26 West

Competitive price rates for West Campus, considering room size and location. However, I was on crutches for a few months while I was living here, which made the experience a nightmare. I have never been in a building with less reliable elevators, at least one or two of the three elevators are always broken. I would not recommend living here for anyone with a disability or who doesn’t like walking up five flights of stairs ten times a day.

I wish I could give it 0 stars as someone previously stated. This is maybe the worst apartment complex in west campus. We relet our place to move out early rather than stay another year in this crap hole.
First the staff lie and say whatever to get you out of their office. I was told 5 different things about getting early move in. I only got said early move in after threatening the office to call corporate
the halls are very dirty and unkept. The only clean one is the first floor so they can show people.
The trash piles up and sometimes they use the garage elevator to take it down.
The elevators never work and I have personally gotten stuck 5 time in the one by the front office. Also there was an electrical fire in the front elevator and they told none of the residents about it.
Further more, they were in fire code violated by chaining one of the main exits closed for three days.
When I moved into my apartment it was dirty and the carpet was stained. Then our air conditioning broke and they continue to not fix it telling us it’s a vent problem. They never change the air filters until you bring your dusty one to the front office to show everyone. Then they try to fine you for a pet that isn’t even in your apartment at the time. Any kind of complaint comes back with sass in the front. Everyone in charge are rude and unprofessional. The book keeper yelled at me when asking a simple question and never told me her name or title.
Troy (maintenance)and John (security) are the only two good people here. Oh and anyone replying to all these bad reviews is full of **** because nothing gets taken care of around here…

Do not live here. The staff at this complex has no regard for urgency of matters such as NO AC IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER in AUSTIN, TEXAS; or WATER SPEWING OUT OF THE WALL UNTIL A 3 INCH KIDDIE POOL FORMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE APARTMENT. While the water was a one off, it took 3 hours for the on duty staff to even contact maintenance.
In regards to the AC, 15 time this year my roommate and I have had someone in our apartment «addressing» the problem; however, after every single time, the AC has never failed to crap out once again. This is, in reality a violation of our lease agreement as no AC in Austin is legally considered an emergency, which must be handled at once after the complex has been notified — a reality for which 26 West apparently has no regard.
If you do choose to live here, expect minimal to NO COOPERATION ON THE PART OF MANAGEMENT. I hope this doesn’t fall on deaf ears. I have not spoken to anyone who has lived in this complex this year without some horror story regarding their interaction with the staff following a problem in their apartment. Please save yourself the trouble and LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

There are a lot of pros and cons to this complex:
Pros: this is a great location if you want to live near campus. The staff is really nice (although not the most reliable), and they are easy to reach at different times of the day. There’s also a great pool with a hot tub and free printing and a computer lab.
Cons: I have had countless run-​ins with the mail. I almost always get someone else’s mail and have had several important pieces of mail go missing. It’s also not uncommon to be walking through the stairwell and suddenly be overcome with the smell of human waste. There’s constantly puke, piss and poop in the hallways. Maintenance has a very slow turnaround for these things too, and it’s embarrassing to bring guests over. The parking garage is a mess, and it’s nearly impossible to find a spot after 9 pm.
I personally think the cons outweigh the pros and would not recommend this facility.

Can I give 0 stars?
I’ve lived here for two years and hated every second of it. There’s so much to write so I’m just going to highlight the main points.
The apartment was DISGUSTING upon move-​in. There was still food in the fridge, blood stains on the carpets, dust and etc. After a year of waiting, they finally replaced the carpet (but only after threatening them with a lawsuit).
Then let’s talk about the AC problem. Our AC always breaks down, forcing us to live in a 90 degree apartment for weeks because (there’s nothing they can do).
Trash: we pay 26 West to take care of our trash, but guess what? They come less than once a week and piles of trash fills up the garage, making the whole apartment smell.
The worst part about my experience was probably the leak and mold in our bathroom ceiling that literally dripped dirty bath water from the people upstairs. The maintenance people took no action until once again we had a lawyer contact them. After one month of showering in moldy bathroom they finally did a half-​ass fixing job by just patching up the leak with paint.
DO NOT LIVE HERE.

