Copper Beech at Mount Pleasant, mount-pleasant-mi

Favorite place I lived in Mount Pleasant! The apartments are huge! The storage space in the kitchen and linen closets are very useful. Utilities vary but are reasonable if you are smart with your usage like turning lights off and keeping your thermostat at a reasonable temperature! The office staff is very nice and gets back to you within 24 hours. Would recommend to anyone looking for an apartment!

They will charge you for items that are missing when you move in. Very unsatisfied with their communication and do not recommend this apartment to anyone. We had an okay time there and rent was high but apartments are bigger. If items are not an emergency don’t expect them to get fixed at all. Expect your utilities to be well over $120 a month each even if you take short showers and never have the air on

This is going to be about as honest of a review as you can get. 3 stars is generous. I lived at Copper Beech for four full years. Right off the bat, the first thing I can tell you is that it’s a money pit, relative to all the other apartments in the area. If you’re okay with paying absurd electric and utility fees year round, then this is the place for you. There were multiple months in my apartment where my roommates were gone, straight up living elsewhere due to personal matters and in a three bedroom apartment I was still paying $100+ a month, which meant $300/month, sometimes $400/month was being collected per month from us three. My parent’s house back home which has over double the square footage only pays a third of what we had to for our apartment. It didn’t use to be this bad. Just to give you an idea of what it use to be, I use to pay a flat rate of $75/month for all utilities, which use to come with cable TV and covered water bills. They scrapped cable, and as of late force you to pay water on top of electric, and on all on top of general rent. So a typical month of rent could be $500, but add on all the extras and suddenly it’s closer to $750 per person. Don’t get me started on move-out fees. Those alone were an extra month of rent, and our apartment was fairly spotless minus pre-existing marks on the walls, that even if we made, are typically covered for free. Paint is suppose to be general maintenance on the complex, but EACH of us ended up paying $150+ for minor scuffs scattered throughout the apartment. I could go on-and-on but again, this should give you an idea of what to prepare for. Gone are the days of $400-500/month prices at Copper Beech. Try at least $650/month at best after everything is included. Towing I can understand the frustrations a little bit. I lived close to the office so there were times I had struggles parking due to guests, but rules are rules. That being said, there are empty rows that clearly never got used that could be expanded into guest parking, that would prevent a walk all the way from Commons Dr. There’s also security at the complex, which is nice for safety concerns, but they’ll be checking all vehicles for passes beyond 10 pm, especially on weekends. Generally speaking, the amenities were nice. In my apartment there was plenty of closet space, but across the complex, the gym, sand volleyball court, and pool were a hit. I do wish I could’ve visited them more, plus the study space and pool table in the main office. They use to have tanning beds (I never used) but they were removed midway through my lease presumably to cut down on maintenance costs. That being said, upgrades are needed. The entire gym/pool area is starting to feel dated, and some equipment was starting to deteriorate when I left in July of 2025. Might as well take out all the TV’s if you don’t provide cable anymore. Overall, 3 out of 5 stars. Going in to Copper Beech, it had this social reputation of being boujee like The Reserve, but after visiting other apartments in my four years at CMU, it’s hard to justify the prices now when other complexes are catching up offering nearly the same stuff for a little bit less. My ratings on a scale from 1 to 10 below. Do take note I stayed in 4 and 3 bedroom deluxe apartments between the four year stay, so your experience may differ if you stay in a non-deluxe apartment. Memories - 9 out of 10 Rent Cost & Fees - 1.5 out of 10 Parking for Guests - 5 out of 10 Parking for Residents - 9.5 out of 10 Appliances - 8 out of 10 (4 out of 10 in non-deluxe apartments) Storage & Closets - 10 out of 10 Heat & A/C Performance - 4 out of 10 Physical Building Structure - 7 out of 10 Outdoor Space/Decks - 8 out of 10 Complex Amenities - 6.5 out of 10 Walkability - 7 out of 10 The average drive time to CMU on a good day is 7-10 minutes after finding parking. Overall, if I asked if it’s my top option to live there again, I’d say no. Unfortunate too because my experience at Copper Beech was so good when I first moved in prior really to 2023.

The bills at this place are straight-up ridiculous. I was barely home most of the time, yet my winter electric bill for a one-bedroom was $241, and I never even turned the heater on. Make that make senses. Literally 2 months on vacation electric bill stayed the same for both months The water bill never changed no matter how much I used, which is clearly questionable. Then the move-out charges? Completely out of line. They hit me with multiple cleaning fees and 2–3 painting fees over the smallest, most insignificant things. I even got charged a $45 cleaning fee for leaving a little bit of lint in the dryer. That tells you everything you need to know. What makes it worse is the apartment was dirty and borderline disgusting when I moved in, but somehow they expect it to be perfect when you leave or they charge you for everything. This place will nickel and dime you every chance they get. Do yourself a favor and stay far away unless you’re okay with getting overcharged and taken advantage of.

As a parent/guarantor of the apartment my daughter and her friends lived in for the school year, I had high hopes for this complex from what I saw on their website. Disappointing is the only work I can think of, after I look back at this year. The August rent came out on August 1, but because my daughter had to move in a week early (August 14 instead of August 21) to be a counselor at freshmen orientation, we had to pay a $150 penalty, even after a full rent payment that would’ve been only 10 true days living in the apartment anyways. When we got to the apartment and walked up the steps the front porch was bowing every time we walked on it. The front door looked like it had been painted recently with a coarse push broom. Overall, the unit was pretty clean, but the appliances had all seen better days. The furniture package was a convenient option for my daughter and the roommates. The space provided for each of them in their bedroom area was impressive, but everything (carpet, furniture, bathrooms, appliances) needed an update. Now let’s get to the interesting part, the electric bills. No one was in the apartment from Dec 10 - Jan 10 and the girls were smart enough to turn down the heat to a reasonable 65 degrees while they were gone. When they got back, they received a bill for $750 for the month’s electric charges. Their February bill was then $800, but they were actually there during that bill cycle. In doing research on the heating units, they were not meant for Michigan winters. They run constantly when it gets to a certain temperature. This should’ve been explained to the renters that they do not operate the same as systems they were used to. Due to these issues, my daughter and her friends will not be returning. I would like to thank the college aged students that work there for answering our questions when we had them, but the owners of these Copper Beech complexes around the United States need to take a look at the product they are building and overcharging college students for.