Sycamore Pines Apartments

One star is to much. Zero management. Manager uses weed is high her name is April. Maintenance non existent. Looks nice but the worst all round. Property management in long beach hides from you… Maintenance workers are disgruntled. Ant, Roach, raccoon, and termites. All is a cover show when unit is toured. Ask someone they will tell you…

renters beware!!! place might look nice but it is the total opposite infested with ants all year, when you call management to inform them all they do is raid the place bums jumping the gates to dig in the trash april (manager) is a complete mess god bless her i wont not recommend this place at all worst 7 months of my life having to watch out my window making sure my car doesn’t get broken into! beware

This place doesn’t deserve one start
Worst place ever ever TO LIVE!!!
You will never get any customer service from management besides that be careful
Because there’s a lot homeless at night.
I have someone break into our car they stole everything besides this you will never use the pool because is always sooooo duty and the laundry room you will see homeless sleeping by that room!
Not only that lets add you will have ants all year around its up to you at the end but trust save some waste of peace of mind and keep looking.
When I red all Unilocal comments since I was in need to a place because I moved to a new city I discard them giving this place a shot.
Worst mistake ever :(
I am so glad I am out
Today we pay little meow but so much worth it!!!

Don’t even know where to begin. As others mentioned ita 1400 for 2 bed 2 bath an a wall A/​C. The way it’s set up is perfect for roommates. Don’t get me wrong the apartments itself and layout is nice. Fell in love moment I saw it. Bedrooms are on opposite sides great for roommates.
I’ve been living here 6 months now and at first was good. Life was good. But then OMG the infestation of ants came. How disgusting! Literally hundreds of them. They’re everywhere. Whether theres trash or no trash. Found them on my ceiling, on my walls, my night stands, my curtains, in my closet and in my makeup! Really makeup? Complained to management and was told my whole building was having this issue. Hello? Time for an exterminator maybe? Manager lady is awesome. I know its not her fault its corporate who says theres too much of a liability. Ok so me having to raid my room every other day isnt a liability for myself? I shouldn’t be paying that much to sleep with ants. I was in my restroom once and one bit my butt! Yes I have a nice behind grately appreciated a little speck in life wanted to bite it too but no. –_​_​_​_​– it hurt.
It does get very hot in the apartment and they have all around heating but not a/​c? That’s not too bad though we live in cali. Its hot no matter what.
Rent is an issue. I can’t drive to long beach all the time to deop it off it becomes a drag. And when I asked why they don’t have online access they said becuase they’d get charged. Lame. I don’t see why we can’t pay on site to the manager.
Never really had a bum issue I mean I see them all the time but they don’t bother me. Vandalism? Yes. My friends car got broken into at guest parking once. Jerks. There’s these cameras all around the building and clearly are fake.
Another issue… I’m trying to leave because I can’t deal with ants at all anymore. My roommate doesnt have this issue in her room. I unfortunately do. I was told even if I leave my name wont come off the lease. What lease? It’s month-​to-​month! So my roommate said we’ll break the lease and her «re-​lease» it with someone else and thats not possible either? The only way for my name to come off is if we both vacate the premises. Ok she wants to continue living here… is she really gonna have to take her shit out let them see its out… go sign papers then move her stuff back in? Completely moronic and stupid. I loved this place and quickly hated it when the ants came. I am not about to battle ants every week for the rest of the summer.
I get it houses have this issue with ants as well but thats when you deal with them. Its your house. We are renting here. If theres an issue management should FIX IT. Im sure my whole building can agree. And if we wanna leave let us.
Only reason this place even gets a star is cuz of andrea the manager. She’s really cool to speak with.
DO NOT LIVE HERE unless you wanna sleep with ants and be in that constant battle.

