This place blows, it's campus housing without any benefits. You still have RAs doing room checks, but nothing else I've called the RA on duty number and no one picked up twice. Everything is falling apart the floors are stained my blinds fall when I touch them. Also all of the facilities are minimal. Like the gym doesn't even have a squat rack, the coffee machine is always out, and the computers are outdated. Also if you want to drive to class you should just kill yourself parking at the place you already live is 1000 dollars and the garage isn't even full it's at like 50% capacity. Also the thermostats are really sensitive so if you open your oven or boil something it will go off and all your roomates will attach each of your limb to the bumper of their cars and drive off in opposite directions. Also my couch has no springs if you sit in it you sink straight to the bottom of hell. The trash rooms are unavailable for probably the first two months of school and when they are they are usually backed up. The maintenance team takes forever to respond to anything I had water leaking from my roof and took them about two weeks for them to fully fix it. If you live with your bedroom next to the pool you will have people blasting music for the first two months of school and partying so sorry if you needed to sleep for an exam but Tyler, Darius, and Kevin Nguyen are throwing an epic rager right now. Also this isn't there fault but the people above me just like power slam each other into the floor and it sounds like Pearl Harbor is happening above me. Also the common space lights must be candles because they are so dim and you can't see anything without turning all of them on. In short Park Place is epic it's so epic you can't have any of the epicness I get to keep it all which is why you shouldn't live here. read more

Great, safe place to live for students. Clean and quiet as well. They also have two great police officers who live at this location as well.

We paid $700 for a garage parking permit at Park Place for the year for our daughter...after paying over $40k/year...what's $700 more dollars right? This garage, at no time, is ever close to full capacity...yet Park Place has it routinely patrolled by Schroeder 's Towing apparently. Again, you HAVE to have a parking pass sticker in your front windshield to access the garage, right? Every time I have been to Park Place this year to visit my daughter, the arm on the garage access gate has been broken. My daughter was unfortunately involved in a severe car accident 5 weeks before the end of the year. Her vehicle was totaled. We brought a vehicle to her 2 weeks before the end of the year so she could pack up and drive back to VA once she finished her finals. She received a temporary parking pass for the two remaining weeks. It's a huge rear view parking pass with the same bar code as you get to put in your front windshield to get into the garage...which is a 2" sticker you place in the bottom left of your front windshield to access the garage. Nowhere on the temporary permit does it state you're required to display this huge rear view parking permit. Her temporary permit was visible from the outside if you looked in the vehicle. Park Place took record of all aspects of the vehicle - year, make, model, license plates, etc. Yet, they allowed the vehicle to be towed. Luckily, my daughter happened to notice it missing the evening after it was towed or else I would have owed more. It cost me $250 to get it out of the tow lot! The tow company would not walk with her to the vehicle to prove the pass was in sight. Park Place, knowing all of these facts, has shown no sympathy and refuse to take ownership for their money making scheme. Don't give them the extra revenue. It's a privately owned dorm...not owned by USC but you have to really search for that information...so clearly they are a business not looking out for your kids best interests. read more

Worse place ever for $5800 a semester. Manager seems to care less about any complaints. On move in day, the shared area was nasty. The cabinets were falling down and pilling. Not to mention the amount of alcohol present in the room with drinking games visible. Parking is additional $525 for the semester. Very disappointed. read more

Park place is a nice facility, but the elevators are constantly broken and get stuck with students inside of them. It's been an ongoing issue that has yet to be resolved read more

Park Place Columbia - University Housing Near Me - Columbia, South Carolina

If I could give it 0 stars I would. This place is trash. Inconvenient, rude employees, and awful set up. Basically no guest parking and the finger print scanner never works. Take your thousands of dollars elsewhe Not to mention maintenance is never around when you need them but they bust up in your apartment 5 times a week to "check the locks". The locks in my apartment are one of the only things that actually works in the whole apartment complex. How about you check the doors to get in because we can never get in to the building. read more

Okay to start off the first and second day, park place was great (besides the annoying freshman who have never had a taste of freedom before in their life going buck wild) but day three rolled around and everything was...less than satisfactory. I am a pretty introverted person, very quiet & not to mention, a sophomore, living in a primarily freshman dorm, less than ideal situation already. It was around 12:00 at night when my roommates started blaring music and shouting (obviously having a party). I texted in our group chat if they could please turn down the music as I was trying to sleep, they said okay, they turned down the music but then the volume of voices increased around 1:30 am to the point where they were screaming, I then went outside my room and asked them to please stop because I was trying to sleep and they just laughed and went right back to doing what they were doing. At around 2 I had had enough and asked them to go somewhere else and they argued with me saying it was their space too and I said I realize that but it was 2 am and that it was ridiculous, then they started laughing at me again and that's when I called the RA, she seemed annoyed that I had called her that late and asked me to call the RA on duties phone number so I did and they did absolutely nothing, they said that while they were being loud that nothing could be done because it was there space as well, and that I had no reason to be upset. So I asked to be changed to a different room because after that situation my roommates became very hostile to me and i no longer felt safe. They said that I could not get out of my lease but that I could be moved to a different room in park place and would charge $350 more. Not to mention the $700 parking pass which is astronomically ridiculous. Another person is having trouble with her roommate as well saying that she is bringing random men in and doing cocaine and park place is saying that she either has to live there with her the entire year or move to bates and no reprimanding to the girl doing elicit drugs. WHAT???? this makes University of South Carolina look horrible. If you want to have a better school, don't close down bars in five points, listen to the students about what they have to say???? I mean really. read more

