Avesta Woodlawn Park

Lived here for a while now. No complaints. Place has definitely improved over the last couple years. Pool is new and nice. People were using it a lot over the summer. All my work orders have been filled quickly. Parking is great.

I see all these bad reviews on here, so I felt inclined to leave my two cents. I’ve lived here since April 2013 and have very little to complain about. We have a nice pool, a dog park and my backyard is a volleyball court. We’re 5 minutes from downtown and pay a fraction of what people downtown pay. The apartments I lived in before had thin walls and were two stories, so you could hear people from the sides and on top. These have concrete walls that keep the sound out for the most part. I’ve had a few minor issues. For some reason their system won’t let me and my roommate split rent through direct deposit, so we have to go get money orders when we pay rent. They won’t mow your back yard if it’s fenced in. Besides that it’s been good. I had a problem where the toilet would back up into the shower but they fixed it within a day. It’s a relatively younger apartment complex and it has a bit of a community feel to it. Most people and neighbors I’ve come across have been nice and considerate.

I moved in to this apartments in December 2013. I don’t really know what happened to this place before. My unit was literally brand new. The new management remodeled the whole units include mine, it was like living in a new house. New refrigerator, new stove/​oven, new microwave etc. At first, it sounded too good to be true. I guess we were just lucky to have it. Nice timing. The floor is tile which makes the Florida house cool in summer, easy to clean, the wall is covered with some white stuff (fancy paint?) and cement? which was hard to hammer the nail in, so I gave up. You can have a private fenced yard if you pay a little more which is my favorite part! Having a yard is so much better than without it. My cat loves it. I’m sure every section of this apartments is different but my neighbors are very quite and clean. It’s near a Family Dollar shop so if you forget something from your grocery shopping, you don’t have to freak out. XD I do use that shop a lot. Probably I’m missing something (bad parts?) to tell you but honestly I don’t really have complaints. I really like this apartments. Affordable, no drama, quite, clean, on-​site parking, on-​site laundry, pool, near downtown, feels like I living in a single house. You barely see your neighbors lol. I’m thinking of staying here until I buy my own house. Overall, I would highly recommend Avesta Woodlawn Park :)

Careful when you put a deposit down. They will keep it after 72 hours if you decide not to live there, it’s in the fine print but they won’t mention it to you.
I should add the review posted here by «John F.» is very sketchy as that Unilocal profile was created right around the time when the remodel of this place was completed, ONLY has written this ONE review and *coincidentally* the name of an employee there «John Fontana» happens to share the same first name and last initial. Coincidence? Maybe. Odds that it is likely a coincidence? Very low imo.
They are not very detail oriented when I was looking at signing papers there, I requested a 7mo lease and the papers provided to me were for a 12mo lease — if a major detail like that is sloppily overlooked during the application process it’s definitely a bad sign.
Also, check out Jen M’s review — this is why I backed out of living here. In summary, it’s worth letting them eat the $ 300 deposit to not live there.