Abby Apartments

Decent place to live with good roommates, outdated but everything works well!

If you’re a student looking for housing I would definitely recommend looking at your off-campus options. Abby has been frustrating to say the least. The apartments are pretty old and beat up and there’s mildew all over the shower, but nothing extremely bad for the price. However, the Residents Assistants (RAs) are a different story. The RAs are extraordinarily strict. They seem to find joy in enforcing every stupid little rule while overlooking things that are actually a problem. Here are a few examples… I was supposed to be in a shared room but my friend who was planning to be my roommate decided to change schools last minute. This left me with a private room, only for a few months until I got another roommate. During that time my RA said that if they find me ‘taking advantage’ of the additional living space I would face consequences and be billed the additional cost for the room. This means I couldn’t go near the additional dressers, desk, half of the closet, or bed. Another time I was collecting up my used plastic water bottles because I was planning on recycling them for a few extra bucks. During a cleaning check I was failed for not ‘emptying the trash’ out of my room. Note, I am a very neat person and my room was spotless otherwise. All of this could be understood if they treated everyone like this. However, the people who live directly below me tend to have parties every other weekend involving drugs and alcohol. Here I was, thinking UT had a no drugs and alcohol policy… hmm. I can only imagine what goes on throughout the rest of the apartments. Additionally, I have lots of friends in both Campus View Suites I and II and NONE of them have RAs even close to as crazy as mine. Overall I feel like I’ve been walking on eggshells ever since I moved in.