Evolve Apartments at SIU

Anyone can live there even though it’s marketed as student housing. Happy, smiling university-​apparel wearing people all over the website. Even at the bottom of this Unilocal page it states «Evolve is Carbondale’s newest and most innovative student housing community.» Misleading. If one roommate bails, anyone could be moving into the spare bedroom of your child’s apartment. My underage kid has a roommate, who is NOT a student, who is over 21 and has nothing to do with the school. They weren’t even informed they were getting a roommate until he walked in their door. Parents, beware! Sure, it’s new, modern and «cool,» but the lack of concern for your student and a «fill the empty bed at any cost» mentality is disturbing. Bonus: the non-​student pays less rent than my student. Just a benefit of signing the lease late and getting a «special» in order to fill a bed. Why not put that person in their own unit? Nope. NOTE: I did tell them I would be taking to social media to let parents know this information. They said they understood. This is something I wish I could have read on their FAQs.

Bought up a bunch of parking lots in town (because they didn’t plan ahead), and now have predatory towing trucks sitting around downtown waiting for folks that haven’t heard the news yet that evolve is in town.

working with the EVOLVE staff is a pleasure. Carla & Kyle are always available and easy to communicate with. There’s always something fun going on at the EVOLVE office, they truly care about the staff and their tenants. #evolveatsiu