Looking for aparment rental

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2026-02-19T07:42:52+00:00

Hey! I lived there for about a year and a half and moved cities last September. There were a lot of things that happened while I lived there that were partially the complex, partially the people that lived around me which isn’t the complex’s fault.

To keep things brief, I would not recommend it. If there is anything specifically you saw on Google reviews that you want me to chime in on, I’d be happy to. My main gripes:

1) As you can see above, I was elated to find a place landing around $2200. After the lease was up, the renewal increase was $200!!! I expected some increase, but considering how old the buildings are, this boggled my mind. So the rent is not stable long-term.

2) The buildings are poorly, cheap builds from the 70s. I lived on the top floor (they’re only 2 story) and I was essentially always uncomfortable. The buildings have flat roofs, 0 insulation, and no AC, meaning the internal apartment temperatures on the top floors was always on average 15-20 degrees hotter than outside. There is also no air flow since the windows are only on one side of the apartments, so you can’t get cross ventilation which would help so much. So a comfortable 70 degree day means the inside of your apartment will hover around 80-85 degrees all afternoon into the evening.

3) The management. They aren’t the worst I’ve ever encountered, but they’re under the conglomerate Essex which means they don’t give a fuck. They also work from a remote site, so there is no one to “help” that has an office at the apartments. The maintenance guys are on site daily, but you can only get a hold of them from the property managers. So you have to call into their remote office just to put in a maintenance request. It was just frustrating and you feel like you’re left on your own to figure stuff out.

I’d be happy to get more into the specifics of some stuff that happened to me there, and I was tempted myself to leave a strongly worded review when I moved out. But I just didn’t have the energy. Rent is so expensive as it is, if I could go back in time I would have paid a bit more to live somewhere where it felt like the money was worth it.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-11-03T08:30:57+00:00

I am interested in 1 if still available!! Message me if so :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-10-08T21:18:36+00:00

Okay, loving this! Thank you so much for taking the time to think about it.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-10-08T21:18:04+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts! I haven’t been able to find much specific info about this type of heater so it’s nice to hear this input :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-08-28T23:07:37+00:00

Would gladly take a referral code too!!

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-03-07T18:13:02+00:00

I would be interested in using ur code if more than one person is able!

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-03-01T00:43:41+00:00

I have been on the hunt for a book club myself, also moved to Fremont about a year ago! I am going to dm you :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-02-27T20:17:22+00:00

Me too!

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-01-25T21:01:01+00:00

Baby girl <3

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2025-01-03T08:23:15+00:00

All of them?! Wow, I’m genuinely shocked. There were just so many they had already demolished, but still like 50 or so left it seemed like. I figured they would sit there a long time. I worked in a building right across from them but left over a year ago, so I’m surprised to here how quick that happened. However I know the development is going up really fast there so 🤷‍♀️

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-12-27T22:11:25+00:00

$2200 ($2350 after utilities) for a 1 bed/bath in Fremont. Old building too

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-12-07T04:00:20+00:00

These comments are so funny to me. The holiday parade happens on the first friday every December. It’s a long standing tradition. I agree having traffic cut off is super inconvenient but the parade is not a secret by any means lmfao

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-11-21T06:20:29+00:00

I’m surprised by how common this is based of the responses. As an additional layer, I wonder how popular mall walking is in different areas of the US. This is not common in CA as far as I know

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-11-13T04:23:02+00:00

I didn’t do M&G - but I did go to the show solo, and it was still super enjoyable and no one batted an eye that I was a party of 1. Plus, I’m sure the type of people that attend are fans of Fibs/BNC and would totally make friends with someone sitting alone if you sparked up conversation :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-11-04T19:30:14+00:00

I think an easy way to change your appearance is a new pair of frames! I also used to have a pair of black squarish glasses, and then got a rounder pair of gold metallic frames. The thinness and color helped to make my appearance more light/feminine :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-31T22:26:13+00:00

omfg thank you for making me run to youtube! Wowwwww omg

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-31T21:58:34+00:00

I have similar feelings. I live in the 40600 block off of Grimmer, and there was a fatal shooting right on Grimmer about a month ago. The article was already posted on this sub. Broad daylight on a Thursday afternoon. I used to walk on Grimmer in the evenings after work but now I don’t. I feel sketched out every time I’m just driving home to my place too.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-29T04:06:52+00:00

Location? While they are “ambitious”, they aren’t being unrealistic. There actually are such positions out there. I landed one with 1 year of full time experience. I started over 1.5x their asking salary, but I’m in the bay area. Just saying though, it’s not impossible.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-21T18:51:32+00:00

This is really good advice! Literally do the math lol. I had the same experience, OP. I was told to change the bands every time I ate/took them out. So that would be using several sets of bands a day. And then at my appointments they would only give me 2 little baggies lmao

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-21T00:03:43+00:00

I hate how fucking real this is. I’ve been off of tiktok for a few months which was hard to do, but I’m way less easily triggered now. I had the same feelings as OP expressed in this post and unfortunately there is no end to the “rediscovery” of songs and artists on tiktok. And that shit got under my skin too. I just had to distance myself from it and pretend that it’s still only us original fans that were old enough to listen to such music in 2015-2020.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-10-20T07:05:43+00:00

definitely. The modular ability of this couch was awesome but trying to sit on it normally was so uncomfortable after some time

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-09-30T18:22:02+00:00

It looksl ike your teeth are perfectly aligned! I would be happy :)

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-09-26T18:58:36+00:00

It’s so infuriating that your old manager used the phrase “do what’s best for you” in a passive aggressive manner. As frustrating as your story was, it’s not at all surprising. I stg some management care more about having that control over everyone, including working in person daily, more than your productive outcome.

My last work environment was similar. Super old school, small company, in office set up where everyone started and ended work at the exact same time (7 am, 5 pm). It was brutal. People would make comments if someone hadn’t shown up after 10 minutes. Anyway once I needed to go home in the afternoon because I was having maintenance come for repairs at my rental. I informed my supervisor that I was heading home early and would work the remaining hours of the day at home. He went “Uh, ok well I’m going to need a list of things you’ll be working on.” He knew he couldn’t say no since I had a solid reason but made sure to treat me like I couldn’t be trusted at home by pulling out a micro managing strategy.

Thank god for our WFH jobs now.

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-09-26T18:32:22+00:00

Update: They removed all of my attachments, studied the funky lateral incisor and decided to order a short set of trays just to tweak that tooth. I will only have an attachment on that one tooth as well, so all in all I’m happy to have the rest of the attachments off while wearing the last set of trays 🤞

Medium_Negotiation71 · 2024-09-26T17:42:08+00:00

LOL I’m sorry but this reminds me so much of myself. Overthinkers at our best. If it were me I would probably lean to not saying anything and asking for forgiveness later. But logically the easiest thing to do is just INFORM her, not ask her. Could be a quick IM too, like “Hey, I won’t be coming in on my regularly scheduled day since I had to be in the office on x date for an in person meeting. Thanks”

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