University Village At Fresno

For the sake of your sanity do not sign a lease here. I would not advise anyone to live at this horrid establishment.
I signed my lease with University Village to live there my sophomore year and boy was I excited! They give you a tour of the complex which is complete with «wonderful amenities» like a pool, a gym, a theater, and a computer room. And not to mention this wonderful model apartment that is beautiful with comfortable furniture, it smells pretty and looks clean. Well guess what? Its all just a sugar coated turd. When I moved in, my apartment smelled rancid. Mold had been growing all over my sink including under it. The fridge had bugs in it and it had leftover food stains in the drawers that had hardened and become crusty. No one had cleaned it before I moved in. The furniture is impossible to sit on without feeling dirty. I am positive they picked it up after it fell off the back of truck. The carpet is cheap and there is dirt or some other horrific substance in it that turns your feet black. The blinds… they had to be bought for 10 cents because when I went to open them they broke off. There were cigarette butts and unknown critters crawling behind our washer and dryer. In your bedroom: Your bed is the most uncomfortable thing you will ever sleep on. If you want to be comfortable I would suggest buying a large rock to sleep on because that would be more cozy. And it is ridiculously loud! It squeaks and cackles and makes all sorts of noises when you move even an inch. The shower. It will never get clean. And the drain gets clogged very easy so have drain O on hand. The toilet, it turns black. Not even from you. Just all by its lonesome. Let me just say it is so cheap and not worth how much you pay for rent. They also turn the water off multiple times for «maintenance» but they do provide residents with a porta potty out in the parking lot. Real accommodating I must say. And the water issues never get fixed. The amenities: nobody goes in the pool. The treadmills in the gym were broken the entire time I lived there. Nothing works in the theater except the air freshener. And the computer room is a joke.

And now, I swear on everything that is holy on this Earth the staff at this retched place (with the exception of probably two people) are the most incompetent and helpless set of malcontents I have ever dealt with. They will not know any answers to your questions. They will go back and forth to ask their manager what you asked them like bloody choo choo trains. They are always on Instagram or another form of social media posting pictures of themselves dancing in the rain or making freaking chocolate chip cookies from their Otis Spunkmeyer oven. Oh and a thing to note: They eat half of them AND THEN offer them to residents. They have «events» that are a complete waste of OUR rent money. Like «grocery bingo» (I got a bag full of ramen) and «Waffle Wednesday’s» (nobody goes to this) and «midnight munchies» (it started it at 6 pm. they had strange tasting red bull and food I would not feed to my dog). The manager Sheila Barnett will not talk to you. She leaves her staff out to dry and will never confront a problem like a manager is supposed to. And when she absolutely has to, she has an attitude about it. Example: I was arguing with one of the staff members about parking payments, which I had spoken to Sheila about multiple times before, and instead of coming to me and talking to me about it I saw her run into her office and stay there until I left.
The security guards are worthless. I actually saw one security guard join in on a party that was keeping me up. And if they don’t join in on the hooting and hollering of drunk residents they do absolutely nothing to keep the place safe and quiet. Cars get stolen and broken into, people hurl themselves off of their balconies and people pull the fire alarms. And yes we all had to evacuate at 11 pm at night.
Now lets venture outside to the parking lot. The entry gate is the most illogical method of getting into a parking lot known to man. The process to get the gate to open is absurd. It runs along the side of the building. So instead of putting the scanner in front next to the DRIVEWAY that you can just pull forward into, the cretins who built the complex thought it would be hilarious to watch all of us try to pull into this godforsaken driveway and get into the gate. The gates are one hundred years old. It moves at a glacial pace and actually sounds like it is going to come crashing down on your car. Now for parking. They could not have made the spots any closer to each other. I had a Joe Bob truck parked next to me for almost half the year and boy did I love backing up and pulling in, backing up and pulling in just so I would not hit that bloody truck.
This place is filled with nothing but a bunch bloodsucking vampires that are trying to get all the money out of you that they can. Please please please do not sign a lease here. I beg you!

