Canyon Village Apartments

I have enjoyed living at the Canyon Village apartments. The residence were all so very nice. Nuvia has also been very nice and helpful any time i needed anything. Im moving out after a year since i bought a home. I will definitely miss living here.

Really nice apartments, they have large living areas. The management is great and very helpful! The maintenance staff responds very fast to any request. Definitely would recommend !

Do not rent from Canyon Village Apartments unless you want to be priced out of your apartment in a year or two.nI lived in Canyon Village for more than 3 years, but under the new management, my rent has increased by $130 a month in less than a year. It is one of the nicer apartments in town, but the company that now manages Canyon Village, Peak Living, is incredibly unscrupulous. If you are looking for a place to live, I strongly urge you to look somewhere other than Canyon Village or Las Ventanas, which, I believe, is also owned by Peak Living.nCanyon Village was under different management when I first moved here and has gone downhill since Peak Living took over a little over a year ago. My rent was the same after one lease renewal under the previous management, but under Peak Living, they drastically increased (and continue to increase) the rent, and they added fees for trash removal, which had been included in the rent price under the previous managers.nThey also try to conceal the price increases in the renewal notification, so that you do not realize how much it has increased until you have already signed the lease and make your next rent payment.nYou will receive a renewal notice with the “rent price” listed as slightly over what you are currently paying in total each month. It also lists the fees for trash utilities, etc., which will be the same as what you had been paying. Since no total price is listed, one could reasonably assume that the “rent price”, which has increased slightly, is the price you pay each month. This is not the case. The total price, which would normally be understood as the “rent” is not listed and includes the fees that they have, for some reason, chosen to list separately and without totaling your monthly payment.nI have since learned that Peak Living’s policy is to increase the rent by $70 per month every time a resident renews their lease (for now anyway. I believe it was a $60 increase last time. Who knows what it will be next).nApparently, it is the policy of Peak Living to take advantage of residents for whom it would be time consuming and challenging to move out, rather than reward loyalty of long-time residents. The longer you live at Canyon Village, the more you will pay every month. I was paying over $100 more each month than newer residents in identical units simply because I made the poor choice to continue living at Canyon Village.nThese unreasonable price increases are on top of the fact that the services under Peak Living are actually not as good as they were under the previous management. Snow and ice are not cleared from the sidewalks in winter like they were under previous management. Instead, Peak Living placed buckets of de-icer “for our convenience” near the entrance of the buildings. For an ever increasing rent price and additional fees, we can now shovel and de-ice our own sidewalks.nI recently received another renewal notice under Peak Living with the carefully concealed increase of $70 per month. Apparently, Canyon Village and Las Ventanas believe people are willing to be taken advantage of in order to have air conditioning in Los Alamos. Maybe some are, but for the amount Canyon Village is now asking me to pay for rent, I will find somewhere else.

I moved here in 2013 and am very happy here. Both the manager, Nuvia Macias, and the maintenance man, Dan, are very responsive and helpful. They listen to tenants and take care to keep the property up to date. The location is great; walking distance to downtown, and also just yards away from a branch of wonderful trails. I'm grateful they take pets as well. :)

It’s a delightful place to live. The views are wonderful and the staff is friendly and personable. The neighbors are also friendly and helpful. I don’t have a car and can easily walk to my midtown art gallery job and back. Even in the snow for the most part. I feel truly at home.