A two bedroom townhome in Alvarado Sunset Apartments
| Location |
| 606 Alvarado Avenue |
| (North Davis, down Alvarado eastways from Aggie Square) |
| Office Hours |
| Mon-Fri 10:00am-5:00pm |
| Contact |
| (530)756-1220 |
| Features |
| Central heating / AC |
| Dishwasher/microwave |
| Laundry room |
| Exercise room |
| Patio / Balcony |
| Pets allowed (no dogs) |
| Pool |
| Study room |
| Instaconnect wireless Internet for a fee |
| Cable access |
Alvarado Sunset is an apartment complex offering two-bedroom apartments as well as two- and three-bedroom townhomes ranging from $1,175/month to $1,675/month with a $500 to $700 deposit 2009-2010. Described in advertisements as a "quiet & spacious community; near shopping &;has large open space," Alvarado Sunset also provides a clubhouse and free parking to its residents. The complex is located on Unitrans F bus line with a bus stop in front of the complex. This property has been managed by Jon Berkley Management, Inc. since April 21, 2006; from September 2004 to April 2006, it was managed by FPI Management.
In November 2005, UC Davis student Nicole Chun-Nelson successfully sued Sunset Apartments in Small Claims Court for charging excessive cleaning costs. The judge ruled in her favor in the amount of $414.00. There was a story in the California Aggie.
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2005-04-22 14:04:50 It generally is pretty quiet in Alvarado Sunset, but the apartments tend to run a little bit dark. Bring lots of lighting. (I should note: when I say quiet, I mean studentwise. It wasn't a big party place when I lived there. Traffic noise is another thing altogether). —AlexPomeranz
2005-08-28 19:25:15 Absolutely worst apartment complex in town. The management is horrible: they do not respond to maintenance request forms, are never in the office, and give you the run around. The apartment was a mess when we moved in and they never fixed the things they said would be fixed. The windows rattle whenever someone shuts a door. The laundry facility has 3 washers—2 of which steal your quarters. It is also noisy becuase it's between Covell and Alvarado, both of which get a lot of traffic. While the rooms are decently sized, it's not worth hassling with the management and the rest of the building which is so old it's falling apart. —MegLane
2005-10-19 17:55:51 I agree with MegLane in that the apartment is horrible. Please don't move there. I am in the process of suing them and it is more trouble then you would ever want. Ever! The owners live in San Jose (Mr. and Mrs. Lee) and accuse students of "doing whatever it takes to get what they want." Plus it is too expensive for what you get—a dirty apartment and lousy management. —NicoleChun-Nelson
2006-04-11 15:06:34 I think that the Alvarado Sunset complex does have its draw backs, but it is reasonably priced. The management does have their problem and do change constantly, but I see that as an effort from the owners to fix things. —JohnKim
2007-02-05 14:03:28 This place totally sucks. In addition to the things that have already been said, which are completely true, there are a number of things that are absolutely infuriating. First off, right where my roommates and I could be parking the owners of the place park their big white truck and crap volvo. What few times they do remove them for an hour or two they put cones in the spot so no one takes their spot. It takes weeks to get anything fixed for no apparent reason. The only time I see the maintainence guy is when he is eating his lunch which for some reason takes him two hours. The gardeners come at seven or eight in the morning and run their multitude of motorized equipment which is really annoying when you're trying to catch those last few z's before class. The plugs fall out of the sockets and the elctricity hasn't been inspected since 1972!!! To top the whole thing off, the internet is the worst I've ever experienced. It's even slower than the dial-up my parents have back home! My roommates and I are getting out of here as soon as our lease is up in june. —JeffKreis
2007-07-17 11:42:06 Don't get instaconnect, or be prepared for tech support hell —davisGeek
2007-08-11 14:58:50 My only complaint about this complex is that some of the tenants are loud at odd times of night and sound seems to really carry throughout the complex. They also seem to change managers fairly often. At one point we were sent us a notice that our rent would go down, then when a new manager came in, we were told that we should have been paying more for the last six months. Since we could not produce the notice that our rent should go down we had to pay the difference, which wasn't too bad, but that manager was really nasty about it. The new lady seems really nice though. —GabeDavis
2007-12-11 16:52:00 The apartment units are close to either Alvarado Ave or Covell Blvd. The traffic is quite noisy, especially during the daytime. The buildings are very old, you probably will get problems now and then. A small noise upstairs can be heard clearly downstairs. As mentioned by other residents, the apartments tend to run a little bit dark. This place somehow sucks. —DumbCrab
