Looking to purchase a condo and came across the Villagio at Tempe with a few for sale (note that I am NOT talking about Villagio apartments on Baseline).
Does anyone have experience owning or renting a home here? How was the HOA? Any complaints with pests, noise levels or maintenance?
Reminded me of the filling the oceans scene from Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy
I have a list of projects that I'd like to hire someone to complete, and I'd prefer to support a local business that does good work at a reasonable price.
Tasks include - paint touch-ups, repainting doors, junk removal (hot tub), stucco repair, roof repair and panel replacement for a shed, resealing a concrete countertop, and sealing cracks in driveway cement
Best case scenario would be to bundle the projects with a single contract, but I'm open to working with more than one business if needed.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!!!
My main guitar tech moved to Mesa and I have like 6-ish instruments that need work, including warped necks, pickup swaps, and general wiring adjustments. Give me someone experienced that you trust who does good work; I'm not looking for cheap, quick fixes.
The NAACP Arizona State Conference posted an official statement (dated 8/12/26) about a "severe excessive force" incident involving a Tempe resident, saying the involved officers' written reports directly contradict video footage they have in their possession. Tempe PD's Internal Affairs has opened an investigation.
I haven't been able to find any news coverage of this specific incident yet — just the NAACP's own release. Does anyone have additional knowledge of this incident?
Here is the page where the statement was posted. https://www.facebook.com/AZNAACP
There was also a second statement released yesterday, but it did not have any additional information.
TL;DR: Two weeks of dead internet at Mira Apartments in Tempe. Management passed me to the ISP, the ISP passed me back, nobody fixed anything, nobody took responsibility, nobody offered credit. They market "MT+" internet and smart home package as an optional service, but the building is not wired to let you use any other provider, so "optional" is functionally a lie (or isn't a lie insofar as "wifi is optional"). Semester starts in weeks. Read your goddamn lease. Big ticket takeaway: renters will do everything to save their ass in a contract, and do nothing to afford you a win.
In order:
You tour the place. Internet is included. It is on the amenity sheet, it is in the pitch, it is baked into what you are paying. Great, one less bill, one less thing to set up before classes. You sign. Bang!
You move in and it does't work. Not slow. Not spotty. Two weeks of dropping every few minutes, speeds that cannot load a single Canvas page, and long stretches of just fucking nothing.
You report it like an adult. And you get the runaround, which is the part that made me genuinely lose it. The office tells you it is the provider's problem. So you call the provider. The provider tells you it is the building's problem and that they'd give you a timeline (they've obfuscated blame toward upstream providers more than five times). So you go back to the office. And you do this loop over and over while both of them stand there pointing at each other, and at no point does anyone with authority to fix it ever end up on the other end of the line. We get a big nothing burger shoved down our throat (zero damn repair timeline). No credit for the amenity you are paying for and not receiving. Just an infinite handoff designed to make you get fatigued and stop asking. We can't do anything, and living here has become a nightmare.
They market their "MT+" internet as an optional service. Optional. As in, you have a choice, as in, if you do not like it you can go get your own. Except the building is not wired to let you do that.
There is no alternative. You cannot call Cox. You cannot call Century Link. You cannot run your own line. The physical infrastructure of the building does not permit a competitor, so the "option" they are describing does not exist and cannot exist. They built a monopoly into the walls and then wrote the word "optional" on it. That is not a technicality, that is a straight up lie about the nature of what you are buying. You are a captive customer with a captive product and they know it, and every person in that office knows exactly what they are doing when you walk in.
Out comes the lease clause! A clause disclaiming any guarantee of internet quality, availability, or speed. Buried and never walked through. Never mentioned once during the tour where they were busy telling me internet was included.
They advertise it to sell you the unit. They wire the building so you cannot practically buy it from anybody else. They take your money for it every month. And they wrote themselves a clause saying they owe you nothing when it does not work.
You do not end up with a captive ISP, a service disclaimer, and a call-center loop by accident. Whatever the intent, the result is the same: you pay full price for a thing they are contractually free to never deliver.
And who is it pointed at? Students! In a building marketed to students. In a corporate portfolio full of other buildings marketed to students. People signing their first lease, people new to the state, people with no lawyer, no money for a lawyer, no idea what rent abatement is, and who will be so buried in coursework by week three that they give up and eat it. That is not who they accidentally caught. That is the target. You are not a tenant here, you are a revenue unit that arrives in August, does not read fine print, does not sue, and leaves in May.
In a few weeks every one of us is running our entire academic life through that dead, unreliable connection. Canvas. Zoom. Proctored exams that lock your browser and fail you outright when the connection drops mid session. Portals with hard midnight deadlines. And your professor is not going to want to hear about your apartment wifi, because why would they.
So functionally what I am paying for is the privilege of not being able to work where I live. I am going to be doing every assignment this semester at Hayden, hauling my shit across campus, timing my life around library hours, because the apartment I pay rent on cannot do the one thing they advertised. I am paying student housing prices for a place I cannot be a student in.
