Tropicana Gardens

I realize this sounds dramatic, but having graduated recently and reflecting on my college experience, I firmly believe that van life is preferable to renting at Trop. I lived here for a year in 2022, and Trop ruined my first year of college. I was new and didn’t understand the IV housing market. At the time, what they charged me for a triple could have gotten me an apartment to myself one block away. (I did this the next year.) DO NOT sign a lease with trop, on the basis of cost alone. But there’s plenty of other reasons not to: the disgusting prison food (they force you to buy it), the sorely outdated bathrooms, and the ant infestations which I remember being particularly bad.

Lost phone and had to buy replacement key card, when I got a new phone, they told me I could only have the app or the key card even though I had already paid for it, and refused to refund me for the key card. When I asked them to just use my phone, they deactivated it so I had no working key card. I cannot believe the irresponsibility of Tropicana. They lost my priority mail and it has been missing for an entire week. I don't understand how you can be so careless to lose a resident's mail when it was clearly delivered to your staff.