Note, they changed names--it's now Gateway at Columbia. Just FYI.

My buddies and I are in a 4 bed/4 bath unit (3 bath was the maximum on this site so, sorry it's wrong). It's not the bi-level one, but the all on one floor setup, which honestly in my experience has been a plus. HOWEVER, the four of us have watched this place grow ever crappier while we lived here. Our lease ends 2009, and not a moment too soon.

Maintenance:
Nothing, absolutely nothing, gets fixed. I've put in maintenance requests so many times I have lost count on a number of issues. Paint is chipping, floors are scratching up, the walls and apartment now shake when the dishwasher or washer/dryer are used in our apt. or the one above. My door does not close and will soon be falling off. All of my requests have been repeated multiple times, and given via e-mail, web, in person, and note. So if they're listening, it's with their ass, I guess. Also, the "clubhouse" has a scratched pool table with zero cues, only 1 stand-up tanning bed, and a gym full of broken or breaking equipment--fun for everyone to enjoy' I think not.

Now, amenities:
The supposed "awesome" 42" TV develops burns quickly. Black now shows up as red dots, just one in a line of failures. The cable service also goes out often and is fuzzy on half the channels--a waste of even a bad TV, which luckily, you get! The washer and dryer don't clean or dry clothes very well and don't hold much. The other appliances work acceptably but are just as cheap as everything else in the apt. The furniture cannot support large people. Our 6'3" roomie just about cracked the chair in half. The rest of us can fit on the furniture, but there's a whole lot of creaking and bending--none of it was made even decently. The fire alarms go off constantly because they're put right next to the stove. So, should you, let's say, have a pot boil over for even a second, your whole apt. is beeping from a good 7-10 different fire alarms (they are linked, sadly). But hey, if you like cheap, broken junk, this is your place!

Other comments:
**Never enough parking...ever. It's not monitored so should you want to bring 20,000 of your closest friends and their cars over, that's a-ok. Everything except the covered stuff (which you have to monitor yourself) is first come, first served, regardless of if you actually live there or not.
**The pool is almost never open when you want it to be.
**NOISE IS AWFUL. Ever wondered what the people above, below, to the left, to the right, and across the hall from you are doing' Well wonder no more; now you can hear it for yourself. Parties happen all the time at all hours on all days. People also routinely pull the building wide fire alarm at 3 am because I guess some folks just never got past age 8.
**Trash is an issue. It's in piles next to the dumpster, out in the hall, wherever jerks feel like putting it, apparently.

In short, you'd have to be a complete masochist to live here. Just don't even bother. There's no amount of money someone could pay me to stay.

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