Vista Starkville, starkville-ms

No Parking, Cold Water and Rent Hikes I lived at The Vista for two years and was a model tenant. Never missed a rent payment never had any damages to my unit and followed all the guidelines. There is never any parking in the parking garage. They tell you that they do not oversell parking passes, but that simply cannot be true. On multiple occasions, I’ve had to park at other apartment complexes in the visitor spots or paid for parking on the road. Management has claimed it is due to the automatic gates, sometimes not working, however, even when they did work, there were constantly vehicles without Vista tags in the parking garage. In the early fall one year, I made a note to management about how my shower was only hot for about 2 minutes and then went to cold water. Management came in stood there for about 30 seconds told me that the hot water was fine and left. I could not get them to stand there for longer than 45 seconds to see how the water would change. They told me they made a note of it to the property manager, and they would get it fixed. After contacting them multiple times it never did get fixed and I just had to take cold showers for the rest of the year. And lastly, the rent hikes. They raised rent almost $200 between years and their reasoning was “to keep up with competitive pricing”. I think that’s pretty crazy to raise rent that much when there are plenty of other places to live in Starkville near campus. Also, The office staff is just nice enough to not be considered blatantly rude. For the price you pay to live here it’s just not worth it.

Window leaked when it rained from October to move out day. They gave me an industrial fan (the workers kept saying it’ll dry it! I’d rather it not leak at all), and kept saying they were having issues with contractors every month. I was expected to pay rent every month, but they couldn’t fulfill their half of our deal and ensure my maintenance requests were resolved. Overall my experience living here was fine, but this seriously put a damper on the rest of my experience living here. Wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone (that I like).

So much mold. My daughter and roommates stayed sick. Signed a new lease not realizing the mold was the culprit. Moved home from college for a month and health improved significantly. Can’t get out of new lease even with documented proof of mold, mold related health issues. Terrible and greedy company. Mold toxicity is very real. Stay far away.

Stupid prices. Almost 900$ a month for the bare minimum. If you’re a day late on rent they charge u an extra 100$. Greedy people. No parking, pool barely clean, hallways smell like trash, people always parked in the road. Genuinely if this place was around 700-800 a month i wouldn’t be sending this, but 900 is genuinely insane. DO NOT COME HERE.

I would highly recommend NOT living at The Vista. The hallways are straight-up disgusting and clearly not maintained. And if something breaks, don’t expect it to actually get fixed—management just throws a quick, useless patch on it and calls it a day. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole. You’re supposedly paying for amenities, but you won’t actually get them. Need to print something for class? Too bad. The tanning beds have been broken forever, and even after residents ask over and over again, nothing gets done. Management just ignores it. The pool is honestly a health hazard. The water is nasty, and you’re basically risking getting some kind of infection every time you get in. On top of that, they replaced the pool chairs with half the amount we had before, and the ones they did get are a joke—you’d have to be about 4 feet tall to even fit comfortably on them. So unless you’re planning to wake up at 8 AM just to fight for a tiny chair, enjoy sitting on hot concrete next to dirty water. Also, READ YOUR LEASE WORD FOR WORD. It feels like it’s designed to trap college students into fines and fees. They don’t take residents seriously at all and will absolutely push you around because they know most people living here are students. Overall, it’s poorly managed, gross, and honestly feels like a scam. Save yourself the money, stress, and potential infections—live literally anywhere else.