The Village at Overton Park

You have a $ 120 electric cap each month. Every now and then my roommates go over $ 1-​$ 3. Over Christmas break (none of us were here) somehow we managed to go over $ 99.23. It’s a scam. Steer far away from this place.
There is barely any parking for visitors or parents.

It took six months to fix my internet connection after it stopped working correctly in July. Once I pushed hard enough they had someone who could actually fix it contact me and once that happened it only took a week, so this was a poor management problem, not technical. Even after six months of no connection, they refuse to give any explanation or refund and refuse to accept any form of responsibility. This place is a scam, and if you have any interest in not being scammed, look at properties other than those owned by American Campus.

I’m extremely disappointed and filled with regret from living here.

If I could give this place a lower review I would. Lets start at the beginning of the year. You cannot move in until the day before school starts, like you having nothing else to do or worry about. If you look at other places you can move in a lot earlier. This place is also outragiously expensive for the amenities and customer service you get. First off, I have not once walked by the pool and something down there wasn’t broken. The hot tub is drained all of the time, during the winter, when everyone wants to use it. You can’t even use it after 10 o’clock… The only time anyone wants to use a hot tub. Walking around the apartment complex you should feel disgusted by all of the dirt on the walls, the throw up stains that have never been cleaned up on the ground, and the trash all over the place. Moving on to the garage, anybody can come in and out when they please because the gate is always broken. If you want friends over or have family in town, you think they would have somewhere to park… THEY DONT, THEY WILL GET TOWED, but thats not what they will tell you before you sign the lease. They will laugh at you while you drive 25 minutes and pay $ 350 to get your car out. There are also no security cameras in the garage, real secure am I right? Somebody can and has broken into multiple cars in a night and taken thousands of dollars worth of stuff and cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to peoples cars. There is not a single camera around the apartment complex at all, so if you get mugged because somebody got through the «locked gates», the management will tell you it is your fault. When you move in you get a key fob that opens all of the gates to get in, you’ll never need it because they are always open. Just put it away before you lose it and have to pay $ 115 to get a new one. Getting to the apartment itself, the apartment has nice granite counter tops and nice appliances don’t get me wrong, but so do every other apartment complex near campus. If any thing breaks it will take them more than a week to get to unless you call them several times a day about it. The management walks around like they don’t know anything at all. This place has paper thin walls and you will be able to hear your neighbor having sex unless you put head phones in or want to join. If you have to use the internet you might as well just go to the library because the internet is never working. If you have to print anything you might as well buy your own printer too because the «free printing» is free when you bring your own paper and if the printer is actually working. You would think with the $ 650 a month for a small bedroom, you will get something else out of it, but you won’t. Take your money else where and save the time and frustration else where. I will do another review once I move out because I am sure I will get charged for who knows what and all of the other monkey business I will have to deal with.
Look at:
The Suites
The Center
University Trails (not any better, but you actually get what you pay for and are like a block away from techs campus)
The Cottages
2520
Literally anywhere else

We agree! DO NOT LIVE HERE!!! It has been a nightmare for my son since day one! The apartment complex prides themselves on «matching room mates according to interests». LIE! My son is a sophomore at Tech and he was paired with two seniors and a grown man that works on the railroad! He’s not even in College!
Now we are going through, for a second time I will add, his car, that is supposed to be in a «secure parking area» being broken into FOR A SECOND TIME THIS YEAR!!! Apparently, the «security guard» has been spotted on several occasions SLEEPING IN HIS CAR! The gate for the «secure parking area» has been broken more than three time this semester. The complex takes their sweet A time fixing it. We hate, hate, hate this place! We want to sue them because EVERYTHING in their lease contract is total BS! Save yourself one major headache and DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS H HOLE!!! Want to give them ZERO stars but you have give at least one.

I thought I would write this review to share what I feel about these apartments. The villages are the newest addition to the Lubbock area in terms of housing. They just opened in fall 2012. Based on my stay here so far I have to say I am very unsatisfied with this place in accordance to the amount I pay.
I would like to say the pros first because there isn’t that much. 1 plus is that its completely new appliances, wooden floors, good furniture. It is also walking distance to Texas Tech.
Now here comes the cons, there is a lot of them:
1. INTERNET: Okay I’m not sure why but in the past 2 weeks I have been here I only got internet for 3 days. This is a real hassle for me because I rely on the internet for homework and projects. Also I sometimes like to browse the internet for fun, I can’t always go out of my way to go the library at tech to do my work, when I’m supposed to be getting it as part of the $ 725 I pay for my 2 bedroom apartment. What am I paying for? Less reputable places such as raider’s pass have better internet than this place. When you tell the office about this problem, they all give the same generic answer of contacting this number for the service provider. After 15 – 20 minutes waiting (Yeah not joking My iphone can tell me how long I waited) you get this person telling you there is a server error and they are working on it and have no idea when its supposed to be fixed? Really guys? at least compensate this in our rent, if we are paying top dollar, give us top dollar service.
2. Lay Out
In the village there is 2 buildings: Building 1 and Building 2. I live in building 1 which gives me a pool view, which is really nice. if you are in building 2 you either see a parking lot, or a ghetto motel so yikes. But building 2 has its advantage and that is its next to the parking garage (It has 5 levels). If you live in building 1 the only way to get there is going all the way to the bottom, or taking the bridge at level 2. This is particularly annoying for people like me because I have reserved parking (extra $ 25 a month) in the third floor. so to get to my room, i have to go down to second floor, cross the bridge then go up the stairs to third floor. Because i live in the third floor. This may not seem like a big deal but imagine carrying groceries, or your stuff for move in, it gets annoying and tiring real fast, esp if you have a lot of stuff. They should have had a connecting bridge for every level, like seriously.
3. Parking Lot
This is what I hear most residents complain about besides the internet and layout. Like I’m not sure who designed it, but whoever did was sure as hell not competent enough to do the job. I mean this place is so small, and drivers with huge cars drive in the center of the lanes to fit. People are going fast, and can barely see around the corners, and so accidents have occurred. I’m not sure if its still there but in the facebook page, a resident put a picture of her car, and it was dented like crazy due a driver not seeing her and hitting her in the process. I myself am too scared to get out, i have been almost hit in almost every occasion I take my car out. I am not even joking. If these things still don’t affect you, and you decide to stay here, i can’t stress enough how you should get reserved parking its an extra $ 25 dollars but for here its worth it. the only level that has unreserved parking is in the rooftop of the garage, exposed to the sun, rain snow, etc. and getting a spot there is almost impossible, you leave with your car, no guarantee you will get parking when you come back.
4. Other Problems that got fixed eventually…
This isn’t too big of a deal, but the water levels in my apt were really bad. My washing machine did not work and after a week they finally fixed it. The other thing was in the middle of the night when i went to go pee, the toilet didn’t flush. Like no water at all. After contacting the office, they called the repairman. the repairman called me and asked if i wanted to fix it immediately, which i said of course, because you always need your toilet right? this dude had the nerve to keep asking this same question even though i said yes all the times, to try and not fix it that day. I guess he didnt want to take the trouble to fix it right away and wanted me to say come back later, but i wasn’t having any of that, i told him to get here immediatley. He eventually came after 40 mins, and let the water come back in. Just the stress of having to do all of these things sucks, I mean a whole new year, and I have 18 hours, i would expect all of my housing needs in a new apartment to be already fixed.
Overall, will i live here next year? Of course not. It’s too much trouble for the benefits. Most likely I will be going to 25twenty, which is an apartment similar to the village, but I heard a lot of good things about. They been here about a year longer, but never had any problems like this. Gluck if you live here cuz your going to need it.