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| 1. | | | 316 East Merry
316 East Merry
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 1 | | | 1.0 | |
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| Recent Review: | | The 316 Merry apartments are one bedroom apartments (there are corigated dividers in the bedrooms dont let them tell you they are two bedroom apartments a corrigated peice of plastic is not a wall)The apartments feature orange 1970s carpet that the personel enjoy having a good laugh about. The dumpster they have is located accross the street and is shared with a number of other properties. The toilet was left backed up for days and when I left a letter at the office the matenance? man barged in the apartment and started yelling. Walking into apartments with out 24 hours notice is a common practice.Keeping records is not.If this sounds like a good buy to you the office is located in the basement (unit 3)(right next to the washer and dryer that are wedged in the hallway); expect to have a warm Carty greeting by any one of the Carty family or employees feturing stained sweatshirts and sign your money away at either the brown retro couch or the card table that may or may not be piled with trash. |
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| 2. | | | 422 E. Merry (greenbriar)
422 E. Merry Ave.
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 1 | | | 4.0 | |
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| Recent Review: | | When I compare my apartment to what I see and read about on the Internet, I feel so lucky because it is brand-new (I am only the second renter) and all the furniture and carpet is clean and all the appliances work well. The apartment has nice wood trim and big windows, although I wouldn't recommend a north-facing one if you want to have plants! There is TONS of storage space in the apartment overall but no drawers in the kitchen! The few times I have filed a maintenance request (once because the bathtub drain was clogged, which I later figured out how to fix myself, and once because I didn't have the broiler pan that was supposed to be there when I moved in), someone has come within two days to deal with it. The building is five minutes on foot from the BGSU union, so there's no reason to get yourself into the headache that is on-campus parking.Having said all that, the people who live here and in surrounding buildings are mostly beasts. I am a grad student and spend most of my time studying or writing, but I can hear pretty much everything--like people talking--from the apartment below me. On weekends the music sometimes gets so loud that my couch vibrates and I can't even watch TV at a normal volume. Recently I have taken to playing my own music to counteract theirs, but obviously I'm losing study hours. Earlier in the school year I also had a problem with someone in an apartment down and over one--not the people below me, but the people on the other side of their wall--playing extremely loud music in their bedroom from 2-3 a.m. when I had to get up at 7. That stopped after I finally left a note on the person's mailbox (and I thank them for being so gracious), but just be aware that the walls and ceilings are very thin and if you end up surrounded by discourteous people you could have a major noise problem. Also the ground-floor apartments with patios across the street on the north side (not owned by Greenbriar) tend to have lots of parties with loud drunks on the weekend (starting Thursday). If you're going to live here but want to actually study, I would invest in a good noisemaker (white noise machine) as I have done. Note that the building is right on the train tracks (as is much of BG), but I don't mind the trains nearly as much as the music and yelling.Other complaints: when the people on the other side of my kitchen wall smoke, I can smell it in my apartment. Most of the dryers in the laundry room (actually a separate building in the parking lot) have some kind of black tarry substance (former gum?) that I wouldn't want touching my clothes smeared on the inside. Many residents leave their bags of trash outside their doors although this is against the terms of the lease (you have to carry your trash to a dumpster on the edge of the parking lot). Also people leave their litter in the hallway, the stairwells and on the grounds because apparently they think that the guy Greenbriar hires to mop the hallways is their personal maid. So basically the common areas look like a dump a lot of the time, but once you enter your apartment you forget all that.Final verdict: I love the apartment but hate the noise. This is probably one of the best places you can find in this price range ($450/month this year for a nicely-furnished one-bedroom), but if you are a serious student and can afford one of the nicer places with soundproofing and 'mature students,' go for it, even if it means driving or taking the shuttle to campus.P.S.: I recently graduated and moved out, and Greenbriar returned my entire deposit, which even I didn't expect (they said they would charge for carpet cleaning and for nail holes in the wall, but they didn't). |
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| 3. | | | Evergreen Apartments
215 East Poe Road
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 1 | | | 3.0 | |
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| Recent Review: | | The Evergreen apartments have studios in the back (with the constand glare of the lights from the DOT lot which the apartments are hidden behind from the street unless one notices the sign and the driveway) and 1 Bedrooms on the front...THe efficiencies are EXTREMELY small....like toilet/shower closet combo and a refriderator at the foot of your bed... but there are worse places to live.To Mecca Management's credit: it is kept pretty clean but for $260 you are probably better off finding a roommate and getting a place with a bathtub and a place to sit and eat dinner....but if you just need a place to stay on a budget for a while it will fit the bill.ps- you wont get your deposit back - no matter how well you scrub the toilet they will charge you for cleaning the toilet..... |
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| 4. | | | Greenbriar
524 N. Enterprise
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 1 | | | 5.0 | |
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| Recent Review: | | This apartment complex was awesome.It's clean, everything is newer, the maitenance people came two days later to fix a set of broken mini blinds.The 1-bedroom plan was spacious.The price is worth it.There weren't any bugs.Trash was always cleaned up.I just don't like the parking scenario.You can't have your parents or friends park there until after 6 pm during the week or they will get towed.Other than that, I want to live there again but it's all filled up. |
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| 5. | | | Haven House
1515 East Wooster St.
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 2 | | | 1.0 | |
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| Recent Review: | | My girlfriend lived at the Haven House for 2-years with her friend.There are long bugs all over the place.There is a terrible ant problem.The people who cut the grass don't care if you have anything on your patio because they just blow all the grass all over everything.Plus, to make it worse they make the tennants pay 2 electric bills.One, they pay for the lights and electricity in the hallways and the other is for their apartment.The prices for the bills are outrageous.I have my own apartment and it doesn't even come close to their prices.I don't know how they get away with it legally.Of course, it looks nice from the outside, but once you get in...it's a mess. |
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| 6. | | | Thurstin Manor
451 Thurstin Avenue
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | | 2 | | | 2.5 | |
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| Recent Review: | | I had a friend who lived in Thurstin Manor...it wasn't good at all...there were nasty smells, the laundry room was disgusting, and everything was old. |
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| 7. | | | Varsity Sqare
1097 Varsity East
Bowling Green OH, 43402 | | No Reviews-Rate this apartment! | | | |
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