El Markay Apartments 239 Easy Street, Mountain View, CA 94043

"This is a nice/quiet apt complex. Our family enjoyed living here for the past 4.5yrs and hope to remain for awhile longer. We like how there's a small park at the end of the street and we walk often to downtown MtView castro street. My wife takes Caltrain sometimes to the city to see her girlfriends, with the train station only 10mins apart."

"I lived here for 4.5 years up until April 2023 and was sad to have to move due to work relocation. This place is a family-run business, so I always dealt with the family directly. They always provided quick service and was reasonable with annual rent adjustments (even before rent control started). It's a clean, quiet, small complex with no frills, but I didn't want to pay for those things anywya. My apt was very large space wise and I made good use of the patio. I would rent from them again, if work ever brings me back to the area."

"I used to live here from Jun 2016 to Jun 2017. The only pros are that the apartment is large and the location is nice (close to Castro and Stevens Creek Trail) CONS: 1. Its a fairly old apartment with paper thin walls. 2. No security measures (the area is quite safe though) 3. Poor waste management. I had to spend hours every weekend breaking down boxes to some tiny dimension they had asked for 4. Coin operated washer and dryer that don't do a good job. The dryer needs to go twice to dry your clothes 5. Very high security deposit (a full month's rent!) 6. When we moved out, we were slapped with a hefty bill totaling more than a month's rent! Apart from standard cleaning (which I was still okay with), they decided the redo the entire kitchen counter-top and blamed it on the few stains we left behind. Our requests to lower the cost were rejected. For a place that charges an entire month's rent as security deposit, you would think you would get a decent refund at the end. It was shocking that the move out expense was even more than the high security deposit. It seems like their model is to suck money out of 1-2 year renters because their old time renters have locked down their rents at low price."