Viking Apartments

Location

801 D Street

(Central Davis, near the intersection of 8th & D)

Office Hours

Mon-Fri 1pm-5pm

Phone

(530) 756-4200

Website

http://www.starcrossedinc.com/vik.html

Features

Central heat/air

Covered parking

Laundry

BBQ area

Patio/balconies

Pool

Refrigerator

Cats allowed

Instaconnect wireless for free, DSL

Viking Apartments offers one- and two-bedroom apartments as well as 2-bedroom townhomes ranging from $915-$1,245/month; there is a $300 deposit for pets and last month's rent is not required [2007]. Included are Instaconnect wireless DSL, water, hot water, garbage and sewer. You may also choose to pay $10/month to reserve a covered parking spot.

There are also reports that several real Vikings live there

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2006-08-05 10:10:34   a word of caution: based on the reviews at http://apartmentratings.com, it can be difficult to get your deposits back from Star-Crossed Properties (sherwood, cascade, viking), and for some reason a fair number of complaints have been posted at the same web against the owner Tom Cross. I am moving into sherwood so will keep you guys posted! ;-) —ChingChing

2007-01-02 09:37:37   I had to sue him to get my deposit back. Have fun! —ChapRes

2007-06-14 16:50:06   He didn't only keep all my deposit $500, but he also sent me a $2XX bill. "FOR PAINTING AND CLEANING" after i lived there for one and half year. —shun2112

2007-09-12 10:52:34   I just moved in, and so far I really like this place. Management is very nice and responsive, the units are older but have character (i.e., wood paneling in the living room, funky brown carpet), and I really like the balconies. Some of the cons include the fact that our unit faces west and gets a lot of sun/heat in the afternoons, and the way in which the entry is configured makes moving in rather difficult. We had to lift our 7 ft. couch up on end, tip it onto the stairs, and then over the stair railing. All in all, I love the location, parking is great, units are in ok condition (be sure to complete the inspection sheet!), our unit is sunny and large enough. I would recommend it if you don't mind missing out on a dishwasher and other such luxuries of newer complexes, and if you like having some character in your rental. —JillBenciWoodward

2007-09-22 02:00:11   I also just moved in on the first. JillBenciWoodward, I know what you mean about getting furniture in. We have a large couch too, and it was really hard to get into the living room with the large, inconveniently-placed pillar in the middle of the entry into the living room.

Overall, I'm really happy with the apartment as well. It's nice and clean and there's a lot of room once you get everything inside. My only problem so far is the parking. Me and my roommate only have one reserved spot for both of us (we asked for two, but didn't get both), and while parking is usually pretty easy, it's different after 11PM (there's rarely an available spot, especially in the lot), which is when I'd get home a lot of the time if I drove places. However, this may have changed in recent days. I haven't driven any further than the Co-Op since I moved to Davis.

So far, the Viking Apartments get a high rating from me. —jamboot

2008-05-27 20:04:26   I just paid my deposit and the manager was really nice. He's actually a pretty cool guy. Also, he told us that parking is not limited, but that we should try to park before 8 pm 'cuz there are no spots by then.. He also said I could pay the pet deposit when I moved in, which was great.. The rooms were big and I never really used the dishwasher anyways, so I did'nt mind that they didn't come with one.. I love the location.. I mean, if you see where it is, it's surrouned by trees and quietness.. the roads around this apartment are really big too, which I like.. —YuJinChoi

2008-06-22 14:27:31   Does anyone have a sense of how noisy (or quiet) this complex and neighborhood are? My wife and I are considering the Viking complex. —Eliot

2008-08-01 05:54:22   Well I have lived here for a long while and I live downstairs on the east side apartments. The atmosphere of the complex on the whole is pretty quiet. The larger units upstairs may throw a party that is loud, but it happens about once or twice a year. The sound proofing is not all that great, I can sorta hear what is going on upstairs and rarely the adjacent neighbors. However one only really ever notices if it is very quiet in your unit and paying attention. The unit itself is decently sized and has a nice sized patio. They mention in the old brochure that there is plenty of storage space and it is true. The kitchen is a good size, but sometimes I wish for more counter space. This unit is east facing, so it it a pretty dark unit even in summer one probably would need to turn on lights at about 3:00 pm if you are say cooking. The bathroom changing area are very recessed into the apartment and one must turn on a light to bathe or groom oneself. The appliances are kinda old so be wary of them, they are working but one wonders for how long. The over all style of the place is sorta typical 70's style, brownish carpets at odd angles to linoleum and of course terrible faux wood paneling.
Some problems one might face is roof leaking if someone upstairs is running their AC for too long. We have had this problem twice. This year and the year previous. Last year it was not fixed enough, so it was leaking again this year. Calling and getting a response is quick enough, one hears within the day, and for actual service it is about one day. Our unit did have the small brown cockroaches when we first moved in but after the baiting they have not shown up in the years since. One may get the occasional larger black cockroaches but they only stray in during the hottest and coldest months if one leaves the sliding glass door open. For some reason having the screen door in place is not good enough to deter them. The whole wireless internet is spotty and slow so I do not use it. In general reception in the unit is near impossible. Television, even with an HD tuner and powered rabbit ears is not really visible. The radio also barely works inside the unit. There seems to be a great deal of dumpster diving at this complex, so be sure to shred any personal information.
All in all a decent place to live, I found it habitable enough for many years. This might be due in fact to the excellent location to campus, downtown, freeway access, and markets. —csy

2008-09-26 12:44:07   My wife and I moved out of our apartment this last august. We had been there 5 years. When we moved in we were green to the whole renting scene (it was our first place after moving out of our respective parents residences). Back then we payed the first months, last months rent plus the security deposit (a ridiculous sum of 1280 just for the DEPOSIT). We had no severe problems living there for the duration, but we encountered two huge probles when moving out.

First off, the new apartment manager stated that it we wanted to just "take up and leave" and not do any cleaning on the complex, we would get charged a flat $200 rate that would be deducted from our deposit. Since my wife and I were both pretty busy dealing with alot of other things that week, we agreed that that would be the best avenue to go with, so we alerted the manager that we would be leaving the apartment partially uncleaned and that we would pay the $200 rate. Well on the statement that came with our deposit refund the charge jumped to $350. There were no repairs stated, just cleaning.

Secondly, they removed an entire month't rent from the security deposit, stating that we had never paid the last months rent when we moved in. Well, my wife and I both have bank statements that say the contrary (tnankfully our banks were able to pull statements from that long ago for us). We're still in the process of trying to get this resolved with them, but be warned. It's a decent place to live, but make sure you keep dutiful records of all payments. Tom Cross WILL try and rip you off when you move out if you don't have that information at the ready. —Oceaniax

2008-09-26 13:25:17   To add to the previous commment, I lived there just for a summer. It was okay, the free internet was good, the complex was pretty quiet. The apartment was kind of in disrepair, and there were bugs. But the problems came on move out, as Oceanix mentions. He mailed us a description saying we'd get our full deposit back (We were only subleasing for the summer, so they had absolutely no ability to charge us for anything, as they didn't even do a walk through). However, we never received the check. Upon calling him, he insisted that he had included a check and that we had deposited it.

Obviously, he had no proof of this, and only after weeks of back and forth partial communication, he said he would send us another check, but would take out 75 dollars for the canceled check fee. Has anyone else had this experience? It seemed very much like a scam of sorts that he was pulling, especially after reading these other comments. Just be careful, even if you're just subleasing. —VanessaZ