The Lure Apartments

I lived here for a little over a year, and had actually renewed my lease until I was relocated out of state for work. This is a quiet, well-​kept, and very pet-​friendly community on the outskirts of Oak Lawn. The apartments haven been renovated (pro-​tip, first floor units have wood floors!) and the grounds are kept clean. It is less expensive than any of the luxury/​high rises in the area, and only a $ 5 Über ride to uptown/​downtown/​knox henderson. My neighbors were awesome, and I never felt unsafe, even living alone on the first floor.
Cons are parking and trash-​the dumpsters would get way too full after any holiday, and parking can get full at nights. They recently put in covered parking but its kind of expensive and tiny spots. It seems better if you live towards the front of the complex (which I did). Also, keep in mind they are very pet-​friendly, so if you don’t like dogs this may not be the place for your. For me, the on-​site dog park was a huge plus!
I only worked with the guy in the leasing office – he was very helpful and returned emails and phone calls in the same day. Maintenance issues were quickly resolved – when my dishwasher stopped working they had it replaced with a new one in 2 days, and when there was some minor water damage after last year’s Monsoon season they had everything replaced and taken care of within the week.
Overall, I give it 4.5 stars, but rounding up as it’s the best apartment I lived in Dallas!

After I wrote this review, the company is now trying to charge me extra fees for my move out. Don’t rent here…

I live here! Very nice neighbors, the gyms ac doesn’t work the gyms refrigerator for waters does not work. The equipment is great! The pool is decent. The chairs are nice. The bbq is good, the place is really clean! Very nice staff!!! Very nice office! Place is very livable, peaceful, and nice!

I have lived at The Lure for 2 years and just moved out. Overall, the living experience was good — the staff is friendly and helpful and the complex is quiet at night. A little overpriced for the quality of the apartment, but still a pretty good deal for the location it is in.
My biggest issue was the overall maintenance and upkeep of the complex. They don’t keep it very clean — there is dirt/​dust, cobwebs, and wasp nests everywhere. There are ducks that walk around the parking lots and I found myself dodging ALOT of duck poop (that they never clean up) every time I walked to my car. Someone let their dog poop on the top floor hallway and it wasn’t cleaned up until I finally put in a request. I never liked having people over, because it’s kind of embarrassing how unkept it looks. It just isn’t very clean and the whole place just looks like it is going downhill.

I lived her for 7 months during a traveling nurse contract. The apartments are very nice — clean, well maintained and comfortable. Some of the fixtures weren’t the newest, but everything worked just fine. I lived on the top floor and had really nice vaulted ceilings. I had several maintenance issues while living there, everything from wasp nests on my balcony to a garbage disposal that leaked — and the maintenance crew was quick to respond, super nice, and resolved all my issues in a timely fashion. The front off staff is fantastic too, especially the assistant manager. He was always a friendly face to see and happy to answer any and all questions. I would definitely recommend Lure to anyone looking for affordable housing close to the medical district or Uptown. It’s literally a $ 4 über ride most places.

I lived here for 3 months on a travel nurse assignment and enjoyed it. It was nice that it was gated with code access. Neighbors were quiet and noise was never an issue. I have 2 dogs and it was very dog friendly with a small fenced in dog park and «poop stations» throughout the community. Laundry on site– pay with quarters. Pool was small but very nice area for sun bathing. Apartment was clean and updated. $ 5 über ride to uptown bars. Really I had no complaints. If I go back to dallas I would live there again.

I love living here. My neighbors are great, and I’ve never had a problem with management. This complex is very dog-​friendly. I wish they’d fix the fence in the dog park so my dog and I could use it more often!
Great deal for the area!

I’ll try my best to be objective here. My input is similar to Wade’s — this place is a great place to live… relatively safe (gated), management responds pretty promptly (sometimes), maintenance is acts really fast, parking isn’t bad, apartments are reasonably priced (especially coming from California).
The only reason why I took out two stars is because of the «fine print» issues — normally I assume management would walk through important clauses in your lease; however, we were not informed of the strict moving out rules (giving 60 days notice before moving out). Even though we had a lease end date that we agreed upon in signing the lease, it was only contingent until you submitted a written form of when you were moving out. This issue ended up costing me an additional $ 1000 because we ended up having to extend our lease an extra 2 months to fit into that condition, which I was extremely upset about… but hey, what can you do besides warn the people after you?
The managers themselves are pretty nice and helpful, but I believe they omitted that fact on the basis that many people would not read their lease. Either way, I did enjoy my time here, although this last incident really soured my last impression of this place. LESSON LEARNED — READ THROUGH YOUR ENTIRE LEASE AND DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES WE DID!

This place is actually a great place to live. However, if you don’t read the fine print and take it all very seriously, then you will get exactly what it says in the contract. The manager was nice and Brandon (James) is really awesome. It was my own fault for allowing myself to be naïve to the system. That at all being said, I don’t believe that it’s all clear to the persons living there. This directly relates to why people wrote bad reviews about the place. There is no other reason. For instance, I ended up paying over $ 100+ from my original contracted price, as well as additional fees. Adding to this, there was a stupid glitch in the system which caused me to overpay or pay late fees all the time. Also, the transition from owning companies didn’t help as well as the increased prices, which I felt were overpriced. So living wise, the following are some of my ratings/​values:
Cleanliness — 5 (Out of 5)
Nice Area — 4
Management — 4
Contract and Flexibility — 1
Ability to Sleep — 2
Price/​Value — ²⁄₁ (Overly Priced)
That’s really all I have to say.

