Plaza At Overland Park

The apartment setup is ok, you can hear your neighbors conversations and if they have kids you can hear EVERYTHING! The kids on the playground are ruthless and stay out all night during the summer roaming around. The neighbors are shady but if you keep to yourself you should be fine. I wouldn’t walk around outside at night.

My family and I moved in here nearly a year ago and we have been pretty happy with it thus far.
When we signed the lease, we were told that the town home was undergoing some repair work and cleaning and would be ready by a certain date. That was fine, but we had to be out of our previous apartment by a certain date or we would have to pay another month’s rent. On the morning we were to come get the keys, the apartment manager asked if we could come a little later because the cleaners were still there cleaning. So that was fine. I ended up meeting her around 1pm, getting the keys and doing a walkthrough as the cleaners were driving off. Maintenance was still working in my apartment, which was kind of odd since they knew we were moving in for weeks, but okay. Everything seemed fine besides the usual nicks one would expect moving into an existing town home. The apartment manager left and we got settled in.
About a month after we moved in, we got a note that our patio out front was being redone (i.e. new concrete) and that we needed to clear our things off for that to happen, which we did. We also have railings attached to the concrete that had to be removed by the contractors before the demo could be done. So the concrete was demo’ed and the new concrete poured. They didn’t do every porch in the complex, so I figured they would come around and put our railings back up fairly soon. Wrong. It took them 7 months. And I had to ask twice unfortunately. They are back up now but I still don’t know why it took so long. They laid in the grass so long that they have grass stains on them and when maintenance put them back up they just left the clumps of grass and mud on them and we don’t have hoses, so we had to hand-​scrub them. Pain in the butt. And our rent is HIGH. So I think that was pretty crappy.
The people in the management office are kind of «meh». Well, most of them are «meh». There’s one guy, Andrew, who is wonderful! He is very, very nice and I know he probably catches a lot of the initial crap from people because his desk is the first one you see when you go in. So be nice to him; he deserves it!
The maintenance guys… I’m not too sure about them yet. It’s kind of a love/​hate kind of thing right now. Sometimes I want to kick ‘em and sometimes I want to bake ‘em a batch of cookies. I think they think I’m a meanie. I’m not, but I DO think you should take pride in whatever job you choose to do and sometimes I don’t think they do.
This is a great place for families! Nice and quiet and friendly :) That’s why we moved here! We had to get on a bit of a waiting list but it was totally worth it. I wish the garages were a little bigger because we can’t fit either of our smallish cars in there but it makes a nice play room!