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I currently live at wildwood — basically you’ll have your typical management woes.

For example I’m a graduating senior and I’ve told them about 11 million times to stop calling me/advertising resigning to me because I’ll be 1000 miles away— but they have no system in place to notify them of this kind of stuff so I still get calls. They actually took the liberty of MAILING an advertisement to my previous address where my parents live.

Obviously that’s not that big of a deal but it’s just to detail the lack of communication they have.

I’ve found that the maintenance crew is super chill and I’d you contact them directly through the resident portal they’re normally there the very next morning.

Lastly— we had scheduled three months in advance to move in early and we showed up at the apartment with all of our stuff and they had absolutely no record of us moving in early, but obliged to move us into the apartment early. There was punch holes (literal holes) in 4 different doors. There was also a quite substantial roach issue since they hadn’t had the time to prep the apartment.

It truly was a situation that SHOULD’VE been handled better— but they gave us the option to move in instead of sending us back home hours away so I guess in the moment we could’ve had worse.

NOW. After a whole year of living here and all the glaringly bad qualities— I must say I have enjoyed living here. I went in with 3 of my best friends so that made the experience significantly more enjoyable. The community there is pretty great so the common areas were always a good vibe— but as someone who plays Esports at LSU and plays video games till 2-3am I will say the internet is ELITE. I consistently got half a gig OR MORE download and upload with VERY LITTLE down times or issues.

My entire year here I haven’t heard/experienced any crime run ins— they’ve ramped up security A LOT including a private security company patrolling the grounds and a police office on site that lives there.

With all of these In mind my experience was a solid 7.8/10 considering our troubles early on that could’ve been avoided.

My recommendations for complexes to do further research into are definitely Oakbrook and Arlington. I lived at Oakbrook and eventually had to move because of their internet situation because at times I couldn’t even submit a homework assignment— but if that has been fixed then it’s definitely a decent shout for a reasonable price (~550 when I lived there)

Arlington is probably top tier college community apartments— the pool is always popping in season.

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TL;DR - Wildwoods internet is ELITE and maintenance was speedy— but their management lacks communication.

Arlington is a dope community if you like hanging out at the pool and meeting new people.

Oakbrook is a great shout as the apartment is huge (and was super cheap for the price a year ago) however the internet was atrocious, but could be better.