My biggest regret about my move to Memphis is moving into Riverset apartments. The kitchen and bathroom cabinets are extremely old. My apartment has cracks in tiles and paint in the carpet that management refused to clean up (really!). The floors in the kitchen was also equivalent to a slum, just very nasty with giant stains I couldn't get out. Management refused to change the floors until I kept hounding them about how gross it looked. Not to mention the leases are poorly written and unfair to the consumer. DO NOT MOVE IN! Move into another place on Mud Island for just a few bucks more. It's not worth saving a few bucks a month to live on the trash of Mud Island. You could expect something to be repaired within a week, which is still too long of a wait for my standards. The spiders are everywhere! They send an exterminator once a week, but somehow I still discover spiders in the apartment that are all types of sizes, colors, shapes and species. I've also never gone out onto my balcony because there are dozens of wasps' nests. The pictures of the complex on the site are old and misleading. The paint is chipping on every building and the security gates haven't worked since dinosaurs roamed the earth. You also have to pay for water here. Living at Riverset is too much of a hassle! I haven't broken my lease because the lease costs more than $1000 to break, and there's nothing I could do. I've already asked an attorney for help but that's no help because the lease was obviously written by a slimeball. I'm on a waiting list to move in next door...that looks much better and not much more expensive.

There's one lady in the leasing office, Corey, who is just mean mean mean. Talk to anyone else but her because she's not helpful. I haven't seen her in a while (thank God). Not sure if she's still working there.

Now onto the good things. There's plenty of parking and it's in a beautiful neighborhood. If you like to walk or jog in the mornings, this is the best place to live...but please live in one of the apartment complexes nearby. It's very quiet and I feel safe, but there have been several reports of break-ins and someone in the community was carjacked recently! Maybe that carjacking wouldn't have happened if the security gates worked!

Again, DO NOT MOVE IN!

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/04/2009
I have lived here for two years and I'll agree that spiders (well bugs in general) are a problem, but that's the price you pay for living on the river. I keep spider and roach traps in my kitchen and bathroom and that usually does the trick. There are a lot of things I agree with, although I'll record my experience at Riverset as overall enjoyable. The cabinets are old; my bathroom cabinet looked liked someone had thrown a bottle of bleach on it. Also, my bathroom mirror was flaky and parts had already torn off when I moved in. The tile and plumbing isn't the newest, but everything is clean. It is by no means comparable to the Estates but neither are their prices. The outside of the buildings do need help, but I have seen people repairing roofs and painting balconies over the past few weeks, so maybe things are starting to look up. I hope this place isn't advertised as a gated community because none of the gate arms are in tact. Even when they were in tact, they were only motion sensored so it really just prevented people from speeding, not a means of security. I do find it ridiculous that is costs $1200 to break a lease. Mind you, that number is not on the lease itself. I was having severe roommate issues and wanted to leave ASAP. There was a blank in my lease for early termination fee but office management told me that it was a flat rate of $1200 plus any discounts (so if you signed your lease during a special, you'll pay the difference for the remaining months in addition to the ET fee). Most places have you pay one month's rent, which I was more than happy to do. Instead, it was going to cost me close to $2200 to end my lease. That's just ridiculous.

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