University Rentals

If you’re moving to Waco, you’ll soon realize the lack of adequate housing available for a decent price. Especially a 1B/​1B.
However, I’ve been really pleased with my apartment with University Rentals. I live at the University Plaza at 815 James.
Pros:
Close to campus
All bills paid– can keep the AC and heat at whatever I want
Quiet
Laundry on-​site
Furnished– didn’t have furniture at the time
Maintenance is very helpful
Cons:
Old– however my appliances all worked well
Some bugs– mostly right when I moved in, they soon disappeared
Somewhat expensive for what you get IMO
Parking– students would use our lot and not get towed leaving minimal spaces for residents

God awful. When I moved into my appartment, the place was a total dump, and completely unlike the model apartment I had been shown. Stains on the carpet, a brown shag; doorknobs coming off, door mechanisms in general busted; all the hot and cold knobs on the sinks/​showers were switched up; and my mirror was detached from the dresser.
I put in lots of work orders. Only a few were met. Certainly not the ones I described above. In fact, this one time, the shower broke and would not turn off. I put in a request and no one came for a week until I called them and said «You guys are retarded… it’s dumping out gallons of water per hour of YOUR money. (water utilities were paid by UR)» The next day someone showed. I guess the prospect of losing money motivated them forward.
Sadly when I crafted my damages sheet when I first moved in, I only generally described the problems, not explicitly, which would have required several sheets of typed paper, front and back. I also failed to notice some of the fossilized stains on the walls/​carpet until a week into living there. At the end of the year university rentals found a way to take every cent of my security deposit. In addition to being charged for things above, I was charged 40 $ because my roommate didn’t take out a bag of trash after I left. Additionally, they charged me for the broken mirror I marked on the sheet at the beginning of the year, and placed a work order for. I called them and they told me that if they took off this charge they were simply going to find another charge to replace it because «the place was a mess». DUH!!! That’s how it comes. In fact, I improved on the mess. I scrubbed the bathroom floor for hours trying to scrub off the gray residue pasted to the bathroom floor.
The whole experience was God awful. Stay away.