they said they were having paperwork problems and couldn't give me the keys yet. Even though I had already paid my deposit and first month's rent, I ended up waiting at the park with a full Uhaul load of boxes and furniture until 4:30pm when I called them upset and they finally said the paperwork was done. When I moved out after a year of living in this unkempt apartment complex, I was overcharged on my monthly statement by almost $400! Even though when I had called prior to the 1st day to make sure I had enough money for my prorated month of rent and the cost for my new rental, and the office staff quoted me my rent for the month, they STILL OVERCHARGED me! I had to borrow money to move in to my new location. Additionally, I have been calling the apartment non-stop....It's been a month now and I still haven't received any money back from Mariner's Cove for their mistake.

The maintenance staff is amazing - when we moved in both toilets were broken and had to be completely replaced No one, including Maribel, in the leasing office can or will help you with anything. The tennis courts are permanently closed > they are listed as an amenity in our lease. The pools are nice and the gym is ok.

Have had health issues over the past month to then find we had mold in our closet due to a leak in our closet. After notifying them, we then came home to our belongings tossed in our bedroom without any consent. They then told us they would put all our belongings back and they never answered my calls or emails. After sleeping in the living room for two nights, we finally decided to do everything ourselves. The mold, spiders, LITTLE TO NO communication with this complex is horrible. Do not live here.

Management has just changed hands and is absolutely awful. They will not help you if you have any issues and have no concerns about the quality of your experience at Mariners Cove. Paige, the new manager, has no idea what is going on and doesn't know how to run a business. She handles her problems like a child on the playground and has no idea how to deal with residents. She is known around the community as someone who is rude, immature, and unprofessional. They will take as much money as possible from you with no hesitation. The apartment themselves are mediocre. The gym is awful and appliances within the apartment are always breaking down. Listen to the reviews and ratings and find somewhere else to live. You will regret moving into these apartments.

I did not want to rate them a 1. If I could it would be a -10. One of the WORST Managerment I've ever come across. This property manager should not even be allowed to be in her position. There are rules in the lease about things on your patio, dogs on leash, picking up waste from your dogs, etc. nothing is enforced and residence do whatever they feel like doing and don't get reprimanded or change is not implemented. The buildings are so old they are falling apart rotted wood hangs from carports and balconies are propped up by Support's because they're falling apart. there's dog feces everywhere trash all over cigarette butts and bottles of urine lined the Fenceline. Finally when it was time to move out, they would not even call back property managers that were asking for references. They would also not respond to any emails or phone calls, but I'm sure is out of spite. This management company is crooked and deceitful. Beware!!! Do not even think about this property.

