I waited until we moved from here to be able to give a complete review…read more I was very pleased with this apartment community. It is top notch in both appearance, location, staff responsiveness and friendliness, maintenance, ground keeping, availability of parking, and amenities. The price is fair for what you get. Appearance: Always in good condition and always a little maintenance going on around the complex -- nothing that hinders one getting around but, rather, enough for you to know they're on top of keeping it in A+ condition. Location: Love, love, love that it's close enough to just about anything in Monroeville and beyond by car and within close walking distance to shops, restaurants, even the mall without feeling as though you're actually in the congestion of it all. Some close-by attractions to walk to: The Monroeville Mall, Olive Garden, TGIF, Home Goods, Goodwill, Dairy Queen. Giant Eagle is right down the road, but that stretch of road is not safe for walking. Oh, and wildlife such as deer are nearby. Staff Responsiveness: There may be new staff always coming and going since we've been here a year ago but every one of them is on top of their job and always smiling and friendly. Any repairs we've requested were done in short order. Parking: No matter time of day or night, there is parking available within close walking distance to the apartment door. Amenities: We had the 2 bedroom layout. Both bedrooms are suitable in size. In the master bedroom we had a queen bed, 2 tall dressers and another narrower tall cabinet (behind the bedroom door) and one nightstand. The walk-in closet was big enough to store a medium bookcase as well as all our clothes. There are 2 full baths, one off the master bedroom and the other with both a hall door and door into the 2nd bedroom. The kitchen is a galley-style with a full-size washer/dryer in a separate room off the kitchen. Note that you are not charged extra for the washer/dryer and they come with the apartment. Sweet! There is a patio or balcony with sliding glass doors off both the living room and the master bedroom. Plus the balcony is deep and only open on one side so feels pretty private. We were able to fit 2 chairs, a coffee-table style table, and small 2-seater bench with also an electric grill. There is a storage closet on the outside next to your patio/balcony. They also have a pool, workout room, racquetball court and basketball court, fenced dog area, and a place to wash your car yourself. They do have covered parking for an extra fee. It's a quiet community. I've never experienced any loud commotion in the parking lots and my neighbors were all quiet and polite. We had 2 cats and paid the usual pet fees associated with them. I've seen dogs so know they do accept them but don't know size/breed restrictions. I really liked our stay here and would still be living here had it not been for us purchasing a townhome so all our toys would fit under one roof. Tip: Checkout Rent.com before you go to look at the place. At the time we rented, there was an option to sign up and receive back money via a gift card if you tell the leasing office you heard about them via Rent.com.

Horrible maintenance! Found mice in my apartment Saturday and maintenance will not come out until…read moreMonday! Do not live here! I can't even live in my apartment! The plumbing is also terrible.

Great place to stay. Love the views around the apartment. Apartment is affordable for rent. Love…read morethe tennis court.

I've lived at Stonecliffe for 9 years. I live closer to tennis courts. A few times I ventured out…read moreand looked at other apt complexes and still feel for various reasons this is the best choice for me. Location works very good for me! Price is comparable for sq footage, it has a solid structure (some other apt complexes you can easily hear neighbors) and a excellent maintenance staff. The pool is well taken care of and grounds are pleasant, private and pretty safe, far as I know. Maintenance here is excellent! They are fast, efficient and they work hard. I notice there is maybe not as much help but the guys they have are extremely responsive...

Very clean and neat and good place to stay in case you need to be close by the hospital..not…read morefree..90-120 a night depending on room. Very nice staff. Free grab n go breakfast.

If you have family getting inpatient medical services, this is a less expensive option than area…read morehotels, and conveniently across the street from UPMC Shadyside Hospital (so no car needed, which you'll have to pay to park everywhere). They have limited parking at FH, for a $7 per day fee. They can also provide a discount for parking at UPMC, but said it doesn't include in-and-out privileges, so if you drive out you pay again. Their reservation website doesn't work (or didn't when we were booking), so you must call or email them. Even then, you might have to leave a voicemail message. They are currently renovating some floors. Several have already been done and are nice, just a tad small. Just a desk chair and one tub chair in our room, plus a mini-fridge for drinks only. Nice large TV. Unless you get a more expensive room with a kitchen, they don't allow food in the rooms (drinks are okay); to avoid bugs in the rooms. They have a large community kitchen that you can use to cook meals if you wish; five gas stoves, bowls and pans, microwaves. You can get a locking cubby for non-cold food, and put cold items in one of their community refrigerators, although the food in the fridge isn't secured. There are shelves and three refrigerators with food that has been donated, which is available free to guests. They have a large dinning area with several tables where you can eat meals, that you make in their kitchen, bring back to the hotel, or have delivered. They didn't have laundry self-service set up onsite yet, so you have to go next door to their old location (which isn't in use for housing at this time) if you need to wash your clothes; they're coin operated machines we were told. To get new bed sheets or towels you take them to the first floor and exchange them at a service room during normal business hours. There's a Starbucks attached to the building, with an entrance from Family House. It has the standard coffee items, plus some breakfast type sandwiches and a few baked cake sweets. Overall a good place to stay if you have family getting medical treatment at UPMC. They have some limitations and restrictions that you won't get at hotels, but they're also cheaper and very convenient to walk across the street to UPMC.

