Vista Capri North Apartments

I’m honestly surprised that this place has gotten so many negative ratings. I’ve been here for almost a year and am planning on renewing at the end of my lease. The price is really reasonable for the area, freeway access is perfect and the building is cute with a pool & spa. Also one of the only places that allowed me to bring my pet! Management has changed a few times (which is annoying) but seems to be improved as of recently. Also, parking is included (street parking is bad — reason for the minus one but I get a guest pass when I need one). The building is a bit older but it’s maintained nicely and I don’t expect to live in a brand new building for $ 1,200 a month! Oh, and there is a built in book case and vanity — I love this! Have your own experience here, mine hasn’t been too bad.

First off, to the 5 months and older reviews. Management has changed and things are running a lot smoother now.
I’ve been living here for a year, just signed my lease for a 2^nd year. I really do like living here. Sure there are some very minor cons. But not worth blaming management for.
Cons:
Apartment (upstairs) shakes when someone STOMPS past it. I’ve noticed some people purposely stomp their feet as they walk by – then again, this isn’t anything that management can fix. The apartments are older so this is expected. Sometimes people slam their doors shut and any other noise is easily heard by almost everyone in the complex, depending what side you’re on. Then again, this also is not something management is responsible for. Neighbors need to be more respectful of others living here. Before the new manager came in, they used to shut off the water with no warning — and I remember bringing this up to the temp manager before the current one and she showed me attitude and got angry with me. Now, they send out a warning in advance by email — perfect!
Pros:
Ample parking (not assigned but it’s never been an issue and I would prefer it this way), rent is relatively cheap, apartments are cute and quaint — I’ve gotten lots of compliments. To those people saying apartments are not nice/​crappy — what do you expect for a complex that has cheaper rent, a regal apartment lol? And honestly, for what we pay, the apartments are very nice. Also, they’ve started renovating a few of the apartments and they look beautiful — the rent for these apartments is a bit more but I’m sure it’s worth it. Of course, if you’re living here with more than 2 people, it is snug. There is a pool and jacuzzi and laundry facility. Never had roach, rodent, or bed bugs problem, thankfully — also have never seen them rodents or roaches outside. **NEW MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE GUY** about ⁴⁄₆ months into my lease here — they are absolutely amazing! I wouldn’t be writing this review if it wasn’t for how kind and accommodating management (Jessica) has been and how efficient and smart the maintenance guy (Manuel) is. Jessica is incredibly quick and responsive to tenant needs and very helpful. Manuel is respectful, kind and very good at his job. Anytime I’ve had a request, he’s shown up immediately and fixed whatever was wrong. Thank you both for your diligence and hard work.

DO NOT RENT HERE. They do NOT GIVE BACK SECURITY DEPOSIT as they deduct for unnecessary nuisances such as normal wear and tear. Be prepared to sue should this happen as it is against the law for property owners to withhold any sum of the deposit for ridiculous, illogical reasons, especially such as normal wear and tear (fading of carpet near entry way, some chipping of paint on outside of door, etc).
COCKROACHES roam freely within the apartment AND outside. Management honestly doesn’t care about you. You honestly get what you pay for. There are REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS that also live in this complex as I did extensive background checks on this location. Not a good place for kids as there are some sketchy people that live here. Saw a dead mouse in the pool. Not sure if they cleaned it. No AC, no dishwasher, parking permits not really enforced so good luck trying to find parking if you actually have a permit (they have EMS spots and these are enforced as I saw a car get towed so don’t park there), not really well lit so bring a flashlight when walking back during the night, no elevators (is this location even disability friendly?), and bedbugs found within apartment probably from prior tenant. Also, get a good car alarm because your car would most likely get broken into. I saw two cars on opposite sides of the property with windows that were broken into. Shortly after, my car did get broken into but luckily I did not lose anything as I did not keep anything of value in my car (my car is brand new and has dark limo tint so I’m not sure how the thieves managed to see something of potential value). Management dismissed it and said they cannot do anything about it. Needless to say, I was infuriated and I moved out before my contract was up because I honestly have so much going on in my life and I do not have the energy not patience to deal constantly with all these issues. I was luckily able to find a nice apartment just 5 minutes from this location so definitely expand your search.
Bottom line: rid yourself of daily headaches caused by nuisances from this property that should not even be issues if this property was managed well.

