Campus Property Management

Don’t use CPM, especially not to park at 905 Oregon. Last year, the entire garage flooded and most cars were totaled. They notified me of the flood the next day and did not even pay for the books that were ruined, let alone compensate me for the two months spent without a car/​new car. I could not get out of the contract or reimbursed for my trouble. Bad bad bad

I lived here from September 2006-​August 2007. I had a 700 sq ft ²⁄₁ for about $ 450/​month or so.
This apartment was both good and bad. The apartment itself was decent. True, it wasn’t in that great of condition and some things really needed to be changed (the bathroom sink looked like someone took a sledgehammer to it and we also later discovered there was a bird’s nest in the exhaust from our kitchen), but overall it was decent-​especially for a first apartment. It was super cheap and that was what was important at that time. There was a lot of space in the apartment, but most of it was wasted on the hallway. The kitchen was so tiny I couldn’t comfortably be in it at the same time as my boyfriend but had a TON of cabinets that were decently made and sturdy. A lot of things were pretty shoddily done though. For example, the cutout for the sliding doors of the closet in the main bedroom was not straight and correct and therefore, the closet doors never shut properly. I actually measured how far away the edge of the cutout was from the corner of the room and the number changed the farther up the wall it went. Obviously, someone didn’t take the time to measure anything. The layout itself was interesting and not bad, but again– there was a lot of wasted space for the hallway. And the place was just generally kind of dirty and old.
We lived on the first floor and right next to the entrance to the building. The area was not *that* great, so we did feel largely unsafe there. The parking lot where the dumpster is located is really badly lit and just generally scary and creepy. You just get some weird people by that area. And because it’s right next to Centennial High School, you get stupid high-​schoolers who hang out in the 3×5 foot area when you enter into the building who drink and smoke. (You also hear all the football games and marching band practices in case that bothers you. Personally, I kinda liked it since I went there myself). There was one time when I came home from a friend’s house at night and there was some stoned dude sitting on the top of the stairs staring at me as I frantically tried to unlock the door to get inside my apartment. :o/​
We never had any problems with things not really working. The living room A/​C would randomly stop and I had to get someone to help me with a light in the kitchen. And the pressure in the shower was way too much. It would spurt out so much water, that water would start to gather inside the tub around your feet because it couldn’t drain fast enough. But otherwise, everything worked great! And thank god too, because I’ve read horror stories about maintenance.
What was horrible was the staff. I spoke with CPM representatives at all different locations in Champaign and they were all unprofessional and, frankly, not all that intelligent. I had issues with our previous manager more than once, before the new manager took over who seemed on the ball for the most part.
Don’t even bother paying for a parking spot, because someone will ALWAYS be in it. And when you call a tow truck to tow them away, they always leave before the tow truck gets there. Luckily, though, we could park alongside the complex on the street.
Noise insulation was basically non-​existent. We heard our neighbors upstairs constantly– especially when the new residents moved in who had about a billion kids who never seemed to go to school or anywhere. They had a party once where I swear they were jumping OFF a bed onto the ground right above our bedroom. It was midnight and whenever they would land, our light fixture would shake so violently, I thought it was going to fall down on us on the bed. I called the police twice, but I’m not sure if they ever showed up.
Grounds upkeep was a joke. They came out and watered flowers and crap, but there was always trash all over the place, especially when the dumpster would overflow. The outside of the building was started to look dilapidated.
When we moved out, we had to arrange and pay for the carpet to be cleaned and then give them evidence that we had cleaned it. They said that they needed time to be able to clean it as well, but what I’ve heard from others about conditions, I don’t think they do anything. There was a big red sprayed stain that looked like dried blood on the ceiling in the master bedroom when we moved in. We could never get it out ourselves. Gross and highly disturbing. You’d think they would have painted over that if they actually did paint like they say they do.
Also, trying to get our deposit back was a big frickin hassle. Me and my boyfriend moved to Austin, Texas so I couldn’t go talk to them personally but had to basically harass/​stalk them over the phone constantly. It took a few months before we finally got the check in the mail.
Like I said, it was good for the price, but you get what you pay for. I would never move back in with them again.