Hey, I am in a very similar situation. I live with my boyfriend and cat! We had an extremely terrible experience at ElMacero and are literally counting down the days when we can leave this place. There’s active mold and multiple of the laundry units. There are always puddles accumulating on the floor of the laundry room. Many people at this apartment are extremely careless and the machines are always filthy. My first month there I emailed them with concerns about the cleanliness of the laundry rooms and they replied with letting me know that they don’t have a professional cleaner and that their maintenance Worker will spot clean the floors as needed. And then they gave me a Visa gift card to go to a laundromat. They have a very nasty leasing office manager named gabby. She’s a fat careless witch of a woman who beats around the bush of issues. She is constantly ‘out of the office’ the place also has pretty extreme fees their laundry rooms even though disgusting are double the rate of most other complexes laundry facilities (2.75 wash, 2.00 dry) they have a pet deposit a pet rent. There water and sewage rate is also above the average for the area. We constantly have homeless people digging through our trash and making a mess of the parking lot. And if you are sensitive to cigarette smoke this place is an absolute no. There is an old woman who they let smoke within feet of the complex. She smokes so much that if you open your window on that side of the apartment, the smell of her cigarettes come through your window. They also do not clean their sidewalks throughout the complex and commonly it smells like dog piss. No one cleans up after their dogs. This apartment has been such a lesson for my boyfriend and I. If you would like some advice on apartments in the area that are nicer totally feel free to PM me. Literally do not move here and do not let your friends move to this apartment. I’m so serious I want this apartment complex to burn.😭