After living there for a year… I would NEVER live there again. Please look elsewhere. The manager is very mistrusting. There are charges that were never discussed that they charge. Example would be… a pest control fee that was not in my lease and never discussed and never had my apartment sprayed for pest that showed up on the water/​trash bill. They do go through a third party for water/​sewer that runs around $ 30 a month. I pay about $ 12 month at new apartment complex I moved to. Also, there is a $ 150 move out charge. Parking in the back part of the complex is awful. Please look else where.

For what I pay for rent now in Norcal this seems like a steal but I read the other reviews on Unilocal and agree 99 plus percent. Let’s start with the good. The location is good and bad. Located close to uptown, N. Dallas, Downtown and the tollway but it is feet from the ghetto too. It has a gate, is a newer, nice looking place and I like the closet off the bathroom design and crown molding. I liked my neighbors for the most part as well. Mostly gay or medical field residents and the creek behind the property was nice but does attract some critters. I lived here for over 3 years and it became home of course and I started a business here in 2003. It was also the first home my wife and I shared as a couple all be it for 3 weeks until we moved out of state.
There was the flip side as well. The stray cats are an issue. It was like wild kingdom at times and if a cat is in heat look out. I have a male cat that always had a swollen cheek or limp but he survived. There are raccoons all over the dumpster at night but creeks hold all types of animals so that is just part of it. Parking is a pain overall and I was FUCKING towed from my own lot for not having my ‘property sticker displayed properly.’ Still pisses me off. There was some ‘he said he said’ drama at times and standard noise which happens but the Southwest jets coming and going especially late Friday and Sundays are a pain. They flied low enough that my satellite TV reception blinked. Strange enough I got use to the jets if the sliding door was closed but every so often a larger 4 engine jet rolled over and that could rock the place. The bright side of the jet noise and rumble was if you were with the girlfriend and timed it out just right it was quite exhilarating. I also heard gun shots many times. A few times it woke me up and not that I expected a bullet or criminal to come after me it is a major drawback. I worked from home so I use to get out for a walk and would walk around the projects area and it was a rough spot. They all thought I was a cop so didn’t get near me but at least there are always cops around because of this area. I saw on average 5 or 6 cop cars a week easy. Avila’s is an awesome restaurant down on Maple, Cedars Springs is a nice street and you could walk to Lemmon or the bars if you wanted too but overall all minus the sexual vibrations and the fact that wherever I have lived becomes a piece of your heart it is hard for me to recommend this place. They are not moving the ghetto or airport anytime soon ya know.

I’ve been living here for 9 months and although I can’t say that their service has been bad the experience as a whole is just not that great and it definitely is overpriced for what u get. The parking is horrendous esp if u work late hours like myself when I get home at 11:30pm sometimes I have to park near the front of the complex when my apt is located in the back, a little walking is not so bad unless its pouring down raining and/​or u have 4+ bags of groceries, etc. to carry in, theres all kinds of little creatures all over the property the ducks are cute when they are showing you around but what they forget to mention are the raccoons, stray cats, possums, armadillos and God only knows what else, the airplane noise is 100x worse than I expected… I lived near an airport in my hometown and this one is much noisier there are literally planes coming & going every 2 minutes and they sound like they close enough to crash into my apt bldg, no joke! The surrounding complexes (project slums) are a major eyesore to the point where I’m embarassed to invite friends over I always go to their places to visit, when I relocated to Dallas last year I used an apt finder service I just basically wanted an apt located on the 1^st floor and Kingsgate was the only place that had one available, needless to say I signed a 1 year lease only because they took $ 100 per month off of my rent if I signed for a year so basically I’m supposed to pay nearly $ 1200/​month after my lease is up and NEEDLESS to say I will not be renewing my lease because for $ 1200 a month I can live somewhere MUCH nicer!

This apartment complex seemed ok at first, but grew steadily worse over time. It’s gated and seems safe enough and it’s convenient to Oak Lawn restaurants and grocery stores, but those are really the only things I like about it. It’s overpriced, it has small apartments and nothing is of very good quality. We have a cabinet door that’s been hanging open since we moved in because it’s loose or broken and the bathroom fixtures are cheap. It has a fireplace, which seems like a pointless waste of space for an apartment, especially an apartment in Dallas. It does have washer and dryer hook ups, but not actual units themselves, for that you have to go to the mail/​laundry building. There’s also apparently a small pool and a gym, but I haven’t used either. I’m not sure I’d want to.
Now for the really bad part. As soon as business hours end, you can’t get ahold of anyone. They send you to a call center, which they contract. When you get rude service from the call center and complain to the manager, he says he can’t do anything about it because they don’t run it. I suggested he complain because they are paying them to do a service, but he shrugged it off. You need a parking sticker to park behind the gate, but after I bought a new car, I was told I didn’t need one because they weren’t using them anymore just to get a note threatening to tow my car a few weeks later. There are ROACHES all over. Baby ones look like beetles, fyi, which I learned after doing some research. They schedule maintenance appointments without telling you when they will occur, enter your apartment without permission and then leave notes saying «Done,» which leaves you wondering what was actually done. The manager doesn’t seem to be overly concerned about this either.
Also, stray cats run and fight all over the parking lot, which is strange. I’ve also seen teenagers standing on top of the carport of the neighboring complex and jumping over the fence into this complex.
Trust me, you can do better for the money. I can’t wait to move out.