This is my second year living at Campus Side. I live alone in the North Building--the second to…read morenewest building. This building houses one-person and four-person apartments. It's generally pretty quiet here. The rooms themselves are pretty nice, especially comparing to some other places. If you want to live alone, it's probably your best bet, unless you can find something cheaper. The rent is $595/month for my apartment. Pretty high for a college student's budget, but still cheaper than some of the dorms.
There is a laundry room, and a recreation room, which has exercise equipment and a TV/couch room, as well as tanning beds. It's all free to use, except the tanning. The rec room is open until I believe 7pm at night, and the laundry facilities are 24/7.
Location to campus is pretty good; it's about 3/4 of a mile to walk to the Union from here, or you can catch the Happy Bus which stops here every half hour.
The people in the office are nice--I've never personally dealt with the landlord, but I've talked on the phone to the two ladies who work there and they're always extremely pleasant and helpful. Maintenance is also great; they come out same day if it's not too late in the day, or next weekday if they can't get to you then.
There's adequate parking. Each resident gets a decal for their car, and a guest pass. They plow and salt during the winter, from what I can see. I don't have a car with me, but there haven't been any accidents in the parking lot or anything.
There isn't really an apartment "social life" in this complex, so if you're trying to get the dorm experience where you're always with people, you probably shouldn't rent here. Like I said, this building is all single person or four-person apartments. Campus Side doesn't have any events or anything, and the only common area is the rec room and laundry room, which don't get very crowded, ever. If you like keeping to yourself, then you'd love it here!
That being said, if you do enjoy partying at the infamous Pine Glenn (Keister) Apartments, they're right across the street. On the other hand, if you enjoy laughing at idiotic drunk people, you can look out your window and make a night of it!
My only gripe is that they started construction on their newest building (their building that houses the personal villas), without saying anything to current residents. There has probably been a collective 3-4 weeks where they did construction round the clock, and there were countless times that I woke up at 2am from the "beep beep beep" of whatever truck was being used at the time. They didn't start round the clock until after school was out, but during the school year, they did start around 7am every day. This was brutal during finals week--I actually have a sleeping disorder, and starting at 7am absolutely fried my brain. They are mostly done with construction now, though, so no problem for incoming residents!
Overall, I'd recommend it here. If you can afford it, take a tour and submit an application!