I lived in River Oaks for about 3 years. When I first moved in everything was great. I had a good price on my rent and the complex was still fairly new, staff was friendly etc. Then about a year later I guess someone bought it or whatever because the management changed. It started to go downhill from there. While I lived there, the management must have changed like 6 times, each time the staff was worse and worse.
The walls truly are very thin, and I'm pretty sure the whole thing was built as cheaply as possible (ie lots of corners were probably cut, poor materials, etc). The first winter apparently the pipes that connect from the washer/dryer room could not handle the cold and froze and then started flooding the kitchen. Of course I called emergency maintenence as I had no idea what to do. DAYS later (almost a week) a shoddy maintenance guy game and messed up the door to the laundry room/closet, put a hole in the wall, and said I had to plug this thing in to keep the pipes warm enough to use. Ok so even though the pipe had its own little heater this continued to happen probably 5 more times before I decided to not do laundry if it was below a certain temperature. He also said to pour salt down the pipe area to break up the ice. WTF. Anyway. My rent was pretty cheap and I didn't really want to move after the first year so I renewed. Things got worse after that. It seemed like everyone had dogs and NO ONE cleaned up after them. There was literally ---- everywhere. That winter, a 'water main' broke and the fire department had to come in the middle of the night (the fire alarm went off at like 2 am and woke everyone up...this went on for about an hour) and there was water Everywhere. Since it was winter the water formed a nice thick sheet of ice all over the sidewalk and parking lot, literally freezing some peoples' cars in place. It was almost impossible to walk to your car without falling. They sprinkled like a handful of salt here or there but the sidewalks/stairs were rarely usable if it was below freezing. They plowed the parking lot like once that winter even though we had tons of snow and other times I had to pay to have my car towed out to be able to make it to work. The time they DID plow, they plowed my car IN so I had to dig it out.

The potholes ruined my tires. I have never seen such bad potholes in my life, and they finally were repairing them as I was moving out.

Whoever mentioned the management is shady is correct. Of course after 2 years of things getting worse all the time I was hesitant to renew. So I found another place to live, only to find out that management had basically forged my signature or I don't even know what..copied and pasted together parts of old and new leases, claiming I had renewed. I am not schizophrenic; I think I would know whether or not I renewed my own lease. I asked to see a copy of this renewal lease and the manager was a complete B*tch about it. They would only let me see a copy, not the original, and my signature looked the same on multiple parts...as in, identical, although I sign my name a little differently each time. Rather than pursue legal action (I was a poor college student) I decided to suck it up and live there one more year. I was informed that my rent was going to be increased $70 a month.

The quarry. Well, where my apartment was located, the blasts from it made the air in my apartment often make things covered in this weird soot. I would have to clean all the time. I had a bird and came home once to find him covered in this soot, and there was soot around some vents in my apartment too. Luckily my bird was ok.

There were a few small problems I reported to maintenance more than once that no one ever came to fix. I just decided to deal with it. Then when I finally Did get to move out (making sure, this time, to keep copies of everything so I had written documentation that I was Not planning to live there), afterward I was notified that I would have to pay for some of these repairs.

Do not live there.

I also know of a few people who had their cars broken in to over the course of the time I was living there.

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