DO NOT LIVE HERE!!!!!!!! This is the worst company I have EVER run across! they are sleazy, take advantage of the tenants and refuse to handle any issues so that they can "claim" that there have been no complaints. They sell this place advertising that it has all these ongoing services (bug control, hot water, trash etc.) not telling you that you will receive a EXTRA bill for these services. really with the over $2000 a month that you charge times however many hundred places you couldn't include the water and trash in the rent???? what a fucking joke! and then you charge for all parking and god forbid you want to know you have a spot when you come home, then you get to pay 4 times as much and they will park in your spot get upset at you for wanting to park in the spot that you pay for and then cover your car with the hardest water spots, that require 3 car washes to remove! Then because they are cheap they will change the carpet upstairs to hard wood floors so they do not have to replace the carpets, so now you can hear EVERY STEP and SOUND from upstairs! and I specifically asked about that prior to move in and was ASSURED that I was NOT GOING TO HEAR THE UPSTAIRS NEIGHBORS!!!!!!! yet, I could hear EVERYTHING! The leasing office is the worse, SO FAKE AND CONDESCENDING!!!! Anytime you need something they are RUDE! Apparently they just got some new office staff that have ZERO training in their jobs, because anyone with a brain would know that they way they are speaking to people is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!! Again, you can pay to have the creepy maintenance workers uniforms washed and delivered, but you cannot hire a manager that actually has experience and some education in the job???? The maintenance workers stare at you as they go by, NOT a smile or wave or even just ignoring me would be better than the creepy stares. Now they are trying to fix up the decaying buildings, so they are taking all the money that they scammed from the people who they tricked into living there and use the parking spots that they pay for workers! really the hired help needs to park in the complex! I have never met a company that put the hired help over the tenants! They also sell it as a clean air facility, but it is absolutely not! As long as the person is moving while smoking nothing is said, and hired workers are also allowed to smoke on the premises, because they don't live there???? like take makes it better!!! And don't expect to actually be able to walk on the sidewalks, dogs will shit there and it will be there until it rains hard enough to remove it, which means it will be there for at least a year and no one will take care of it!!! They will also use blowers to blow trash and dust into your patio on constant schedule a minimum of every other day. Then on top of that they will send threatening letters claiming that they will evict you if they do not agree with what you have chosen to have on your patio! really if you have more that 2 plants then you can be given 3 days to vacate the premises. Then to just solidify all the shady crap they pull, I cannot turn in my keys until the absolute last day on my lease so that they can send me a bill for water, and trash and bug maintenance when I had already vacated the property!!!!! Because that few extra dollars is that important!!!! they already have rent for a vacant apartment they need 8 days of water also!!!!! And they would rather have the apartments changed every year than actually try to keep tenants! for renewing all you get is your fees raised! rent will be a minimum of $100 more and parking will increase as well! So when you see the range in prices it is not because you are getting anything more or better, the longer you live there the more they charge you! and don't forget the fees on top of that! I would NEVER recommend this place to anyone, not even my worse enemy! That is how awful this place is!

The employees here do not know how to communicate with one another! I was told by one employee that there was no breed restrictions. I called again to confirm and another person said there were no breed restrictions. I go and make an app to look at the place and when I get there I was turned away because of course there are breed restrictions. Well looking at other reviews I guess it's a good thing that we got turned away but they all employees should really be on the same page and know what's going on.

I doubt this will stay up very long. BUT WARNING TO ANYONE WHO IS THINKING ABOUT MOVING INTO MARINERS COVE. I'm still stuck here and its still awful. A couple of months ago, a KNOWN (Mariners Cove)neighborhood drug dealer took too much of the dope he was selling and freaked out. Scaring myself and the surrounding neighbors. The police were called, and management was on scene. Who do I see the very next week walking around talking on his cell phone in a suspicious manner... THE SAME guy who got freaked out on his own drugs! The management did not say one word to myself or other tenants that were around about what they were going to do about this, or even just reassure us that they would do whatever was in their power, so that something like this wouldn't happen again. Imagine if this guy had a gun, or what if their were children around. I'm not saying that Mariners Cove can stop people from doing drugs, I'm saying that this is most certainly NOT the first time that the police have been called about this same person...and he still lives here. Everyday I see more and more empty apartments, I can't wait to be the next to go!

Avoid this place AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Halfway through my lease and I'm scared to death. Locked in and miserable. Every bad review on here is 100 percent true. Woke up in the middle of the night last night to use bathroom and a 5 inch thick stream of carpenter ants stretched from corner to corner under our bed through cracks in the wall. They will only come to exterminate on fridays (undisclosed time) if you come in to the office hours between 8-5 on the weekdays to put your name on a LIST to get the place treated by an outside company that comes once a week FOR ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WITH TERRIBLE BUG ISSSUES. don't need to go down the list of messed up things this place does on the daily to scam and steal from people who obviously can't afford it. just read the many other comments below. Upon our arrival on move in day (with more than a months notice of our move in date) after driving 1000 miles straight we were ignored in the waiting room of an EMPTY leasing office for close to an hour, when finally acknowledged we were told our apartment wasn't ready for us yet and asked to wait for maintenance to finish repairs...yikes After moving in we have experienced power outages, our CAR BEING TOWED FROM OUR PARKING SPACE, dry rot on our balcony (which was promised to be fixed in days and wasn't for another 4 months) multiple broken appliances (fridge and toilet) general embarrassing uncleanliness, broken drawers, clogged drains, and an ANT INFESTATION, we are STILL encountering new and disgusting issues on a daily basis. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

