I lived in Tivoli for 3 years. I didn't begin having any big problems until my third and final year there.
Pros:
- The maintenance guys are incredibly friendly (not creepy at all) and almost always fixed things the same day.
- Large bedrooms, walk-in closets, large living areas. If you are moving from the dorms, this is like living in a luxurious hotel!
- The staff and office manager were very helpful and will work with you if you're having problems. I never had a problem paying rent, never got ripped off, and got appx. $800 out of a $900 security deposit back.
- Took me 10 mins to get to campus including all traffic, red lights, and stop lights.
- No bug problem and was very clean when we moved in.
- Never had a problem parking on non-gamedays. Even then, they only have like what, 10 games at UCF per year max.'
Cons:
- During the first and third year beer bottles were thrown through windows in our apartment, shattering glass all over in the middle of the night.
- If you are not a football fan, you will hate UCF football gamedays. My roommates and I left town every single game day to avoid the chaos.
- I had to step over vomit, beer bottles, empty food bags, and trash in the hallways.
- Every year I was there, the people who lived upstairs from me managed to throw their garbage down onto my patio. The first year, they threw an entire bookshelf and left it. I think they gave themselves haircuts on the balcony or something too because we sometimes woke up to piles of human hair on our patio. If you live on the first floor you have to chain stuff down to prevent it from being stolen because the patios have no gates.
- All college students so you'll have to deal with the parties, noise, and random guys running around in masks and underwear being idiots.
- Paper thin walls. I could hear my neighbors detailed conversations along with every squeak of their bed on those passionate nights they shared.
- At one point there were a bunch of guys in the parking lot with guns about to fight/kill each other. The cops arrived quite fast and nothing happened.
- At move in/move out time they place extra dumpsters all over which makes the moving process much easier.
Tivoli overall is a great place to live if you are in the beginning/middle of college. The staff is great, the apartments are big, the prices are pretty decent, and I never felt unsafe (besides the gun incident which was RARE). All of my cons sum up to the same problem, the residents. Like I said the first two years it was pretty fine. It wasn't until the last year I couldn't take it anymore. My roommates were in graduate school, working full-time jobs and we couldn't get a peaceful nights sleep. I would recommend visiting on a weekend night. Park your car and take a walk around. If you can deal with that, this place will be good for you! If you are towards the end of finishing college or in grad school check out places nearby, even houses. You can get something nicer, quieter, and cheaper. I would never live there again simply because of the immature, filthy residents I dealt with.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/14/2009
are the tivioli apartments furnished or not?
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/14/2009
They are unfurnished.

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