Campus Heights

Good mixture of privacy and community From: Reganto Date posted: 9/15/2006 Years at this apartment: 2004 - 2006   This is a well-designed building for single individuals who want a semi-private residential life. You get your own bathroom with shower, your own refrigerator, and your own microwave oven. Each floor, with 16 apartments, has a large shared kitchen with 2 ovens, 2 microwave ovens, 2 sinks, a table that seats 6, and locking cupboards for the apartments on that floor. So, there is ample opportunity to meet other occupants while cooking and eating. And the others tend to be worth meeting; many are visiting graduate students or professors from all over the world in many fields. The building is only a few years old and has been designed with good noise insulation and energy-efficiency. The apartments facing west get some noise from I-5, and occasionally from people drag racing or playing loud music outside the building, when the window is open. In hot weather you need to open the window some. So, if you want maximum quiet try to get an apartment facing east. A janitorial crew cleans the kitchens and halls 6 days a week. The management company for this and several other buildings has its offices in this building. So they are accessible easily during business hours. They are very friendly, helpful, and reasonable. You can borrow the building's vacuum cleaner from them, so you don't need your own. The management office accepts package deliveries for occupants who are out. The noise insulation within the building is reasonably good. It is possible, however, for one tenant holding a loud party at night to bother another who is trying to sleep right next to the wall between the apartments. If your complaints to the tenant don't work, you can call the manager, who is perfectly willing to wake up and come to the building at any hour of the night to interrupt the noisemaking and put the noisemaker on notice. This building isn't for those who want anonymity, nor for those who want to make a mess or a racket. That makes it a civilized and interesting place for the rest of us. Both the building and its occupants are well cared for.

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