2008-02-14 00:48:00 First year living here, quiet little place. We had been shown the new renovated models and promised we would get something similar, instead we received an apartment that was old and wasn't even cleaned up after the previous tenets. We had a huge fix it list from week 1 but it took them week 4 to even get us new screens to replace the ones with holes in it. Blinds mismatched, some of them yellow and grimy. Pretty bad shape overall. Aside from that management was recently changed this year and seems pretty nice. Won't live here again. Heard rumors that they rip you off when deposit times comes around...we'll see how that goes considering the apartment wasn't even ready when we got here... —tuckerm
2008-05-14 16:50:08 The ad they have been running in the Enterprise for years says they are a half-mile from UCD. I don't know what UCD they are talking about, but they are more than a mile from any part of campus. Covell is one mile north of 5th St./Russell, and they are north of Covell. Isn't this false advertising, and isn't false advertising illegal? —aharjala
2008-06-06 11:18:12 Looks like they finally corrected their ad. It now says about 1.5 miles from UCD. —aharjala
2008-08-21 16:08:00 MAN, this place is DISGUSTING. Do NOT live here, no matter WHAT you do. The management (the woman) is very nice and so is the maintenance man. However, I think they probably need 2-3 more maintenance men because my apartment had SO MANY problems when I moved in, and when I put in an order, only some of the problems were fixed. I had to keep reminding them to fix them (broken closet door, broken window screens
I mean com'n, how can people move in when these simple things don't even work).
AND WHAT IS EVEN WORSE, THERE IS A COCKROACH PROBLEM HERE. My roomie just recently found a 2 inch cockroach in the kitchen, but it isn't a recent problem, it has been occuring throughout the school year. The furniture is old. The carpet is disgustingly old. The kitchen hasn't been cleaned and doesn't look like it was ever cleaned since we moved in. And it is basically OLD AND DIRTY. I really regret signing a lease here and it was so bad that I didn't even want to come home.
That being said, DO NOT LIVE HERE. DO NOT LIVE HERE UNTIL THEY DO SOMETHING TO FIX THIS JUNK HOLE UP. BTW, the "exercise room" has equipment that doesn't even work. —renee415
2008-09-04 16:29:55 Renee415// Well I never found any cockroach in my unit for the entire 2007-2008 school year. Probably you need to keep your own kitchen a bit cleaner. One or two cockroaches might slip in when you open your front door, but since you said it happened throughout the school year, then the cockroach nest is in your kitchen. You can't blame anyone else but you and your roommates for not cleaning up your own kitchen. —ChickenNuggets
2008-09-07 19:55:20 Hello. Can anyone of the current residents share the experience of living in the Alvarado Sunset complex. If you moved our recently, I would appreciate your opinion too. Thank you —bayer044
2008-09-20 14:56:44 ChickenNuggets // If the cockroach problem was in our kitchen, why was the maintenance man unable to solve it— even when a so-called exterminator was brought in? My roommate and I cleaned DAILY so I do not believe cleanliness was a problem. Moreover, I do not appreciate you making assumptions about my situation when you were not in it. To add to that, there were cockroaches OUTSIDE of my apartment as well as in the closet downstairs. In most CLEAN living areas, cockroaches do not just "slip in when you open the door". I just moved out and I am glad that I am out of here. It was a waste of money and I could've found a better apartment somewhere else for such expensive rent. —renee415
2008-12-15 20:57:51 I have lived at Alvarado Sunset for two years. It is, by far, not bad. Yes, it may not be new and flashy, but the rooms are big and quiet, all the appliances work, and the heating/AC works great. All and all, this is a decent apartment complex. —Izz
2009-03-03 19:38:23 I moved in here September of 2008. Everything they said that was going to be fixed before I moved in was. When my boyfriend and I moved in we had new carpet, new refrigerator, new stove, and a new microwave. The panel on the air conditioner was broken but they came and fixed it right away. I have not had any problems with the management, they have always been really nice and understanding. I like the location because it is near a lot of shopping and it is an easy bike ride to campus. Plus the bus stop is right in front of the complex. I would live here next year because our place is so nice, but my boyfriend and I want to move into a smaller place. By the way the two bedroom/one bathroom is huge and has a huge storage closet under the stairs. People tried to warn me not to move in here but I don't know what they were talking about. I really enjoyed my time here because the complex is really quiet. There is plenty of parking and I am always able to park right in front of my townhome.