Do not live here! The management is terrible and that’s ACC management I am talking about. The manager refuses to see or talk to residents. You have to go through a CA first and by first I mean only. Even if what you wanted is not handled by them, she still will not see you. The entire management team also refuses to respond to emails because they want to speak to you in person (code for they want to avoid anything in writing for liability issues). Do not even bother getting a reserved parking spot here if you have the misfortune of living here because they will not tow. I have repeatedly had cars in my spot and they attempt to contact them and give them the entire day to move so there is really no point in following any parking guidelines. I had a car never move and when I asked the Asst. GM to tow it, he said it would be «mean» and «not fair» to tow the car parked in my spot. I just laughed at how sad of a situation it is and the irony in his statement. Fire alarms have gone off several times since living there and one thing to note: CHANGE THE BATTERIES IN THE SMOKE DETECTORS FREQUENTLY. They require a D battery and when they get low, the beep really loud until you change them. This is not fun especially when it happens at 3AM… twice…on a school night. Taking them out of the ceiling does not stop the beeping either. They advertise having HBO but in all my years of living at 26 West I have never found the channel. The hot tub is frequently closed and other amenities are often broken including many of the sound systems in the gym as well as treadmills and other equipment. The property does have a large gym and pool but when crowds are big, the pool water becomes very murky and dirty and they often do not clean it for days. The maintenance staff also often forgets to lock your apt door after being in it which has personally happened to me three times.

HEINOUSLY unfair reviews considering that all of these shitty reviews are actually for **** J 26 ****, which is what this property used to be called when it was managed by Greystar. 26 WEST is the NEW name under the NEW MANAGEMENT, which is American Campus Communities, and let me tell you, they’ve done WONDERS for the place.
They completely re-​did the pool, fitness center, front office, lounge, business center, etc. This place is very nice and VERY well maintained. The maintenance staff is very prompt and fixes serious issues very quickly before they get out of hand.
They’ve redone the trash system. There are no longer trash shoots near the apartments, so the issue past residents had with smells and all of that is not even possible anymore. The trash bins are now in the parking garage, and although it’s kind of a long walk to throw out the trash, it’s way better for everyone’s living situation than the trash shoots were. Also, if you DON’T walk your trash out to the dumpsters, you get fined. I have never seen anyone leave their garbage in the hallway, so I guess the incentive has worked! ALSO they DO have a recycling system as well now – also in the parking garage.
The management is pretty great, the staff, although still largely comprised of students, is pretty knowledgable and very courteous. If they don’t know the answer, they’re very quick to find somebody who DOES instead of giving you misinformation.
The only complaint I really have is that our unit, when we moved in, had pretty bad carpet stains, and we were told that it would be steam-​cleaned for us, but that never happened. However, they claim that they’re going to tear out all of the old carpeting and re-​carpet the units and re-​paint the walls once residents move out. So we’ll see if they follow through on that.
ANYWAY. TL; DR — American Campus Communities/​26 West WAYYYY BETTER and =/​= Greystar/​J 26.

The description of my experience at 26 West is directed to parents who are concerned about their student’s well being.
I was a resident for the 2012 – 2013 year and lived in a 2br/​1bath. I was roommate matched with a student of the same major who was a habitual pot smoker (morning, day and night.) Not that it is a terrible crime, 26 West just would not let me change rooms or acknowledged that any of this was their problem.
My worst experience, I was the victim of an armed robbery with a deadly weapon this June. After the police left, I followed up with the front office to see how the two men got into the apartment complex. The manager, harshly told me «anyone can get in» and that it was not their problem. This was harsh considering I was just handcuffed to my living room table at the expense of their lack of security.
Secondly, the Austin Police Department informed me that the two men could be identified through all of the surveillance at 26 West. Shortly thereafter, I was told by APD and the 26 West manager that there was no footage because the cameras are not active. This was truly devastating and it has added to the trauma of injustice in my case.
It is my perception that 26 West offers a party atmosphere with a false sense of security. It is one of the largest student housing developments in west campus and therefore it attracts the attention of people looking for trouble.
Please, it may be a good deal with a great location, but consider your safety before you make a decision on where you live.

