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Luxury Apts WNY Sweeps 2020 Top-Rated Awards

StoneGate Apartment Homes garnered the Elite 1% ORA Power award. The Elite 1% recognition came with some impressive stats including an ORA score of 93 and #3 in all of New York State! The ORA in Elite 1% Power Ranking stands for Online Reputation Assessment and is used in the multifamily industry to measure how you stack up against the competition. All of our Luxury Apts WNY properties; StoneGate, Autumn Creek, Windsong Place, and Renaissance Place all received the 2020 Top-Rated Apartment Rating Award. Less than 5% of all apartment communities nationwide will receive this award. Here are the links to each property’s blog post about the award and the statistics for each property for the Top Rated Apartment Award: StoneGate Apartments — 55 reviews and an A+ resident rating score Renaissance Place — 77 reviews and an A+ resident rating score Autumn Creek — 146 reviews and an A- resident rating score Windsong Place — 101 reviews and an A+ resident rating score Coming Up with the Numbers — How the Rankings Work We would like to thank all of our residents, past and present, for making this possible, as both awards were based on Online Reputation. We’ve broken down the criteria for both of them below. The Elite 1% ORA™ Power Ranking J Turner Research uses a statistical model and assigns an Online Reputation Assessment (ORA™) score on a scale of 0-100, which determines the rank of each apartment community in this ranking. StoneGate scored a 93! This is the 6th consecutive year that StoneGate Apartment Homes has received this prestigious honor. Apartment Ratings ApartmentRatings.com is the largest online rating community for rental housing, reaching approximately 30% of apartment hunters nationwide, and is among the Top 5 most-visited apartment hunting sites in the world. Each year the site recognizes the top-rated apartments in the nation using strict standards, and we’re proud to be among the winners. The criteria for being recognized as a top property includes: 10+ total reviews 5+ reviews in 2020 A- or higher overall epIQ grade Leave a Review We know that our residents are a big part of why people love living with us. Thank you again for sharing your appreciation for our apartment communities online. Do you currently live at one of our properties? Let others know what brought you here, and what keeps you here by leaving a review. Here’s where to leave your reviews for Renaissance Place , Windsong Place , Autumn Creek , and StoneGate .

Luxury Apts WNY Claims 2019 Online Reputation Awards

StoneGate Apartment Homes garnered both the Elite 1% ORA Power award and recognition from Apartment Ratings Top Rated Award. The Elite 1% recognition came with some impressive stats including an ORA score of 95, #2 in all of New York State, and #98 OVERALL nationwide! The ORA in Elite 1% Power Ranking stands for Online Reputation Assessment and is used in the multifamily industry to measure how you stack up against the competition. Three other Luxury Apts WNY, Autumn Creek, Windsong Place, and Renaissance Place all received the 2019 Top Rated Apartment Ratings Award for 2019, too. Here are the links to each property’s blog post about the award and the statistics for each property for the Top Rated Apartment Award: StoneGate Apartments — 48 reviews and a 100% recommendation score Renaissance Place — 64 reviews and a 100% recommendation score Autumn Creek — 121 reviews and an 89% recommendation score Windsong Place — 91 reviews and a 69% recommendation score Coming Up with the Numbers — How the Rankings Work Luxury Apts WNY has not won awards in just one multi-property online ratings venue, but two. We’ve broken down the criteria for both of them below. The Elite 1% ORA™ Power Ranking “ The ORA™ statistical model aggregates and analyzes online ratings and reviews of over 120,000 properties across 21+ review sites and ILSs to generate a single score on a 0-100 scale, that is easy to monitor, rank, and improve.” Apartment Ratings ApartmentRatings.com is the largest online rating community for rental housing, reaching approximately 30% of apartment hunters nationwide, and is among the Top 5 most-visited apartment hunting sites in the world. Each year the site recognizes the top-rated apartments in the nation using strict standards, and we’re proud to be among the winners. The criteria for being recognized as a top property includes: 10+ total reviews 5+ reviews in 2018 70% or greater overall recommended score (at the time the award was given) Leave a Review We know that our residents are a big part of the reason people love living in our apartment communities. Let others know what brought you here, and what keeps you here by leaving a review. Here’s where to leave your reviews for Renaissance Place , Windsong Place , Autumn Creek , and StoneGate .

A Note from LuxuryAptsWNY about COVID-19

Our Leasing Office is open and we are taking recommendations from the CDC seriously. During this unsettling time, we’d like to assure you that our priorities at LuxuryAptsWNY are protecting the health and safety of our residents, future residents, employees, and their families. We continue to monitor the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, actively following guidance and recommendations from the CDC and NYS while taking actions to keep our residents, future residents, and employees safe. The crisis we are facing is rapidly changing. Our goal is to keep up and keep healthy. We have implemented heightened sanitizing procedures and policies across all of our communities. Our Leasing Offices are open during normal business hours for private in-person apartment tours of our beautiful model apartments. We also encourage you to visit our websites with real-time availability, virtual tours, extensive photo galleries, floor-plans, live chats and 24/7 phone calls at your disposal. Autumn Creek Apartments Business Hours: M - F 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; S & Sun: temporarily closed Renaissance Place Apartments Business Hours: M - F 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; S & Sun: temporarily closed StoneGate Apartment Homes Business Hours: M - F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Windsong Place Apartments Business Hours: M - F 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; S & Sun: temporarily closed To our future residents... It is imperative to us that we continue to provide the best apartment search resources. We understand that it may not be convenient, but people will always need to move. A place to live. A place to call home. To our current residents... Fortunately, our technology through your Resident Portal will allow you access to your rental account, the Community Bulletin Board, and our Message Center, as well as giving you the ability to communicate with us. As a reminder, the leasing office phone number is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to speak with someone, even after business hours. If you have not set up your Resident Portal, it is important that you do, as we will be communicating updates through the Message Center. Until further notice, in the interest of being proactive and minimizing the spread of the virus, our Community Room, Business Center, Bathrooms and Fitness Rooms will be closed. We look forward to resuming resident events in the following months, as we are committed to creating a welcoming place to call home. Your maintenance team will only be responding to emergency service requests. The health and safety of everyone is important to us at LuxuryAptsWNY . We want to ask all residents and visitors of our communities to refrain from visiting the Leasing Office if you have been sick with a fever in the past 24 hours or experiencing any of the symptoms outlined by the CDC . We sincerely hope that this virus does not affect any of our residents or their families or our employees and their families. We will continue to update you where we can as the situation evolves. Thank you for choosing to 'Experience Life' with a LuxuryAptsWNY Community.

