UGA University Village Housing Office

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710 E Campus Rd, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Added by Jopie, at 14 August 2011

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• Anynomous

  30 November 2017

  Everyone is very helpful. There is a computer lab for students to work. There is also a pay-per-page printer available. The community hall can host around 100 people and is very good for parties and get-togethers.

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• Anynomous

  03 August 2017

  This is the first one star review I have written. Living at University of Georgia Graduate and Family Housing was a very poor experience. A few days after moving into my unit on Rogers Road, I went to my kitchen at around 11 PM to find roaches (about 10+) running from the light. I was shocked as the unit was spotless of food and I had only been there for a few nights. I had to stay in a hotel and contacted the housing office immediately. Because my unit was not livable with the roach infestation which I discovered was in the kitchen and bedroom, I asked if I could receive a rent credit because I was paying for both rent and a hotel. My emails were ignored. Bi-weekly following the initial night of roach discovery, a pest specialist would come to my unit and spray. During one such occasion, a housing maintenance woman came to my unit and looked closely at my walls in my bedroom. I asked: "what are you looking for?" She said: "the people who lived in your unit before you were disgusting. They liked to keep this room so humid that mold grew on all the walls, we scrubbed and scrubbed this wall but I was trying to see if the mold was still there." I had already had a bad feeling about the former tenants as a thick yellow liquid began to drip near the stove when I would cook and the area heated up. Obviously, this was all disturbing and nasty. I continued to put in maintenance requests but was told by the specialists "once there is an infestation - there is pretty much nothing you can do - and you don't know how your neighbors are living so the roaches may be primarily in their unit and coming to visit yours". Over the winter months, the roach situation calmed down simply because they were hibernating. Naively, I thought they were gone for good and decided I could manage to stay in my unit to avoid dealing with another move. Then, I received an email from Family and Graduate Housing stating that all residents of some of the buildings had to move out and be reassigned to other units. This was a very big inconvenience and I was upset at not being told about this prior to moving in. Also, my friends from other units in Graduate Housing had horror stories of their own (ants, small black bugs, spiders, etc.) and I did not want to test my luck on another awful unit provided by Graduate Housing. After getting over my annoyance and deciding that I would defiantly move out rather than move units, Spring hit and the roaches were back. I found alternative housing immediately and asked Graduate Housing if I could have an earlier move out date because I felt the conditions were unacceptable and I wanted to move as soon as possible. I was sent standardized emails stating "Good Morning! Your move out date is scheduled for May 15th! Thanks!". All in all, avoid Family and Graduate Housing at all costs.
  
  UPDATE: After posting this review, UGA Graduate Housing let me out of my contract right away and I did not have to pay to the end of my contract.

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• Anynomous

  22 June 2017

  Unless you like living with bugs stay away. Gross apartments and very unprofessional business practices.

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• Anynomous

  22 June 2017

  Do not move here!! They will give you little notice to move out and be reassigned to other units or there may not even be units available. This is a huge inconvenience. Lots of my friends are upset because they were not told about this prior to moving in. Many of them had to move only a few months after moving in!! Also, there are always going to be bug problems!! ALL of my friends have complained about this. Move off campus and you will be MUCH happier. The ceiling are tiny. It's like living in a closet or jail. There are not any windows in the bathrooms and the windows are so small that sunlight doesn't come in. A few of my friends moved only a month after moving in because it's was so depressing living without sunlight and with lots of bugs. Stay away from here. I wish I would have been warned before I moved here.

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• Anynomous

  22 June 2017

  Don't move here if you're foreign or have a family!!! Bad place to live!! They will kick you out with little notice. Lots of graduate students in my community have been lied to. They were told they needed to move out because of renovations and it appears it's not actually happening. It seems they were kicked out to make room for the freshman. We have been here for a while and it's sad when your whole community is broken. Lots of my son's friends and my friends have had to move to other buildings which are far away. When you're young and most of your family is abroad, a community is everything. It's very sad freshman are taking priority over families that choose to live here for many years.
  
  I have been living in family housing for 3 years now and the entire time there has been a very bad infestation of COCKROACHES and SPIDERS. I know it's tricky to find a nice place if you're international and can't see it before coming here, but do NOT move here. You can find a much bigger place off campus for the same price. You could even have an entire HOUSE for the same price. The rooms are SOOO tiny.
  
  I keep my house clean, I vacuum almost every other day, and take trash out frequently. I expect to live in a nice place without cockroaches and spiders. Stay away!!

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• Anynomous

  28 September 2016

  If you want to live in a nice place do not come here. This apartments are very small but rent is very high compare to other large apartments. They always perform lots of maintenance such as fire drilling, pest control, yard cleaning etc, which always disturb your personal life. Family housing staffs are very unprofessional. They do not have anything to do, that's why all time they will just poke you for several things such as meeting, football game, party, which are sometime required in order to stay here. Just wasting your time. You may live here but they are unable to guaranty your parking place even though you paid parking fee in addition to your rent. You may need to park your car far away from your apartment if you go out in the morning and come back after one hour, because they sell the same parking spot to more than one people and to the people who do not live here, as well. If you live outside you will have large apartment, free parking, private life. You will be happy. People usually come here because international students are not very aware of these things for the first time, but after one year everyone move out once they realize this crappy things.

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• Anynomous

  04 August 2015

  I have been living in family housing for 3 years now and the entire time there has been a very bad infestation of COCKROACHES and SPIDERS. I know it's tricky to find a nice place if you're international and can't see before coming here, but do NOT move here.
  
  I keep my house clean, I vacuum almost every other day, and take trash out frequently. I expect to live in a nice place without cockroaches and spiders.
  
  Getting ANY type of maintenance work has been a nightmare, and this all combined has me stressed out constantly.
  

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• Anynomous

  21 August 2011

  They call themselves non-profit, but the rent is comparable to off-campus apartment for such small apartments. also, the management staff is not nice. Guess because there's no competition for them.

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