This place is definitely an in-​demand apartment complex in West Campus given it’s proximity… which is why they probably get away with terrible service every year.
Leasing: The staff was nice and friendly and very helpful. They showed my parents and I the model home and answered every question. When signing in early February they told me that since I was way ahead of the game and parking was first come first serve, I would get a good parking spot (lie) and that they had guest parking (lie) which was really important to me. They let me choose the exact rooms I wanted and told me that I would know by the end of June all my assignments.
July rolls around and after not receiving any new information I called them and they said that I would receive my packet in two weeks… more like four weeks. The packet was pretty informing and it tells you when your move-​in time is, apartment number, roommate, how to set up electricity, and the dimensions of the windows. They also offer early move-​in (about 3 weeks early) but I didn’t know about it until it was full.
Moving in: My move-​in time was one of the last ones but since I had something going on at that time they said I could come earlier. I went to the first move-​in time and had no problem getting my packet so I recommend everyone going to the first time to avoid all the craziness. They require you to read the handbook and evaluate the condition of the apartment so after evaluating, I find out that my bathroom tub was clogged. WHY IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE? I don’t know why this wasn’t fixed after the previous resident moved out. Luckily, this worker walked around to all of the apartments and handed out paper slips to fill out maintenance issues for them to fix immediately even though the handbook clearly stated that maintenance issues could only be submitted online. I turned in the slip but 3 days later didn’t hear anything so I went downstairs and asked the front desk and they told me that the people with AC problems would get their problems fixed first (understandable), and that if I wanted a faster response that I should submit a service request online. THEN WHY DO THE PAPER FORMS EXIST? I’m pretty sure they didn’t even look at those. My dad managed to fix it before they ever showed up.
With my parking spot I was expecting to get a spot on my floor because I had «applied early» but of course my spot was on the unshaded ROOFTOP. I went to the front desk to complain (with about 10 other people) and they proceeded to tell me that I applied pretty late in the year and that my only option was to upgrade. So I decided to upgrade and the lady let me choose which spot I wanted. I looked at a spot on the map and told her that the garbage can was on the spot and she tried to tell me it wasn’t, so I chose another spot. Also, they turned the guest parking lot into a basketball court. Please.
My assigned apartment was one of the ones I chose and was pretty nice although people have told me that theirs was disgusting compared to mine.
Renewing: About early October they pass out fliers giving you a deadline to renew or you’ll lose your right to living in your apartment next year. It is WAY to early and pretty annoying. They offer discounts if you renew early but half of the staff don’t even know what’s on the fliers they pass out so most of them are pretty clueless. When I renewed, I brought my parents in and the guy told us that we had completed everything even though weeks later they tried telling me that I hadn’t renewed yet. Finally got that sorted out.
Every weekend the stairwells reek of vomit and alcohol and the hallways are filled with the same but they usually take care of it in a decent amount of time. The only major problem that I have really had while living here is the locked gates. The gates can be opened only with your key but drunk people who try to get in without a key usually break the handle every weekend, so 26 West’s solution is to just chain the door until they have time to fix it. They don’t email you about it or anything so prepare yourself to try and find a working gate to get in
They also mandatorily have to come into your apartment on certain days to change the filter or inspect the apartment etc. but the sign will give a long range of possible drop bys like «Sometime between Monday-​Friday from 8am-​5pm.» OKAY, THAT’S SUPER HELPFUL.
They also have food trucks stop by or contests and will pass out fliers to inform you. During long breaks they pass out fliers on how to prevent break-​ins or apartment theft but little do they realize, if the residents of the apartment are gone for that long break, you just targeted their apartment as «empty» by posting a flier on their door that will never be picked up… just saying.
If you can afford to live here and can handle the cluelessness and out of sync workers, then go for it. You only have to deal with them 10% of the time.

