The Griffin, gainesville-fl

The Griffin is spacious, clean, and modernized. However, parking is a super expensive fee per month to just get a tight spot. There is also no unloading zone for move-in, move-out, or general transfers. One time, furniture was even in the parking area, which had sat there for over a month before being moved. Additionally, their service provider of choice fails to connect residents with reliable service. The WIFI and Internet have been flaky since day one at the apartment, WhiteSky has not made any of their promises to fix it. On the other hand, upon submitting a maintencance requests for door hinge fixes and bathroom drain uncloggings, The Griffin takes care of the issue within twelve hours without question.

The Griffin advertises that it offers internet service with its lease. However through the company that they use (White Sky), the internet does not work from my daughter's room and the internet is very frequently intermittent with frequent outages. My daughter has to go to the campus late at night in order to access the internet for school work compromising her safety. My daughter has contacted the office multiple times and is always redirected to talk to White Sky. She has documented evidence since October of 2025 with no progress in resolving the issues that she is paying for with her lease. The Griffin is taking advantage of students. The Griffin should not be advertising a service that they can not reliably provide. We are highly disappointed that all parties have not been able to resolve this issue.

The Griffin started as an oasis in Gainesville. I recommended the Griffin to many. One of its features is safety. I was adamant at not having my daughter stay in a whatever place. Here are the issues- PARKING- It is true! Parking is a hassle. Spaces are very narrow. If you are moving in or visiting you park your car and ask Jesus to come guard your car. The stupidest idea of share parking is a nightmare. The safest place to park a car is across the street at the hospital. There is a tow truck always ready to towed your vehicle. AMENITIES- The Griffin is nicely decorated. The elevator is haunted! Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. There is only ONE! Initially, my daughter was on the 6th floor. Imagine carrying groceries!!! Books, laptops, etc. It doesn’t happen regularly but when it happens, it takes time. However, they will still charge the 10 dollars extra for you to climb the stairs to the 6th floor. Washer and dryer make a noises like no other. The service should include for these appliances to be cleaned and for instructions to be shared when leasing. You might want to get your own mattress, but it is ok. Beware, all these extra comfort like pool, games, exercise room are just fluff to justify high rent prices. Students barely have time to sleep. ROOMMATES- This is one of my regrets! I think the way they pair students is not effective. My daughter has experienced bullying in college and not in high school which doesn’t make sense. My suggestion is that as part of the living process students should fill out a form detailing who is going to do what and on what days. It will save time and free time from future conflicts. SHUTTLE- The shuttle has had several issues: lateness, racist bus driver, leaving students behind when they clearly know the student is waving at them. Time consistency is an issue. If you arrive early at a spot, why don’t you wait? AMBER- I AM SICK of IT!!! Amber is not a person, Amber is an AI system that issues messages for payments. Ok! However, Amber always gets it wrong. ELECTRICAL- You are required to pay a separate company. If you move from one apartment to another, the Griffin does not notify Simple Bills, the electrical company. Your electrical usage is link to your apartment #. Therefore, Simple Bills will not send you a bill but will let the Griffin know. Simple Bills doesn’t know you are in a new apartment. Knowing bills needed to be paid, I contacted Simple Bills and pay them directly. For months, AMBER has sent texts requesting for payment to be made. I contacted the manager. I emailed the manager. Of course, nothing was updated. There was a change in management. The new manager was polite but didn’t know how to help because the data was not updated. I had to contact Simple Bills. They confirmed payment. Then, call the Griffin and ask them to share their details with Simple Bills. My review is not about trashing the Griffin; it is about unnecessary hassles that could be easily avoided.

I would give this zero stars if I could. DO NOT LIVE HERE. I don’t know how this parking garage got approved. Not to mention, it’s almost impossible not to ding your car and you’re paying $350 a month just for that. I’ve been charged a pool view fee for my entire lease, but the pool hasn’t even been open because they’ve been working on it the entire year, so all I’ve got from that was a wake up alarm from a jack hammer at 7AM. Not to mention, paying 10$ extra a month to walk up to the six floors because they can’t keep one simple elevator working consistently. The parking tow has been lifted all summer yet I’ve been paying $350 a month all summer to park the furthest away from the door because random people are parking in here. I asked the manager if I could get my parking fee lifted for the month of July at least (why would I be paying when you don’t even need a pass right now) and she said she wouldn’t be able to do that for me because parking won’t be lifted all summer. “It’s just for move out.” Just giving me dodgy excuses as to why she wouldn’t be able to do that for me..🙄🙄The washer and dryer make unforgettable noises. Something is very wrong with them and maintenance thinks it’s normal. The water fountain filter in the gym hasn’t been changed all year and they won’t refill the wipes to clean off the gym equipment . They advertise the shuttle being open over the summer, but abruptly said it will stop running over summer for some random reason right before summer term started. If you’re gonna advertise an asset at least go through with it. NEW NOTE: Time comes for me to move out in July 31st. I am a summer B student so my classes don’t end until August 8th. (Leases are like this in most off campus apartments in Gainesville 🙄) I’m already stressed trying to find a place to stay and time comes for me to turn in my keys on Thursday July 31st. It’s Thursday morning and I woke up early to get all my stuff out by myself. I go to get a key return form by the mailboxes and of course on move out day at 8AM there are no more forms (thanks a lot griffin management). I have class at 9:30-12:15 so I had to try and turn my keys in before class, before the office opened at 10AM…As a responsible tenant I did not want to just throw my keys in my mailbox with no documentation or record (and a fear of being fined) so I held on to them and went off to class because the office hadn’t opened yet. I call from my class as soon as the office opens and inform them of the situation (missing key return forms on move out day and my class not ending until after 12). After the office secretary puts me on hold to ask her manager what I should do, she calls me back to say that even though I have class, I am going to have to leave my class so my keys are returned by 12 or else I will be fined. Obviously I’m absolutely livid at this point so I have to leave my class and let my grade suffer to return my keys by 12. Moral of the story this establishment does not care for its residents and just wants to make money off of you. They will never work with you and don’t follow through on all of the nice things they advertise.

Me and my roomate have chosen to not renew our lease at the griffin for several reasons. The main reasoning being for the amount that we are paying is not worth the quality of this place. One of my biggest issues was parking. We were originally told it would be $60 to park here. When we moved in I asked for my decal and even though they already had my car information, they stated that I had not signed up for off sight parking (the $60 charge) and would have to pay for on sight parking which is $400. I think this is a rediculous price for college students to be paying. There is also no guest parking options and we have had people get boots on their cars even after talking to management. The wall are also extremely thin. I can hear everything my roommates say as well as our next door neighbors. You can hear every step the upstairs neighbors make as well. The WiFi here is also terrible. While it may work when you sit in the living room, if you ever want to do work in your room, the wifi barely works and it’s better if you use the larks guest wifi next door. I do like the shuttle option and the distance from campus isn’t bad. The gym, while small is a nice amenity as well. While there are some good things about this apartment, it does not justify the price you are paying, especially when they make you pay small extra fees for no reason.