Vue @ Montrose

I just posted on their Falls at Montrose page. It’s the same place. Same place.
I’ve lived here for a year now and will attempt to incorporate my full experience with this place as un-​biased and as thorough as I can possibly be.
Pros
1. Beautiful Apartment Interior: The apartment interior is really lovely. the color scheme, the granite top kitchen and its appliances, the light fixtures, the bathroom design. It all forms this really lovely setting to live in. I happen to live in a 2 bedroom 1.5 bathroom and everything about my apartment is pleasant to the eye and senses.
2. The apartment exterior: This apartment has gorgeous landscaping filled with large complex, water fountains designed to look like waterfalls and a creek. All my friends and relatives love the exterior, including my patio view, which although does not have the LA skyline (a good half of the apartments do), has a forest-​y sort of view which I LOVE.
3. Location, Location, Location:
a. Not only is the apartment building nestled at the top of a quaint little hill with other nice apartment buildings, weeping willows and what not, it is literally, like, 200 feet from a well-​maintained park you come to believe is almost your large private back-​yard. lol.
b. You walk down your little hill, cross the main street and you are in downtown Montrose, which, for those who haven’t been there, is the cutest, little thing. It’s full of trendy restaurants like The Ocean View and The Black Cow Café, It has a Trader Joe’s, optometries, two pet clinics, book stores, cross-​fitness gyms, spinning gyms, like, a thousand dance studios, frozen yogurt, sushi restaurants and much more. All it is missing is a Whole Foods, but who needs Whole Foods when there is a Farmer’s Market there EVERY freakin Sunday.
d. You are 5 minutes away from downtown La Canada, which has EVERYTHING else you could possibly need, including a Sprouts, which was a big thumbs up for me.
4. The onsite management: Shauna and her team are FANTASTIC. Extremely friendly and helpful. I KNOW that if I call them, I have someone fixing my issue within the day, if not within the hour. This place was recently bought by a new company and so far so AWESOME.
5. You can have your pet (s)! The building provides little pet waste areas which also provides little waste baggies for those caught off guard by their pet. The landscaping also provides for designated areas for the pets do their thing and for a lot of fun discovery.
6. Friendly neighbors, at least for me. The neighbors are friendly. Dog people tend to be, right? The neighboring dogs are friendly for the most part too, except for this demon black and white border collie living on the side in front of the office: the bane of all the other friendly dogs’ existence.
7. It ALWAYS sounds like it’s raining. seriously. because of the fountains. It’s awesome. The serene sounds of the complex fountains (waterfalls and stuff) drown out any outside voice from 6:00 am to 12:00 am. I found myself pleasantly thinking it was actually raining the first few days I moved in.
8. heated pool and a small gym. always a plus.
9. no crazy party people partying at unreasonable hours.
10. next to the 210 and 2.
11. 10 minutes away by freeway from old town Pasadena
12. 10 minutes away by street from everything Glendale has to offer, including 10 min away from Wholefoods, its community college and law school.
Cons.
1. This was big for me, personally. The air conditioners. The apartments are well ventilated as they are at the top of the hill and have plenty of windows. HOWEVER, each apartment, to my knowledge has only one AC unit, AND it doesn’t work very well. I live on the third level and this was a GIGANTIC problem. The heat from the bottom two levels rises and at the same time, the heat from the roof from the very well-​known So-​Cal sun comes down into the apartment. It is terrible. Especially because the only AC unit literally cools the air up to 5 feet in front of it. My poor puppy lived in front of the AC the entire summer and if I could, I would have too. My husband had about 4 nose bleeds from the heat. Imagine not being able to escape the So-​Cal hot summer in your own house?! I heard they may be fixing the problem and they’ve been coming into the apartment bedrooms to install special electricity sockets for ACs, I’m looking forward to that GREATLY.
I love this place. I really do.