Possible marketing slogans for Louisburg Square Apartments:

- Louisburg Square: You get what you pay for.
- Louisburg Square: At this price, I don't know what you expected.
- Louisburg Square: Where everybody knows your name (because you'll be forced to report at least two maintenance issues every month).

Really, though, Louisburg Square is -- overall -- just an OK place to live. As with every apartment complex, there are good things and bad things about living there.

Among the good things:
1. The office staff is generally friendly and helpful. They have responded quickly to maintenance requests and usually had someone out to help within a day or two.
2. The apartments are huge (800 square feet), considering the cost of rent.
3. I have never had a problem with noisy neighbors.

However, the bad things:
1. Unending maintenance issues. I've lived at the apartments for seven months, and have had the following issues:
- My toilet would run nearly constantly until it eventually would not flush. It took maintenance four separate trips before the problem was finally fixed.
- The pipes in the apartment are old (like everything else) and my shower became very, very slow to drain. On the third trip by maintenance to un-clog it, they simply installed a new shower head with dramatically decreased water pressure. The drain no longer backs up, but that's only because the water now trickles out of the shower head and has time to drain. Basically, they fixed an annoying problem by replacing it with a slightly-less-annoying problem. I guess this is progress.
- My doorbell has randomly stopped working twice. This leaves visitors standing outside in the cold, aimlessly pressing a dormant button over and over until they finally call me to come downstairs and let them in.
- During a rainstorm, the sliding doors to my balcony began leaking into my apartment. This hasn't been a recurring problem, but it makes me a little nervous for what the future holds.
- In my first few days at the apartment, I ran the remnants of my dinner down the garbage disposal. It immediately clogged my sink. When I talked to the office about it, they said the "garbage disposals aren't intended to have food go down them." Good to know.
2. This is really something to pay attention to: the apartments are VERY poorly insulated. In the winter, your heat must run almost constantly just to keep the thermostat above 65. My advice: buy an electric blanket.
3. Everything in the apartment is old. Fixtures, lighting, countertops, etc. It definitely has a certain early-1980s "charm" to it. Which is fine, if you like being reminded of Quiet Riot, the Smurfs and Rocky III.

Overall, it equates to a pretty average, if not frustrating, experience. If you need a relatively cheap apartment and are willing to deal with a few hassles, then it's not an awful place to live. But if you are deciding between this and a more expensive apartment complex, and you can spare the money, I'd recommend going with the nicer place. I'm going to.

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