2009-03-06 16:25:31 Everything is a lie! This place is so bad and the management is horrible! During my walk-through I already noticed like a yellowish mold looking color on the ceiling and the manager says "what do you expect? this place is old and cheap" So rude! Anyways, in October there was a big storm and we ended up we a hole in the ceiling! Water was dripping everywhere and it stunk up the entire apartment. It was horrible, especially a hole in the ceiling? It took them over 3 months just to get it fixed! Seriously, it took forever because we could see the water flowing down the living room because this yellowish color showed up down in the middle of the living room. She promised it will be done before winter quarter starts and she has the people do the ceiling the first week of winter quarter. Every door had a patched up hole, our oven is retarded it took me 4 hours to bake a cake because it wasn't hot enough- it was like already nearly 400 degrees. When I first moved in, there was a big crack across my window, and there was something inside the garbage disposal because it was making really loud sounds but the manager says it was suppose to make a loud sound like that, my friend came over and checked it out and pulled out a NAIL! Also, in one of the rooms, there was a big long spider web, I was complaining because my deposit is meant to move into a clean and new apartment, apparently it was not clean at all! The manager expected me to clean the spiderweb myself! The bathroom leaks all the time. Every morning they always have these workers do the lawn but this place suck so much I don't know why the manager have to spend so much on the workers doing the lawn, they should focus more on these problems. I agree with MegLane, the manager is never there! The office hours say she will be in at 8, she doesn't show up until 10. She uses her working time for her personal time; to pick up kids, dentists appointments, etc.
—KimY
This is how it was at first, as you can tell that was in the beginning of the year when I already warned them about yellowish mold looking thing. 
This is how it is after a month or so, they still didn't fix it
2009-04-16 15:10:35 This is the current manager of Alvarado Sunset Apartments. My name is Cora Brice. I would like to respond to the latest pictures and comments posted by KimY. Kim's comments regarding how the management has responded to her were made by our temporary helper at the time. The helper is no longer with our company. I would like to apologize of any statements made by the helper during the September move-in.
The broken window was replaced on the day that she moved in, and I was the one who helped Kim to pullout the nail from the garbage disposal. Also, Kim's apartment currently has new roof, ceiling, oven, and doors.
We have professional lawn service contracted to our apartment. They manicure the property once a week on Fridays. Our office hours have always been posted at office. Our current office hours are Mondays (1-5pm), Tuesday-Friday(10-5pm), and Saturdays (1-5pm). —corabrice
2009-04-29 21:27:09 ok it says above no dogs, but someone i'm coresponding with said you CAN have dogs. —StephHolm
2009-08-11 14:16:29 This complex is an interesting place. We constantly had issues with our neighbors from the 18 year old puking drunks at our back gate to the older ones next door complaining we were too loud. The place, like many Davis apartments is run down. The work orders, when completed, were only rigged to serve a short term fix and were never really resolved. The maintenance guy was not around often because of course Jon Berkeley Management is a horrible. We can hear traffic very easily. The blinds we had were different shades of off color white, they were dried and cracking, falling apart, and different lengths. The front door handle always shakes loose, the bathroom fan doesn't even sucks a piece of plastic up to it. We've had lots of water damage and their idea was "painting over it". We've had our cars broken into SOOO many times. The community washing machines are always breaking down and none of them seem to be set for the same time to wash. Overall it's just rundown and perfect for someone who doesn't really care where they live. There are lots of tree roaches in the bushes and there "workout area" is just that an area, the machines (the last time I checked) were either broken or missing vital pieces. The manager was nice, but she seemed overworked. I think it's overpriced, but that seems to be the way Davis is. Davis is a great town and we found something else for the upcoming year. —PinkLadie
2009-08-13 23:17:15
This place is for you if you enjoy watching and listening to drunk party right in front of your door at 3 AM in the morning.