Introducing Valet Trash & Recycling Service to Our Community

Luxury Apartments WNY is excited to introduce Valet Trash and Recycling services to our apartment communities. We are partnering with Valet Living to bring this new amenity to our residents. Valet Living is the only nationally-recognized full-service amenities provider for the multi-family industry. Since 1995, Valet Living services more than 340 million events annually across 1.3 million apartment homes in 40 different states. We are pleased to bring their expertise to our residents. In addition to trash removal, we are also providing recycling. Items that can be recycled include plastic, paper, metal, and glass. Pick-up takes place five days a week after 7 PM. We are excited to bring this new amenity to our residents. Say goodbye to weekly treks to the dumpster! Our new doorstep valet service is scheduled five days a week! Of course, this is a new service; and our goal is to make a seamless transition; however, there may be changes and improvements implemented along the way to make it a better experience for everyone. We hope you enjoy using this service, another way we provide a worry-free lifestyle here at Luxury Apartments WNY. Let us know how this service is making a difference for you!

House Plant Know How for Apartment Living

It’s summertime, which is the perfect time of year to add some green to your apartment. Today the Luxury Apts WNY Blog is sharing ideas for which house plants do well in an apartment setting, as well as tips for how to display plants. Choose the right plant for you and your home. For example, if your apartment doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, choose a plant that’s okay with that. If you aren’t home a lot, find one that’s okay with little watering. Read on to learn more. Display Plants Using Hanging Planters This idea is a perfect way to creatively add greenery to your place. You can easily hang these pots from your window sill, while not using up counter or table space. Not to mention they’re beautiful! For this project, you’ll need chalked paint, a paint brush, string, and a terracotta pot (or 2 or 3!). After painting the pot, you can use the tutorial guide to see how to twist and tie the string onto the pots. That’s it! You now have a beautiful hanging pot. House Plants Buy plants that are good for living indoors. Some plants that work well would be spider plants, aloe vera, snake plants, dracaenas, palms, philodendrons, and succulents. Many plants are also great for purifying your home . Some of these include peace lilies, rubber plants, bamboo palms, snake plants, and dumb canes. Here is some more detailed information about some of our favorite options for house plants: Aloe Vera The aloe vera plant is useful in many ways. It’s a great detox ingredient, skin soother for burns, and hair conditioner. It prefers lots of light and little watering. Check out the link above for more information on what type of soil, container, and watering it needs to thrive. Spider Plant “These tough plants tolerate lots of abuse, making them excellent candidates for newbie gardeners or those without a green thumb. Provide them with well-drained soil and bright, indirect light and they will flourish. Water them well but do not allow the plants to become too soggy, which can lead to root rot.” Learn more at the link above. Succulents Succulents are a popular item to grow indoors. They require very little care and look beautiful. Buy a variety of them for a fun succulent garden that will look great in your windowsill. Peace Lily The peace lily thrives with very little light. This plant needs very little humidity but its soil should be consistently moist. The peace lily is beautiful — with deep green leaves and white flowers — and it’s perfect for anyone who prefers to keep their rooms dark. Grape Ivy Grape Ivy is a beautiful plant that look great in a hanging basket. They require low-light generally and need to be water consistently during the growing season. Learn more from the link above. Cast-iron Plant Cast-iron plants are another variety of plants that require very little care. They can tolerate low temperatures and very little light. We hope this information is helpful for members of our WNY apartment community! Let us know what your favorite house plants are in the comments.

Apartment Living

With a host of options for apartments for rent available in Western New York, finding the right one for you can seem like an overwhelming task. But it doesn’t have to be if you take the apartment search one step at a time. Try the tips in the blog from Luxury Apts WNY this month for things to keep in mind as you’re looking for the best apartment for you. Determine the scale. Find the general vision of what you’re looking for in a home by thinking about a few different things, like what sort of feel or aesthetic you’re looking for, and how big of a space you need. Measure your furniture, go through your clothes, and donate, sell, or throw away anything you don’t love anymore anything that doesn’t fit well or anything that’s broken and not easily fixable. Sort your criteria. Size isn’t the only aspect you should consider in a new home. List out what other aspects of a home you want and sort them in order of importance. How much do community amenities, such as on-site fitness centers, bike rooms, libraries, or community landscaping, matter to you? Do you need something pet-friendly? What are you looking for in a location? Write it out and make note of which things you need and which you can be more flexible on so you can find a home that matches up with as many of these criteria as possible. Tour smart. Take a tour once you’ve narrowed down the options to a few you could see yourself living in. This is the fun part, as it makes your search feel more real and it gets you even closer to finding your dream apartment. Bring a friend you trust to be an extra set of eyes and to give an objective opinion. They can ensure you ask all the necessary questions (about work done on the home, the culture of the apartment community, noise levels, and navigating the area, for example) and they can validate the opinions you form based on your tours. We hope these tips help with your apartment search! Thanks for taking the time to read our post.