Lafayette Commons Apartments

"My son lives here with a roommate. Close to Bart, markets, main freeways and Berkeley. Seems like a nice place."

"The review from Sarah Macdonald is invalid. Sometimes people who aren’t from the area will take a spot that is not theirs, no big deal, leave a note and park elsewhere. They did not park 15 minutes away as I saw their car right across the street...a 30 second walk. They forgot to mention they also laid on their car horn at 5:30AM waking everyone up, pissing everyone off...."

"Physically it’s a nice place but management is not there to help you. Parking is NOT enoforced and despite having an assigned spot I still at time have to park 10-15 minutes away or move my car every 2 hours. Management has refused to remove cars illegally parked for some reason. Requesting maintainable seems to result in requests miscommunicated or never recieved. The online portal is a mess when it comes to making payment. So bottom line. Nice place, decent neighbors, but once you move in, good luck if anything goes wrong..."

"Could have better management."

"We had a bad mold attack in the apt after living in it for couple of months. We were given a temporary apt for a week to clean up mold. They changed the window to stop the problem from reccuring. Since I had a 7 month old baby, I decided not to move into the same apt. I was living on month to month and the apt manager agreed to waive the 30 day notice since there were no other apt we could rent either in lafayette commons or meridian (another apt they are managing) due to unavailability. 5 of our suitcases were totally mold ridden in the attack. The apt manager said she will reimburse $300 for the suitcases. But when I got the move out statement, I was shocked to see $270 cleaning fee. We cleaned the apt before moving out. Essentially, they just cancelled out the reimbursement using cleaning charges. I didn’t like the underhand tactics."