—BigWilliam
2009-09-01 18:21:01 On move in day, the carpets were DISGUSTING and covered with dust (not to mention really, really old). The kitchen looked like someone had a party in it the night before. Blinds were broken. Closet doors were dirty. The list goes on. We had to spend about 4 hours pleading with the management before they did anything about it. The carpets are still disgusting though.
I can tell that what everybody says about the management is 100% true. It's so horrible, it makes Allegre apartments seem like a godsend. But they're not.
ONE TIP IF YOU'RE PLANNING ON OR ARE ALREADY MOVING IN HERE: Take a leaf outta Nicole Chun's book and take pictures of EVERYTHING before you clean a single thing. I took over 50 pictures of various things wrong with the apartment for evidence. If they try to make me pay for something I shouldn't be paying for, I'm going to court as well. Hopefully, if enough people do this, they'll be so out of money that they have no choice but to listen to their residents. God knows it's not happening any other way.
Lastly, the management is so horrible because no one wants to step up and take responsibilities for their faults. They keep shoving responsibilities to each other and never get $#!+ done.
I've talked to many of my neighbors about this, so if there are any people who feel that they've been wronged as well, please e-mail me at kidkoryo@gmail.com ... —kidkoryo
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2009-09-22 01:58:46 i agree with everyone above me. seriously this manager needs to get her priority straight, as a manager she is suppose to get the maintenance guy to do the right things at the right time, it isn't our problem that these people don't listen to her maybe she shouldn't hire shady people and actually hire hard workers like other apartment complexes. she is nice and all but she is over all a lazy manager who acts as if she is really working but she doesn't. she just procrastinates and acts as if she is really doing her job. and our deposit is suppose to be security money to promise the residence a clean complex but on the contrary it isn't with roaches everywhere and dirty carpets and horrible lighting. —Andy123
2009-09-28 09:58:19 Well I agree with some of the comments above and others I don’t. Oldness of the complex: It is very true. The units are old and the blinds are sometimes mismatched- mine look like they were hand cut. I also moved into an apartment with older carpets. I agree- do photograph everything when you move in (but do this anywhere you move). Repairs: (The above situation looks pretty bad). I had only one major issue and a couple of minor repairs. I had water come under my back door during a rain storm and my carpet was taken care of within 2 days. I also had a hole put in to my wall while moving furniture…if I am to be honest I would have to say that it was a sad excuse for a repair…but none the less it was done quickly. I also had a door closing issue. He fixed the working door on accident, but returned to fix the broken door the very next day. I will excuse the round toilet seat that was installed on my oval toilet and then the old one left in my kitchen. They did return with the proper seat. I think that in the real world sometimes you have to squeak a little louder. I think that the person would have been better off e-mailing these pictures to Jon Berkeley management and giving them a chance to remedy it, rather than waiting to be angry.
Loud parties: I have lived in Davis for 15 years in 4 different complexes. I don’t find this one to be any louder than any other complex, especially on a Thursday night. Once again – if you have super noisy neighbors – complain!
The work out room: The treadmill is new and also the elliptical. There is also a weight set
The manager: I think that the manager is a pleasant person that does seem to be over extended at times. I have only had positive exchanges with her and she has followed through on every repair that she has promised.
I renewed my lease this year and I plan to again next year. They are older, and could probably use a little more TLC by the property management company, but the location and sq footage are good. If you have any questions feel free to contact me im_cognac@yahoo.com I will answer honestly.
2009-11-18 14:19:54 I really regret having signed a lease here. Its so disgusting and old and everything needs to be replaced (including furniture). I'm a clean freak and I could not live in peace. I ended up staying the majority of my time at my best friend's apartment. There were cockroaches, spiders, etc. and everything just looked dirty. They obviously didn't clean before we moved in because whoever was there before us left most of their stuff in the kitchen and bathroom drawers. Gross. —ElizabethLee
