Mode Apartments - San Mateo, California

Aditi K

We recently moved out of MODE apartment after a wonderful year. Our experience was nothing short of exceptional. If we could give it more than 5 stars, we would.

The apartment complex is clean and as soon as you enter the hallways, a soft scent welcomes you. The quality of material used to build the apartments is top notch quality and the staff is amazing. We never had any issues!

The USP of these apartments is the proximity to all the amazing restaurants, grocery stores in San Mateo. It is also well situated for all the best hiking spots in the peninsula.

We miss our little San Mateo home and will always be so special for us. <3

Hailey Hoang

We have been staying here for a year and will be extending our lease. It has been an enjoyable stay and here are a number of nice things about the complex:
- It is a safe gated community. We like having a roofed garage that is only accessible to the tenants. We go to the gym very often too.
- The amenities are new. The kitchen is great. The dishwasher can clean dishes well with less scrubbing. The washer and dryer are newer models. We specifically looked for an apartment without those older washer/dryer units.
- The apartment has an AC.
- We love the community events and look forward to more milk tea/pizza/Halloween/Christmas events. The complex has their own club house that can also be reserved for private events.
- Peter and his team have been very responsive in taking care of our maintenance requests.

Gabrielle Moskey

Lived here for 2 years and had a great 2 bed 2 bath. Style is modern, Community Room has tons of space, a little modern vending machine, and a kitchen you can reserve for parties. Also on the property is a gym with treadmills, weights, erg machine, etc, and small yoga room which I sometimes used for dance practice. There's two spacious outdoor courtyards (one with a firepit and propane grill). There's also a tiny dog park, and a package locker in the underground garage.

Peter and Jasmine in the office are super helpful and nice, and throw great parties in the community room every once in a while! Anytime I needed a new lightbulb or small repair, the Engineer Romel always came the next business day to fix it. No pest issues, they have a service coming for preventative care that I see around.

You can hear the train horn sometimes depending on where you are in the building, but it's not that bad as another place I was at in Burlingame. Overall, good place and good people 🙂

Zehua Chen

Mode is very beautiful and clean outside and inside. The staff that I have encountered are friendly, professional, communicative and responsive. The studio I live is cheap (relatively speaking) but does not have a real window (it's a door with glass in the middle) and does not have great sunshine so it can be bit depressing at times. After move out they promptly refunded my deposit and I think the deductions are fair.

Kenta Onodera

I am a new resident at Mode Apartment. I decided to move into this apartment after touring several locations at San Mateo and Foster City.

The staff at the leasing office is very friendly, responsive and helpful, and this is one of the factors which supported my decision to move to this apartment. Mode Apartment is a compact community with basic amenities such as gym, yoga room etc which is enough for me.

The room is new, clean and well maintained. I am really happy with my moving in process and so far I really enjoy my first few weeks as a resident here.

CS Wong

Lived here for a year and it was a great experience! The apartment complex and the unit itself is modern and well maintained. The management and maintenance teams are friendly, responsive and reasonable. They also host occasional gatherings with free food and lucky draws. Didn't have any trouble moving out either. The gym is small but not usually crowded. It's also walkable-ish to a Safeway/ Starbucks (15min) and also 5 min walk away from the Hayward Park Caltrain station. Overall ?

Johnny Rivera

We lived in Mode for about a year. Mode was very nice. Amenities are well kept and I like the "smallness" of the community. I've been in bigger apartment that just doesn't have the ambience of a small apartment. Everything is near the apartment. All areas are well kept. We personally followed Peter from a previous apartment because he's a very good community manager. We have to move because of my wife's relocation but we definitely recommend Mode.

Christopher Wong

My 6 years at Mode from Feb 2016 to Dec 2022 were great. Management and maintenance were always responsive and helpful. The property was well maintained, with nice outdoor eating/sitting spaces, convenient/well-kept exercise room and equipment, clean indoor trash/mail/common areas and covered parking. Neighbors were quiet and amicable. Location was ideal, close to downtown San Mateo, plenty of nearby grocery stores/restaurants/gas stations/shopping centers, and close access to the 92, 101 and 280 freeways. Rent was competitive. Would recommend Mode in a heartbeat.