Horribly managed. Upon move in there was/​have been nothing but problems. I’ve discovered nothing but dirt, hair, crumbs on the floor, blinds already falling off the runners, sink in disrepair (until I fixed it myself), shotty workmanship throughout the unit (from paint to cabinetry), and fantastic single pane windows. I could rant but I’ll spare the complex for I’m still stuck in a lease. The manager laughs at you when you’re talking about personal finance and the conglomerate of these apartments are run in such a way that you must deal with your manager while an off site, unreachable employee contacts you over the phone with an AWFUL tone. They’ll harass you and say rent may ONLY be paid online (not part of the addendum signed for move in). There will charge late fees when rent is late, fine. But, 3 days out of the week there is no employee available to help you pay online. Not technically savvy? Consider yourself charged. Rent day falls around a weekend? Sucks for you! You bet nobody will be there on Monday to take your check in person. MUST pay online, withholding initial sign in info. that only the office had.
The complex had me sign an addendum and then practiced policy from another contract which I’d never agreed to. Highly unethical, disgustingly managed and maintained. That should be the motto of this wonderfully loud/​outdated complex. I have the ability to pursue a case in small claims given CA citizens have rights in which the addendum is, gee I don’t know, a binding contract that is illegal to manipulate or stray from without tenant acknowledgment.
Aside from management and condition, these apartments are perfectly okay.
But before signing 12 months of your life away… Do you like unassigned parking? Gardeners at 8 am? Over watering in a drought? Parking spots sold to off-​property businesses while the tenant parking is horrid? «Managers» who will laugh at you when they admit they didn’t have you sign an updated addendum in which they now claim to operate under? A dirty unit upon move-​in? HA!!! Then this is your place.
Please sign a lease at your own risk. I read the reviews prior to my move-​in and see now what the lower ratings were referring to. Hopefully this helps save you 14,000 a year (not including utilities, gas or electric, water, insurance, garbage, and hidden late fees!
P. s.- Their is non stop sirens in this area. Astro Vista isn’t liable of course, but just consider that, and this review while browsing.
Also they will cut your power AND water with no forewarning. This place is a joke. Laughing yet?.. I know I am.

Lived here with my boyfriend for about 6 months. Nice apartments if you have low standards. Cute & compact however all of my noted appliance issues listed in our first walk through have not been fixed until brought up to management multiple times. They have shut off our water on multiple occasions without any form of notice & I think our management has changed to a different women but has not made any attempt to introduce herself. Other than that cute small apartments no dishwasher no ac there is a pool & jacuzzi 1 bedroom 1 bath. Not the best but not the worst I suppose

What a horrible experience with this property entity.
I was paying $ 1125 plus utilities for a one bedroom unit by their poolside.
No heating or air conditioning. Not so bad in the winter, ridiculous during the summer.
To keep it short, I would not do business or invest another year of my life with this property group.
— Water averages out to 60 – 70 dollars a month; they use AUM as their utility management. They tack on a $ 7.50 «convenience fee» for processing orders online through card. It’s either that or mailing a stupid letter that gives them consent to bill your card monthly without incurring fees.
Your billing statement does not tell you how much actual water you use. Doubt there is anyone on floor who could even answer that for you.
— Water outages. Think I’ve had about ten or more instances with the water being cut off. Kinda ridiculous when you are paying a pretty penny for water.
— Landlord. I moved in December of last year at the time Noreen was active. She was friendly and approachable. She left after about three months into my lease and Julie stepped in. I rarely saw her at the property.
— Washers and dryers aren’t great. Some flood mid wash, some have broken locking mechanisms on the wash doors.
— No Security. As mentioned by others, there is no longer any security at the property. Non residents are parking within the complex and had never seen a car towed for violating.
— Security deposit. What a joke. They mailed it out on their 21^st calendar date after I was told It was cut and sent two weeks prior to that. They charged me 300.00 to paint two walls that I hung nothing on, and provided no receipt for labor expenses other than a shitty itemized list that they probably drafted on a word document.
After having a property manager walk in and check the place out before handing the keys in, I was told that it’d be a quick and easy mop. Yeah right they took $ 500 of my deposit. Pretty quick.

