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Avalon At Cortez Hills
Category: Home Services Real Estate Apartments Apartments [Edit]
1399 9th Ave(between A St & Ash St)
San Diego, CA 92101
Neighborhood: Downtown
(619) 230-8200
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 9 am - 6 pm
Sat 10 am - 5 pm
9 reviews for Avalon At Cortez Hills
9 reviews in English
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Review from Carlos P.
San Diego, CA
5/1/2010
If what you need is a place in downtown, close to the action this is a good place. I lived here for almost two months (took over another lease) and don't have any complains.
My apartment looked towards Balboa Park and there's some noise because of the freeway but not tooooo bad. The elevators always work and everything else is in place. I never heard any of my neighbors.
The area is safe. -
Review from B D.
San Diego, CA
3/2/2011
If you need a cheap place downtown and have equally low standards, than this is the place for you. However, after living here for 1.5yrs let me tell you what comes with my package:
- broken ice machine
- leaky faucet
- repeatedly broken toilet
- sporadic fire alarms sounding for no reason
- partying russians in the summer
- the halls smell
- slow wifi
- second floor gets a ton (a ton) of street noise
- jammed patio door
And with that, I bid my farewell. -
Review from Kelly O.
6/14/2009
All in all, I was ok with living at this place. But if you want me to be nit-picky, here's some stuff. Seriously, I understand this is very nitpicky!!!
- It often reeks of garbage near the elevators since the garbage chute is near there.
- No fan or ventilation in the bathroom
- Only an A/C unit in the living room, none in the bedroom.
-The dishwasher is super loud
-Food disposal sucks - when we moved in they even told us not to throw anything down there, even vegetable scraps. What's the point! And if some food does get down there, it often rattles around in there forever and smells bad.
- My hallway sometimes reeks of cigarette or pot smoke from one of the other apartments. New people moved in and every night we could hear them open their breezeway door and immediately after, cigarette smoke would fill my apartment (there was nothing the staff could do about it)
-There will often be a big group of young people hanging out in the hot tub for hours. They even play soccer on the tennis courts sometimes. There's always puke or food or something smashed on the tennis courts.
-The elevators can sometimes take a while, but the worst is when someone is moving in and reserving an elevator, then they take forever!! It seems like every few weeks there is something wrong with the elevators.
One of the big reasons I chose this place over others was the lighted tennis court. If that is important to you, know that there is not really enough lighting to play at night! I was disappointed.
Some other factoids: There are no assigned parking spaces in the garage, but there are plenty of spots. The door is controlled by a little remote clicker.
I didn't mention any good things yet: the women who work in the front office are nice and receptive. -
Review from Victoria M.
San Diego, CA
4/25/2009
Horrible place to live. Loud residents, drinking, partying, thin walls. Beer, beverages spilled on the lobby every weekend.
Apartment managers are not customer service oriented at all. At one time they did have decent apartment managers, but they moved on. The apartment doesn't start out clean, and they charge you for the cleaning of it after you move out.
Think about it: Why is the rent that much cheaper to live downtown when other apartments cost twice what Avalon costs?
Because people are constantly moving out, they have to try to attract residents somehow. It's not worth the money saved. Live in Normal Heights or North Park. -
Review from Tyson G.
12/10/2009
This place used to have a lot of problems -- A LOT of problems. The elevators broke all the time, the laundry machines would be out of order for months, equipment in the gym would be out of order for weeks, plumbing would back up and flood entire floors, drunken idiots would throw glass onto the pool deck, cars would get stolen out of the parking garage. My own motorcycle was almost stolen, and I had to replace the ignition switch because of the attempted theft. About $500 worth of stuff, including my radar detector, were stolen out of my car. Oh, and my next door neighbors had to move out because some insane meth addict tried to beat their door down for literally half an hour and the management refused to evict him right away.
This place had A LOT of problems.
Fortunately, I think *most* of the problems have been addressed. By the time I moved out, the laundry machines mostly worked most of the time, the gym had been upgraded to new equipment, the flooding had subsided, there hadn't been any more thefts, and the douchebag factor had been reduced significantly. I think a lot of the problem ongoing is that they seem to rent a large number of apartments to rich kid foreigners attending the language school and other kids attending the local third-tier law schools -- hence some of the more obnoxious partying.
