I moved out of waterview 8 months ago, and I'll admit that I thought it was pretty crappy at the time. I did have some roaches in my apartment, and my bikes kept getting stolen (friends tell me now that it's the management that confiscates them, not bored students). I sometimes felt unsafe at night there. But of course that was my first apartment. Now I'm living in the real world and I realize just how great Waterview was. Yes, the prices are a little high, but the managment was good. I got almost all of my deposit back each time I moved apartments, unlike, say the apartments over on McCallum (my friend decided to live there instead of on campus, it saved them $100 a month). But when the apartment above them flooded (of course, flooding their apt too) the maintenance guys just told them to open their apartment and run the fans and the carpet would dry out. So then the roaches moved in and the apartment didn't even respond to their request to spray for them (Waterview at least makes an effort, my apartment was sprayed about twice a year). Then when they moved out the apartment charged them for the moldy carpet and the roach terds, to the tune of $800. Hardly worth the monthly savings! Now I'm looking for apartments again and all I can say is I wish I could move back into the crappy Waterview apartments. Other complexes are much less safe, you certainly never see cop cars around, and no one is going to put a flyer on your door if there is a rapist around. No one cares, it's everyone for themselves. So if you are going to go to UTD, I would suggest paying the extra bucks to live on campus if you can, I think it is worth it.

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