Review for Artist Square Condominiums Apartments

I have been living here since August of 2008. I can't wait until my lease is up. Management is not good at all. When I first signed my lease, I was told there was going to be security. Wrong! We have had several car break ins and they refuse to refund anyone even their own residents. I was told that I should not park my car outside of the gates. However there was a break in the underground parking. They said well the lady had valuables out in her car. Regardless of whether or not she had valuables, she was parked in the so called safe area to park. We finally got security and when we did, there were still break in because we share security with Intown lofts, stonewall lofts and legacy lofts which is the next block up. Tell me how that works. You have security come over here once every hour. The crackheads are not that dumb. They know the schedule of security. One of my friends cars was broken into when we had "security." Her car registration was stolen along with some cds. She also had to get another back window put in. Did Artist Square do anything about it? Uh NO!

I had to ask for a new air filter because mine had not been changed since I had moved in in August. Mind you it was February and air filters should be changed about once a month. There are disgusting bugs even after they call themselves spraying. The other morning I woke up to a huge black bug waiting for me at my door. Boy was I excited. I can't even walk around barefoot in my own apartment in fear that I might step on a centipede which has happened before. So I came up with a nightly routine. Before I go to bed I have to spray around the door to keep the centipedes from coming in. When I wake up I find them laying in the raid dead and I have to sweep them outside. As much money as I pay in rent I should not have to spend extra money on cans of Raid.

To make matters worse, I am a college student and I need to study. However it is very difficult to study here because the walls are paper thin! I can hear my neighbors conversations even the one above me. I can hear their tvs, music, you name it I can hear it.

The gym sucks. There are literally 2 treadmills, 1 elliptical, and maybe three other kinds of machines. This would not be bad if you didn't have two buildings sharing one gym. The rooftop terrace is actually nice. They finally put some furniture up there. Before you just had to sit on the ground or bring your own. But the table they put up there broke because of the wind. They failed to clean up broken glass for a couple of days. So you had to watch where you stepped so you wouldn't get glass stuck in your foot. Oh and did i mention, you can't have more than five guest with you or its considered a party and you have to then pay for it.

The upside of things is the apartments look nice. If anything I will miss the layout of my apartment.