I took a tour of Peninsular and fell in love. The place is beautiful, the grounds are relatively clean (I make no promises about the sidewalks, which are usually covered in people's drunken messes). The price, while high for apartments, sounded amazing to me. Overall, rent is $3,000 less for 12 months than living on campus for 8 months. It's very close to the school. However, never judge a book by its cover...

My roommate and I had problems with Peninsular Place right from the start. In August, they sent out letters giving us our address and assigned apartment and to put electricity and landline phone (if having one) in our name. So, I did. The day that we moved in, we found out that we were living in a completely different apartment than the one we were previously told. This sounded great though, because now we didn't have to move our stuff upstairs. It was a lot easier to move in on the ground floor.

This would turn ugly. Because move in was Labor Day weekend, I could not get a hold of DTE to transfer the electricity. When I got my first electric bill, it was $100. $50 for our apartment for the month, and $50 for the "old" apartment for 7 days. 7, and they used just as much electricity as we had. It took me and my roommate three weeks of complaining before someone finally made the other apartment pay for themselves. We had to pay a $10 transfer fee even though no one bothered to tell us our apartment had changed. Lesson : Don't put electricity in your name until you're moved in, because Peninsular can throw you around like a rag doll if they feel like it.

This was small though. The problem was taken care of eventually. I thought the place was great. The people above me are loud sometimes, but after my friend told them off, they have ceased most noise. Things were looking up and I forgot about the small electric problem.

Then, at the end of October, my apartment was broken into. The front door was kicked in and the front window was as well.

I had HIGH respect for security and police at the time. Security was there within three minutes of pressing the panic button, the police showed up about five minutes after. (Granted, they stated they happened to be in the area). The break in happened at 3:20 a.m. and maintenance replaced the lock and window by 5:30 a.m. after reports were filed and measurements were taken. The blinds on the window were bent up and I was told they'd be replaced on Monday. That never happened.

When it started getting colder, my roommate and I noticed that the door didn't fit right in the frame anymore and it makes it really cold in here. Even though we keep our heat at 72 and sometimes sacrifice and freeze, our electricity bill is over $100 per month. When I toured, I was told that you could keep heat or air on 24/7 and never pay over $75 total.

My roommate has had a lot of problems with her internet. It's not free as some people tell you, it just gets paid for by your rent. She's been paying for it since the beginning, yet her internet never stays on longer than two weeks.

The office is terrible. For the past two months, I've been sent eviction notices even though I have paid my rent. Also, when I asked them about January, while I'm waiting for financial aid, if I can pay rent late. They said I could fill out a financial aid deferment form. This is pointless though. You have to pay $25 to fill out the thing, and then you still have to pay $200 of it on January 1st. Then, when you get financial aid, it has to be enough to pay off rent through August at the moment you get it, or you will be evicted. That's not very understanding for college students trying to make a living.

Even though security goes around all the time, I still have people outside of my apartment doing drugs, doing drug deals, yelling drunkenly, fighting, etc.

The parking is obnoxious as well. I've never had a problem finding a parking space as a resident, however, I worry about my guests walking from the far away parking lots to visit me. It's not far in distance, but it sucks when it's dark and you have idiots running around doing crime all the time.

Very long review... All in all, don't live here. Everything about it seems great at first, but this place goes the snowball effect. If you never have a problem, it's amazing. From the instant you have a problem, they will continue to grow and they will never stop because the irresponsible office never deals with anything. They just want the money.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 12/27/2007
I live at Peninsular Place also and have never had any issues. The staff is always very friendly and accommodating. One time I had to submit a work order for my tiolet getting clogged and they came and fixed it right away.

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