The Social Tampa, lutz-fl

I lived here for 2 years. If you need an apartment that is cheap and close to campus then go for it. However I would not stay here longer that you need. Roaches, broken gates, management is not super great. Not many visitors spaces and your neighbors will be loud.

I wish I could post 0 stars. This is absolutely the worst student apartment to stay in. There are plenty of better options near USF with better rates. Please be aware of hidden fees. You will have an overage fee for utilities every month even if you are not at the apartment for a month. When they say stuff is included in the rent, it is not! The only way they let you out of the lease is if you sublet it which says a lot because they only want to keep the apartments filled. It also means they are lazy and don’t have to clean the apartment because if they sublet it, you take it as is, so the unit never gets cleaned. Don’t take my word for it, pictures speak for themselves . This is what is looked like when I moved in (see photos). The apartment complex is dirty. Very disappointed with the staff and service here. DISGUSTING.

The Social is easily one of the best student spots in town! The atmosphere is always lively, and the management goes above and beyond to organize events that actually make it feel like a community. If you want a place where it's easy to meet people and still have a great space to study, this is it.

Extremely unsafe and unprofessional management. My packages have been stolen by a neighbor, and when I reported it, management said cameras are not working and they cannot help. They refused to take any responsibility and told me to call 911. I’m paying to live in a secure place, but there is no security at all. I feel unsafe and completely unsupported. I do NOT recommend this place.

Anyone that’s debating on moving here let me tell you, don’t do it. I’ve been here for exactly 6 months and it’s been absolutely awful, miserable and unbearable. My roommate and I are currently in search for a lawyer/attorney to legally unbind us from our lease and here’s to why. I’m first going to put the more important things to the top. Which I also have picture and videos of! Which living here for 6 months there was been an awful pest issue. My roommate and I don’t open the patio door at all and we keep all windows sealed and closed to ensure that. With us living in Florida we know palmetto bugs are a thing and usually happens during the summer time but we don’t have that. As you read down to the bottom the carpet that we asked to get clean? Yeah it never got cleaned as we have Roaches and roach eggs implanted into our carpet that was oh so throughly cleaned. We called pest control and we were told to leave the unit for 4-5 hours. I work from home as well as do school online so that’s not possible for me. Pest control finally comes in at 1:57pm February 2nd, 2025. He moved the fridge (Barely), spoke to me as if I’m incompetent telling me to “go back to my room so he can “start doing treatment”. Sprayed behind the fridge twice and then left at 2:04pm as my neighbors also have a ring camera. If all I had to do was move a fridge and spray behind it then I could have saved the 60 dollar charge and done a better job myself. So now this makes me thing why do they request you to leave for so long? My roommate and I moved in Tuesday August 20th, 2024. We both were barely at the apartment as we were trying to move from our previous residence which meant nothing was on and we weren’t there at all. After being there for “11” days we were charged an overage fee for not being at our apartment. Air wasn’t on, nothing was plugged in other than the fridge and microwave that was already there upon move in. As well us attempting to use our ac, it broke and didn’t blow cool air or air at all. We were also still getting charged for air that wasn’t working as well. As we were moving in we were promised to be moving into a clean environment as well as a pet free zone/unit since I’m extremely allergic to dogs and cats. As soon as we walk into apartment reeked of urine and was filled with dog hair. We called and the response we got is “We’re sorry, the previous tenets before you fostered dogs around the apartment so that may be from that”. (No solution, no nothing). We ended up having to borrow a carpet cleaner and strip the carpet ourselves which did not help at all due to how filthy it was. After 3 months of constant contact and no resolution, we finally got the carpet “cleaned” November 12th, 2024 after they finished our whole unit in 30/45 minutes. (Not enough time to clean and throughly clean urine stained carpet) but it seems like half a$$ing is a common thing here. (I’ll get into more) When moving into any unit you plan on renting you’ll have to do an inspection and send in anything that’s an issue and request maintenance. Our unit had many holes that were poorly patched, ripped couches and a washer that sounds like someone is beating down the door. We put in a request for washing machine and someone came and sprayed WD-40 inside and proceeded to tell us “if it still makes noise put in another request” Our Dishwasher was broken but we weren’t told that so as we’re washing dishes we notice that it’s overflowing with water and seeping into the floors that are poorly glued down vinyl. We made multiple requests for this as well and this did not get any notice until December 17th, 2024 I’m currently scared for the wellbeing of both of us as we are staying with others due to how filthy the conditions are. We pay over 1000 in rent with overage fees on top of this rate to A. Not live in it and to B. Not have important living needs directed and solved. There was only one person that has been help and that’s Chloe.