Lake Shore Apartments 902 East 1st Street, Ankeny, IA 50021

"Rachel at the front counter has been the absolute BEST person to talk to about any issue I had with the apartments. Nice and clean apartments and help any second you need. Rachel has been so polite and patient and incredibly helpful with everything I needed."

"Lake Shore is a great place to live I’d say. It’s obviously not the cheapest place to live but you get what you pay for: the grounds are well kept, safe and quiet community, amenities are really nice, in unit laundry is very convenient, the lake view is pretty, and the staff is friendly and helpful and readily available. Only problems I’ve ran into is there are a lot of spiders on the lake side of the building in the summer and the ICS internet provider works fine I just don’t like the system of having to manually register each device (type in MAC address on their website with different passwords for each device) to use the Wi-Fi. Be prepared to buy your own nice router and call ICS to avoid this inconvenience."

"Have been living here for a year, So far its been pretty good. Pros: The things that are nice are the fact you have the option of going to 2 different gyms, more than one pool, nice little area for table pool and tv, the maintenance is pretty good and cleaning is done fairly often so its never usually too dirty as compared to other places. Nice layout and interior compared to other places and they also have little holiday giveaways, easter egg hunts etc. cons: The only thing keeping this from being a 5 star is parking. During the winter snow plows cover the limited spots there are so if you come home after 7:00pm you almost have no chance of parking. There has been dozens of times I have to park a over a half mile away from my building in the Mercy parking lot because there is no parking. All in all I have liked living in this place and possibly would 100% recommend if parking was in some way improved."

"This was a great community towards the beginning of my lease. Now that it is coming to an end, I’m glad to be leaving. Once you’re halfway through your lease, management seems to stop responding to you completely. Something is always broken or in need of repair in the unit and it’s a hassle to get a timely response from the office or maintenance. This is the third time I’ve come home to my unit at 80 degrees with my poor dog inside all day. I called the office and the girl on the phone was no help at all, same with the ‘emergency’ number. Save yourself, and your pet, the trouble and live elsewhere. Update-I was able to get ahold of the emergency maintenance, they came in a few hours and were very helpful. However, I feel bad someone had to come after hours to address this when I called the office during office hours."

"We have loved living here for over 3 years now. The apartments are modern, well kept and quiet. The have great amenities such as pools, gyms, dog runs & party rooms, garages and storage units. They have community get togethers once a month which bring all of us together and let us meet our neighbors. We have met so many great people. The best part is the amazing and understanding people who work in the office and most of all, the awesome maintenance crew. 10/10 would definitely recommend!"