Villa Cerise

 

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Evin B.

Sunnyvale, CA

No rental apartment is ever truly home, but Villa Cerise is reasonably priced in an ideal location with washer/dryer in each unit. Renters pay their own gas/electric and cable/telephone, but the rent covers water and garbage. Each unit includes one covered parking spot and at least one storage closet outside the unit itself.

The one-bedroom apartment floor plan is not as open as the two-bedroom floor plan, but both are equipped with the same amenities. Each unit has a fire escape that is separate from the front door since the kitchen seems to always be situated right at the front of the unit. If you have plants or like to be on your balcony/patio a lot, don't even think about anything but a top-floor unit. There is a pool in the complex too.

The location itself is right off El Camino at Mathilda and DeAnza/Sunnyvale Avenues, between 101 and 280 with Central Expy nearby. Even taking El Camino, it takes less than a half hour to get to Stanford University or Santa Clara University. It is within walking distance of downtown Sunnyvale (CalTrain, Town Center, and Murphy Avenue).

The Villa Cerise complex is situated on the same block as: Trader Joe's, OSH, Aaron Brothers, Baja Fresh, Big Five, Peet's, Border's, Starbucks, Chipotle, AG Ferrari, Olson's Cherry Orchard Shop, PF Chang's, and many more shops. It is within three blocks of the Sunnyvale tennis center, Las Palmas park, Ginger Cafe, Smoothie King, Pak N Save supermarket, Toys R Us, Ross, Circuit City, Armadillo Willy's, Sports Authority, and Office Depot. There are buses that go from Palo Alto to Eastridge along El Camino (routes 522 & 22) and connect with the free #10 bus that goes to the airport (SJC), so if you are keen on leaving a smaller carbon footprint, you can take advantage of these.

The interesting thing about Villa Cerise is that there is a company (ie, flock) of wild parrots that resides in Sunnyvale and visits the rooftops of Villa Cerise in the morning and late afternoon each day. The parrots are noisy, but when else will you live someplace with wild parrots on your block?!

It is far from perfect, but a better deal cannot be found.

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Elite '08

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Erin N.

San Jose, CA

If I could give it fewer stars, I would.  I lived there for 9 months, and would not reccommend it to anyone.  My first floor apartment was small, dark, and though there was laundry in the apartment, it overflowed water into the place more than once not from my using it, but because people upstairs used theirs.  They actually link all of the laundry systems in apartment stacks, so if a top system backs up, it floods the apartments of the bottom folks.  The office was never open, so if you had an issue, you had to wait for a day, or until the next morning, even though she lived there.  She was very rude, and just ridiculous.  The plumbing was attrocious, the management was awful, and though convenient to many things, it's just not worth it.

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