The Province Tampa, tampa-fl

ok i’m gonna be honest. did i love living here? yes! would i recommended it? yes… with some things to keep in mind move in is a whole process. super chaotic but manageable. our apartment for one needed another deep cleaning. with some questionable stains in the kitchen, bathrooms and the mattresses. were the problems really fixed? no. but they were sanatized enough i could sleep at night. i never particularly heard my neighbors but sometimes you could hear people on weekends or playing the drums. heads up in the summer you’re by busch gardens so fireworks at night. the office was responsive. i never particularly had an issue with the rent or utilities portal. i will say the unit itself had some hiccups (ice maker issues, leaky faucets every now and again, broken toilet handles, wifi issues). maintenance does take time to respond and show up. I will say while we never had major bug or mold problem, other units have had issues and little resolution. package situation is unpredictable. sometimes it goes to the office, which you have to pick up from in a time frame and during office hours. or it could be delivered at your door but the chances of a driver (including doordash) are very slim. i had friends who lived with me and in neighboring buildings. it was affordable (~$950 with utility for a standard 3x3). we loved the south campus and the third floor. the balcony was the best. close to USF for classes and overall the best spot around I know of but it had it quirks

This place is a disaster and I don’t even know where to begin. First off, I have had three sewage water leaks within a year. Yes, water flooded my apartment 3 times with sewage in it. Forget the fact that it is a complete disaster and inconvenience, it is completely unsanitary. I have a cat and he could have easily gotten sick from any of these times and I’m so blessed that he did not. One of the times my sewage broke it began to leak out of the laundry room which led to stuff being ruined and there was actual feces on the floor. Although the apartment sent out people to clean it, it never looked clean. The second time I was unable to use my shower or toilet for three days. In those three days our toilets were all taken completely out, there was maintenance in our apartment everyday for those three days. And after the fact they did not completely clean up the sewage mess. Tonight was the last straw. My toilet started to flood my apartment at 9pm and it took 20 minutes for someone to arrive to fix it. My room and common area was flooded with water and ruined one of mats and four of my moving boxes I paid for. In a perfect world I would be fighting for compensation for the things I lost, but I do not have the time to battle with this apartment. On top of that, I had spent the entire day packing my things and cleaning the apartment because I move out on the 31st. Now I have to repack everything because water got on all of my boxes. I will not be cleaning my apartment again as I am completely and utterly fed up with the lack of concern and effort this apartment has with emergencies. It is laughable that this apartment charges me way over $800 a month. The dishwasher is also barely in working condition, never had hot water in my sink and the fridge has some kind of stain or mold on it. To explain living in this apartment would be a nightmare. Another issue I had was an infestation of love bugs in my apartment which I sent a maintenance request in for and it got denied. So for a good few months there were dead love bugs all over my apartment. In addition, there are wasp nests everywhere outside. I want to be clear that this is not the maintenance men fault. Sending the same man every time on his own is unbelievable, my anger is with the management and their lack of care and concern. Please do not be fooled by this apartment complex. DO NOT LIVE HERE.

I honestly don’t even know where to begin. My experience at the Province has been nothing but a train wreck. When my roommates and I moved into our unit in the beginning of August 2025, we were missing multiple items such as mattresses, living room furniture, and blinds. They resolved the mattress issue fairly quickly on move in day, however, maintenance showed up unannounced at our door and entered to “paint the ceiling”. Turns out they were actually painting over mold and water damage that had been in our ceiling prior to move in and they also had left paint dripping all over our counters and furniture that they never cleaned up or attempted to remove. Every piece of furniture had a thin layer of greenish grey film which we ruled out to be mold. The unit had an unusual smell to it which also was ruled out to be the mold that was growing in our ac unit. We discovered mold had been growing inside our kitchen cabinets, door frames, closets, and bathrooms which were also accompanied by tiny mites that surrounded the mold and had resided inside all of our cabinets. Never in my life have I came in contact with mold mites or knew they were a thing. Eventually, after multiple attempts to get maintenance in our unit to resolve the mold, they had notified us we needed to move into a hotel down the street that was covered by the province while they resolved our mold issue in the unit. We were given 24 hours to transfer into the hotel and ended up staying there for 2 1/2 weeks the first time this occurred. Being an OOS student, I was without a car and had to spend an absurd amount of money to get to and from campus everyday as I had been utilizing the bull runner stop located outside the province while I was living in my unit before this incident happened. When we were able to move back into our unit, the humidity levels were abnormally high and the mold ended up coming back inside of my bathroom. The fans in all of our bathrooms did not work in the slightest bit, causing high humidity and a damp environment for at least a day. Towels wouldn’t dry and everything was dewy. It was the perfect environment for mold to harvest. On top of this, there was brown water leaking from the ceiling in our boiler room which caused the living room ceiling to grow mold. We were told we needed to move back into the hotel once again and when we re-entered our apartment the humidity levels dropped and our apartment was definitely in better shape. We were told cleaners would come to the unit to clean the debris and paint off of our floors and furniture, however nobody ever came nor were we helped in that aspect. There were many other issues we encountered during our time at the province, however the mold was definitely the worst part of our experience and caused all of us to become ill. I will say we were compensated for the inconvenience of having to evacuate our apartment every couple weeks because of the mold, however it was a MAJOR inconvenience especially for myself, a first year out of state student without access to a car. Overall, I do not recommend the province. Please save yourself the time, stress, and money that this place will cause.

To be completely honest, save your time, money, and health by never living here. They do not keep up with the apartments at all; the photos online are extremely deceiving. Management will enter your apartment without notice or even telling you they are coming in. The gym is tiny, and machines are ALWAYS broken. When I first moved into the apartment was disgusting, and they were actively painting. To my surprise, less than two weeks after moving in, our apartment was filled with mold. When contacting management, they said they would "fix" it, but they came and just painted over it. A few days after that, the mold came back even worse, and I ended up having to go to emergency care due to respiratory illness from the mold. We had to live in a hotel for two weeks while they "fixed" the issue. About a month later, the mold came back, and we once again had to move out to an apartment. Keep in mind all while paying rent. The management is terrible. I have not been able to use my restroom for 5 days now, and they haven't done anything to resolve this issue. Truly so many better places to live than here DON'T DO IT!

I wouldn't recommend living here. A lot of things had mold and maintenance eventually brought in an industrial humidifier instead of looking into the issue. By things, it was couches, walls, door frames, tables, chairs, vents, clothes (that should cover most things but I can't even start). The package system also was only open during business hours in the summer. On top of all this, I had found a couple of roaches crawling up my walls during my lease.