LW
Lauren White
Jun 17, 2026
I feel bad writing this review as Abby Creek was our home for 3 years, but I believe people need to know what living here is really like.
For the first 2 years, everything was fine. This last year has gone downhill. It started with a lack of hot water in December/January of 2025/2026. For 6 weeks in the middle of winter, we didn't have any hot water, and we had to take freezing cold showers every day. It was miserable, plain and simple. They offered us a hotel for the last week or so, but we still experienced 5 weeks without the basic necessity of hot showers (in winter!).
There are constant renovations being done. I understand that the property needs to be updated, but it was excessive and burdensome to the people who lived at the complex. For example, they redid our balcony of the apartment. But to do so, they had to hammer on our walls so loudly that it affected the entire apartment. This went on for weeks, on and off. We have pets, and they were terrified the whole time due to the extreme noise. One of our pets was very old, and I worry that the stress from the noise may have caused him to go to heaven earlier than his expected lifespan.
We also had a pest problem, specifically cockroaches. We asked them to spray pesticide around the property, but I'm not sure if they ever did since the cockroaches kept coming back. It was very disgusting, and during the last 3 months of living at Abby Creek, we had to purchase our own cockroach traps and put them around the apartment. It was extremely gross, and as a person with OCD/germophobia, it was very stressful.
Finally, I must state the reason why my fiancé and I moved out. There were plans to repaint our balcony, but we were never given 24-hour notice. I was asleep in bed, unaware that there were strange men in my home. The email from Abby Creek said it was the maintenance manager and "painters" (plural), so that's at least three strange men who were in my home while I was sleeping and unaware of what was going on. As a woman, this was incredibly violating and upsetting. I work in the psychology field, and incidents like this can affect a person's mental health. It did for me--I had nightmares that there were men in my home for weeks afterwards. Anything could have happened to me while I was asleep and vulnerable. A person's home is supposed to be their safest place, but at Abby Creek Apartments, I was not safe.
Because of the incident with the strange men in the apartment, my fiancé complained, and they let us break our lease early. I have asked around my workplace, and I know that Abby Creek Apartments broke the law. Abby Creek Apartments violated California Civil Code Section 1954, which requires a landlord to give 24-hour notice before entering a rental unit. This is unacceptable.
I feel that changes need to happen for Abby Creek Apartments to turn things around. As it stands currently, I do not recommend that anyone rent a home here.