College Courts of Nora

The complex is convenient to 465 and Meridian. Lots of good shopping and restaurants nearby. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the maintenance folks are super slow to respond. I mean super slow! If the office has paperwork specific to you, they leave it on your door even though there’s a stamp that says «leave WITH Tennant or place INSIDE» so my personal info is left just sitting on the door. Slide it under the door for crying out loud! At times there are vehicles left in the parking spot for months! Management does zero about this. My lightbulb in the microwave is out and management says they have to order it. 8 weeks later… still no bulb. Ridiculous! Rents keep increasing and this is my last year there after 4 years. They are losing a good tenant.

My sister recently moved into the complex and has been extremely disappointed from the beginning. The walls of her apartment were stained with the filth from the prior tenants smoking in the apartment — they were not painted before she moved in. The top of the cabinets in the kitchen were covered in a half inch of dust and dirt and the ductwork was also layered with dust and filth. There was also a large air bubble underneath the tile in the kitchen that maintenance neglected to repair. A week into her lease, my sister became sick with a respiratory infection and asked the complex to please clean the ductwork and remove the smokey scent from the previous tenants that was still filling the apartment and all of her and her roommate’s belongings. The staff was rude and disrespectful and said nothing could be done without a doctor’s note. When my sister turned in the doctor’s note they insisted that they had to talk to corporate before any action could be taken. It has been a month since she moved in and the complex has done nothing but promise to bring in an outside contractor to clean the ductwork. I stayed at my sister’s apartment and also became sick. Upon inquiring when the contractor would come to clean the ducts the woman at the front office responded with, «I noticed you had some guests this weekend smoking outside. Maybe the scent was brought in on their clothes.» The office does little to assist their tenants and my sister has been nothing but dissatisfied.

I lived here for fourteen months on a rent special that saved me fifty dollars per month on rent if I signed a fourteen-​month lease. It’s in a decent location on the north side that’s close to Target and Kroger and several gas stations as well as 465. It was also not far from the Monon Trail. It was nice to live in a place that has free access to their pool and have a place with a balcony.
Aside from that, that’s about where the perks ended. It’s a large complex with the typical equipment for cheap, standard apartments. My cabinets were falling apart, the walls had been nailed into and filled in countless times, and the balcony was a shared balcony with my neighbor who frequently used my part of the balcony on her phone call pacing adventures. It is fairly quiet, but it is possible to hear the alarm that goes off at the elementary school nearby about once a week. Every noise in the parking lot can be heard, and I could hear my neighbors watching TV or talking on the phone. Not to mention, my lovely downstairs neighbor with lung cancer who chain-​smoked day and night inside the apartment. I had to sleep with my bedroom door closed – when I opened it in the morning I was hit with a wall of pungent smoke.
While this doesn’t have to do a lot with the management, I was disappointed when they didn’t do a whole lot to correct things that were wrong with the complex. When the water circulating system broke in the pond, it took them weeks to remove it, so children were playing in the pond full of stagnant goose feces and what I’m sure was a mass culture of different insects and parasites. Maintenance is fairly responsive and they get things done quickly, but it’s always a quick, cheap fix.
It’s a decent place to live, but the neighborhood is going downhill due to neighboring complexes only accepting Section 42 residents. I felt very safe when I first moved in, but there were a few break-​ins and some people who were mugged in my last few months there. If the price went down, it would be OK, but it was not worth what I was paying to live there anymore.