Harper’s Point

I lived at Harper’s for a year, and it is not the worst place I lived. I was renting a town home with a roommate that was in a back corner of the complex.
I loved the location of my town home as it was tucked away from the busy noise of the city, and had a nice ambience to it’s environment. Also it is adjacent to the Harper’s Club, and you can use part of the complex to work out. I took advantage of this a decent amount.
It’s location is fantastic. You are within a 5 minute drive of food, entertainment, and literally next door to a large shopping center.
That is about where the good ends for me. We were not shown our exact town home when we took a tour of the complex. We were showed what we were told was a «demo» that resembled our actual town home exactly. I particularly asked if we would have a double sink and stainless steel appliances in our town home, as they were in the demo we were shown. As someone who cooks quite a lot, these two things were huge factors in my roommate and I moving/​living there. Our tour guide said yes, our town home did indeed have those things.
We signed the papers and moved in 2 weeks later. Turns out our apartment did not have a double sink or stainless steel appliances. When I asked the lady who we signed our lease with about it, she said «Oh I never said that.» Basically it was an «our word versus her word» situation, and it was not worth fighting over so I just let it go.
Even better than that, they barely cleaned the town home for when we moved in. There were clothes and clothes hangers left in the laundry room from the previous tenants. And there was a pile of trash needing taken out in the first floor closet across from the half bathroom. I was not amused when I found out I had to clean up after the previous tenants.
Moving on from that, the second bedroom in their town homes is tiny. Looking back I cannot believe I lived in the second room of that town home for an entire year. My new apartment that I share with the same roommate is nearly twice the size. And if you count the walk in closet in my new apartment as opposed to the tiny closet I had at Harper’s, it is actually just about double in terms of overall room.
Another issue I had was with things breaking in our town home. When we moved in there were two or three lights that were burnt out and needed replaced. I am not above replacing a light bulb on my own. But I get angry when they couldn’t even check the lights worked before we moved in.
On the same note, I think my toilet in the main floor half bathroom broke half a dozen times while I lived there. I put in work orders 3 times, and after that I gave up on them being able to fix it and did the work myself. Our toilet on the second floor broke twice as well and they did fix it for us.
And yet the biggest issue with the complex is the paper thin materials used in the walls. We could hear EVERYTHING going on in the town home next to us. Our neighbor came over once and asked me to turn down my television as my surround sound was too loud. I was so surprised because it was no louder than any other apartment complex I had lived at, and my neighbors at those locations never had any issues with my television being too loud. Sound is just not insulated as well at this complex than others.
I would not live here again. Two solid alternatives that are nearby (within 10 miles) are Somerset at Deerfield and Water’s Bend. Somerset is within about 5 miles I believe, whereas Water’s Bend is about 10 miles north east. I’ve lived at both and in every way shape and form they are better complexes than Harper’s.
So in short…
The apartments are cheap.
The people showing them are dishonest.
They have a somewhat incompetent maintenance crew.
And if you neighbors like to get busy in the living room, you are going to hear every excruciating detail.
Find somewhere else to live.

I called Harper’s Point home for almost two years. In that time, I lived in two different townhomes in the community with my wife. This complex has a lot going for it, and it also has some large issues that will stick in my memory.
I’ll start with the bad. Towne Properties, owner of the Harper’s Point community, only accepts rent payments via check sent snail mail to a PO Box. The leasing office will provide envelopes for the mailings. It is an archaic, antiquated process, and the first community I’ve ever lived in where I couldn’t simply take rent checks to the leasing office. When you live in the Harper’s Point community, you will quickly come to recognize the maintenance department. I’ve had to make so many calls for repairs. The first townhome we had flooded (soaked carpets, no standing water) anytime there was significant rainfall. Each time (there were 4 flooding incidents), maintenance had to come out with giant air blowers to dry up the water underneath the carpet. Our second townhome has had electrical sockets stop working, multiple visits to fix the air conditioning/​heater, and severely outdated kitchen appliances. Communication from the maintenance crew and leasing office is lacking. We frequently did not receive return calls when we left messages with the leasing office. The maintenance department would rarely leave notice that they’d been in the apartment to troubleshoot and fix a problem.
Now for some good. Living in this community is nice because I feel like it attracts lots of friendly people to be your neighbors. The townhomes are spacious with ample storage. After the 4^th flooding at our first townhome, the leasing office moved us to a larger, drier townhome without increasing our rent for the remainder of our time at Harper’s Point. They also paid for our movers that came out to haul our larger furniture from one townhome to the other. The new townhome thankfully never flooded. There’s plenty of parking for residents and guests around the property. The leasing office has a bar in it that serves drinks. We never went, so I can’t say whether the drink prices are fair or not. Dog cleanup bag stations are located throughout the community for picking up those pesky #2’s! Right next door is the Shops at Harper’s Point development, so you can walk to your Kroger grocery store, a number of different restaurants, and other various shops. We enjoyed that convenience a great deal.
Overall, for us the good slightly outweighs the bad, allowing us to say this place is a good place to live.