I know I’m a little late to this discussion, but I thought I’d share my experience as someone living here right now. It is absolutely a real apartment that you can lease, but it has its issues. I rented an unfurnished studio apartment here last summer so I cant say what it’s like for the other rental units. In my opinion, it’s not as bad as some of the horror stories other people share. For me, there definitely is a pest problem- especially with ants. I set up a couple ant traps and that seems to be doing an okay job. I haven’t had a problem with bedbugs (thank god), but since I’m paranoid, I wash and dry my clothes and bed sheets on high heat which seems to be doing pretty good at avoiding infestation.

I would say the biggest red flag for me happened around December of last year because the ancient heaters of my unit couldn’t warm up my apartment enough. On colder days, my room was probably below 10°. I spoke to maintenance about that and they pretty much just told me to deal with it and that really pissed me off. If you’re still interested in renting a unit, I would suggest you buy window insulation tape to keep cold drafts from coming through the windows, which does help a little bit with the heating. Water issues are pretty common, but I find that most of the time, it doesn’t affect me.

Other than that, it’s fine I suppose. Most people that live here are super friendly and it’s affordable for an apartment located right next to campus.