One of the worst apartment experience. Please don’t go by what they verbally say. They take full advantage of lease minute details which most of us ignore reading. They will see every possible way to collect extra money or late fees. Look around as they are better places than this. Worst place and worst management.

They only manage the halls for the model apartments so that they look like they are a clean, and an on-​top-​of-​it kind of apartment complex. NOT TRUE! The halls are disgusting, there will be throw up in the halls for weeks at a time, broken glass, beer cans, and overall just a piece of shit. The apartments are built SO cheaply. Thin walls and inefficient utilities are a major negative aspect.
WAYYYY overpriced!!! Bad management even after they changed supervising companies. People almost look down on the people who live here. It does not have a good reputation in any manner. Also, I have had issues with some of the employees. This is not a good, or even close to satisfactory, place to live.
DONT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE EVERYONE ELSE DID.

DO NOT LIVE HERE!!! OR AT ANY GREYSTAR PROPERTY.
Alice F’s review is completely valid and 100% true. I’ve lived there for 2 years and experienced the exact same issues. The holding of the breathe is actually an understatement. The combination of pee, poo, rancid trash would immediately cause a gag reaction on any poor soul walking passed.
I lived there the first year it started leasing. There were a few minor problems that were forgivable being a new apartment. The major issues came the second year. The number of disrespectful residents is horrendous. It is guaranteed that you will not be able to sleep every night as it’s a huge party complex with loud music and screaming all night.
The management is terrible. The are rude and unresponsive. Not only was the experience living here completely horrible, it continues to be relentless as they bill you unlawful charges. Apartments cannot bill you charges for normal wear and tear. I got an $ 78 bill when itemized was for paint. PAINT. I sent letters disputing this bill and calling the complex which they became unresponsive and deferred me to the collection agency — «once it becomes collections, we have no control over it, bye!». I’ve given up on the dispute and want to just put this horrible experience behind me and just pay the unlawful $ 78. However, multiple calls to collections and leaving voicemails left me in a dead end. I called greystar corporate about 5 times, got transferred to 3 different people, and left voicemails to settle this annoying amount so I can just move forward with my life and off my credit report.
DO NOT LIVE HERE unless you want to not sleep, practice holding your breathe, deal with gagging, broken security gates, and a relentless charge on your credit report that you cannot get rid of for the life of you in 2012 when you lived there in 2008. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!!!
As a working professional, this experience has scarred me to a point where if I see GREYSTAR management on an apartment, I immediately put it on my shitlist and avoid living there at ALL costs. I suggest you do the same.
Check the filtered reviews for more proof on how awful this property is.

This place absolutely sucks. I have lived here nearly 3 years mainly because of the location and it was just more of a hassle for me to pack up everything and move. I try to deal with the management as little as possible, but now that I am paying an arm and a leg for zero amenities and have gotten NO cut in my rent, I am livid.
The management is awful — I received flowers as a surprise and they didn’t notify me of getting them until a WEEK later… needless to say the flowers were shriveled and dead. I had also paid for a debit card to be shipped overnight on 6/​5, and I finally called downstairs today (⁶⁄₁₁) and they said it was indeed here. And then they said that they have been emailing residents when they receive mail in the leasing office. Newsflash — perhaps you have my wrong email if I haven’t picked something important up in over a week? Were they going to just throw it out after another week if I hadn’t picked it up?
Also I am paying nearly a grand a month for ZERO amenities. The pool, fitness center, tanning beds, and computer room are all under construction. Of course they begin construction on all of these summer-​friendly amenities IN THE SUMMER and they will not be open again UNTIL AUGUST. Oh I’m sorry… I think my lease is up at the end of July. I can’t use the pool? Okay, great.
It doesn’t matter if it was owned by the people before or by the current management ACC. This place is overpriced and the people who work here are morons who only care about signing new leases for the next year. Once you’re here, they do little for the residents.