I am only giving this one star because I have to in order to write this review. If i had the option of giving it zero stars or even negative stars I would! I moved in here May 2015 because I needed an apartment who offered summer leases and this was the only one (Probably because they need more money since their apartment complex SUCKS!) Anyways, as I went in late April of 2015 to sign the lease, which I truly regret, the staff was rude and did not know anything they were doing as they were asking each other so many questions. One of them that was helping me seemed really professional and helped me out a lot. She gave me my paper work to signed and then went over my lease in detail. She mentioned how they provide an exterminator for bugs if I ever needed and then added «It won’t usually be needed depending on how clean you keep your apartment. If you keep it clean there would be no need for it» This is why i’m writing this review. 10 minutes ago i was approached by 2 roaches at the same time when I opened my bathroom door. They came at me like I wasn’t this huge figure that could crush them in seconds. I was terrified but mostly angry at the fact that this isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Just sitting on the toilet a week into moving in, a roach was crawling around my foot in the bathroom. Now, when i say i am a clean freak, believe me, I am. i deep clean my bathroom every week which means i clean the sink, scrub the toilet, and bathtub, mop the floor and clean the mirrors. EVERY WEEK i do this. and you can only imagine how i keep my room and kitchen. So why then do i have roaches everywhere? you said depending on how clean i keep the apartment i wouldnt need an exterminator. Let me tell you why. Because this place is filthy, dirty, and infested with all kinds of bugs. Management doesn’t feel the need to do anything for the tenants other then fine them for any stupid reason. Do your self a favor and dont even try this place. I’ve only been here for 2 months and i already HATE IT. i cant wait to move out of here in a couple of days. Please Please Please, listen to these reviews and just don’t try it. The models will trick you to thinking the apartments are nice. I’d rather stay in the dorms.

Do not move in here!!! Walls are very thin and you can hear what people are saying while just sitting in your room. Water is always being turned off. They will fee you for almost everything. Parking is horrible for guests and cars are always getting broken into along with apartments on the first floor. Management is rude and won’t work with you. Workers don’t know what they are doing half the time. Bugs are everywhere. I even had Cockroaches crawling on me while I was in my bed sleeping. This place is dirty and loud with constant parties and roommate matching is a joke. They don’t care about you they just want to get as much money out of you as they possibly can. Do. Not. Move. In. I regretting moving in the first two weeks I lived here. Can’t wait to move out.

Don’t let your kids come here unless you want them to be subject to constant smoke, late night parties, food theft and other crimes against their personal and civil freedoms. The staff doesn’t help nor care about your college students well being and to try to leave early requires (is this even lawful?) the entire balance of the lease.

It is not an over exaggeration when people say that UV’s are the worst place to live. It is just like the dorms, if not WORSE. When i moved in, everything looked clean at first glacé but once i was finally moved in, i noticed scuffs and marks on walls, the tile floors were not cleaned before they were waxed so there’s someone else hair permanently stuck to my floors and no matter how much i clean they always look dirty. The carpets are the cheapest, lowest quality you can buy. The AC/​Heater doesnt work in half of the unit and the insulation sucks. There is constantly problems with having either no hot water, or no cold water. The amenities are never maintained, half the computers in the lab haven’t worked, the tanning beds are broken every other week, and the pool is always disgusting. If they end up putting you in a room with crazy roommates, they make you pay $ 200 to move rooms. I’ve been over charged for rent and had to pay a large fee to my bank because of UV’s and the staff didnt seem to care or try to do anything to fix it. This so called «community» is anything but that. Whenever I, my friends, or roommates go down to the front desk and ask for help from the CA’s (community assistants), we always get some sort of unwanted attitude from all of the girls or managers. I dont know what their problem is, but it seems like they look down on the residents that live here? They come off extremely rude and unprofessional. Signing a lease here was the worst decision I ever made. You’re better off living at Palazzo’s or even Bulldog Village. DO NOT MOVE HERE, everything they advertise is a façade, including their friendly attitude towards you.

Absolutely horrible experience! I moved in nice apartments but the walls are terribly thin you can literally hear what the other person is saying in the other room without putting your ear on the wall. Cable and water are always getting cut off. Guest park in your paid and reserved parking spot! The parties oh my goodness are so out of control and loud all night you can’t even sleep people knock on your door and throw toilet paper at you. It just sucks I can understand it young college students but for those of us who actually care about our education and work two jobs it really pisses you off (Spoiled bastards) I moved out early because I couldn’t take the crap anymore and the management are nit willing to talk to you and after much fighting I told them state law says to mitigate damages and she threatens to sue me. I know a lot of people say don’t move here but I’m so serious don’t move here! It by far is one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in a long time!