I've been here for four years, and my opinion of the place has gone down considerably. When I first moved here, it was great. My old place was getting worse and didn't offer much. This was close to USF, which was also great. Utilities were included, and the rent was pretty good. I didn't realize at the time that Core Spaces had just recently bought the property the year I moved in. While the property outside looks more polished, the quality in the apartments is the same.
The biggest issue for me
...was the a/c system and the power issues. The property was rebuilt some time ago to run on a boiler system for heating and cooling. So it's not possible to have cooling and heating at the same time. This means that there is no option for residents to decide if they want to receive warm or cool air in their apartments unless a “switch” is flipped by management. So if it is too warm in your apartment in the winter, you can't switch it to heat until the temperature outside reaches a certain degree. The other issue is the chiller system. Since moving here in 2022, it has gone down pretty much every summer. And since the regular maintenance guys can't fix it, they have to bring in specialized technicians to come and work on it. Sometimes it got fixed within the same day. But over the last year or two, it's taken days. Days with over 80 and 90-degree weather inside. This also does not include the power outages that sometimes only affected this property, and the slow response of the office and the workers. This also doesn't include the roach and lizard problems the apartments face. I also heard people complaining about mold, although thankfully that wasn't something I dealt with personally.
Even though they originally sold this place as apartments that offered full amenities, those had slowly been taken away too. While the management office and maintenance workers are nice, it doesn't justify all the problems that have happened over the last two years alone. I'm glad this is my last year, but I'm disappointed that I'm leaving with bad feelings, considering how happy I was when I first moved in.
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