The worst management I've ever come across in my life. Poorly scheduled/planned maintenance and there is absolutely zero parking unless you want to pay $40.00 for a "covered" spot. It's $10.00 to have a parking permit when you can't even get a parking spot to begin with! This place is terrible. Update 8/30/2018... No one ever spoke with me about parking concerns. Also, the staff rarely enforces tenants about rules for example smoking, dogs off leash, and extremely loud music. Very unsatisfied with Mariners cove and would never recommend to anyone. Definitely not renewing my lease.

Several issues with how quick the office is at responding. They now have each spot assigned, like every spot is paid for and bought from panic from this new parking system they started. I've talked to several people and they all hate it! The company that owns these apartments are just sucking up every dollar possible. They are making like 12 guest spots for 35 building (6-8 units a building)

Wow, WORST apartment complex I've ever lived in resulting in the worst year of my life. Don't move here. This place isn't worthy of my time or effort in explaining why, but if you read the rest of these reviews (especially the filtered ones), you'll get a good idea.

****Edit***** You people with the mold in your homes, on your shoes. You need to get out now and sue them that's so detrimental to health. These people are downright assholes to the point when I signed a lease (several years back when I was a kiddo) I was warned that someone would be knocking on the door if I put anything on the porch. I moved in one night and it was INFESTED with baby cockroaches. I turned out the door and left. Kept the keys and used the pool I lived literally across the street. Used the jacuzzi and pool for years.

I want to thank everyone for their reviews of these apartments. I was very close to signing a year lease with these guys and now that I really know what goes on here, I was able to run away before paying money. It's a bummer, the amenities sounded great but that is probably where they net everyone in. Again, thank you everyone! You saved me from a potential nightmare.

So far my husband and I have loved living in this apartment complex. The area is convenient, I live right by my job, and the beach is only a few miles away. The neighbors are also very friendly and the staff keeps this place clean and running smoothly. They're pet friendly too! Only two complaints I have are parking (I have a carport at least) and the fact that living in the lower apartment whenever the leaf blower comes around they blow leaves all into our patio, it's very annoying when I constantly try to keep it clean and leaves and dust just keep getting blown into our patio. Update: this community was at first a dream, we decided to stay here because it was affordable rent in a nice area. Soon after fast forward to when we move out these people are basically making up charges for everything. The whole time we lived in this community we had to use an employee access code to enter our apartment because we never received a smart hub to set up our passcodes. We contacted management twice about it and we never received any help from them so we let it go and continued using the employee passcode. After our move out we're accused of taking a smart hub we never received in the first place while renting there and they deduct $200 from our security deposit. During our last few months there our stove had a heat damage crack which we were told we wouldn't have to pay for most likely because it was heat damage. The new community manager was never in contact with us regarding this issue and they never replaced the stove for the remainder of the time we lived there causing us to minimize the use of our stove because we couldn't even cook on it so it wouldn't worsen the crack. We weren't there for the final inspection and we're being billed for many things including the stove, they took our whole security deposit and are charging us $100+ even more after taking away the whole deposit. Once your lease is coming to an end they ignore you and offer you terrible service. Avoid the future headaches and stray far away from this place that has terrible communication with its residents. They also have popcorn ceiling and if you live on the bottom floor, expect a lot of white dust everyday all over your furniture and clothing.