Do not consider living here. New management (American Campus Communities) has taken over and changed the name to 26-​West. Their new policies are, for lack of a better word, just STUPID and their new «initiatives» to improve are lack luster. Examples below.
Pro:
–I appreciate the security that walks the property after hours. I frequently see them. They are accessible; I have called them for noise complaints and they resolved the issue.
Update 2÷28÷12: I haven’t seen the security personnel (past 2 wks).
Cons:
–Towing is only enforced if the manager PERSONALLY calls the towing company. So if someone’s in your spot after hours you are SOL, can’t do anything about it till the manager comes in.
–Irresponsible office staff (apathetic students) (EXCEPT: CHEROKEE, Brent, & RUTH) who are pretty clueless and don’t answer your questions. They are polite, but besides that, they don’t actually DO anything for you from a service standpoint. They are extremely vague and don’t take action. This is the EXACT response they gave me when I went 10 days without a working toilet: «I apologize for the inconvenience. We’ll do what we can.»
–Untrained staff. The students don’t give you answers. Even easy questions, like «can I pay rent early» or «can you look up how much my water bill is» or «can you contact the cable provider because the wireless is down.» When I’ve asked these questions, they’ve been unsure or given an excuse like «our system is down.»
–Maintenance request service is way too slow and it is unacceptable. Took 10 days to fix my broken toilet. More maintenance staff are needed. TEN DAYS is unacceptable to have a toilet unworking! If the issues are backed up ten days worth, then more people need to be addressing issues like mine so they can get taken care of in a REASONABLE amount of time.
–Maintenance requests are hardly answered. I filled one out at the office and followed up on it. 8 business days go by without any action to resolve the issue. When I happen to run into the maintenance people, I personally asked them if they can come to fix the issue. They verbally told me they will come to fix it during that business day. Guess what, they never came to fix it, and still to THIS DAY they have not fixed our lights out in the kitchen.
–Trash accumulates and SMELLS in the parking garages every day and it will not get picked up until it consumes all of the concrete around it.
–The trash rooms are often over filled with trash. There are too many lazy ass holes that live here that don’t put their trash actually down the chute and instead just leave it on the floor of the trash room. Even so there is no cleanup for this trash. It stays on the floor till it gets big enough and clogs the whole room
–When it rains, the parking garage floods. The accumulated water takes 4 – 5 days to go away.
–They boast «the nicest pool in west campus» it is HARDLY a pool. It is only 3 feet deep so moronic college students don’t get too drunk that they drown themselves in the water.
Anecdotes:
Towing only enforced when the Manager is IN the office: 26-West’s parking policy is that each person is to park in their Exclusive Assigned ($ 75/​month) parking spot. If someone’s in your spot, they will be towed, BUT ONLY IF THE MANAGER PERSONALLY CALLS THE TOWING COMPANY. And the manager only works M-​F 9 – 5. So basically, towing is ONLY ENFORCED during BUSINESS HOURS. What happened to me was that 10pm on Friday I came home and saw someone in my spot. I called the office, and the after hours operator informed me that nothing can be done unless the manager calls the towing company. So I parked somewhere else, displacing someone else, knowing that I won’t be towed unless its during business hours. Took WAY TOO LONG to get this issue resolved. This is RIDICULOUS because someone displaced me, so I displaced someone else, who’s gonna be pissed off at me for parking in their spot because some dumb ass is in mine, and nothing can be done to protect the parking that we PAY FOR unless its M-​F 9−5pm. So, tell your friends parking is a free for all after hours. Pretty chaotic and irresponsible.
Dissatisfaction with maintenance fulfillment: My toilet was had water issues spilling out of the bowl every time I flushed, so I put in maintenance request on August 28 to get it fixed. Sept 7 they finally came out. They replaced the stopper, which did NOT resolve my initial issue. I had to fill out another maintenance request, and wait another 10 days for them to come out. When they come, they don’t leave you a notice. So if you’re not home (for me I was at class) they’ll just tell a roommate. The problem with that is that since I wasn’t there to get them to actually fix the problem, they didn’t fix it correctly.
Customer service incompetency: on move in day I showed up to get my keys to move in. They had LOST my key. Waited 20 minutes for them to cut a new one. «It will only take a second while we are taking care of the issue» is all they told me. Didn’t

