Townley Park Apartments

having serious renters remorse…
#1) hope you like to camp, because you will be living closely with bugs/​spiders. Even after the apartment has been treated, there are spiders everywhere in my apartment.
#2) hope you like the smell of sewer, because it fills your lungs everytime you open the door. There is raw sewage somewhere close, embarrassing if you have visitors over. GROSS
#3) This property has some type of kick back with a towing company because management leaves that part out, so if you have a guest past 10:00pm they tow your car if you don’t have a sticker. $ 150 to get your car back.
#4) «free cable & Internet» scheme. This is marketing at its best. Listen, all they have done was rolled a cable bill into your rent. A 1bd shitty apartment shouldn’t cost $ 940.
So small. No cabinets or closets, I can hear EVERYONE around me. I hear someone coughing up what sounds to be large hair balls each morning, and it seems lord of the dance lives above me. Horrible. Tons of other places to blow $ 1000 on that is actually really nice, not cheap, updated, without bugs and sewer scented.

I have been here for almost a year and will not be renewing my lease. I moved to Lexington and signed a lease without seeing the apt. in person. I am in a two bed, two bath apt. and it is much smaller than the sq. footage they claim it is, however, if you have a problem, they are very quick to come and fix it. It has a combo washer/​dryer and I have to use the spin cycle a few times to extract as much water so the clothes dry faster and they still take forever to dry. Forever! I have a few complaints having to do with the construction. When you are in the apt. away from the stairs, you can still hear other tenants going up and down. That can be annoying as well as the thin walls where I could hear what my neighbor was ordering for Christmas on Ebay and she was speaking in a normal voice. They would wake me up so often, I finally left them a note and it has not been an issue but you could end up with loud students and this place has plenty. I love dogs and there are tons of them here but many owners neglect to pick up after them. They are very good about keeping up the property but the tenants outside the back stairwell leave their butts everywhere and it is disgraceful that they are too lazy to pick up after their nasty habit. Does that tell you the kind of people that live here? The biggest drawback is the waste treatment plant nearby. I have a balcony in my bedroom and one in the living room and I was not able to enjoy them as the smell of crap was constant! I am not sure how that can be healthy for you but why pay for something you can’t use. Parking is an issue as well. You are ok to find a spot after 8 and before 4 but good luck later on. For the price I pay, I can do so much better in a much nicer part of town. If you are a professional, look elsewhere.

This place is a mixed bag. It’s got some things in it’s favor, it’s got some bad parts. If you know the whole deal going in, it’s not that bad, just know what you’re getting in to.
The good part:
1. Location. If you are commuting to work in Frankfort but want to live in Lexington, the location is perfect. I can be back and forth to downtown Frankfort in 30 minutes. My wife is going to college and has found she can get across town quite nicely from these apartments. Also, it’s very easy access to downtown, and with the New Circle onramp right by the complex you can quickly get most anywhere in Lexington. There is also a Zaxby’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Shell gas station, Orange Leaf, Firehouse Subs, Walgreens, a dry cleaners, Mexican restaurant, and an Applebees right by the complex, and a Kroger, Papa John’s and McDonalds only a block away.
2. Clean and Neat. It’s run by a major property management/​real estate firm and image is big for them. It is very clean, very neat, and always looks like it’s ready for brochure pictures. This is definitely not a «bad neighborhood».
3. Professional. As I said, it’s run by a big firm, and they run it very professionally. The office is staffed when it is supposed to be, and that’s more than some places I’ve lived.
4. Cable and internet is included. Basic cable and broadband cable internet is included with the rent.
5. The workout room & tanning bed. It’s small, but the machines all work. That’s more than I can say for a lot of places I’ve lived, where they advertise a workout room but many or most of the machines are broken-​down.
Now for the downsides:
1. Wiring. The wiring in our apartment was horrible. If we had the bathroom light on at the same time as the stove, the circuit breakers would trip and the bathroom would go dark. We aren’t talking about running every appliance at once, our power bills were actually quite low. Simply turning on the stove if you had the lights on would start to overload things.
2. Parking. I work second shift, so I came home at around midnight every night. Every night, I had to park on the far side of the complex from where I live. There just plain aren’t enough parking spaces to go around. There are only 8 guest parking spaces in the whole complex, for a complex with well over 100 apartments, and they do tow, regularly. Part of the problem is that management decided to build a big row of garages to rent out, instead of putting in more parking.
3. The smell. The complex is downwind of an industrial district and what I think is a sewage treatment plant. It’s not every day, but sometimes you can get a foul odor if the winds are blowing right. That odor does not come through in sunny, happy photographs and if it’s not blowing that day you won’t know it when you come there to tour the complex.
4. Cheap construction. The place is new, only about 5 years old I believe, but the more time you spend there the more you realize they cut corners in the construction and tried to make up for it with fancy gimmicks like the electronic locks.
5. Surprisingly small. You might not notice it at first, but the apartments are fairly small for a 2 BR/​2BR apt. My wife and me have lived in 2 BR/​2 BA apts in the same price range that were at least 100 sq ft more. We had a LOT of problems with storage and living space because of the reduced apartment size.