Where can I start on the bad things that happened to me at Mariners Cove. 1. Within 2 months of living there I had the back end of my car spray painted along with 5-6 other cars that had a big pink spray paint mark on them. 2. I also had my right mirror hit off by someone joyriding with a baseball bat while my car was parked there. 3. I had 3 leaks in the apartment over the course of a year which were handled poorly. There was mold left in the apartment due to the leaks but nothing was ever done. 4. I had to move out of the apartments a month early because I am moving overseas to China. Usually in my experience an apartment or rental property would give someone like me a break. I pay full rent on time every month with no complaints or any problems. I explained to the manager my situation and she said that I would have to pay the full rent despite not being there because of the contract. I totally understand the contract and what it stands for but as I am moving overseas I was hoping they would be nice enough to cut me a little slack. No such luck. 5. At the end of my stay there (2-3 months) I went in and told the apartment manager about all the all the cockroaches in my apartment. Her response was " oh just run the dishwasher and the garbage disposal a little more" Lady I'm a single guy I eat out every night and have no reason to run that stuff nor do create trash that sits in the disposal that would attract bugs. Your apartments need to be sprayed. 6. Pools and Jacuzzis are disgusting. Too many kids with poor hygiene. Good luck getting last months rent from me Mariners Cove.

I finally left this place! Maintenance scheduled me for a pre-move out inspection 3 times. I was stood up all three times. Not a call, note or smoke signal to let me know they couldn't make it. Truly unprofessional. When my move out date finally came, nobody showed up to do the final inspection. Shocker... I took a detailed video of the apartment upon move-out so I look forward to see what they have to say about my deposit. More to follow.

I truly wish there was 0 stars!!!! The pictures I attached were the ones of the apartment I was told I was getting. I was so horrified when I saw my apartment I ran out and wish i had taken pics to show you the comparison!! Do not move there at any price! This place is horrible and will show you an apartment that looks like a model apartment tell you at the apartment you're getting minus a few things such as a different color cabinet and no built in microwave. Thank God I came by 24 hours before I was supposed to move in to take measurements. When I walked into my actual apartment I was shocked and horrified. First of all supposed to pick up my keys Saturday morning at 10 am went to take measurements on Thursday night at 5. There was another person that took me by the palace he was not the same one that rented it to me originally. When we got up to the apartment on Thursday evening even the guy said are you sure that this is the right apartment? We made sure it was the same apartment walked in and to my dismay there was still the last tenant stuff in the apartment outside the apartment the floors were thrashed the cabinetry was 25 years old the hardwood floors look like it has not been replaced in 20 years and all old appliances. When you are charging someone $1800 a month and telling them that their apartment is going to look like those attached and you walk into this you can imagine my horror. I ran so far away from that place and I recommend you do the same the place is a dump and they just think it is okay to do this to people and they will just take it. I had to pay to move twice once into a storage because I had already booked movers and gave my notice and another to move into my awesome new place that from the get go showed me my apartment in which I am paying less and it is about 20,000 times better than Mariners sweat box. Less than 600 sq feet and no air I really feel as though it worked out for the better and I am grateful I stood up for myself. But I have no paid 2x the amount for moving because of their lies. The attached pictures are the apartment they originally showed me so if they do this to you don't believe them and don't sign anything until you see the actual apartment!!!

It's not so much this place is beautiful and gated with pools it's the fact that despite there being science behind how carpet holds, carries and grows bacteria and anything else you track under your shoes, the refuse to replace or update our unit but they'll remodel empty apartments for NEW RESIDENTS. NO LOYALTY FOR THOSE OF US HAVIG STAYED FOR YEARS.

I have lived here for over 4 years.And I had a flooding of my apartment with things ruined that they did not reimburse me.For the flood was a problem of faulty pipes on their part. Now, for the last month of March 2024 I have a mouse infestation. I have caught over 30 Mice in my apartment without help from the management team. And they still have not closed the hole where the mice are getting in under my dishwasher. It is now Easter Sunday. I was supposed to have Easter at my apartment and woke up to find 2 mice in a trap this morning.marabell the manger is no help I wouldn't move here

