Alborada

0 Stars — Absolutely Avoid Alborada Apartments

I strongly recommend staying away from Alborada Apartments. My experience was an absolute disaster from the beginning, and based on what I experienced and observed, this property has serious pest, cleanliness, maintenance, and management problems.

The problems started before I even moved in. I was contacted by management toward the end of the day the day before my scheduled move-in regarding an issue with my apartment. Instead of a smooth move-in,... I was immediately dealing with problems surrounding the condition of the apartment.

Once I moved in, I discovered a cockroach infestation. This wasn’t one stray cockroach. I encountered multiple cockroaches and continued having problems even after pest-control treatments.

What made this especially concerning was discovering that the problem was not limited to my apartment. I became aware of cockroach complaints and activity involving multiple units and buildings throughout the property. There were also concerns involving mold and other maintenance issues in various areas of the community.

The situation became serious enough that Fremont Code Enforcement became involved, and Alameda County Vector Control also inspected the property in connection with the pest issue. These weren’t simply complaints I made to the leasing office and then walked away from. Government agencies became involved because the situation required further investigation.

I also requested rent abatement because of the habitability issues I was experiencing. Management refused to abate my rent, despite the circumstances and the fact that I ultimately had to leave the apartment. I found that response extremely disappointing and completely unacceptable.

If you’re considering renting here, I strongly recommend looking up Alborada’s code-enforcement history on the City of Fremont’s website before signing a lease. Research public records and complaints involving the property. Ask specifically about pest problems, mold, maintenance issues, and complaints involving neighboring units and buildings.

The property itself also looks increasingly neglected. Buildings and common areas appear run-down and poorly maintained, and in some areas it genuinely looks like the property is being allowed to deteriorate. The common facilities I encountered were dirty and did not reflect the standards I would expect from a professionally managed apartment complex.

And the management experience? Atrocious.

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This complex is the poster child for corporate greed. We had multiple broken appliances for the entirety of our lease, a feral cat colony infested with fleas, crazy upchargers in utilities, and it was impossible to find parking after 6/7 pm. This place was filthy and mismanaged. We had more than one cockroach issue, and the fleas came in to the apartments through the doors. Poorly sealed windows, and at least one parking gate is always broken. The name of their game is profit and I have truly... never had a worse living experience. I'd give 0 stars if it were possible Read More

Apartment wants to make even more money by charging its RESIDENTS monthly ADDITIONAL for parking. HEAVY infestation of diverse insect species. Apartment said “they can’t do anything about it.” To buy bug poison/traps. Pest infestation is for this whole complex, no matter how much poison you use, there is more. Cracks for pest throughout. NOT SAFE. Car thief, mail thief, porch pirates. NOT CHILDREN SAFE, there always are strangers walking in the parking lot. Dumpsters are far, few, and overfilled... . Floor is dirty from trash. Yet the apartment is concerned about stray cats rather than it’s overfilling dump and cockroaches Read More

This is not safe to live. The mailbox in this apartment were stolen several times since I move in and almost a year have passed, NO ACTION was done by the apartment. Since the first stolen happened, I determined that I’ll try to find a new place and move out ASAP. Recently the driver’s licenses of my husband and I were also stolen from our mailbox as well, we received NO EMAIL or alert form the apartment about this incident. Then I started receiving calls from the bank saying that someone tried... and succeeded in getting money from our bank accounts. We tried to contact the apartment about this issue, all we got is that “this is happening in a lot of communities and there’s nothing that we can do about it”. They didn’t even file a separate police report for that. I can’t believe I’m paying for the security for this apartment and that’s what I got. No cameras in the mailbox area were installed at all. They care more about looking for cars parking in the community from outside than the safety of their resident. I don’t have any safe place to store my mails because I live here. Be careful, losing your mails is a serious situation and do look for those information when you’re looking for an apartment. Read More

The leasing team is the worst. They are extremely nice to you when they want you to sign the lease for a new apartment and they have zero after sales service. They handed over a dirty apartment and did nothing about it after several requests. The community is infested with roaches and there are lots of spiders and web in common areas. They will not leave an opportunity to charge you money when you move-out but they do not give clean apartments to new tenants moving in. The packages and mails are... lost often. The common areas are not cleaned and you have to complain several time to get their attention.
Also the gate is broken most of times and any one can walk in from the pedestrian gate towards guardino st. Read More