Submitted: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dismayedaustinrenter
Austin
U.S.A.
I am a current tenant, and have watched Alara Canyon Creek go from residential housing to student housing. It is next door to the new location for Concordia University. The grounds are now littered with beer cans, discarded arm chairs, condoms, and assorted trash. The parking lot has become an extra lot for Concordia. The row of spaces closest to the university fills up with cars in the morning, and one can watch the students leave their cars and walk into Concordia's property. It is noisier on weekends than it was, I have heard the parties, and the construction during the building phase of Concordia was even worse for me. They'd start at seven in the morning and stop at 6 at night, pounding the hard ground to make way for a pipe of some kind. That pounding lasted several weeks.
When I was researching this apartment, there were many trees between Alara Canyon Creek and the new Concordia sight. One could not tell if the university had been finished or not, because of that. My leasing agent told me, contrary to the truth, that the construction at Concordia had been finished, that the row of trees on the edge of the apartment could not be cut down because it was a "bird preserve," and that they were going to keep Alara Canyon Creek a residential property. I found out later, the staff recruited at Concordia for renters! The trees were gone within 6 weeks, and construction noise was unbearable, like a freight train.
There are other lies, which I can not address until my lease is up and I am gone from this complex. But I will vouch that the office staff is not helpful, and are sometimes rude, particularly one male leasing agent. They do not respond to my inquiries at all. They don't return calls, though they say they will call you when you show up in person, the few times you and find a person to talk to in the office. I got the impression that they want people who are not students to move out, that they feel they can make more money renting to students.