My roomate and I moved in here in 2011 and signed a one year lease. At first glance this place looks amazing. 2 pools, gym, parks, plenty of parking, pet friendly, laundry rooms, etc. However, this is not the case. I have had my fair share of living in San Diego, as I tend to move year after year. Never once have I felt so compelled to come here and alert the community about such an awful place. To start, the customer service is beyond terrible. Everyone in the office has such a rude tone and never welcomes you with a friendly hello upon entering the office. In addition, they lost my rent check on two separate occasions and attempted to charge me a late fee. In the end, they realized they lost my check in their pile of papers. Never did I receive an apology for coming home to an eviction notice for no reason. In addition, those perks that seemed so wonderful in the beginning are only to draw you in. The 2 pools were always dirty and at least one was always broken. The parks are never crowded with children, but rather middle ages teens or adults making noise. The complex is surrounded by drug dealers, which only brings in more unsafe people enter your living community throughout the day and night. The parking is a nightmare! They tell you that it is included, and that you even have plenty of guest parking. However, they don't tell you until you sign the lease that people are able to buy "upgraded" parking under an overhang. Ultimately, this leaves others, including yourself if you don't buy the upgrade, having to park very far from your apartment in an unsafe neighborhood. The apartment itself is in good condition but be aware that it is like a cave, with no real windows to let the sun in. The apartment they showed my roomate and I before signing the lease, which was an "exact model of the one we would be taking" was a lie. We had no mirrored closets like they had showed us and our heater was smack dab in the middle of our wall in the living room. (Not off to a convenient corner like the one they showed). But of course, the lease is signed and it is already too late. Be prepared to lose your entire deposit and even owe more. Our walls and carpet were in PERFECT condition. We never painted and even had the carpets cleaned before we moved out. We still got charged $95 for wall damage and $400 for carpet damage. I am currently trying to fight these charges and alas, they have no pictures to prove these damages but refuse to give in. I have NEVER been charged for damage in all my years of renting. Like I said before, I have NEVER given such a low rating to an apartment complex or had such a bad experience. Generally I am on yelp to only rave about a company. Please do not take these reviews lightly and be careful when signing a lease with Mariner's Cove.

THE WORST place to move to! I want to give less then zero stars! don't be fooled by their beautiful website and promises to be a "community"! the management company is a Joke, they don't care at all about your needs when things happen. Cheap painting, bad toilet, old stuff. I can't wait for my contract to expire so I can move out!!!!! they breach the contract and there is nothing you can do if you can't afford a lawyer... The unit under me caught serious fire and I have all their burnt furniture laying on the grass by my door and window for a MONTH now!!!! toxic waste sitting here and they don't even bother to write an email to explain what's going o or what's the plan to remove all that so we don't breathe this contaminated air. And they advertise themselves as a "proud smoke-free community " Total lack of consideration and respect once you're locked in a contract. Horrible! Worst place to live DON'T MOVE here!

BEWARE Horrible property management and I mean The Worst I have ever experience especially for a decent complex such as this. I've never watched someone get mistreated in such an unprofessional/uncaring way from a complex manager before in my life. Had to move my girlfriend out a little bit ago after seeing how sketchy and concerning the property was beginning to shape up. As a current multi family property owner/investor I would highly suggest in looking elsewhere to live and even tried to contact the owners to let them know they should reconsider new management.

WORST PLACE EVER! STAY AWAY! This is a Scam operation preying on disabled & handicapped families. 100% Discrimination

Talk about a shit hole. They always come in to your apartment without any notice. The trash is always overflowing. The gym equipment is not even working but yes let's raise the rent when the lease renewal comes up. Honestly you should be lowering the rent to get people to stay in the shit hole.

They stole my deposit with a lot of unbelievable fees, just it...

I wish no stars were a thing ! Added a photo of illegal, improperly dated intent to enter paper work we recieved today March 24th no doubt because I have been posting these photos someone decided to act . Management has given less than 24 hours notice to enter . I believe that is an infraction against California renters rights. Don't live here unless you want to live in a ghetto!

