Camarillo Oaks Apartments

Tagging everywhere, no one picks up their dogs poop, broken down cars everywhere. Pools are hideous you will definitely not go in.

Washing machines always broke down and room smelt like mold 9/10 times you'd go in there. Shower water always smelt like rotten eggs. Put on the move in lease that walls weren't painted when we moved in, they still charged me for painting at move out. Hot tub looked like urine for weeks and no one could be bothered to care. And lastly, my car got vandalized next to the office, asked the office if they had cameras, they told me they don't. Filed a police report. My wife posted about the negative... experience online to which management replied that they do infact have cameras. So either they lied to my wife or they lied to me. Either way, shady business practice. Read More

Do not apply to Camarillo Oaks.

Camarillo Oaks has unfair business policies that are made to take your money during the application process if you decide to withdraw your application. They ask for $48 in non-refundable application fees for each applicant and $300 for a holding deposit which is supposedly "refundable." However, I was not explicitly told during my tour of Camarillo Oaks with Katie nor in the email acknowledgement for the application that it is only refundable for 24 hours after... submission of the application. I was made aware of this policy when I got an email to sign the "Receipt of Application Holding Deposit" SIX days later. After the vague acknowledgement email, they only reached out about me and my roommate's application after the 24 hour clock had passed. On top of that, Katie and Essex had poor communication with us as they only emailed me the acknowledgement email and not my roommate who was also an applicant.

This policy is unfair because we did not even know the status of our application before we could reclaim our holding deposit within that 24 hours. Other apartments I applied to asked for less money for the holding deposit and gave at least 72 hours to refund the money. Furthermore, those apartments actually followed up with me within that 72 hour time frame about my application. This is an extremely impractical policy as it does not give you options if you are trying to apply to multiple places.

For such a large sum of money ($300), I would have expected an honest and transparent business to mention this policy to us when touring and in the main text of their email acknowledgement of our application, but Katie and Essex purposely avoided mentioning it to take our money. I would have hoped a business providing more affordable housing would not try to deceive people to get their money but that is what Camarillo Oaks has done.

They will most likely respond to this review with fake sympathy and hide behind this deceptive policy that they buried in the text somewhere in the application but did not explicitly/verbally tell me and my roommate until it was too late. We gave them a chance to rectify this issue by returning our holding deposit but they have decided not to by giving a generic response that lacked any professionalism and just hid behind this policy.

Imagine the lack of care they will have if you actually move in to Camarillo Oaks. Read More

No security so my husbands car got vandalized while parked right next to the office. They charge $65 a month for pet rent but will still take your entire deposit when you move out. I’ve lived at 4 apartments with my dog and have never lost an entire deposit. They also raise rent 10% every year. Incredibly poor management, awful company. Stay away

I feel the staff is nice and helpful. Also it has bsautiful trees and walking paths in the complex. Not all apartments jave beautiful walkways. Apadtments are basic but nice.