I really don’t know how to describe how miserable this place is. The management just changed over, so we’ll see if things run any smoother with Jessica, but that’s just one of the many problems here.
I moved into a roach infested apartment, with all the surrounding apartments infested as well. Imagine the horror of sitting down on your couch after moving all of your stuff into your new place and seeing a roach skitter across the the wall, and then see them going into your boxes of stuff. Horrible! The manager, Jullie, assured me that she didn’t know and that they sprayed for bugs the day before I moved in. Is that protocol? That’s when I knew she was a liar.
A tree from the property fell on my truck, and the regional manager, Kyle, avoided my calls and emails for a month before offering to settle with me for the damages. My car was towed from my parking spot by a predatory tow company. $ 360 to get it back same day. It was dealt about $ 3000 in diagnosed body damage, as well as obvious damage to the suspension. Bad day to come outside and see your car gone because your parking pass fell on the floor.
There are so many break ins here. I’ve called the cops several times. I’ve chased off dozens of people. I’ve seen bicyclists come in at 3am and start opening car doors and taking stuff. I’ve seen the towing company that took my car doing it. I have it on video. There are dumpster divers here every single night, and during the day sometimes too. I had a bike rack stolen off of my car within hours of buying it, in daylight. It’s pretty dark in the parking lot at night too.
The worst part is my upstairs neighbors though. It’s a mother and her 3 kids. I understand «apartment living» is difficult, and that they aren’t expected to tip-​toe around, but for the first 6 months living here, I didn’t hear a peep from upstairs. After they moved in, I can’t concentrate, I can’t study, I get headaches from it. I talked to her, and she really could care less. All I hear for hours on end is the kids running around, throwing baseballs at the floor, and dragging tables and furniture around the floor. It’s truly horrible. They were stomping around so hard one day that a plaque hanging on my wall fell off. It fell onto my marble chess set and broke it too. That’s excessively loud. I told the management, and they talked to her, but it didn’t make a difference. If for no other reason, I have to move because of that. There is no peace here. I hate it!!!
There are 2 hospitals a block away, and a lot of traffic because of it. You get used to the sirens, they don’t bother me at all. The location is actually pretty decent, which is why I chose this place to begin with. Well, and I was desperate.
A steam pipe broke in my ceiling last month and flooded my bedroom. If you’re going to move here, make sure you have good renter’s insurance. I needed it, and was really glad I had it.
The hot water is scalding hot. The hot and cold markers are labeled backwards in the shower. It’s not really a funny joke either. My mom found out how hot the water was because of that. But on the bright side, it only takes like 2 minutes to boil it.
There is zero cabinet space, and even less if you’re under 9 feet tall. The midget «bar» in the middle of the kitchen is trash. It’s not really practical countertop space, only really useful for the cabinet space. This place is tiny. It’s also hot and stuffy. Like 80 degrees at 3 am in January hot. Everyone sleeps with their windows open. I don’t want my stuff stolen, so I don’t. None of my windows lock anyways, or really even sit in the track right. There are other security concerns that I won’t mention here. Part of the complex has to sandbag their front doors when it rains here.
The extra refrigerators, stoves, microwaves, and everything else are left sitting outside by the parking lot. It looks like trash. I’m embarrassed to invite people over here. The leaf blowers come through like clockwork the day after it rains. So your car is getting dirty. No question. Don’t know why they can afford to hire a platoon of leaf blowers but we can’t get 1 security guard.
Maybe you’re not as easily annoyed as I am at these things, but they have also cost me a significant amount of money, and damage to my personal property. I feel this is the best and most accurate review that I could write. I have been looking for a new place, and it’s incredibly difficult. The only difference between this year and last year when I moved in is that it’s harder to find a decent place at a fair price now. If you have any other options aside from this place, I would take them. That’s what my neighbor said to me when I moved in here, right before he told me that the people living in my apartment before me had bed bugs. Good luck.

