Neville Properties Llc, cedar-city-ut

This was a great place to live, especially for Freshman students at SUU. I’m super glad I went here instead of the campus dorms. It’s a simple apartment with good maintenance and a fun neighborhood. The walking distance to campus is a huge plus, especially if you’re thinking of going to school without a car. If you do bring a car, just know that you will want to buy a designated parking spot at the apartment. Overall, I made great memories here and definitely recommend it to incoming Freshman who are new to the housing scene.

The units are cramped, and kind of poorly renovated. It honestly seems like someone put a bandaid over some already poor quality units. No insulation, the summers were scorching due to no AC in the units, which we were not informed of prior to signing. The winters were very cold because the windows aren't sealed properly so what heat you do get out of the furnace blows right out the windows which only racks up your gas bill. In fact the windows were so poorly sealed that a good wind storm came through last December and literally blew all of the papers off of our fridge... Through the closed window.. The front door had a similar issue with drafts. We paid up front for parking for a full year and the office tried to charge us again, when I called to settle it and say that we paid for all the semesters up front, they said "I highly doubt that, but I'll check." They then found that I was correct after looking through my statements. We locked our bedroom key in one of the bedrooms and were told there was no master key to unlock the bedroom door and had to call a lock smith. The trees outside of the units are infested with loads of black beetles that get everywhere inside throughout the year (the winter doesn't stop them). We also killed a mouse that must've gotten in through a hole that previous construction failed to fill in around some pipes that go to the sink. Upon reporting these pest issues, we were told that if we were worried about them then we would personally need to buy pest control. The WiFi is awful and starting next semester they want to charge 40$ monthly for it, mandatory. If that's the case they ought to let students buy their own. Fiber optic is only 45$ a month... I would argue that the maintenance manager Scott was probably the best thing about these apartments. He was nice to us and filled the two or three requests we ever made, quickly. The office and apartments themselves, not so much. We moved elsewhere that charges 200$ less than these units and is much bigger and nicer. This place is way over priced for what little is has to offer. There is nothing special here but a closer walk to school.

I lived here through fall and spring semester 2020-21. The apartments were painted nicely and furnished nicely, however our kitchen table was wobbly the first day my roommates and I arrived and there were a variety of loose screws in the walls. One of the bedroom doors had a hole in the bottom and on another door there was a dent at eye level. Around January-February ‘21 there were major plumbing problems. Our bathtub filled up with sewer water and we weren’t able to use our shower or toilet for about 5 days. They would fix it, and the same things would happen. The same issue happened 3 times over a span of a month. The landlords were not quick to help and the poop stained our bathtub. We were not given our full deposit back. This place blows.

Lost 10s of $ worth of quarters due to Broken Washing Machines, Molding all around the apartment, No dishwasher, AC Unit doesn't function correctly, WIFI Disconnects numerous times throughout the day requiring a reconnect, Sink Garbage disposal broke due to past tenants which is still not fixed after sending messages. Front door tends to open with gusts of wind even when locked, the locking mechanism on the door typically fails to lock the first time or requires strength to hold the door shut to lock. Very basic and nothing special about this place but its livable. On the positive side, you have walking distance to the whole SUU Campus as well as various resturants, but you would need a vehicle in order to get groceries.

I wasn’t going to leave a review, but today Scott came and asked me to move my car to mow the lawn behind it (I back into the stall and the grass got kind of tall where my back bumper sits). I totally understood and had no problem scooting forward in my parking stall, but he felt it necessary to make a passive-aggressive comment about the review my wife left after we heard about the rent hike taking place here. So that’s why I’m here - this place is not great. It was tolerable for the time I was there, but let this review be a word of caution to future tenants. My wife and I paid $850 per month ($908 after extra charges). When I called property management about signing for a contract next year, I was informed rent would cost $1495 per month ($1571 after extra charges). This place is not nearly worth that amount of money. I understand the market changes, but a rent hike of $650 is outrageous. It is EXTREMELY greedy of the landlords here to do that to young adults, many of whom they don’t expect to stick up for themselves. I did the math; the rent hike gives the landlord nearly $8000 extra per unit per year. AND that is coming from college students who struggle to get by, so I hope they sleep sound knowing they are part of the problem for young people trying to make ends meet. The landlords here just think it’s okay to take advantage of us young adults and gouge us because of Cedar City’s artificially high housing demand. New townhomes that are 3 bed 2.5 bath can go for $1500 in this town, and this place is 2 small bedrooms and 1 small bathroom. If you live here, you should also expect to get nickeled and dimed. After that astronomical rent total, you have to take your laundry to their communal coin-op machine adding another $1.25 per wash load and $1.00 per dryer load. The machines are pretty small, and I typically have to divide my load between the two machines anyway, doubling the cost of that. This is not a comprehensive list at all, but some things that make it difficult to live here are: ——Extremely subpar wifi that you are OBLIGATED to pay for ($50 per month, being raised to $60 per month). I have received ads via mail for much faster wifi for much cheaper if we were given the option. ——A fee to park in the parking lot here. Which can be seen as a pro or con, you have a reserved stall, but that’s an extra $16 per month tacked on your bill. ——NO A/C! Imagine paying what they charge here and sweating all summer as temperatures reach triple digits..not really the value for your dollar there, is it? ——Thin walls. My neighbor’s music is my music. Loud people in the parking lot at 1:00 AM keep you awake at night (especially when there’s no A/C and you need the window open to sleep). ——The poor condition the unit was given to us. There were broken blinds when we moved in, the blinds in our bedroom don’t open, there was a chunk of tile missing from the windowsill, there was a missing baseboard in the kitchen, no fan in the bathroom, the stove has a burner that is hit or miss if it works, just to name a few. The only good thing you have going for you here, should you choose to rent here is the location. Being 1/2 a block from campus is nice; however, this place is in no way, shape, or form close to being in the center of a big city, and does not have the amenities that a big city center has, and the property management here should stop acting like that is the case. My wife and I really would have been okay putting up with this place were it not for the sticky fingers and hungry eyes wanting my pocketbook. So we won’t be living here next year; in fact we don’t know where we will be yet, but it sure as hell won’t be with Neville Properties.