1920 Apartments Vertica

The review below says it all, it’s really noisy being next to a police station and Citadel Hill cannons, people can actually smoke here which is so weird, the parking garage is a joke with people backing down backward all the time and it’s expensive. The fire alarm does go off a lot and we’ve had to wait out on the street in the middle of the night. I also found the administration disorganized. When we moved in they told us anything we wanted to hear, that we could use the pool in the other building they owned across the road (we couldn’t) and that we could pay a fee to get out of the lease if we found a house to buy but when we wanted to leave early they said the fee was the entire amount of the rest of the contract. They also told us we could rent a cheaper $ 75 parking spot across the road (and assigned us a lot) but they also assigned our spot to another person in that building and left tow notices on our car for months. Eventually they said we had to rent the more expensive $ 120 lots in our building, so we paid more for that than we had expected.

Noise, crowding and parking is not good for the price which is like $ 1500 a month.
There is a new building now being constructed beside us for another year. The electric hammering or drilling is never ceasing and goes from very early in the morning to very late. I find it very difficult to study. There are also cannons which go off on Citidal Hill right beside us every day and a police station so there are always sirens all the time even at night. Also the fire alarm goes off a lot. Sometimes it has been pulled and other times there have been emergencies like water pipes breaking and hitting the cars in the garage.
Can be a very good place for international students if you like to smoke shisha, the owners do not mind smoking in the building, cigarettes and cigars are also good. I was very happy with this because many apartment buildings would not allow this when I was looking. Actually there is mainly international student in the building which is nice for making friends but It’s hard for using public spaces because there is always large amounts of people in them having group activities or parties. I was trying to find a place to study for exams, first I went to the lounge and the Chinese students were playing video games all day, then I went to the lobby and there is an elderly man who talks on his phone there all day long and then I went to the back patio and there were people there all night drinking and partying. When I checked the lounge again the Korean girls were practicing dancing and I always seem to miss getting to use it when it’s free. So maybe it’s good if you are looking for a party building. But it’s not so good for making friends, people stay mainly in their culture groups.
Parking issues were also problematic. There is a hotel that shares our parking garage and the hotel guests are supposed to park on the earlier floors and the apartment building patrons are supposed to park at the top and there is a dividing door in the middle. When the bottom part is full, people drive up to the top where the dividing door is and they get stuck so when you drive in behind them they are trying to back down but by this time there people have already come in behind you so there is a traffic jam. The people backing down have to slowly go beside you backward but there are too many parking spots and the aisles are very narrow and this process takes a long time and can happen often. If you are already frightened by driving in this country like I am then this can be a frightening experience.