Extremely unprofessional and unaccommodating staff. If I wanted to talk to the staff, I would call the office 3-5 times during business hours with no avail. Never got a maintenance support after requesting one in the first week there. Gave me ZERO support with being laid off due to covid19. The apartment itself is very cheaply made, and the appliances were subpar at best. The maintenance crew does the absolute bare minimum, as there are uneven grass patches all over the place, broken and uncalibrated sprinklers, and dog droppings everywhere in the grass. I only gave one star because it was a safe community to walk my dog in. Other than that, absolutely awful. The only thing they are prompt about is getting paid and astronomical rental amount for very low-scale apartments. Wish I could give it a half a star.

The resident are devastated... Instead of maintaining the beautiful trees, that give us shade. they decided to chop them down. The trees at one time ,were maintained every year. haven't been maintained for years... Rather just chop them down... My patio is so hot now, I can't sit out here during the afternoon. Devastation is all over the complex, as their shade has been taken away... Sad, all they had to do was thin and top the trees.... The grounds at one time were beautiful.....

I am really upset with the leasing office staff at Mariner's Cove Apartments. Even though this complex looks like a nice place to live, after my experience with these people (two staff members in particular), I'm thinking twice. Being disabled with mental illness, I was there to submit my application for low-income/Section-8 housing. They were nothing but rude and treated me like I didn't deserve a moment of their time. A man in the office told me he didn't deal with the low-income/Section-8 applicants and told me to visit the office adjacent to the front door and the lady there would help me. She wasn't in her office and, in fact, was across the way in the managers office for a meeting. I stood and waited quietly in the lobby, where he could clearly see me, for about 40 minutes and he did nothing - didn't even lift a finger. He knew she wasn't in her office as he walked buy me and her office several times to the copy machine. He could've just taken my completed application and placed it on her chair in her office, but didn't do that. Not a team player, I guess. The lady finally came out of the manager's office to tell me she was in a meeting, quickly turned around without taking my application, and walked back into the office where the meeting was taking place. She told me, the guy would help me submit my application. When I turned to him, he refused and reiterated that that was not his area. In tears, I finally went into her office and left my application on her chair my self! I have NEVER felt more humiliated, disrespected and made to feel like nothing, then with my experience here. These two staff members need to be fired!!! These people have no compassion or customer service skills what-so-ever and are definitely not team players!

Such a bummer that I have to write a poor review for this community because I had high hopes when I moved in. If you want to live somewhere that cares about the livelihood of your family and will do at least the bare minimum to care for you as a tenant- then this is NOT a good community for you. They won't even do the bare minimum. Their leasing office was a mess when I moved in (2 years ago), was a mess when they changed managers (she was super disrespectful) and now the old manager is back and still not doing a very good job of even responding to tenant concerns at the very least. I have had a very SERIOUS situation with our neighbors, to the point that I have had to contact the leasing office more than 5 times and cops multiple times. They have some sort of drug, partying, violence and abuse issue going on. It took me about 5 emails to the managers, walking in to the leasing office 3 times and emails to the AIMCO regional office for them to even address the issue and all I got was lies and false information about "inspections". My toddler is drastically affected in his every day by this and they can care less about helping us resolve the situation. I have even gone in there begging they help us. We've asked that they waive our lease break fee so we can get ourselves out of this situation and they aren't willing to help with that either. I do NOT recommend giving this terrible community your hard earned money. To top it off, in the past few months we've also had the same issues the girl below mentioned: -Mold all over my shoes and clothes and they said they can't identify there is an issue. -My friend's car got towed when the NEW parking policies were never announced to us. $600 dollars later since it was on a weeknight!