If you live at Mira, or at any of the other complexes near campus dealing with this same shit right now: comment or DM me.
If you are about to sign anywhere in Tempe: open the lease PDF and search "internet," "utilities," "services," "provider," and "warranty" before you sign a single thing. If there is a clause disclaiming service quality on something they advertised as included, they are telling you in advance that the amenity is decorative. Then ask them, out loud, in the office, which other providers the building is wired for. Watch what happens to their ugly faces.
Read your lease. Save your receipts. Do not let these people harass you up the rectum, because that is the entire scheme.
P.S. I know I didn't read my lease correctly, and didn't ask the correct questions when I moved in. Don't bully me. First apartment ts. To those who randomly know: NA west got bailed 😡.
Title self-explanatory, documents include sale point presentation, city-contracts of the sort and city-based questionnaire including but not limited to; specific-fixed camera costs, purchase orders & important dates. This information was given and redacted by City of Tempe upon a FOIA request.
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Hi! I’m moving to Tempe for work (ASU) next year.
I’m looking some housing option.
My budget is around $1500. One bedroom apartment (I think house is out of my budget. Otherwise with garage and yard would be nice.)
I also want to live outside of campus that don’t have too many undergrad around because my schedule.
I did some research and was trying to find some good area. I was looking into the block Hardy, Uni Dr., Priest, and Broadway. I found an apartment called Broadway 121 if you have any insight please let me know me know.
If you have any recommendations, please let me know as well.
In unit laundry and covered parking is preferred.
Thanks In advance.
Anyone renting from Rise Suncrest Apartments in Tempe? 28 days and they never replaced the broken water heater. Other issues. My BF's 90 year old dad finally moved out because of no hot water, and Rise charged him $3000 extra rent. He told them many times he had to move out because. no hot water and other issues. He went to small claims court and because he didn't give them notice in WRITING, he lost. Stay away. #risesunset
Hey all.
Looking for nicer or newer townhomes that have easy access to the highways to travel out east for a job. 2b2b or bigger, personal garage for a larger vehicle, preferably under 2800 all in. If you have any leads that would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Looking for a run club to join in tempe. I used to be a good runner (8-9min avg) but i haven’t ran consistently in over 6 months so def running 11-12 min miles right now. Something that meets early in the morning would be ideal (5/6AM) to beat the heat. Any recommendations appreciated!!
Are there any good Facebook groups(or something similar) to find local vendors?
Anyone have a studio apartment in Tempe? If so, can you share what your last electric bill amount was?
This is going to be a longshot, but I have faith. My name is Kitt, I own and operate an archive/fan community for the indie rock band, Skybox.
This band was started and primarily based in the Tempe area from 2003 to early 2007, and not much is really known about them from this time, other than their "first" studio album (Arco Iris) that can be found online. I was curious if any Tempe residents who were living in the area during that timeframe (or possibly any that may have moved there shortly thereafter) might remember this band?
They played at The Clubhouse and The Marquee in 2005, At Phoenix based festival "Oh Shit! A Fest?" in 2006, and the Sets (March and August) in 2007. These are the only known years and locations I have of local performances. Their first "full album" was issued by the Big Red Balloon record label (which had a Tempe AZ based PO box as their address, as listed on the back of the CD) and was recorded and mixed at The Panic Button in Tempe.
What I'm after is pretty much anything you've got. Stories, photos, flyers and posters, old CDs or shirts, really any proof from this timeframe other than the very limited number of photos and old flyers I have found. Their first true album is entirely lost, and shirts only exist as very low quality photos on early archives of their website. I would greatly appreciate anything and everything that you may remember. Thank you!
-Kitt
A couple months ago I made a post about starting a movie group in Tempe. So far we have a small/medium amount of people but we’ve been meeting monthly on the first Sunday of every month for several months!
We also have a discord where we coordinate movies and times.
I wanted to make another post to see if anyone else would be interested in joining? :)
Hi, I am moving to Tempe , ( i know another post like this ) . So everything is set in stone for me to move and I have no knowledge about the rental market there so I thought I'd ask people who live there, so my question is are there any apartments close to Arizona mills Mall that are pet friendly, I can comfortably smoke weed (I got my medical card here and plan to get one there) without any issues and is somewhat decently priced?. I am currently saving and wondering if $2000 or $3000 would be good enough to get an apartment in that price range. What I mean is that's the total amount of money I'll be using for all move in costs, thank you for taking your time to read this and for all who will give helpful comments.
Perfect time to start pressuring our council, especially our two new progressive members, to follow suit.
Emails for all city council members and their assistants can be found here. Anyone who feels any kind of way about Flock should be reaching out to their elected officials often.
Chandler discontinued their contract after finding evidence that there had been an 'anomaly' in the use of the LPRs - AKA, someone used it for non-policing related reasons.