Where to start… I had my GF at the time pick out somewhere for us to live while I was in Afghanistan. I told her to find somewhere nice with freeway access, a/​c, all of that. What I came back to was not pretty effing terrible.
I read the other reviews and there doesn’t seem to be a point in «parroting» everyone else’s statements: They’re true.
1) Rent is ~$ 1400/​month for a 2-​bed 2-​bath with a wall-​mounted A/​C in the living room. The other rooms get HOT very quickly in the day time and cool off around 0300.
2) The walls do nothing to keep out noise. Neighbors above that are up around the time the place cools off. Next door screaming kids and fighting parents.
3) Haven’t really had a problem with meth heads breaking into my shiat… however my ex-​gf did have someone try to hop our fence and steal her bike when she was at school.
4) Ants are indeed everywhere. It’s disgusting. I — no joke — had one bite me on my balls while I was using the bathroom… compliment, maybe? They also crawl all over you late at night in bed and bite you pretty much whenever. Also, SPIDERS. My place is infested with spiders that love to eat the ants and bite the hell out of me when I sleep. Not cool.
5) Paying rent: paying rent is convenient and easy via your having to drive to some office building in Long Beach and hand off the rent check. No paying on-​site. This would not be an issue for most who mail their check in. I came back from Afghanistan to no checks and so had to go to the bank to get a cashier’s check and drive down to hand it off. EXTREMELY difficult when I work six days a week/​ten hours a day… they’re closed Sunday and close at noon on Saturday… since the girl and I split up I had no one to help me with the rent check. Luckily my girl’s mother was kind enough to help me.
6) Mail: The mailbox lock on my slot broke at an incredibly inconvenient time when I was (and still am) expecting my IRS income tax refund checks. Two weeks after the fact, I found out from management. The checks have since been mailed back to some IRS location somewhere and I’m going to have to do a bit of driving to locate where in the hell they’re located at (no live assistance over the phone).
The apartment manager lady is nice and cool to talk with. The apartment itself has been one of the worst experiences in paying-​to-​live somewhere that I’ve encountered in 28 years. These conditions would be tolerable if the place was free and I was back in the Helmand province dealing with people trying to kill me all day — but at $ 1400/​month? Negative ghostrider.

Where do I start???
1. Ants!!!
Yes, it’s true!!! Millions and millions ants everywhere!!! These ants like everything!!! You will find them in your bathroom having a drink of water or in your bed taking a nap or frozen to death from trying to get to the food in your refrigerator!!! You will find them crawling over you in your sleep!!! Trash must go out ASAP or your house will be infested with ant in minutes!!!
2. The Breaking bad meth heads!!!
When you move here, your car become a storage locker for the tweekers who live in the riverbed!!! They will visit your car GARANTEED!!! And take whatever they want, whenever they want!!! Sometimes they will break into several car In one day!!! Tweekers must like to be on camera too because every since management put the cameras up, more cars and storage lockers are getting broken into!!!
3. Paper thin walls!!!
You will know when you neighbors come and go! It’s will sound like they are in your living room!!! If you want to know anything about your neighbor, just leave your front door open!!! You will hear kids yelling, everyone’s conversation!!! You have to turn up your TV with sound sound to drowned the noise out!!!
4. Laundry
There are only 4 washers and dryer for the whole side of our building!!! Good luck trying to use one of them!!!
5. Repairs
I called to have a problem fixed. The maintenance guy came while i was at work and did not notify when he was going to come!!! Another I was here, they knocked and just started to come in!!! NOT COOL!!!
The best thing about this place is they keep it very clean!!!
Sycamore pines is more like MOUNT «METHmore»