As much as Gail may say the place is improving, it's not. They've recently added parking as something else they can charge for ( doing this without any tenant input? NICE!). They devised a plan to give everyone the same parking sticker so the covered parking which was once a green plastic decal you hung on your mirror and the yellow decal for uncovered spots made it easily identifiable who could park where. Now I pay money to NOT have a parking spot. Way to go lame management. Be prepared to shell out for everything, water, trash, utilities on top of regular utilities, mandated renters insurance, did I mention parking? The gates work sometimes, remotes hardly do, if you're lucky to get one. Kids are still running around aimlessly, the pedestrian gates lack the locks so anyone can walk right into the complex, hence not really gated. Transients are always digging through the trash and they try to sucker you into signing another contract by offering a free carpet cleaning. It's no wonder the vacancy rate is so high. BEWARE OF THIS PLACE. I've been here for a few years now and I've finally had enough.

If I could give this place no stars I would! First off they do not care about their residents one bit. They make you pay to park in unassigned spots and then tow you in the middle of the night. They basically say "F*** you" when you ask them why they towed a residents car that is registered in the lease and was parked legally. How can a business be so cruel to their paying residents. This place isn't cheap either! Cannot wait to leave this dump! They really need to get their act together before all their residents leave for good!! Management has changed like 5 times since we moved in a year ago and the office staff is never the same... Looks like their own employees cant stand them either. Like other posts have said - don't even think about moving into this place - run away and run away fast!!!

I've lived here three years, and this place is terrible. It's very expensive for what you get. Yes, the pools, dog park, playgrounds, and landscaping are nice. But, there are several issues with management. First of all they are not helpful at all and have very negative attitudes toward tennants. They also keep increasing fees for laundry, parking, etc. The laundry facilities are always broken and dirty and the service people never come when called. I am currently waiting for someone to look at termite damage; the second time I've called and no one showed up for either appointment. There are also plants growing in the gutters. There are also problems with other tennents; i.e. drug problems at the pools at night. Also, neighborhood kids make out, etc in shared public areas and there are homeless in the dumpsters. There is security, but they only write parking notices and dog pooping fees.

THIS PLACE HAS BLACK MOLD IN EVERY APARTMENT! and if you tell them it needs to be fixed they will just patch over it. There's termites. Bugs. The windows and walls are so thin you can hear the plumbing and the gardeners EVERY SINGLE DAY. Staff and management are snakes and will charge you extra rent if they have your card on auto pay. They Will harass you after move out. Lie to you about charges. Do yourself a favor and stay away from here. It's a miserable place to live and even worse to move out of.

We moved to this complex early last year, and loved the seclusion of our apartment, we have had decent neighbors, and few problems. The problems we have had were old appliances that needed replacing, and a broken screen in a window. No big deals and my wife and I are not people to complain. Lately however, the company has evolved into money grubbing jerks. When going to renew our lease a few months ago, they told us our rate was going to go up about $75/month after being told it would not.. this took 4 trips to the main office to straighten out, and we've never been a problem for them. We have never had a complaint about us in over a year of living here. Additionally, less than 2 months after renewing our lease, we are being told that we can no longer use the covered parking just outside our apartment unless we wish to pay an additional $20/month per vehicle. This wouldn't be horrible, except there is not enough uncovered parking throughout the community to accommodate all their tenants, let alone guests. We have never been so frustrated or willing to break a lease despite penalties as we are right now. Perhaps they need the money to pay for the gate which has been broken numerous times during our time here.. I have an idea, actually, if you want to charge us for parking, we want our rent discounted for not being in an actual gated community, because anyone can waltz right in if they want to.

DO NOT LIVE HERE!!! DO NOT LET PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT LIVE HERE!!!

Day 1: Found an abundance of animal droppings under our sink. Hours later, see two mice run through our kitchen. After going to the leasing office we learn that pest control won't be able to help us for 7 days. 2 hours later, I see a pest control truck drive by the apartment but nobody came to help us. I called the leasing office 3 times and left a callback number and was ignored. We were also told that this was not common and we were the only people experiencing this but later find out that all of our neighbors are having the same problem. Day 2: we got in touch with maintenance and they give us 2 traps under the sink (the maintenance guys are great people). However, still no pest control (which we pay for in our rent). We captured 3 more mice on our own. Still no word from our lovely leasing staff. Do not move here unless you enjoy spending your weekends capturing mice with your bare hands.