Pros: * Walkability of South Side…read more* Larger Living Spaces * Monitored Mail Room * Affordable (for 1-2 leasing cycles) * Offered upgraded appliances when initially moving into Carson Street Commons * Maintenance Staff * Parking Spaces and Available Garages Cons: * Terrible Infrastructure (new cement steps already falling apart, no assistance for people who live above the first floor, and may have injuries making steps impossible, and lack of actual security cameras on the property) * Went from having a 24x7 on-site maintenance member, to having to put in a request/call for emergency work and hoping they would answer in a quick manner - as they have to rotate between all Faros' properties in Pittsburgh, instead of just being assigned to one complex * A revolving door of leasing agents and management (3 management changes in 3 years) * Lackluster hotel gym and barely maintained outdoor grilling area * Blows out dryer vents once every couple of years and lets the debris scatter across our complex and South Side * Replaces HVAC filters maybe once a year * Forced residents into a 3rd Party Internet Provider (taking away Comcast and Verizon as options) * Removed landscaping and bushes, as a means to cut back on lawn maintenance costs * A sprinkler system, which I haven't seen working properly in 1-2 years, that has its usage factored into your water bill * Community Fee and Fixed Fees are added to your actual cost of your water bill, essentially doubling up the water bill (They use NEP - look at their Yelp and Google reviews, they are terrible resource providers - expect 36$ fixed fees and anywhere from 10-15$ community fees each billing cycle) * Flexible leasing that is not flexible at all (expect steady 10-12% increases in rent per lease agreement after about 1-2 lease cycles, with no written or verbal explanation as to why the increase is happening) * No direct mention of fees associated with an Early Termination of a Lease (they want 60 days' written notice, and 4 months of rent as fees - 2 months up front when you give them the termination notice, and 2 months due when you leave as a cancellation/re-rental fee - don't worry they leave that part blank in your lease so you can never truly know until you may need to terminate early) * Management will not allow you to be present for the Final Walk-Through, even if you formally request to do so in writing - they state it is property policy to complete it once the tenants have vacated the property * Management does not complete a thorough final walk-through and relies on the contracted workers' word of mouth to establish what the damages are and what is charged to the Move-Out summary and provides no tangible evidence of such when asked by the tenant * Will charge between 65-95$ upon move out if you do not professionally clean your carpets, then potentially assess your carpet as unusable, and charge another fee to remove/replace it, essentially double dipping into your Security Deposit - considering the average cost of professionally cleaning rugs costs $200+ for even the smallest of apartments they offer and about $1-$10 per sq ft to replace carpeting, depending on the age of the carpet from when it was installed (no use of carpet steam cleaner rentals from Lowes or Home Depot are considered professional - and that is usually the cheapest option for budget-friendly professional cleaning at $70 for 24 hours). * Very few apartments offer vinyl/wood flooring - even though its lifetime cost of it is significantly cheaper - compared to the same processes involved with carpet in the entire apartment

Moved to Pittsburgh for school and lived in the Carson Street Apartments all 3 years. Great…read morecomplex, location, amazing/reliable maintenance and staff. If a maintenance request was needed, they would show up within a couple of hours. I felt safe living in that section of Southside!

Hip and fun neighborhood. Great amenities. Lots of activities for the residents. Convenient…read moreparking. Amazing coffee station.

We are nearing the end of two years at The Foundry at 41st. We moved into our 2 bedroom apartment…read moreafter selling our large house. Although it was an adjustment, we found the space pretty comfortable for two empty nesters and our two cats. The apartments are large and very functional. The service from the management is fast, friendly and efficient. The only negative for us was a small kitchen and the train running behind our apartment. I think most of the people living in our building don't cook much, so the kitchen wouldn't be a drawback for many. We did get used to the train and sleep right through it. It seems like everyone has a dog, so if you are super allergic, that might be a consideration. We are moving to a townhome in a few weeks with a third bedroom and a larger kitchen, but if we could have those things at the Foundry, we'd probably stayed a little longer!

Chatham Center is a mixed-use complex that currently contains the Marriott City Center hotel,…read moreoffice tower, apartments, and parking garage. It was built in the 1960s, and it has been purchased and renovated multiple times. My husband and I stayed in the Marriott for two nights, and we liked the employees' service, the hotel room, and the location near PPG Paints arena and downtown restaurants. We parked our vehicle in the garage for two nights. The price for parking was a bit expensive, so I deducted one star from my review.

I wanted to like this complex but the negatives are greater than the positives. Staff are very…read morehelpful and they have a gym and storage along with affordable indoor parking and free outdoor parking, but the location, cleanliness, noise, frequent power and elevator outages and smells make it less than luxury and not worth the price.

