Park Lee Apartments — Attraction in Phoenix

These apartments are NOT subsidized housing where you pay 1/3rd of your income (which is what I was originally told). 1 bedroom runs $450 per month plus electric. There are plenty of regular apartments at that price, so the "affordable" tag really only means that there's a requirement to be poor to be able to live here. Perhaps the purpose is to provide housing for poor people who don't qualify for the requirements that commercial apartments have, like the requirement for your income to be 2-3x the base rent amount.

I've spotted no fewer than 28 hot cuties during the few months I lived here, and I hardly leave my apt. The percentage of hot cuties here seems significantly greater than average.

The area seems pretty poor and the smells of poverty are in the air.

Technically non-smoking, and you can get evicted for smoking, but there are still some rebels who like to stink the place up with their cancer sticks. It took over a month and close to 10 complaints to get my neighbors to stop smoking in my non-smoking building. Having to constantly get up in the middle of the night to open all my doors to air out the apt was a real bummer.

The walls/windows are pretty thin, so I hear the crickets outside, neighbor's music (which forces me to play my own music to block out theirs), neighbors upstairs, etc.. If you need a quiet apartment to work from home this might not work, depending how lucky you get with your neighbors.

Hearing the upstairs neighbor's bed creaking while they're having sex really adds some new spice to my masturbation. My upstairs neighbors have marathons of sex. It's quite impressive.

There are no screens on the windows, so if you're one of those kinds of people that enjoys letting fresh air in without also letting in mosquitoes, flies, roaches, spiders, crickets, birds, stray cats, etc., then your luck has run short. But either way, the exterior doesn't seem to be well sealed as I have abnormal amounts of wildlife inside my abode. You can't stop an insect infestation if they're free to come and go as they please.

As far as I can tell, the windows are only for looking out at your car to make sure no one's breaking into it.

The poor sealing/insulation also results in extremely high electric bills.

There has indeed been some recent remodeling, but it's mostly in the kitchen (appliances, counters, cabinets, tiles) and the shower room. The bedroom still has those brick walls that make it look like a classy old jail. Not like those intense modern ones made of pure metal cages where you feel like an animal. So if you just got out of jail after a 20 year stint for slaying commies in the name of jesus, these apartments will give you that nice slow reintegration into society.

The fact that they lock down the laundry rooms at night really adds to that homely prison feel. It gives you a wider window of leeway than prison but still enforces that structuring schedule you're used to.

Flying. Roaches.

This is the 2nd time in Arizona that I have dodged a flying cockroach. Needless to say, both experiences were highly disturbing and permanently scaring. But of course so is every encounter with one of those...

Don’t move into these apartments! My husband and I along with our son lived here last year and it was horrible!! Our neighbors gave us bed bugs and when we called the office they told us they would have someone come on Tuesday, it was Saturday when we called. They only treated our apartment and not anyone else’s so we have no idea if they went anywhere else. It was the scariest experience in my life! We are clean people and even the exterminator said so, he said he only found a couple because our apartment was so clean and I caught them early! The following months before we moved out we saw the same truck in different areas of the complex and we knew that the management has to know and isn’t telling us that this is common. The second thing, we lived RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the security off and still had our radio stolen from our truck, a mini refrigerator stolen in less than 30 minutes while my husband ran upstairs to grab some things. The security would harass us more than anyone else! They would watch us pull in and walk to our apt but never question the people that came from the ghetto apartments across the street to walk their dogs in the park! A third thing was how cheap everything in the apartment is. At first it all seems nice and clean and brand new put no, everything creeks and falls apart. The linoleum on the floor had so many bubbles and lifted up, the counters would have the side stripping fall off. Another thing is once you move in the “friends of the old tenants” come and bang on your door and even some homeless people!! One time while it was my son and I at home and my husband was at work a scary looking guy came up our stairs and banged on our door for ten minutes! Don’t move in!! Run away!! Even our neighbor had all her things stolen from her apartment! Another thing was the worms that we would find all over the apartment!! I don’t know what they are or what but we asked around and other tenants had them too! It is just awful and the management looked like they are crack heads except one guy that was the only guy we liked to deal with. We are glad we are out of there! Don’t even consider this place! We had to throw away all of our furniture because of...

Park Lee does have a lot of grass and trees, so that's pretty cool. I think it has two pools but I don't like to swim so I could be wrong. It is a rare joyous occasion when the soda machines work. I don't really drink soda myself, but my friends are gluttonous consumers so they are routinely let down. I myself have inhabited four of the apartment homes, moving a total of five different times within the complex. Some of the reasons being complete renovations (2), mushrooms mysteriously growing in our hallway, being greatly outnumbered and eventually dispossessed by angry hoards of little roaches, and the desire to return to the apartment where it all began. We encountered many varieties of people and also managed to raise one of our own as well. Yeah the neighborhood sucks sometimes, gunshots and ghetto birds can be heard many nights and there has been more than one or two incidents involving arson and firebuggery, but the years spent here will always live in my heart. I guess it's really about perspective, as most things are. I no longer live in Park Lee but I visit it regularly. It is big and old and green and incredibly stressful and frustrating and many many days of dealing with ridiculous bullshiz, it's also unique and always an adventure with endless surprises and countless memories and also still home to people I love. So Im counting on you Park Lee you magnificent disaster you, take good care of my people, and don't even think about...