Arden Villas

Please save yourself the trouble by maybe spending a little more to live somewhere nicer. Living at Arden has been frustrating for multiple reasons. Neighbors leave trash, litter, and at times have even thrown up on our stairwell/hallway and it has taken us complaining multiple times for something to be done about it. Noise levels are absurd as every other day someone blasts music that shakes the walls. Roaches are disgusting, and we got lucky that we only see them once a month compared to how bad of a problem it is here. The issues that this complex has had with wifi and water have been extremely frustrating, going so far as to still charge us for wifi when it was out for basically a whole month. We are students who need wifi for school and they worked at a snail pace to fix issues. They close the water every other week without proper time for residents to prepare. The added fees on top of rent have been exorbitant, especially as they made it seem that a lot of services were included with rent when they clearly were not. The gate has not worked for the full year we’ve lived here, and after the terrifying security issues they’ve had in the past that is just unacceptable. The security that is stationed there sometimes doesn’t do anything and never has, doesn’t check cars or who’s coming in. People will take up parking spaces from residents all the time, and it’s IMPOSSIBLE to have guests over during the semester due to the very limited guest parking. I suspect they’ve had bad mold issues since for a whole semester I’d get sick every week until I had the maintenance put mold product in my vents, then suddenly i got better. Entering our units every other week to do “inspections”. This has just been an overall disappointing experience. The only pro has been the apartment and room sizes, but it’s not worth it. Scamming college students who need a good place to live. Maybe invest on things that actually matter to make this a good place to live rather than events or food trucks.

I've lived at Arden Villas for the last two years, and after experiencing two other properties I can confidently say this is the right choice. My room is huge, they've updated something from the property every year i've been here and its super close to campus. I'm surprised about a lot of the negative reviews, ultimately i don't think people are being realistic. This is basically off campus student housing and a lot of college kids don't know how to behave and take better care of their home. I feel like we have lost that sense of community which is not something they can directly control. Like the gate literally broke because people kept speeding past it after they fixed it multipole times. They jsut fixed it again let's hope it lasts this time. Its true hallways are often dirty I agree they need to figure out a better solution, but I have personally never had a roach in my apartment because if you know about roaches you know as long as you're not dirty they wont pop out at your place. Plus i think people forget that you can request preventative pest control sprays every week you just have to call in. Don't let the other reviews scare you, people rarely come here to give honest feedback they usually just come here because they were upset about something but i can tell you right now every single time i've had an issue and I brought it up to the front desk they always helped me and were super sweet about it. My roomates and both my neighbors are staying for another year. My advice is to come and see it for yourself and not let the biased opinions of whiny daddy's money kids sway your opinion. Arden Villas is not perfect but it is not any worse than any other property in the area.