The Artisan Apartments

Do not do it! We litterally just moved in and have nothing but issues! This place is crawling with BED BUGS and ROACHES everywhere! We just moved WITH BRAND NEW FURNATURE they didnt even change the carpet on day of move in we had to make them change the carpet the next day. There was paint everywhere on the carpets and railings just splattered around. They bait you with a show town home then you get garbage. We hadnt been there for even a week and i am completely bit up from bed bugs. I killed 2. I have bites all over my neck and face hands legs back stomach and feet. We didnt get the spray because we were told they had sprayed before we moved in which was false!!! I left at 4 am. Which i had to walk so far to my car because PARKING IS A JOKE! if you have to park its like miles away because they allow one house hold as many cars as theyd like. They really have some work to do. Instead of worrying about the exterior they should probably get a head start on maintaining the pest problem and get rid of the nasty people who live here. It would be a cute place to live but they allow to many people who are not capable of taking care of their home. Now we have to spend money we dont have to bed bug and roach proof our home because they lied to us. Our brand new furnature is ruined!

I realize this place has a contract that you MUST READ THE FINE print or you will be paying for it later. A couple of years ago I moved my daughter and I into one of their renovated town-​homes and we both loved the look of it.
We stayed there almost one year when I woke up to chards glass on me and the couch (I’d fell asleep on the couch downstairs). I realized someone attempted to break in by thrwoing a rock in the window near the lock but did not see my aluminium pole tucked between the wall and the window.
Long story short, I did not feel comfortable living there and gave the artisan a 30 day notice. It turns out they required a 60 day noticed even after my explanation of the failed robbery. The leasing agent kept yelling OVER A CUSTOMER, you need to pay $ 1000 for breaking your lease! I know my daughter’s safety was WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN $ 1000! So I turned in my keys and explained again to the manager my story, she even reiterated about the grand.
Full circle I now owe to a debt collector $ 1634.14 which were only the charges they forced me to pay-​not the interest.
SO… that’s why they get two stars, my place was renovated and nice but STICKING ME WITH RIDICULOUS charges like prorated rent, gas on top of the $ 1000, SCREW THEM!!!

This place is the worst place I’ve ever had the misfortune of living in. The water is shut off unannounced for hours at a time (4^th time today in 6 months). They re-​paved the parking lot, giving 4 days notice that sections would be shut down or vehicles towed, and during so, my car was broken into because it wasn’t parked near the building but still within the complex. My townhouse has been broken into. The cops are here once a week dealing with drugs and domestic disputes. Good luck if you need to shower, your options are ice cold or burning hot. The electricity gets shut off randomly for periods of time unknown. Maintenance painted 30 minutes before us moving in and our furniture was covered in wet paint and stained. In the event of rain/​snow, have boots because it floods everywhere! The place has roaches and ants crawling everywhere inside the buildings. Children run around screaming at all hours of the night and complaints do nothing. The office staff is NOT FRIENDLY or willing to even listen to complaints or try to help make amends. I’m counting down the days until I am able to move out. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!

I drove with my husband to go see these apartments and ran away immediately after crossing the parking lot! The only kind of people we saw where scary, like pimp-​look like and ghetto, prostitutes, some drunks. The place was trashed, several people were just either working on some broken down car, or sitting in a chair half naked. It looks creepy and dangerous, definitely a place to stay away from. Also, it is dirty and some people told me this complex was built with dangerous materials.

The other reviews cover a lot of the problems we had at The Artisan in the 8 months we lived there. I would like to say that if this place is all you can afford (because it is pretty inexpensive relative to other Denver housing options), then it will at least offer the basics of a shelter in terms of keeping off the rain, cold, and sun. However, with the flooding, absence of insulation, and ancient HVAC, I can honestly say this place offers about the same amount of shelter as a highway overpass.
One of the open mailboxes pictured below was ours– it never locked even after maintenance addressed the issue. The «pool» pictured is the 2^nd pool (the property is large enough to have 2). The one by the clubhouse where all the leasing takes place was open and rarin’ to go by labor day. This one was the one by our house, and this is how it (still) looked on July 15^th. They also do nice landscaping everywhere within street view, and neglect the rest.

