Brianna F.
Yelp
I lived here for 3 years (2017-2020) and LOVED it. Especially compared to the other apartment options in the Newark area this is the best for student living. I paid the same or less compared to most friends and had way more space and amenities.
Living space: very spacious with nice appliances, nice vinyl flooring in the kitchen and living room, and marble countertops. The rooms each have their own bathroom which was life changing for me coming out of the dorms. The bedroom doors all lock from the in and outside like a front door lock so if you really don't trust your roommates you can lock your door everyday when you leave. There's a lot of windows so we had a ton of natural sun light come in everyday. The furnished apartments have perfect furniture pieces for students because they're virtually indestructible, not the comfiest tho. The TVs were really nice. The PORCH is luxurious. We had an end unit so we had a nice big porch and by our third year had filled it to the brim with plants (I mean Home Depot is rightttt there)
Roommates: Yes, unless you sign a lease with enough people to fill every room, they can assign someone to any empty room. And yeah 1 of the 3 girls I lived with was basically evil. But again the doors all lock and you can fill out a form with anything they're doing that's not great for the living space and start a conversation with the apartment management about it, which was enough to keep her out of our way for the time we shared in that apartment.
Maintenance: they will absolutely barge in to your apartment with not much warning besides one knock and annoying as that may be, you agree to it in the lease. Just don't walk around naked in the living room and you should be fine. The maintenance responds to most requests within the week which is nice and they fixed any of the problems we had with no issue.
Bugs: for 95% of the time we were there we had no problems. I'm talking 2 years 9 months with not a single bug getting in, not even an ant. Until wasps suddenly were able to find their way directly into my bedroom through air vents for the last month or two I lived there, about 11 total wasps. Not sure what was up with that but hairspray works quite well to get em.
Area: you shouldn't live here if you're not in college. Simple as that. Because college students are the most tolerant to basic annoyances. You will hear music blaring from cars sitting in the parking lot at 4am. You'll smell weed all around all the time. You'll see dog poop everywhere. You'll hear parties 3 or 4 nights per week and drunk people tripping up and down the steps. Nothin crazy, just very annoying if you're over the age of 22. The UD bus stops there which is nice. The parking is ample so we never ran out of space. BUT, beware of guests that come. They will tow a car with no pass that's not in a guest spot so fast it's crazy. And the fee to get the towed car is like $130 so save yourself the trouble and park in a guest spot or at the Home Depot.
The fire pits and pools are really nice. The little events they put on are fun and usually result in free stuff. And the package office is nice to have, until the Amazon guy decides to deliver to "your door" directly except it's not your door at all and you have to check every door in the whole complex...yup happened several times. They charged a couple obnoxious fees in terms of how much of the security deposit we got back. But I basically had an amazing time living here and my friends and I all miss it dearly.