Solis Isla Vista, isla-vista-cal

As a returning UCSB student, I really appreciated how easy the Solis team made the leasing process. Since my family is on the East Coast, great communication was incredibly important, and they were responsive, helpful, and professional every step of the way. Sabado Tarde is an amazing property!

Eva in the front office is very friendly and helpful with us, she is also willing to help us despite 10 minutes after closing time. She has secured and helped us get a parking space as we desperately need one for my vehicle. I would recommend her to anyone that is willing to visit Solis in Isla Vista.

Moved my daughter in today, and the management staff could not have been more helpful. The apartment was clean in and in very good condition, and if we had any questions or issues, staff addressed them promptly and happily. I feel very comfortable knowing my daughter will be living in Solis for the school year!

Updating my earlier review after going through the move-out process. The year itself was fine. The unit was decent, staff were reachable during the tenancy, and I left a positive review at the time in good faith. Move-out is a different story, and it's the part prospective renters should know about. The final statement arrived with charges and nothing else — no photographs, no invoices, no itemization of any kind. Getting that documentation took roughly five weeks and repeated emails, and it only arrived because I kept asking. The property manager ultimately acknowledged it should have been provided sooner and said she'd raised it internally. Most students won't have a parent willing to chase it, and I suspect that's the point. On the charges themselves: the apartment is furnished with light-colored fabric dining chairs and thin vinyl blind slats in a four-person student rental. After eleven months of normal use, soiled upholstery and broken slats were billed as resident damage rather than treated as the predictable cost of furnishing student housing with materials that can't survive a year. Every charge is split equally across all four residents regardless of circumstances. If you rent here, two pieces of advice. Request the pre-move-out inspection in writing — it's offered, it's easy to miss in the move-out emails, and it's the only chance you get to fix things before they become deductions. And photograph every room, every piece of furniture, and every blind on the day you move in and the day you leave. Three stars because the tenancy was genuinely okay. The deposit process is the problem.

Overall, this is a good place. Life is very convenient for students, and it is very close to the school and many restaurants. At the same time, the apartment property here is very friendly and deals with problems in a timely manner. But a little beauty is that the light in the apartment will be a little worse at night. Then there is no air conditioning in the apartment (but there is basically no air conditioning in the apartment in this area, which has little impact on actual life)