Station Nine Apartments

My wife and I have lived at Station Nine for a year now and have been extremely pleased with our choice. The amenities the building offers and the close proximity to Duke can not be beat. My wife loves being able to walk to campus for class and I love being so centrally located to everything that makes Durham so unique. Great shopping and dinning are just steps from our door. We rarely have to leave a couple of blocks radius for anything.
This is our first experience of living in an apartment complex and to say we’ve been very needy is probably an understatement. The management has always been kind, responsive and professional. John, Christy and Mark and the entire maintenance staff have always gone above and beyond to make us comfortable in our new home. I highly recommend Station Nine! Well managed updated building.

I lived here for two years. I hated the office staff, especially Mark Mazotta, the manager. The maintenance staff was usually responsive to urgent matters. The only reason I lived here for two years is because a large portion of business school students live here.
I lived on the 4^th floor near the trash. In general, it was pretty quiet but I also mind my business and if there was a loud party, I would join in. The train was loud but I got used to it after a week or two. The day I moved in I had to call maintenance because my carpet had stains on it. It had just been cleaned. The apartment had also been locked up for some time because the carpet reeked of smoke. The carpet was old and gross and should have been changed before I moved in. The bathtubs in the place must have been free because my tubs, like many of my peers, were not level. They would hold water and stain and/​or mildew. This wasn’t a maintenance issue, it was a construction issue. The dishwasher was crappy, very rarely cleaned my dishes and was loud as hell. The washer and dryer were brand new but the washer broke while I lived there and ruined plenty of our clothes when they got stuck under the motor.
Again, the majority of the complex consisted of business school students. I happened to be in the office one time and overheard management telling people that it was a family community and a great place for kids. Then management gets these huge discrepancies in the populations because they’re lying to the people.
Mark is useless. I don’t know how he has managed to stay employed so long.

Of the management agency run apartment complexes in Durham, this is probably the best. My fiancé and I moved to Station Nine (here on referred to as S9) in Feb ’13 from NYC. The amenities are great, location for Duke employees perfect (easy walk, bike or free shuttle ride to campus) and it is respectively affordable as a package deal. Before moving, we had looked at Lakeview, Trinity, American Tobacco, West Village and a few other easy to google apartment complexes in Durham before picking S9. They ended up being the most affordable and in the lowest crime rate zone of the aforementioned (Lakeview and Trinity are hot spots for muggings). The management is kind and responds well to work orders, complaints or common questions. There are also a few other pros such as the relative proximity to Ninth St (night life hot-​spot) and the covered parking deck which don’t get mentioned as much as they should for the value they hold.
If I had a few complaints it would be the wood floors can cause significant noise to tenants below others in addition to some other cut-​corners in the apartments such as low-​grade cupboards, toilet is lucky to flush water let alone much else, and a noisy-​ass-​under-​performing dish washer.) Most critically, is that the price of leasing is actually quite high for Durham and the leasing agents are unable to cut you a deal since the management company enforces automated lease pricing. Keep in mind that high rent in Durham for a 1Br is $ 900 and all prices at S9 are at least $ 100-​$ 200 higher than this.
All in all, this is quite a nice place to live and I would highly recommend doing so if you want a nice space to retreat to and spend weekends, but have no misconceptions that any apartment is perfect.

A big and very nice apartment complex that I know as being the home of lots of Duke grad students. There is a nice pool area that I never got to take advantage of. It’s pricier than many other student housing options, but you definitely get what you pay for…

Nice ammenties for the area. A little on the expensive side. Internet included on rent but the Internet is pretty slow.