I have lived here 6 months in a 3 bedroom townhome. We are moving out in two weeks so I’ll have an updated review then. But– I have to say there are both good and horrible things about this place. At move-​in, the manager, Lori, was very helpful, kind and informative. Over the last six months I have come to discover she is genuine– she has always been kind to me and my room mates. Our townhome was quiet aside from the people occasionally yelling at significant others right outside my window. The bad things included our water being completely off for a whole day with no explanation, the entire building had no water and no one ever told is why. Another was our power went out a few nights ago– like the ENTIRE complex was black. Again– no explanation was given. They are constantly «fixing» the roof– and yet there is still leaking from the rain. Oh and earlier in the year they gave us TWO days to clean out ALL cupboards and drawers so they could do a pest inspection and warned is that if it was not done they would charge $ 75 and come back later. This was an inconvenience because we all work and had no time to clean. We figured it out eventually. It’s really not a bad place to live– but it’s certainly not the best

UPDATE!
I just received a call from a DEBT collector that the Artisan called on me for a remaining balance. I haven’t lived there for over a year now! And with no notice, no nothing, NOW they had the passive aggressive balls to say I owe them $ 100 after living in their shit-​hole WITH NO HEAT last winter. I reckon they are taking their words back from when they said they would «compensate us» with a measely little space heater. Perhaps they decided the heater wasn’t worth their efforts and want that back. I hope this whole eyesore of a shantytown burns to the ground.

Moved across the country for this dump. Unfortunately it was the only place with rooms with amount of time I had to find a place. The worst place I have ever lived! Management are manipulative and should be fired and homeless. On top of that one of there staff members significant others beat up a tenant and is still allowed to stay here?! They have no respect for people and don’t do there job at all. My apartment had bed bugs and cockroaches. Ceiling falling apart and holes through out the apartment. Have the outlets were broken. Plus calling a maintenance request is dangerous because weeks later when they finally come they leave the place worse then when they entered. They couldn’t pay me to stay here again. I only gave them one star because I had too! Please do your self a favor and leave this place to rot.

I would add another crazy, TRUE horror story from this place to add to the others but I don’t want to give anyone nightmares. Please, if you have any sense at all, do NOT choose this place as your home. Our lease is officially over in 16 days and I will finally be able to sleep at night.

This place is absolutely horrible. The staff keeps changing out and gets worse each cycle. They don’t care about the tenants. Most of which are section 8 and don’t give a damn about the property, the neighbors, etc… A month ago my neighbors shot off a gun 3 times directly under my bedroom window. The staff was told who did it and did not evict these dangerous people. They don’t fix anything either. I have been calling for weeks to have my air conditioning turned on/​fixed to no avail. It is currently 85 degrees in my townhouse and I have a newborn baby. There is a major rat, cockroach and bed bug infestation thanks to so many slummy «tenants» and the staff not caring. There is also asbestos which was just disclosed to us after it was exposed. They will take your money and make you regret every second of living here. Run while you can…

0 Stars, for real. We moved in at the end of June 2013, and we’re here for a year.
So far, our windows don’t shut all the way (they’re single pane and drafty as hell), our door needs to be shoulderchecked to close at all, the dishwasher sits crooked and we were even lucky it worked (my neighbor’s dishwasher didn’t work for the four months she lived here from when she moved in.) Roaches are definitely a problem. Our air conditioner just pours water onto the floor of our kitchen after repeated maintenance requests, and our heater is pathetic. It’s apparently missing parts, so the repair guy (who is actually a nice dude, just overwhelmed) taped over it with aluminum tape since it’s so old that parts can’t be ordered for it. There were also dangling exposed wires in our heater that brushed against metal and caused a huge spark, big fire hazard.
When we moved in, our roof leaked in the bedroom, and I had to play some serious phone tag to get that resolved.
Our bathtub has a chip punched out on the inside and the caulking has black mold growing on it. The floor has holes in it that you can feel under the carpet. The railings are all wobbly as hell. The water gets shut off about 2 – 3 times a month without warning because pipes keep bursting. This place is old and was terribly built. It’s a damn shame. Also, the water comes out of our kitchen faucet looking like milk.
The office staff, at least out front, are okay. The assistant manager in the first office, Anabelle, is rude and standoffish but sometimes she listens. Claudia, the manager of the site, is incredibly rude and unprofessional.
My boyfriend’s car was towed at one point (he is on the lease here), and they wouldn’t tell us where it was towed to. They gave us the personal phone number of the tow truck guy, not even the actual company number, and they made a huge embarrassment of themselves by continuing to scream at us after they made the mistake with the towing company.
More than once, we’ve heard gunshots pretty close to our unit. Nothing to indicate anyone was actually injured, but the fact that there’s some belligerent jerk just shooting off a gun in the night doesn’t really give me any peace. Just saying.
The laundry room machines work maybe sometimes, but they never get your clothes clean or dry. Expensive too, and the room is absolutely filthy. Mud and hair and trash everywhere.
All in all, just skip this place. None of the utilities are covered, and they’re really /​not/​fit to live in. The health department gets called all the time about this place, and for good reason. The whole property needs to be leveled and rebuilt. Truly, just skip it.
Edit to add: They sent a plumber to fix a recent roof leak. Seriously.
Edit 2: It has been more than a month since our roof was ‘fixed’. I just got off the phone with emergency maintenance because it’s leaking worse than before, and the ceiling is sagging very badly. Several ceilings have fallen in on the property lately, and it turns out there’s asbestos everywhere. ASBESTOS. They didn’t disclose that to me. The covered garages just had their ceilings fall in (under the residences) and now there’s asbestos tape everywhere, and a big dumpster at the back full of the stuff. There’s only tape been put up, and kids are riding their bikes around this stuff.
I am getting out of here as soon as is possible. This is not liveable.

