Midtown Corpus Christi, corpus-christi-tx

For future students, and or parents looking for a place for their children. I HIGHLY recommend you look elsewhere before signing here. I’ve been a resident for the past 2 years. Between hidden fees and the bi-weekly WiFi outages it’s absolutely terrible. If you call to ask about potential down times you get “ah well we actually don’t know” how can a place that advertises for college living not have adequate wifi and measures in place so it stays online. I hope this review helps those who are looking for potential housing. Midtown is TERRIBLE. (Updated) Not only is midtown a hungry money grab for students. They make it virtually impossible to reach them. You have to speak to an AI who for whatever reason can never, never, never transfer you because “The Resident Team” is unavailable. It’s genuinely the worst place I’ve lived at in Corpus.

Just don't! Please save yourself from the hassle. My husband and I moved in last year on an emergency situation. The apartment we got was furnished but had a lot of preexisting damage that they refused to fix. For example, the sofa had a TON of cat scratched on it and we had to live with that. They had threatened us that if we had ANY damage at all, including putting a command strip on the wall and they had to repaint when the next Tennant moved in, we would be charged for that. Our lease ended in July and we had signed on for a renewal transfer due to financial situations not because we wanted to. They had picked the day that we moved in and we didn't get to pick the day. On the day they allowed us to move in, we got keys and found that our new apartment was infested with mold. We took photos and walked back to the office when Leah and another office guy walked back to the new apartment with us and saw the damage. Leah had told other managers that we were upset about the cleaning. Sydney the new general manager called me personally and I told her upfront that this apartment they gave us was infested with mold and that it was not move in ready. We had asked to turn in the keys she just gave us so that she could just call us when it was move in ready. We walked back to the office not even five minutes after that phone call to where we were greeted by someone named Micky who was from Corperate. She said that we couldn't turn in the keys and that we needed to go tell the cleaners what we wanted clean. (Like um excuse me?! that's not my job to get an apartment move in ready, it's YOURS!) I told her that they needed to do mold restoration to which Micky told me that she was never told that. When I explained that Leah walked through with us and took pictures, in addition to Sydney telling us we could give back our keys she finally caved and let us do what we were told was gonna happen. A day later we got keys but the entire apartment was under construction. They had gotten rid of the mold and redid the dry wall, but they had to go back in a paint, there was fans that were not working, cabinets that were not attached properly. a stove that didn't work that we were promised a new one within a day that we are still waiting on to this day with no update. I've had to put in a ton of work orders to get lights replaced, tubs and showers caulked and mattresses replaced that the maintenance team just tells us that it's completed when it is not. We did ALL of the move in cleaning as they gave us a very dirty apartment. Then today, I go to work and when I get home everyones doormat is missing. There was no notifications to move anything, there was no notifications that they team was working on stuff. So now they are thieves too. I know that there are other reviews that talk about getting charged for damages, this is true to an extent. We did not get charged but only because we took hundreds of photos before we moved anything of ours in and uploaded them to the move in inspection. A step that other tenants might have missed, but it is unnessasary tedious work. Like I said just save yourself the trouble and don't move here!

Please look at other options of places to live before you consider midtown. It was a great option as a student a couple of years ago but it went downhill very quickly. My boyfriend’s apartment got broken into two years ago and they did nothing to help. They had to call law enforcement themselves and build an investigation using our neighbors ring camera (because there’s no cameras..).They had little to no support from the office during this. There has been multiple car break ins during the summer. Also on our floor, one of the apartments had their door busted down by someone who we assume did not live on property, this happened in the middle of the night. We had to call law enforcement to report this as well. When we call to report it to the office, they stated that we should have called them first. When it comes to safety, please always call the cops first, not the apartments office. Our friends car got hit in the middle of the night as well, and she is not the only one that has gotten hit in this complex while their car is unattended. I am an online university student, which means I need the wifi to work where I live. However, the wifi was out way too much for a complex that promotes itself to be student friendly. We understand stuff happens but this much is a little excessive. They’re more worried about random people going into the pool when they should be more about random people going into the complex and disturbing their residents.

The apartment itself is not too bad, I have one of the bigger bedroom spaces, and the living room isn’t bad and the kitchen isn’t too bad either. My problem is how thin the walls are and you can hear everything from your roommates to whatever is happening outside, there’s so many bugs and roaches in the living room, the front desk never answers the phone if you have any concerns, and maintenance get to whatever issue you are having whenever they feel like it. I had to put in multiple requests to get my ac fixed after 4 days after being told my ac was working when it clearly wasn’t. They do so many random checks of the apartment but when you actually need something they don’t fix it. Security is severely lacking as well, as my car got broken into and they basically did nothing. Genuinely I don’t recommend living here.

My biggest problem with living here is how incredibly thin the walls are. You can hear EVERYTHING your roommates, people outside, and sometimes even people in neighboring apartments. God forbid someone hears you through the walls, because the office will complain about noise even when it isn’t specifically coming from you. There’s honestly not much you can do about it unless you plan on living on quiet mode for an entire year. No music, no laughing, no conversations, and you might as well keep headphones connected to your TV. The pest problem is also ridiculous. There are constantly bugs and roaches in the living room, and there is a MAJOR ant problem. I have personally dealt with ants repeatedly inside the apartment. Maintenance is another issue. In my experience, they often do quick fixes instead of actually diagnosing and solving the problem. I’ve dealt with repeated ongoing HVAC problems. My AC has struggled to properly cool the apartment, the airflow between bedrooms has been extremely uneven, and the system has had to run for long periods of time just to maintain a reasonable temperature, which is especially frustrating when I’m the one paying the electricity bill. At one point, maintenance’s solution was basically to close vents in other rooms rather than actually addressing why the airflow was so uneven in the first place. I was also told by maintenance themselves that there is not necessarily a routine deep cleaning every time students move out. Basically, if something doesn’t “look bad,” don’t automatically assume it was replaced, thoroughly cleaned, or recently serviced. Some things in these apartments look like they have been here for YEARS. Communication with the office makes everything even more frustrating. They almost NEVER answer the phone, and when you finally get someone and ask a question, the answers are often vague or unhelpful. I even asked an employee how to use the community grill and the response I got was, “I don’t know how to work it, I’m just a girl.” LOL. That pretty much sums up the level of assistance I’ve experienced here. For the amount of money people pay to live here, residents should not have to constantly deal with pests, poor sound insulation, recurring maintenance problems, HVAC issues, water problems, and an office that is difficult to reach. The property has potential, but the way maintenance and resident concerns are handled seriously needs improvement.