Not very good, but cheap

It's a big more expensive than what you could find elsewhere, and probably slightly less space. But it's convenient to campus and management is responsive to repair needs. Strangely, there's no recycling in the building.

The building is nicer on the inside than it looks on the outside. Laundry can be a bit annoying because the machines can get loud and you have to make sure to find a time when no one else is using them. Further, there are a handful of loud neighbors (mostly loud kids and parents). Lastly, the parking lot can be a bit tight. Other than that, it is a nice place. The people are friendly, the halls are clean, and many of the maintenance staff live in the building, making service requests easier. As it pertains to noise, I would say its quiet about 90% of the time. The 10% really stands out, but it is certainly not frequent. This may be eliminated completely depending on your neighbors.

It’s only a 5 minute drive from school and it’s right next to Soulard, so I’m within walking distance of tons of bars and restaurants. Im down the street from a park, so I can get outside. And I have secure parking behind the building. I’ve never felt unsafe near my building.

I have not personally had any issues with my apartment. I have made 2 maintenance requests and both have been addressed really quickly. Package pick up is easy. I don't have in-unit laundry but there is a laundry room on each floor so no basement laundry which a lot of people end up with. I park on the street for free and I have not had any problems but there is a gated parking lot for $35 a month. A great thing about the apartment is that I don't hear a lot going on through the walls. My friend lives above me and she even went upstairs and jumped up and down to test it and I heard almost nothing. I do occasionally hear music through the walls but that's not bad. I have 9 windows in my apartment which I love and the window sills are big so my cat likes to sit on them. I have had a few problems in that the hallway that my apartment is on doesn't have carpet yet because there was a fire before I moved in but they are working on fixing that and it honestly doesn't really affect me. Management can be a little tricky to get in contact with but I haven't had any major problems. Amenities wise there is not a pool and the gym here is super tiny so if you care about that then that is an issue. But also I am so close to forest park and I get to go on walks and stuff to the park and I can walk to the art museum and stuff which is nice.

Great, secure place to live at a reasonable cost.

I hate living here. I have had issues since I moved in. My door was broken when I moved in and they replaced it with a door that does not fit, is missing a door hinge, it is covered in sharpie writing, and does not have a peephole. I have been hounding them for months now to get this worked out. You would think they would care since this is a very basic security concern. They do not communicate with residents--currently, we have been without our washers and dryers in the building for a week now. They did not tell us they would be replacing all of them, how long it would take, etc. so we have no method of doing our laundry. I overpay for a building in disrepair. There are incomplete construction projects all throughout the building that have not been touched since I moved in. Also, there is a broken window on one of the exterior doors to the building. On top of that, the doors to the building never close so really anyone could walk in at any time. Furthermore, for the first two weeks I lived here I did not have a key to the actual building because they did not believe me when I said the key to my apartment did not also open the exterior doors. Luckily, one of their realtors gave me an access code that is meant for property management only to use.

MAC Properties is an awful company. They did not have the apartment ready for me to move in, it's very hard to get ahold of someone that can help with problems, and they do not seem like a well managed property company for the amount of properties they manage. The security in my building specifically is minimal. All of the packages were stolen out of the lobby last week, just before Christmas. It takes forever for maintenance to fix issues. It's a headache to work with them and would recommend against any property that is managed by MAC Properties. They say that my building has a gym, but it's just an open room off the lobby with 4 machines in it. The laundry rooms are covered in dog hair, as was my apartment when I moved in.