Lived here for a year in a 4 bedroom. Don’t do it.
Pros:
–Close to campus
–Pet friendly
–random giveaways and events
–Right next to west campus/​ebus stop
–occasionally allow less occupants than bedrooms. So there are 2 or 3 people in some 4 bedrooms. They don’t like to publicize this though.
Cons:
— Dangerous. 2 of the 4 room mates had their cars broken into. Car alarms regularly go off. Our apartment was burglarized. Cops caught the guy and he lived in J26 but all our stuff was gone so they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him.
— No cameras, in the halls or the garage. I believe there are a couple in the leasing office area however.
–Garage requires you to swipe a card on a pad to pull in, there is no remote to get in. Many residents have to get out of their car each time to open the garage gate.
–Overpriced in comparison to competitors such as the quarters or the block. 4 bedrooms at those locations usually run at least $ 100 less per person for much of the year.
— Smelly and dirty. There is dog poo everywhere. This is the fault of lazy residents but the apartment complex does not enforce picking up the poo nor do they do it themselves. There is poo on the grass and in the halls so you smell it when you walk down the halls or outside on your balcony. They also never clean the halls, even if you file a complaint. Sometimes there was vomit and trash strewn all over the place and they wouldn’t clean it for weeks.
–Don’t fall for the «no hassle move out guarantee» or statements along the lines of paying no security deposit. They will bill you at the end of their lease for anything they feel like and then send a creditor after you if you don’t pay. We were not the only ones we know who they have done this to.
–Dishonest. They agreed to give us parking on our own floor but after we signed the lease they told us that it was a «verbal agreement» and not «written in stone (the lease)» so they made us pay extra to park on our floor.
— Surprisingly high non UT resident population. This can be a pro if you don’t go to UT but we were surprised by how many employees and residents went to ACC or were unemployed non students.
–No pantry and limited cabinet space. There is no way you can fit all the utensils, plates, bowls, and food in the limited amount of space.
–Water heater supplies very little hot water. 4 guys taking short showers, didn’t matter, the last 2 got cold showers.
–Fairly small living room area, especially in comparison to the quarters or block apartments.
–Trash collection is at 2:00 AM and if you live in one side of the building nearby it can be a horror story. Light sleepers wake up often to the LOUD and lengthy noises of the trash compactor.

Flashy place until you sign the leasing contract
After that, dirty place, no good maintenance…
Need to be handle by professionals and not college students. The only thing they can say is «i apologize».
I was without water for 2 day and half. No bathroom, no shower, no drinking water, no washing machine… absolutely inacceptable !
I am so ready to leave after a full year.
I will not recommend that place, far too expensive for the service offered.

The fire alarm just went off TWICE within 2 hours… and it’s 5:38AM on Friday morning. And this isn’t the first. It happened many other weekends here.
Complex Environment — The rent I pay for my one bedroom is actually reasonable so I can’t complain about price (thanks to SMART housing), but I probably wouldn’t resign a lease here if I wasn’t graduating. It’s full of younger college students who are still into full-​blown drunkenness and partying. That’s cool, but the loud noise starts getting annoying after awhile.
Leasing Staff — Most of the leasing office reps are just okay — as in, they’ll acknowledge you and ask what you need. But as far as standard «customer service» skills, they really need some help. One guy totally gives off the «douche bag» impression. Although one girl named Ashley has always been really kind, so I prefer dealing with her even if it’s as simple as picking up a package. Oh, and one interesting tidbit on the personalities of the leasing staff — someone drew a penis on a little J26 magnetic white board to welcome me to my new apartment. It had to be a leasing staff because I’m pretty sure the doors were locked until I got there. I was going to take it to the office but figure they probably wouldn’t care as most leasing managers in West Campus are mediocre.
Appearance — Cleanliness of the complex has been an issue since day three of moving in here. However, I can’t really blame J26 for it since it’s the immature college kids who are trashing the place and barfing in corners of stairwells. I mean these kids don’t even know how to tie their trash bags and drop them in the shoot. As for the inside of my apartment, it’s just so-​so too. It’s definitely not high quality but it isn’t a dump either. I did have to do some thorough cleaning since the resident before probably never did. There was even pee drips on the sides of the toilet. Clearly someone couldn’t aim.
Maintenance — The maintenance guys are really nice. I’d probably rather deal with them than most of the people in the leasing office. I haven’t had to ask for many maintenance requests, but the ones I did call in were taken care of within at least a week. I don’t know if that’s considered long, but it wasn’t a serious issue so it didn’t really bother me.
Overall, I probably should have just moved into the Quarters — Sterling House again. I lived there my sophomore year and had absolutely NO problems. The hallways were clean, it wasn’t so loud, and the staff was much more professional. Can’t wait to move up out this place!

