Arden Villas, orlando-fl

I lived at Arden Villas for a while and honestly had a really good experience. The office staff was always friendly and easy to work with. Dan, in particular, was awesome—any time I had a question or needed help with something, he was quick to respond and always made the process easy. The only real issue I had was with bugs, but after I let the office know, they handled it pretty quickly and it wasn't an ongoing problem. Overall, I enjoyed living here. The staff genuinely cares about the residents, and having a management team that's responsive makes a big difference. I'd definitely recommend Arden Villas to anyone looking for a place to live.

I closed my chapter with Arden Villas not too long ago, and honestly, I have a lot to say. To start, if you’re looking for somewhere cheap, this is definitely the place. However, you should think about what that price actually means. I stayed there for over a month under a sublease, and when I first arrived, the place surprised me—and not in a good way. First, the property might look visually appealing, but it was extremely filthy. The hallways leading to the apartments smelled horrible, were never properly cleaned, and you could visibly see dirt all over the place. As for the rooms, yes, they are big, but don’t let that fool you. There was so much mold that after spending only a week there, I ended up in the hospital. Lastly, but definitely not least, there are no ceiling lights in the bedrooms or living rooms. I actually had to buy a lamp just to have proper lighting in my room.

No elevator and all the staircases are always dirty, full of spider webs, dusty, etc. On the outside the place looks to be deteriorating. The inside is 50/50, some units look better than other, but there will be something in the unit that looks like it’s been there for 1000 years (they do have renovated units though). The vallet trash service is a little weird bcuz so far it looks like they won’t take more than one bag or take a box and i don’t get how multiple people are supposed to share just one bag in one small trash can. It’s not horrible but i recommend you really do your research when it comes to apartments around UCF and if possible visit them in person.

I've lived at Arden Villas for the last two years, and after experiencing two other properties I can confidently say this is the right choice. My room is huge, they've updated something from the property every year i've been here and its super close to campus. I'm surprised about a lot of the negative reviews, ultimately i don't think people are being realistic. This is basically off campus student housing and a lot of college kids don't know how to behave and take better care of their home. I feel like we have lost that sense of community which is not something they can directly control. Like the gate literally broke because people kept speeding past it after they fixed it multipole times. They jsut fixed it again let's hope it lasts this time. Its true hallways are often dirty I agree they need to figure out a better solution, but I have personally never had a roach in my apartment because if you know about roaches you know as long as you're not dirty they wont pop out at your place. Plus i think people forget that you can request preventative pest control sprays every week you just have to call in. Don't let the other reviews scare you, people rarely come here to give honest feedback they usually just come here because they were upset about something but i can tell you right now every single time i've had an issue and I brought it up to the front desk they always helped me and were super sweet about it. My roomates and both my neighbors are staying for another year. My advice is to come and see it for yourself and not let the biased opinions of whiny daddy's money kids sway your opinion. Arden Villas is not perfect but it is not any worse than any other property in the area.

Please save yourself the trouble by maybe spending a little more to live somewhere nicer. Living at Arden has been frustrating for multiple reasons. Neighbors leave trash, litter, and at times have even thrown up on our stairwell/hallway and it has taken us complaining multiple times for something to be done about it. Noise levels are absurd as every other day someone blasts music that shakes the walls. Roaches are disgusting, and we got lucky that we only see them once a month compared to how bad of a problem it is here. The issues that this complex has had with wifi and water have been extremely frustrating, going so far as to still charge us for wifi when it was out for basically a whole month. We are students who need wifi for school and they worked at a snail pace to fix issues. They close the water every other week without proper time for residents to prepare. The added fees on top of rent have been exorbitant, especially as they made it seem that a lot of services were included with rent when they clearly were not. The gate has not worked for the full year we’ve lived here, and after the terrifying security issues they’ve had in the past that is just unacceptable. The security that is stationed there sometimes doesn’t do anything and never has, doesn’t check cars or who’s coming in. People will take up parking spaces from residents all the time, and it’s IMPOSSIBLE to have guests over during the semester due to the very limited guest parking. I suspect they’ve had bad mold issues since for a whole semester I’d get sick every week until I had the maintenance put mold product in my vents, then suddenly i got better. Entering our units every other week to do “inspections”. This has just been an overall disappointing experience. The only pro has been the apartment and room sizes, but it’s not worth it. Scamming college students who need a good place to live. Maybe invest on things that actually matter to make this a good place to live rather than events or food trucks.