I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO THE GUY THAT BROKE INTO MY CAR HERE.
0 STARS
Long read but worth it if you are considering moving here.
I was looking for an affordable place that accepted pets and found sycamore pines. They had a deal for $ 1300/​month for a 2 bedroom. However after I had applied for the unit, I was informed that the 1300 ones had sold out (in less than 8 hours) but that they had units for 1400. I was tired of looking and I settled. Now, I really wish I had kept looking.
Upon move-​in they lost my cashier’s check. This turned into a headache with 4 trips to the bank to remedy. Losing the check, however, put me in contact with the management company running the property; I usually had to go through them to get anything done because the on-​site manager was useless. They also don’t accept rent checks on site, even though they have an on-​site office, likely for the reason that they will lose them as they did my check. You are required to either drop off the check to the office in long beach or mail the check, despite them having no outgoing mailbox.
The appliances are old as dirt. The fire extinguisher provided was expired and sitting on empty. The oven knobs had been worn so badly you couldn’t tell what temperature it was set to, and only one burner on the stove worked. Those both got replaced eventually, but my fiancé overheard one of the management staff telling maintenance to keep the stove to install in another unit. The dishwasher left a white residue on everything it touched. The toilets regularly overflowed for no reason and one toilet wasn’t properly sealed and wobbled when you sat on it. The tap water, even after being filtered twice, tasted god awful.
Once when we returned from being out of town, our neighbor informed us that the head on-​site management guy (totally useless) had been banging on our door for an extended period of time, enough to disrupt our neighbors. When we didn’t answer the door, he began to peek through our windows! We immediately lost all sense of security and privacy in our own apartment.
Security is non-​existent. I looked at some reviews before move-​in and they referenced car thefts. When I inquired, the on-​site manager assured me that they installed cameras to cover the parking lot and there hadn’t been an issue in several years. My car was broken into (smashed window) less than 4 months after moving in. It turned out the cameras they installed only overlooked the office. The on-​site management couldn’t have cared less; it took a call to the corporate management before they even wanted to take down the police report number. The responding officer told us that this occurred quite often in our complex because of all of the homeless people that wander through. The management doesn’t care and refuses to put up a gate.
Then this brings us to the ants. The company 100% refuses to spray or hire an exterminator. The ants are so bad; they live in the walls of the unit. They will hit a trash can in less than 3 hours of food being placed in it. I once had a soda on my desk for 30 minutes before ants came. They infested cat food, our pantry, refrigerator, and our toilets. We would usually find 10 – 15 ants a day just wandering around our apartment (the new carpets they had put in seemed to be chosen to purposefully hide ants) and we would get a full trail of ants somewhere in the apartment at least once a week, usually 2 – 3 per week. They would infest for food, pet food, water from an overflowed toilet (see above), they infested my fiancé’s car, and once my fiancé put lotion on her feet 3 hours before walking in the kitchen, which garnered an infestation. Then there were the «just because» ant trails. I gave up trying to plug the holes they were coming from. The holes were infinite in number and some holes were baseball sized.
The management’s solution was 1) wait for winter, because the cold deters them (we got an infestation the day before we moved out in November) and 2) give us ant poison that the ants completely avoided and ignored. When we told them the traps weren’t working, their solution was to give us more of them. After lodging multiple complaints with photos of the infestations, management came back to me and said that they would do anything I could think of to quell the problem, including paying me, other than hiring an exterminator. I asked why they refused to hire an exterminator and they said that it was for health reasons. When I told them that we were suffering adverse health effects because I had to spray raid inside my unit almost on a daily basis to kill off the ant trails, they simply ignored me. That was the last straw and I put in my 30 days shortly after this exchange with the corporate management office.
We talked to other residents and I can assure you that these are not isolated incidents. Everyone was having similar issues (especially the break-​ins and the ants). Don’t move here, you will be miserable. Avoid at all costs!!!

This place makes me sick. About 2 years ago when first looking for my place they had a special for $ 1105. We get there & they said oh that’s taken but we have this one for $XX amount. I questioned the lady that showed us this place because I had seen previously how expense it was but thought well maybe they lowered the rates. I’m now looking for something with a lil yard for my baby & notice they renting again but this time for $ 1395 when last week it was $ 1400+. THIS PLACE IS A SCAM~BEWARE!!!

i understand that because we live by two riverbeds that insects are something to be awear of but it seems as though this building was so poorly built due to the fact that ants come from every crevice in the unit. there is no specific place to watch out for because you are safe no where. in the bathroom, bed room, kitchen, living room. if you enjoy hundreds of ants every boring this is your kinda place.
we might as well not even have walls because everything can be heard from next door. i have a wonderful flat screen with surround sound that i enjoy using to drown out my neighbor abusing her child however apparently it was too loud for her so i am no longer a tenant there.
poor management and very difficult to get ahold of. we like to think we can rely on those that oversee the property but they honestly do not have the tenants best interest at heart. there is a no back in parking rule that to me seems pointless especially when i had my tags and license plate stolen off of my car with no response or action. the camera that were installed are a joke and in what i have experienced are just dummys
which leads me into the safety on the vehicles of which there is none. i have had personal effects stolen and again when i asked for footage from the camera i was ignored.
horrible place to live and if you have kids keep clear there are entirely to many homeless and not enough safety.