I love living at the belmont for its location. It is close to the Duke Medical School and Hospital. It is a little pricer than other areas, but you are definitely paying for its great location.
Unfortunately, in the past few months, there has been an uptick in crime in the area. However, the Belmont staff have been good at reacting to this - they have hired a security firm and made the entry ways to the apartments more secure.

Convenient location - can walk or take the bus if it's running.
Free Starbucks coffee.
Had several robberies in rapid succession which was extremely concerning. They did respond by increasing security presence but unclear how long this will continue. Walking back when it's dark outside is now a legitimate concern.

Belmont was an affordable apartment complex in a good location with amenities like a gym, clubhouse, etc. However, in the past year there have been 4 armed robberies within the complex. The action of the management was slow in my opinion.

Multiple armed robberies and cockroaches though management tries their best to get rid of them.

There were a series a robberies (and then armed robberies) that happened while I lived there. The management wasnt great, especially at the beginning, of communicating about the incidents. While they increased the police presence after the armed robberies persisted, they havent made permanent changes like installing flood lighting or video cameras. They did let us out of our lease early though.

Risking your lifeb if staying here.

RECENT ROBBERY INCIDENTS MADE ME FEEL VERY INSECURE IN MY OWN HOME. I DON'T RECOMMEND ANYONE TO LIVE IN BELMONT

Belmont is overall a nice place to live with peaceful nature within the community. The clubhouse has just been renovated so everything is quite new and updated. The gym and study rooms are good.
I would say it gets harder if your apartment is in the back of the community because you would have to walk quite a distance to the bus stop. Check the map before you decide. But there's also back gate that you can walk to a small restaurant area including Chipotle and Dunkin Donuts.
Belmont is mainly different from other apartments in the vicinity in that it's structured like an actual home where you have your own entrance as opposed to hotel/condominium-like style where you enter the main entrance that leads to rooms down the hallway. So the latter might be a little bit safer in a way.
There were some scary incidents regarding armed robberies in the community; four happened within a 2-week span which was quite unacceptable. Me and my roommate were so freaked out and paranoid we could not sleep and kept having nightmares for quite some time. It stressed us out to live under this condition.
The management tried to fix this, of course, coordinating with the police, hiring more security, but still, this was a very frustrating time. So you might want to keep that in mind.
Last thing I would like to mention was the pest problem. I lived on the first floor and experienced cockroaches problem for a few weeks. I could confidently say that my apartment was super clean so I was confused when this happened. I wish the maintenance could have responded sooner to our request but when they came, the cockroaches actually stopped showing up. So pest control worked.

Belmont has decent apartments and facilities. Although this year we had concerns with respect to safety. In the month of November, there were 4-5 robberies in the apartments and the response from the authorities was highly unacceptable and inadequate.

Due to all the accidents happened recently, I find that Belmont apartments lack sufficient security measures to help protect the safety of its residents. Management is not responsive. And the police is really ineffective. Although there are security guards working at Belmont right now, I don't know whether this kind of service is going to last or not. If Belmont stops offering this service, this place could again turn to be a target of the criminals.