I previously wrote a review when we first moved in. After living at Mariners Cove for a year, I wish I could take that back! We moved out about 7 months ago but I feel strongly about waening others! DO NOT LIVE AT MARINERS COVE! There are SO many rules ots ridiculous! The ammenities is how they sell this place. Let me tell you, the ammenities are hardly open and when they are there's so much rifraff you can't enjoy them! The college students they move in for the summer werenalways half naked sun bathing. I was a student not long myself but I would take my top off or wear a string bikini bottom that exposes my entire buttocks in a FAMILY environment! Numerous occasions we left the pool area due to half baked girls! Gross! The worst thing for us was that we weren't allowed to have anything on our patio! No chairs, no grill, no plants, no toys, nothing! They want everything "uniform". Well not everyone is the same and we all enjoy different things and have different tastes. If its not messy and gaudy, why cant we have plants and outdoor furniture? We had nowhere to store our bicycles and were co stantly receiving nasty letters because we kept out bikes on the porch. Its the worst place we've ever lived! Dont be fooled by the landscaping. They onky make common areas that can be seen by potential renters, look nice. They dont clean up trash behind the bushes and they waste a ton of water as their irrigation sprays sidewalks and parking lots! Way to go management! And what are the lawn guys doing blowing all the grass clippings and leaves onto porches? Lastly, there is a TON of crime!!!!! Quite a few bad apples with awful awful children that are constantly unsupervised and run amuck cussing, hitting, vandalizing, throwing trash everywhere. If you value your freedom (sitting outside and enjoying the weather, playing w ur kids) or keeping your belongings (bikes, grills, surf boards, etc) then DO NOT LIVE HERE! Its a huuuuge rip off! And don't expect to get a deposit back at all! Even if u leave it sparkling clean!!!! Money mongers with no real care for renters! The management disgusts me. The ONLY thing they have going for them is Warren, one of the leasing staff). HE should be the property manager!!!! He is the only one who was caring, unserstanding, and down to earth! The rest are mean & unprofessional! I HIGHLY recommend their competition. .. Loma Palisades or Pacific Breeze apartments! Amazing service and staff all around!!!!!!

Upon moving in everything seemed decent. I called the first day about the A/C not working only to find out that it didn't come with A/C, seems to be a trend near the coast. We quickly learned the laundry facility was quite filthy and stayed that way for a year and a half. We called when we first moved in to ask them to repaint the parking lines. It seemed a reasonable request since we were paying for parking and it wasn't like we had a guaranteed spot. A year and a half and the lines were still never repainted after several request. The gate was broken at least half the time we lived there for various reasons. We constantly had problems with neighbors. Everything from loud music to drug dealing, gas syphoning, inconsiderate pet owners, and people parking in more than one spot to give themself extra space. The first problem was the fact that it was approved for low income housing which meant we payed 1650 for an apartment when others payed 400 for the same apartment, unfortunately lower income means lower quality of people. We even learned that our neighbor next to us was broken into through the front door and the management said it wasn't there concern. Not to mention homeless people digging through the dumpsters which could have been avoided had the gates worked. I understand that management can't control how neighbors treat each other, but it was the attitude of the management seeming like they don't care and that they were annoyed that we were even bothering them with the problem. Towards the end the parking problems became worse when they made reserved parking for carports only, which is tough for people with large vehicles. There were several carports not reserved by tenants and were unavailable to anyone else making open parking even tighter. To top it all off they allowed people with reserved spots to park in open parking saying they can park wherever they want and making parking worse even still. All of the tenants concerns with parking were ignored and we were told that it would get better when they started towing, but that never happened. We drove around for long periods of time to find a spot in the whole complex, let alone near our building, 45 minutes one night. The only reason this complex even gets a star is because maintenance was friendly and helpful and our move out inspection went smooth and quickly, but that was also because of maintenance. Stay away unless you are approved for low income housing, because then you can live in an expensive complex for a quarter of the price.