I lived at Morewood Court (323 Morewood Ave) for two years. The building is conveniently located for students at Carnegie Mellon University, and I found it to be very quiet. The walls (at least on the lower level) were cement, so I rarely heard noise from anyone else in the building.

And now the bad... My apartment, on the ground floor, was broken into twice during the two years I lived there. I also found out that the building next door (319 Morewood Ave, built using the same plan (but a mirror image) and also managed by Meyers Management had been broken into not long before this.

After the first break-in I asked the Meyers Management to either install a security light or remove the large bushes which obscure the narrow space between the 323 and 319 buildings (which provides a convenient area for breaking into the apartments). No action was taken, not even trimming the bushes back, and no one from the office even contacted me to say anything about the break-in.

The second break-in left me with a broken kitchen window, which was promptly covered with a board by a maintenance person. After several days I called the office and asked when the board wedged against my window would be replaced with a new window. They did send out a maintenance person to screw the board into the frame of the window. And it stayed that way for five-and-a-half months, until they put a new pane of glass into the frame.

I almost had a third break-in one night. Fortunately, I woke up to hear someone outside my window, and jumped out of bed and turned on all my lights. Only my bedroom screen was slit this time, and Meyers Management did replace that within a couple days.

If you are considering living in 323 or 319 Morewood Ave, DO NOT LIVE ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR. The security problems are not something anyone should have to experience. There was also flooding at one end of the building. Also, if you look at an apartment, check the mailboxes next to the front entrance. At the time I lived there, the locks had fallen off one-third of the boxes.

Minor issue: the carpet in my apartment was new, but very cheap. Huge fiber balls were coming out of the paths I walked for the first several months, and these clogged up my vacuum cleaner. And what didn't fall out quickly became matted down. When I moved out I very thoroughly cleaned my carpet with a rented carpet cleaning machine, as specified in the lease. (I am a cleaning fanatic. My apartment was left much cleaner than I received it.) The carpet did look bad in the major pathways, but this is because it was hopelessly matted. I just received my deposit back, and Meyers Management withheld $50 for not cleaning the carpet.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/27/2009
I have lived in 319 Morewood from 2006-2009. Its totally safe, and I never even heard of these break-ins before. I am a graduate student and come home late at night. I have never experienced any issues.

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