I can't give this place more than 3 stars, but it is in a pretty good location if you want to live downtown and have quick access to the freeway. And, for a place with an on-site gym, pool, jacuzzi, hair salon, convenience store, and dry cleaner, the price is right. I'd check a few of the newer reviews like Victoria M's and Kelly O's. They might be more up on the current state of affairs here.
Oh, and it is worth mentioning that they changed management the day I moved out. I met the new manager and she is much nicer than the old one. -
Review from Tyler L.
San Diego, CA
7/27/2010
I lived here from 2006 - 2007 in a one bedroom facing east on the 8th floor- I loved every second of it. I just moved back into the building, now I'm on the 14th floor facing North West. This place is amazing, the views are awesome and the staff is friendly and very accommodating. I would recommend this place to anyone who wants to live downtown in an affordable luxury building full of young professionals. It's GREAT!
08/23/10 - UPDATE
So, I've been living here for almost a month now in my new apartment and Avalon just lost a few stars. On Sunday, I had some family in town and invited friends over to the pool to BBQ and hang out by the pool. We were really enjoying ourselves, not causing a scene, no fighting, yelling, loud music or anything when a guy came down and told us we were violating the lease by having too many people by the pool. This man did not introduce himself or anything and was dressed in normal clothes. I had to ask him who he was.
Okay, we had 7 people in our group. There was one other group of 6 or 7 people and there were plenty of available chairs, an empty grill and no one was actually in the pool or hot tub. The security guy (Dimitri) was a total jerk, had a bad attitude and was power hungry. He made it a point to let me know that I don't pay his salary and I needed to grab my stuff and go upstairs. I pay waaayy to much money to live in this building to be talked down to like this. He was very rude and obnoxious. I talked to the leasing office and explained the story and was just told that he apologized to them and they hope it doesn't happen again. All I really want is for Dimitri's pride to be shot down and have him apologize to me and my guests. Apparently you can only have 2 guests per apartment down at the pool. If I would have known this up front, there is no way I would have rented a $2,100/mo. apartment downtown perfect for entertaining, to not entertain friends and family.
The security guards and the company should be here to protect the tenants, not hassle them.
The only thing keeping me from finding a way to terminate the lease and have my attorney involved is that I am in love with my view, love my apartment and Sheri in the leasing office is so nice and easy to work with.
I hope that Avalon Corporate reads their Yelp Reviews and starts addressing these problems with the tenants. Their motto: "Time Well Spent..." .... not so much this weekend. -
Review from K J.
San Diego, CA
1/2/2011
I lived at Avalon at Cortez Hill for 3 years and the place really went down hill in the last year or so. The place has become a hostel, especially during the summers. The foreign students are nice one on one, but when you get a dozen of them waiting by the security door to come in after you, and then hanging out in the hallways stealing wifi at all hours it can be a little much.
The staff at the management office are nice enough, but if you need to break your lease expect to pay 2 months rent (similar places in SD charge 1). They will also try to get every penny out of your security deposit that they can. I challenged their estimate of 'damages' and they dropped a bunch of charges right away leading me to belief they just want to see what they could get away with.
I was happy enough to leave Avalon and I wouldn't recommend it for long-term habitation... but if you are a pedicab driver from Turkey looking for a place to crash for 2 months you'll feel right at home. -
Review from Richard m.
San Diego, CA
8/16/2010
I moved here with my partner in 09-10 the building staff and being downtown are the only good points of this building/facility, downtown is great and the staff here is nice. Everything else sucks!!! about 85% of the tenants here are foreign and don't understand the american way. A lot of college students from russia, china, europe, etc. and they dont understand the ways of the americans, they are VERY rude! VERY disrecpectful! and among other things they are VERY dirty and don't understand what a trash can is or how to use one. also plan on the jacuzzi to be closed about 1 week out of evey month due to the water being green or brown also known as dirty/polluted. This is probably the worst avalon community available. The rooms are great and its a good deal for being downtown, just be ready for the foreigners
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Review from Cal D.
San Diego, CA
9/21/2009
lavish apartments with a nice view :)
its a high end scale apartment mid 2K beautiful place with all the amenities. in downtown where you need to be
