I lived in a 2br 1100sq ft 3rd-floor apartment at the Heights for two and a half years, and I have to say that I would recommend you keep shopping around.

Originally, the overall bang-for-the-buck value of our apartment was decent: we had w/d hookups in the apartment, it was pretty spacious (esp the living area), parking was plentiful, and we had a $600/mo special rent. The building/apartment wasn't the newest, but it seemed decent.

Then came summer. We never found a way to keep the place under 80 degrees on hot days - the air conditioning was very poor. We complained to the office and maintenance multiple times, and after about 5 or 6 maintenance visits, all we really got was a sheet of paper displaying the temperature of the air coming out of the vents, an explanation of how 3rd floor apartments are always hot, and how they needed a separate contractor to work on the A/C unit itself that apparently never happened. A friend of ours with HVAC knowledge made a small modification on his A/C unit on the same floorplan 3rd floor apartment, and it was chilly in his place, so we know it was capable. We gave up after a while. Same thing with the leaky roof - VERY FREQUENT leaking problems that never, ever got fixed in a few spots. It was leaking one day and the emergency-maintenance guy on staff came up, opened the attic door, and we noticed that the last maintenance person left a 4'x4' square access panel off from the roof - just a big hole for rain to come in. Real bright, these guys. Like a lantern. I feel lucky to not have a first floor apartment, though...from what I heard from multiple residents, the leaking/mold problems on those are terrible.


This place has turnover like a frickin McDonalds - the staff always seemed new. NP Dodge was always shuffling people out - I wonder why. Nobody could ever take care of stuff. It took months of pestering to get my friend his referral for our arrival. It's seriously hard sometimes with the rate of turnover to even leave a message with someone.


If you have a nice car or leave valuables in your car, I recommend getting a garage. Frequent break-ins, including my own car when I left it ungaraged for a night.


They were still raising rates despite the Dodge Street traffic. We had a crane driving pilings in 10 feet away from our parking lot. Everyone knows it's an obvious pain, but they're not going to budge on pricing...even though I noticed a number of vacant apartments that had been vacant for an extended period of time.


Electric bills and gas bills were enormous.


Prices are still cheap enough apparently (for the amount of space you get, I suppose) that younger crowds are becoming attracted to the complex. Neighbors are always a gamble, but it's not like it was in the 80s at the Heights anymore.


After all this, NP Dodge is still putting up a fight in regards to our deposit. I didn't know it cost $200 to steam-clean carpets (that should have been replaced by regular schedule, I'm guessing, after our departure anyways), and a cleaning charge tacked on after we spent days cleaning that place.


Yeah, you can find a better place, unless you *really* need the amount of space they offer for the price. Try to talk them into a good special, and enjoy the low price for a year before they hike it up.

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