Amazing apartment! I have completely enjoyed living here my freshman year. They are very clean and I never have any problems. Maintenance is very quick to come fix any issues we may have. The staff is wonderful and so helpful. I highly recommend park place to anyone i speak with! the security here is amazing! There are finger print scanners to get in everywhere so no one can come in! There are also curtesy officers that live on sight as well as an office person on call every night!! read more

If there is one I have learned from living in this treacherous apartment complex it is to ALWAYS look at the reviews given to them. I decided to relet over the summer and live here and I only stayed here for 3 months. Over my short period of time living here I have had the worst experience possible. Problems first occurred before I even moved in. The girl I re-letted from and I signed a document agreeing that I would basically take over her room until her lease was up. When I had come back to sign the lease, they had lost this document and I was sitting there for about 30 minutes until they finally found it under a whole pile of papers. Completely unorganized and hectic. When it came time to sign my lease, the woman who was helping me had no idea what she was doing, explained absolutely nothing to me, and this whole process took a lot longer than it should've. I was given my keys and park pass but never the password for wifi in my apartment nor was I instructed on how to set up an account with their payment system. This was not the first time I had to unfortunately encounter their less than competent staff. It's as if all they know how to do is sit at their tiny desks and not move. Sure they had staff at the beginning of May, but slowly they began to disappear. Their gym was constantly a mess, wipes were never replaced, the pool never got cleaned and I found a cigarette butt in there along with lots of dead bugs. The staff here is entirely too lazy for this apartment complex to even be functioning. One time there was just a thing of clorox wipes sitting in the gym instead of replacing the 3 compartments they have with wipes that are actually used for cleaning gym equipment. The other day I was walking down the hall and smelled the worst smell ever and it was the trash room. It took them longer than it should have to clean this and the smell still had not left the hall. I'm sure you're reading this and thinking trash and a gym aren't that big of a deal. okay sure but how about when they mess up your rent and try charging you $150 extra dollars than you're actually supposed to pay? I was not in Columbia when I tried to pay, which by the way if you pay it online there is a SERVICE FEE. AN EXTRA $25 TO PAY RENT ONLINE. Anyway, I was only supposed to be charged $709 and they were trying to charge me $825. When I called them the next day, the person on the phone had absolutely no idea what to do and it took them about 20 minutes to figure out that were charging me the wrong price. This was extremely frustrating and should not have happened at all. Lets talk about rent. If you're going to pay $709 a month, which doesn't include utilities you would definitely expect a top of line apartment complex but no. Park place is actually being run into the ground. In the middle of June I started realizing I had an ant problem in my room and it progressed over the next couple days. I decided to call down to the lobby tell them I had an ant problem and the woman said she would put a work order in for me. Then I went onto the Park Place portal and filed another work order myself. This was on a Sunday. I waited all day Monday to be contacted about the issue and no one ever called me. Waited again on Tuesday and then decided to call when I still hasn't been contacted. The employee I talked to decided he was going to have an attitude with me because I should've KNOWN that the ant people don't come until Wednesday. He then proceeded to still have an attitude when I explained to him that the woman I talked did not inform me that the exterminator only comes on Wednesday. When the exterminator did come she sprayed my room and the ants weren't a problem anymore...or so I thought. Just last week I noticed there were some ants on our kitchen counter and they have continually gotten worse. I literally came home to find a bunch of ants crawling on the cookies my roommates had made the night previous. If I am paying $709 per MONTH I should not even have to worry about an ant problem. My apartment is not the only one who has had this issue. Some of my other friends living here have the same problem. My guess is that they come from that disgusting trash room that no one ever seems to worry about. PLEASE DO NOT BE FOOLED by the pool table and ping pong table they have out front to attract people. Along with the golf stimulator, movie theater, gym, & pool. For the theater you have to put down a $300 deposit to even use the remotes. Also, there's zero security and people do leave the doors propped open and let whoever they want. I have never had my car broken into fortunately but they do always leave the gate open and that garage is so small. Please question Park Place when you do sign a lease here and I highly suggest just not living here at all. The amount of money they charge you is ABSOLUTELY NOT WORTH IT. I truly hope this review helps and steers you you towards another complex that is much cheaper and gives you your money's worth. read more

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Worst place to live for any college student of any academic level. I was a freshman living here and there wasn't a single thing as nice as what the website pictures said/showed. The absolute worst management, maintenance is half-ass 24/8 for no reason at all, and we have been threatened with $50 fines if we bring normal size black trash bags to the trash room. This is because their self-made trash chute is has the diameter of your average bathroom trash can. If you're not getting what I'm saying, my other TWO roommates and I all use this trash, and know how much trash we already would go through with our normal size bags. Priorities are in all the wrong places and there is little care for any student problems. Save yourself the money and trouble, don't live here. Park place, if you see this I highly advise you make some big changes because this is absolutely unacceptable for the MOST EXPENSIVE CAMPUS LIVING ARRANGEMENT AND SUPPOSED LUXURY APARTMENT!!! read more

I have lived at Park Place for two years now and love it! Sad I have to graduate soon and wont be able to be here any more! Great location and even has a shuttle to campus now! You will love living here! read more