I lived at the Brittany apartments for close to 15 months and it was okay for most part until…read morethings went haywire because of one person. I stayed at the 8th floor, where there was a fire accident in the month of November 2019. They said it was started by a tenant, but I don't know the details. They wouldn't tell us for some reason. Anyway, here's what happened. We were all evacuated, and the management promised us to reimburse the rent for the time we were displaced for up to 1 month (December 6, to be precise). I kept going back to check on my unit almost once in every 3 days. Fire accidents do happen, and I am completely mindful of that. My apartment had extensive smoke damage and I no longer wished to go back and live there, so I went ahead and broke my lease immediately. After a month, I called the Building Manager to ask about the reimbursement. I was shocked when she said my apartment was ready four days after the fire and so, I will be reimbursed for those 4 days. The apartment was in a horrible condition with strong smoke smells even after a month after the fire, for the record. Also, here's the catch. I received the email about the reimbursement 3 days after the fire (LOL). When I tried to tell her that I received no emails, calls or Voicemails informing me that the apartment was ready, her response was unbelievable. She actually said, "Oh I think I called you, but you may have missed my call", which was also a lie. She then went on to use phrases like "I have no time for this", "I am going to end this conversation right here", "I have other things to do" and even went to the extent of throwing insults at me. This pretty much was the case every time I went to her with my concerns about the unit. I am not sure what "other" important work she has rather than dealing with the concerns of her tenants in a responsible manner! Isn't that her (ONLY) job? I then decided to draft an email explaining about my situation and sent it to everyone in the upper management of McKinney Properties, and then finally got the money reimbursed (Thankfully, I was able to get their email ids from the corporate website!). To her own supervisor, the Building Manager blatantly lied saying that she couldn't leave a voicemail to me because my voicemail box was full. I have received in total of about 15 voicemails in the last 4 years...not sure how it got full all of a sudden! I could not help but laugh when I heard that. Also, since I ended my lease, I had to pay rent for 90 days. The only way out for me was to find someone else to sign a new lease. I had to contact the Building Manager to help me out with some of the questions that the prospective tenants asked me. The Building Manager constantly ignored my calls for weeks, and during the only time she picked up, she spoke extremely rudely to get back at me for escalating the issue. Thankfully, I didn't lose my composure and did not utter an insult back at her because, by then, I was used to her insolent behavior. I even tried asking her for an alternate contact which she refused to provide. Along this completely arduous process, she consistently said things that contradicted herself, lied time and again with great confidence, and did everything to make my life more miserable, which was already affected by the fire. Oh also, her proud tagline which she often stated was, "I'm new here. I honestly don't know about this". For God's sake, she was the only point of contact for the tenants! What were we supposed to do! Whom else were we supposed to go to with concerns about the unit! Overall, it was an utterly painful and a forgettable experience to say the least!

DO NOT MOVE HERE! Bakery living may seem like a nice place to live, but the management will get you…read morewith all their hidden fees and costs and are generally unpleasant to deal with. Want an extra key? That'll cost you $100 because you can't make copies on your own. Get locked out because you only have one key, that'll cost you another $100 just to get let into your apartment. Forget to renew your autopay, that'll cost you another $100. Does your trash happen to clog the trash shoot? There's also a fee for that. They also don't provide a way to dispose of cardboard boxes without walking all the way to the basement of the building which is a huge inconvenience that you will experience on a regular basis. Similarly, you will have to walk all the way to the front door any time you need to let a guest in. There are also charges for water and sewer. These are not based on usage, but instead you are just charged a percentage for the whole building. There is absolutely no transparency behind these charges and you actually have to pay a service fee just to be charged for the buildings water and sewage. They advertise free bagels on Saturdays, but they don't usually arrive until after 10am, so if you are an early riser you'll be waiting a while for your breakfast. Then there are the ridiculous things they make you sign for your lease. You have to agree to let them throw away your packages, if they are not picked up fast enough. You have to waive your right to participate in class action lawsuits (not even sure if this is legally enforceable). You give them the right to use your picture in any promotional material. If I were you I would avoid Walnut Capital in generally. I can't speak for their other buildings, but I'm sure it's more of the same.

DONT LEASE WITH THEM. They will change their shown rent on their website overnight and forced you…read moreto go with the new price or leave. On May 7th, I saw an apartment available on Bakery Living apartment official website. It is shown on there as $1765 for a 11 month lease, so I applied and paid $200 application fee. On their newsletter sent out regularly throughout April, there are units available around the price of $1700, so it is within expectations for that unit I applied to be quoted in the price range.The next day they emailed me and claimed that price is a systematic glitch and the price now for that unit is around $2400. I was shocked of their response & how is that legal lol, just changing rent price & claim it as a systematic glitch. It is the management's responsibility to display accurate price on their website and especially when they advertise!! There must be some advertising consumer right they are violating in this case. I was misled into applying and paying for that unit. They still haven't refunded my application fee back. It's been 2 weeks.