Allez by ABODA

Cheyenne made getting my apartment easy and was helpful throughout. When something needs fixing, Kenneth and Justin on the maintenance team often take care of it the very next day. Great team!

The location is a big plus for me: the trail, river, cafe, restaurants, library, city hall, and more are right nearby. There’s space to play sports outdoors, and the gym has two rooms, one with ellipticals, treadmills, bikes, and a rowing machine, and another with weights, mats, and machines. There are also two lounges, one with a small event area and one with two BBQ grills, string lights, fire pits, and a pool table. I can work on my game there too. I like my studio layout, especially the sliding door that separates it from the living room. I was unsure about the lack of patio fences on the lower floor, but the trees and landscaping make natural dividers, and there’s a cute built-in bench in wood and stone that works well for potted plants. I checked out the available parking spaces in person, and my spot worked out nicely. You do hear normal apartment sounds like footsteps, plumbing, and occasional voices. Hallway noise is brief when people pass right by the door, and the walls on either side block sound pretty well. If noise gets excessive, management does remind the neighborhood about the sound rules and other guidelines. Trash chutes can fill up sometimes, like around holidays, but once you know the schedule it’s manageable. Trash Butler service is available too. Cheyenne, Larry, Justin, and the rest of the team have been kind and helpful. They found carts so I could move things after I hurt my knee, greet me warmly, and answer my questions. You can tell they care about residents, and that was one of the main reasons I renewed my lease. I’m glad I found this cozy, beautiful place to call home. Thank you!

The best day we had at Allez was the day we moved out. Living there for a year and a few weeks was a nonstop horror story, and I wish we’d broken our lease like other reviewers did. It would have saved us time, money, and grief. On move-in day, the apartment had so much mold that we couldn’t sleep there because we couldn’t breathe the air. Management didn’t address it for two weeks. They said it would be cleaned, but an Allez employee tried with a steamer and didn’t get the mold out. After more than three weeks, I paid for a housekeeper myself. She cleaned the mold and also had to deal with food debris on the cabinets, in the microwave, and inside the drawers. It was hard to believe how easily she cleaned it when Allez hadn’t put in the money or effort to do it. We submitted over 20 maintenance requests, and more than half were never fixed. We were told things were too damaged or installed incorrectly and couldn’t be repaired. When some requests were marked resolved, maintenance had come by, said they couldn’t do anything, and left. That’s not a resolution. Larry, the manager, made promises and didn’t take responsibility. He told us on a Friday the mold would be gone by Monday, then, when it wasn’t, said it wasn’t his job to monitor what his employees did. He also compared our move into a moldy, filthy apartment with his own inconvenience of getting an apartment smaller than the listing. That comparison wasn’t fair, and it was strange to bring up. The place was disgusting, loud, unkept, and shameful. Our upstairs neighbors dumped liquid onto us from their balcony. Larry accepted their explanation that it was “plant water.” I know they let their dog pee on the balcony and wash it off by pouring water, which came down on us. Whatever the liquid was, neighbors shouldn’t be allowed to dump it onto people below. If they were watering plants, he could have asked them to take the plants to the sink. Instead, he seemed to expect us to accept being splashed while on our balcony. His suggestion was that they give us a “heads up” next time, with no mention of asking them to stop. That response confirmed how glad I am we left. For the record, email was my preferred way to communicate, but Larry repeatedly insisted on phone calls and in-person meetings, so we don’t have an extensive written record about the mold itself. We did initially report the bad smell before we knew what it was, and raised the mold concern many times in person with Larry and maintenance. He keeps referring to emails. Also, cleaning inadequately on August 23 and not responding until August 28 isn’t something to boast about. Other Allez reviewers have mentioned mold too. This only scratches the surface. I can’t believe the housekeeper cleaned the kitchen so easily when the apartment had been left that way.

Getting around this building means too many stairs. There are two elevators, but only one goes through the main entrance. To reach the other, you have to use outdoor stairs and then stairs from the lobby. There’s no call button for the lobby elevator either, so you have to send the wrong elevator to another floor to bring the right one. Are they trying to defend against Daleks? What kind of short bus passenger came up with this design? Unforgivably bad.