I moved in last July and immediately I noticed things were wrong. The room was not all that clean when I moved in. After a few days I noticed a huge roach problem, which ebbed as winter progressed. However, when the roaches disappeared, the bedbugs encroached. These are the worst things you could ever deal with, and the exterminators have never solved this problem (after eight months).

I'm on the 15th Ave side and although the area didn't look so great, crime hasn't been much of a problem. My car was slim-jimmed twice and they took the change out of my tray, but that's the worst that's ever happened. Oh, and once a package delivered was stolen.

It says "University Gardens" but this is not a place for students. If you expect to live in a place with other students, or other English speaking people for that matter, this is not the place for you.

User Responses
From: anonymous63	Date: 09/25/2005
I think that the college students are just so use to living with theirmom and dad at home and their parents taking care of them that they dont know how to face the real world they need to get over it and stop exxagerating. You are getting what you pay for you are only paying what 700 a month for a 1Bdr get over it. I have lived for 5 Years and yeah things ahve happened but thats the real world you just have to face it and live with it your parents are not going to be with you the rest of your life.
From: anongrad	Date: 10/06/2005
I am a grad student and I looked at this apartment complex. There was no way I was going to take that place. Grad students at UMD bring home all of about $10,000 per year. That means living on less than $850 per month. Is that real enough? Most of us do not have other support, can't work second jobs (or we get kicked out of our program), and don't qualify for public programs because an education is "self imposed poverty." Frankly, $700 a month is a lot of money to be paying to be a host to blood-sucking vermin.
From: sexyphlegm	Date: 12/21/2005
I hate to say it, but I totally agree with anonymous63: We DID get what we paid for, and because we paid so little in rent, in contrast to the surrounding area, we have been subjected to bed bugs, roaches, mice, rats, drive-by shootings, ransacked apartments, broken car windows, dents from where peons lean up against our crappy cars, sleep deprivation from the constant noise of parties/drug deals/domestic violence disturbances/gun shots, being mugged, nearly being raped, and enduring death threats from violent neighbors. Yes, I suppose that is the *real* life--but I don't think a single resident should have to endure all of these things. I don't think a resident should have to deal with ANY of these things. Desktopia was right, University Gardens is NOT a place for students, but it's not a place where I would wish any decent human being live either.

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