My friend and I decided to move into the Pavilion when we showed up apartment hunting one Sunday and were offered a downstairs 2bed/2bath apartment for $645 a month.

The Good: The goods are only things applying to the location of our apartment in the complex. We were nestled in a tiny inlet right next to the mailboxes with plenty of parking space all of the time. Our apatment was fully shaded by a huge tree, so it was always cool and we rarely had to run air-conditioning. Our apartment was also huge for what we were paying. The staff never really gave us any problems, but it's been sold since I have been there, so I dunno. The location was fantastic. Had the mall literally down the street with the movie theater and every restaraunt imaginable. And we can't forget the SUPER TARGET in walking distance *drool*

The Bad: There are a billion speed bumps which, in my opinion, are too high because it scratched the heck out of my boyfriends camaro and made me cringe every time. I dunno, maybe the car was too low, maybe we were too fat...haha.

We lived there for a year and I went swimming once. The pools were never kept clean and the hot tub never worked. OoOoo sitting in luke-warm water, it's called a bath. The hot water went out in the apartment on numerous occasions and always got the reply "we're working on it". It would be out for days at a time...but I sure did wake up in the mornings after those freezing showers.

I felt pretty safe there at night as a young female, but I never saw a security guard once and the gates were always broken and wide open. I sure did have my cd case and cd visor stolen out of my car.

The painting and carpets were a disaster when we moved in even though they said they had just cleaned the carpets and repainted. It looked like someone had just splatted some paint at the top and let it run down the walls. There was a huge stain that looked like blood or something right smack dab in the middle when you walked into the living room. That was a beautiful sight to live with for a year.

The grounds were a joke. When it rained, water would create a mudslide and run down into the covered parking and it would stay slippery and muddy for a few days after the rain. There was never any grass by our apartment, just mud...I swear I never saw that ground dry. Probably because the sprinklers that would run at night were geysers that spurt well up into the leaves of the trees and just made more mud. Many sliding accidents to my car in the mornings.

Since there were a lot of trees, many a time did i find little wormies in my sheets and in the kitchen.

Our upstairs neighbors sure did love their techno. They also loved their parties outside that kept me up when I had a test the next morning.

The work out room seemed nice at first, but a year living there, and not once did I ever experience A/C or the working of ceiling fans. They have three built in tv's which was cool, but they always left it on some cruddy music station and you couldn't get to the buttons from behind the glass. There was also a lot of broken equipment that I never saw get fixed.

There is a "the ugly" category, but I think I've vented quite enough. I have a lot of fun memories from living here, but it was also my first apartment and it was good for a short-term place. Definitely would not want to raise a family here.

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