The 1960 — Local services in Walnut Creek

My wife and I have a lot of experience living in these corporate-owned rental apartment buildings between living in New York City and the Bay Area. This type of housing and the management staff are typically awful, very superficial, and low quality even though the rent is insane. I usually salivate at the opportunity to destroy these apartments with truthful but fair and honest Google and Yelp reviews.

However, this one is different. The 1960, was probably our only bright spot living in Walnut Creek, which was a very short period of time coming from New York City. Put simply, we are city people not suburbanites, but we managed to enjoy our time living at the 1960. We've lived at a few buildings in WC and the staff at the 1960 was easily the best to live/work with. They were genuinely helpful and nice people to be around and live with. Typically, once a building signs you to a lease, the friendliness ends there because there is no incentive for them to be nice to you anymore. This was 100% true when we lived at the Waymark which is across the way from the 1960. However, Sophia, Emily, Isabella, and Jose were just really cool people, people you would want to hang around outside of work or away from home. They did their jobs when they were supposed to and always did it in a professional and timely fashion. 1960 itself wasn't the best building we've ever lived at, I was not too fond of the location on the corner of Ygnacio and Main and the quality of the building itself and appliances were not exactly A+ (none of these rental buildings are), regardless the entire cumulative experience ranks towards the top in terms of total package. This is just me saying thank you to the staff for going above and beyond for us, they really did. Also, I understand that not everyone has or will have the same experience, maybe you will have a better or worse experience, but ours was a really good...

The 1960 was one of the last places we toured while looking for a new apartment in the Walnut Creek area. It should have been our first. We certainly had seen enough apartments in the weekends leading up to our tour to know what we liked and didn't like, and The 1960 was everything we liked. First, the tour we were given by Isabella was top notch. She had answers to all of our questions, showed us several models so we could get a feel for what each one was like and how it could work for our needs, did a great job of showing us all the common areas, and was very professional in each aspect of the showing giving us the space to explore and look around. Next, the pricing and incentives were straight forward. What was advertised was exactly what we got. It was so refreshing to know there were no hidden increases in rent after the incentives had been applied. Very tenant friendly from the start. My take away in a nutshell was; The 1960 is beautiful, modern and well kept throughout to a high standard, the staff is very professional and helpful, the apartments are well sized with beautiful finishes and new appliances and the location is perfect being very close to a number of restaurants and shopping. Needless to say we applied that same day and are very happy to say we are now residents of The 1960! Highly...

AVE Walnut Creek is located near downtown Walnut Creek with easy access to shopping, restaurants and other living essentials. The property is very well maintained and the AVE Leasing and Maintenance team here is really exceptional! Colleen was integral in helping us choose the right unit for our lifestyle (all virtually) leading us through the entire process; she's excellent. Ana has assisted us with various agreement details and requests; she's fantastic. Jorge has been on top of maintenance requests ensuring our unit is top notch; he's really great. The cleaning team is also super. Other AVE team members who we haven't personally worked with also ensure a seamless resident experience. AVE Walnut Creek is a great choice to call home in...