In response to the management’s comment:
As I stated in the second sentence of my original review, I resigned because in the first year that Jefferson 26 was open, I did not experience any major problems. All the things I have stated in my review are problems I have experienced in my second year there and as a visitor. And clearly I am not the only resident that has experienced problems, evident by the other Unilocal reviews and by word of mouth.
Granted that the intentions of Jefferson 26 may be to promote a welcoming environment. I’m pretty sure you all are not intentionally trying to promote Jefferson 26 as a party complex. However, it is what it is. As you have said, Jefferson 26 has over 1000 residents — it is simply too large of a place to keep up with all the problems that I have stated in my review. Yes, it is in West Campus, but I have lived at the Quarters and currently another location in West Campus and my experiences were not anywhere close to Jefferson 26’s. Since Unilocal is a place to discuss the experiences that Unilocalers have had with various businesses, I do not think I really have to validate the experience of «holding my breath». I do not feel like it is an over exaggeration at all. I have walked past the trash room too many times on the first floor. I have smelled the rancid milk puddles that have been dribbled all down the hallway to the dumpsters. There would be a crowd of flies all the way from the trash room to the dumpsters. I have witnessed and smelled random individuals vomiting into the hallway corner. And yes, I have especially held my breath when I open the door to a stairwell because someone had peed there the night before. I agree the maintenance team is hardworking because I know it would try my patience if I had to clean up after the crazy residents, but that’s my point. The sheer number of inconsiderate, disrespecting residents, that only keeps on growing, is what made my and other residents’ living experience at Jefferson 26 unpleasant.
I’m not sure what the housing laws are on security, but I do know that the door between the Quarters and Jefferson 26 worked without a security card for several months. And of course, I am sure you know that visitors did not actually need a security card at the front door for a couple months either, since the door remained broken and anyone could just pull the handle and walk in.
I do not see the point in discussing the paint issue since I have already moved out and there is no way to prove either side. However, since I lived there for 2 years with 3 other girls, of course there was the normal wear down on the paint, but I believe we were charged despite the «normal wear» clause.

After 6 months, I feel like I am one of the dumbest guy in the world to decide to stay in this f***** terrible apartment complex.
You might get the first good impression after the first visit but everything would get worse and worse after you have been staying for a while.
— They didn’t do maintenance the hallway. It was so sad that there was no light in some area. And you would feel like you are in the horror movie. They collect the garbage rarely. It has a terrible smell and this makes me so sick.
— The quality of all things in your room is worst. The first week, I found some leakage from the roof when there have rain. The light bulb is in low quality; I need to replace a new one almost every month.
— The service is also fXXX up. I made a online payment for one month and they rejected my bank account after 1 day. The thing is that they didn’t notify me at all that my payment was not complete. They waited for another month to ask me for a late payment fee for $ 200, which is totally non-​sense.
There are so many ridiculous things about this apartment. If you want to be the next DUMBEST GUY, then move into this apartment. Good luck.