Lived here a year and the randomly shut the water down??? For the price for rent they shouldn’t have this problem.
They go on for more then one hour with no water running. Is ridiculous!!!

I have lived here for almost 2 years with my boyfriend and our two small dogs. It IS a small apartment. 500 square feet doesn’t give you a lot of room but the apartments themselves are all right. No dishwasher, but in a place this size there isn’t really room for two people and two dogs without giving up things like a dining room table. The built in bookshelves are fantastic (I have a lot of books) but the built in breakfast bar sucks a LOT. The kitchen appliances are so/​so, but that’s par for the course in San Diego. No AC, but once again, central AC is hard to find in this city, and most of the time you don’t need it anyway. This place is small but I would say about a ⁶⁄₁₀ for the apartment itself and ⁸⁄₁₀ for management.
We haven’t had any trouble with getting maintenance issues fixed — we have had only two issues and both were repaired in a timely manner. Parking is great, you get two parking spots and a visitor pass without having to pay for it. Sometimes we have issues with people from the other large complex in the neighborhood parking in our lot, but this is usually solved by one or two tow-​truck visits. I have never ever had any trouble parking here.
Laundry rooms suck everywhere. Not having your own washer and dryer sucks. That said, I haven’t had trouble doing laundry here. It’s not super expensive, and as long as I don’t go on a Saturday or Sunday after 12 noon I can at least get two loads at a time done.
The way water is billed DOES suck, but this is Southern CA and that seems to be the way it is done here when you rent from a property management company.
I have not had a single issue with management. We pay our rent on time, and we pay our water bill, and we haven’t had really any issues with management. We were planning on moving last year, but the place fell through (as happens in this city — honestly, San Diego is a terrible place to find decent housing) and when we went to ask for more time, she let us stay despite the fact that our apartment had been rented. We have been here another 7 months since then and though we are still trying to find a bigger place (500 square feet + 2 people + 2 dogs = CRAMPED) I have to give them a positive review. If you are either a single person or two people who like each other a lot these are decent apartments, and the rent is about average for San Diego. The location is pretty awesome most of the time, with the exception of the hours between 3 – 6 in the afternoon on weekdays. Management is pretty awesome and very flexible, and very straightforward. I would recommend.

Pros :
Conveniently close to the 805 and 163 FWY and all of the shops in the «Asian Triangle»
Pet friendly neighborhood
Plenty of street and private lot parking
Clean swimming pool and friendly staff
On premise laundry mat ($ 1.50 to wash and $ 1.25 to dry)
Apartment includes stove, fridge and microwave
Cons :
The water pressure is LOW during showers and normally rises to hot in the middle of your showers
There’s no central air or AC unit so it can get pretty stuffy and warm in the summer
A lot of trees meaning a lot of creepy crawlers (raid and roach spray might be your best friend during the beginning of your stay)
Paying online has a $ 7.00 charge (doesn’t make sense)
Really nearby firehouse and hospital so there’s always ongoing sirens
A lot of traffic during the afternoon due to high school and college nearby

Avoid this place like the plague. Severely over priced, unless you like paying top dollar for a tiny HOT apartment with walls as thin as paper. How they compute your water and waste usage is beyond me, but its usually 40 dollars or more!!! This makes no sense to me, and to pay online there is a 7 dollar fee!!! The management here is not the best either, takes forever to get any real issues fixed, and its usually shabby repairs. The woman who runs Vista Capri North has a serious attitude problem and is known to call the cops and file false police reports. Like I said, avoid like the plague! Only thing positive is that its central to just about everything in San Diego.

Nice place, close to the great shops on Convoy Street. The office staff is helpful.

Conveniently located near schools (high school and Mesa college). Well maintained pool area. Very friendly staff. Recently installed upgraded lights around the community to light up the night. Street parking is somewhat limited depending on the time of day partially because some hospital employees will park in the area.
Biggest complaint: no gym or exercise facility :/

Not the best water pressure and no real community but great service and maintenance.