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Review of CU Boulder Spanish Club

Lies, lies, and more lies. Make sure to get every...

Lies, lies, and more lies. Make sure to get everything their incompetent front office employees tell you in writing, because they will claim otherwise in order to get every last penny they can out of you. They charged us $85 to "clean" a few crumbs on the counter, while one of our roommates was still living there after the rest of us bailed.

Buildings are very poorly constructed, and honestly unsafe. There is a cess pool behind the volleyball court, so make sure to get an outwards facing apartment if you don't like the smell of stagnant, brown water. The drainage situation isn't much better elsewhere around the building.

Be sure to wear a helmet when walking on the property in the winter, because they are not proactive with spreading salt, and the driveway and sidewalks become a very dangerous black ice rink.

The elevators are out of service more often than not, and the hot tub heating element was conveniently broken for half the lease term.

Hopefully they solved the pipe bursting flaw every apartment had (where they literally had to carve new vents in every 'C' room so the pipes wouldn't freeze), but don't be surprised if water starts flowing through your ceiling either because of that, or because the tap-dancing troupe above you dont know how to use a toilet or valve.

As for the gym, it took a week for them to clean up vomit behind a treadmill.

Even though they say no dogs, inconsiderate neighbors will still have them, where they urinate in the stairwells, and bark incessantly through the day.

As for the general population of the building, it can be summed up as "people who couldn't figure out how to find a house on the Hill". Parties can be heard from 2 floors away thanks to the paper thin floors and walls. Don't store anything wood or otherwise flammable on your porch, because you have to share it with your upstairs neighbors' discarded cigarettes and fireworks (neither of which are allowed, but none of the employees care). Blood and vomit are common sights in the hallways. Also, be careful in the parking garage as many there treat is as their own personal race track. Going back to the "flammables" point, enjoy the numerous false fire alarms due to shoddy electrical work on them. Reassuring, right?

The trash/recycling situation is terrible. Rather than a simple dumpster, you must take a trek to a corner of the building to toss your garbage in a tiny trash chute that is almost always overflowing, stinking up the entire hallway. The recycling area is a claustrophobic box overflowing with, yet again, garbage, as it seems no one there knows what is recyclable. If you're a fan of NYC summer trash stench, make sure to get an apartment at the northwestern corner of building 2.

The only reason I'm giving two stars rather than one, is because the maintenance staff are by far the most friendly, intelligent, and level-headed employees there. They understand how poorly the building was constructed, and how charge-happy the front office is, so they make sure you won't get charged for the numerous mistakes that the construction crew made.

Overall, know what you're getting yourself into before you sign your soul away to American Campus Communities.