I came to Columbia from Seattle and didn't know where to live when I started looking off campus. For underclassmen just glad to be away from mommy and daddy and not minding a grubby place with puke on the stairs, this is a great complex. Unfortunately, I was a junior/senior when I lived here and it was not fantastic. There was literally puke on my flight of stairs for a year! The stairs were also dangerous and falling apart -- they were full of rust and the metal edges were protruding.
I moved in with roommates I didn't know after Winter Semester my first year at MU, and when my permanent roommates moved in before Fall Semester of that year, CP had not cleaned, painted, or done ANYTHING they said they were going to do to rehab the apartment. Plus, a CP official who had no idea what they were doing accidentally gave one of the roommates an unfair discount that caused some strife in our apartment.
Upon moving out, they tried to charge my roommate nearly $400 because she was the last one out and didn't remove belongings from the people who lived there before us that THEY should have been charged for/cleaned up.
Don't be fooled by the "tennis court" and "pool and whirlpool" claims, either. When I lived there, the whirlpool NEVER worked, the pool was usually grubby or closed, and the tennis courts had so many deep cracks in them that they were completely unusable.
I also had to ask three times for a new mattress over a period of about six months. My back hurt so bad that I was literally sleeping on the floor for part of the time. When it DID arrive, it was too short for the bed.
It's a fun atmosphere until you grow up and realize you're getting totally screwed. This is a big housing market ... go somewhere else.

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