Recently relocated from out of state. I’m glad I went to see this place in person because the pictures will fool you.
No offense to anyone that currently lives here but this place is a dump.
As for the property, mud is everywhere, on the side walks, parking lots, you’re guaranteed to get your shoes dirty. There’s no trees, shrubs, flowers or gardens in sight. Just sidewalks overrun with dead grass and mud leading to your door.
There’s some construction up the street currently so there’s more mud, lose rocks and gravel constantly hitting your car from other drivers. The parking is on street.
One of the units that faces the main road patio glass was completely shattered, I asked about that and was told it was a break in.
I was shown their example unit and then was shown the unit I would be renting, they looked nothing alike, old carpet, appliances are from the 80’s early 90’s. 1 reviewer said their dishwasher looked to be the first one ever made, I can cosign that and say it’s true.
Everything is made out of wood and is showing it’s age, not in a good way. Looks like it’s ready to collapse or burn down.
The only plus about this place is that the units are spacious and there is a connivence store across the street but with all the negatives it’s not a place you can call home.
I drove past this property around 10pm, it is poorly lit, especially the walkways, there was no parking.
I seriously recommend avoiding this place until the problems are addressed. Plenty of other apartments within 1 – 2 miles that are in the same price range and is decent and safe.

Does any one know who the managment compy is for this place???

0 stars! DO NOT LIVE HERE! Really, don’t even drop by.
There are only 2 reviews to tell how AWFUL this place is, so I know I need to add a third. This place was a Nightmare. DO NOT LIVE HERE.
I’ve read many extreme reviews on Unilocal that made me think people were just picky. The Artisan apartment was beyond a horrible place to live. It was hell. I lived there two years ago and it was so bad, I feel the need to tell everyone that I can.
Maintenance admitted to me that so many of them quit because they couldn’t be expected to keep up on the endless problems that kept them busy every day. The place flooded routinely causing them to shut off your water without warning. At least twice, my water was off for 24+ hours w/​o warning, but I had no access to water for hours, dozens of times in a year lease.
There are roaches! Some apts are worse than others from what I could tell. 20 roaches or 200, you never know when or where they’ll show up.
The owners are located in LA, so your complaints go unnoticed. Even if you send 5 maintenance reports never taken care of and a 2 page letter about not having hot water for two months (I’m serious), it went unnoticed and as if it was brushed under the rug.
What a rant, but do Not be fooled. This is no joke. I dreaded going home when I lived here and no one else should go through that. Avoid!

This is the worst, most disgusting place I’ve ever lived. Do yourself a favor and RUN in the other direction. We have been infested with ROACHES and there are RATS running around all over. The management is less than helpful, and does not do anything to help you out in poor situations. I would rather live somewhere in Mexico, it would probably be cleaner. I also cannot walk in without being hooted and hollared at by fellow residents about my looks. Worst year of my life. You have been warned.