re: With all these new apartment complexes going up around LSU..

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if i could find the maintenance guys from the commons 02-04 i'd give them a huge tip now for never narcing on us. we'd always leave the bong and hooka out like idiots and then we'd come home with a note that they had been there.

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I did the same! I used to even leave the door unlocked with weed all over like a dumbass. Plus this was during the serial murders. The Commons was awesome. I did 2001-2003. Did West Laville before that. Surely our paths have crossed.

I had friends who lived on Sharlo up until a few years ago. You have to do the drunk dash when coming home from Tigerland back to that area. Nobody would dare mess with some drunk lunatic sprinting through the hood.

Worked well enough for me, never got mugged.

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I had friends who lived on Sharlo up until a few years ago. You have to do the drunk dash when coming home from Tigerland back to that area. Nobody would dare mess with some drunk lunatic sprinting through the hood.

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Damn it's really that bad now? I used to walk through there routinely circa 2000. Never gave it a second thought. Can't believe all that area could be allowed to be ghetto now. fricking Section 8.

I've made that walk, but it was with like 5 people. I wouldn't do it alone.

They're building them everywhere. The area around the cottages is blowing up. Student living everywhere. It's absolutely insane

I lived in the cottages my sophomore year with 4 fraternity brothers and it was such an awesome shite show. People were constantly in and out of our cottage. I would do it again in a heart beat

I've lived at
Dorm
Fraternity house
Cottages/2 years
Now Lakes at bluebonnet

The Cottages were the popular place when I arrived in fall 2011, but are now starting to fall apart. With all the other places being built the Cottages are already transforming from elite to just average. Will probably be the slums in a few years.

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They have those U Club Cottages there now. They used to be called something else but then they rebranded.

Not sure exactly which ones you're talking about.

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Aspen Heights. They were actually sold because the manager was incompetent, go figure.

can confirm the cottages suck

Shitty management, everything is poorly made and for a college complex there's nothing big ever really going on out here. They just finished renovating the main building

Looking for a new place over the summer, I'm keeping my eyes peeled on this thread because it's hard finding decent places out here

ETA how does one go about Renting from 333 flats? I can only find info on buying the apartment

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It seems as though the area was already saturated with apartment complexes and the traffic is already atrocious in the area during drive times.

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This is bad news for me, Lee Drive is bad enough.


By the way, how does Place Du Plantier rank among the current crowd of apartments.

Highland Village (the one actually on E. Boyd) was my first apt. out of the doorms. Wasn't the newest place ever, but that location was just incredible. Very low key, nice enough, and close to school and bogies.

After a few years in the frat house, I lived in one of those Apts on brightside, but you got to it through brightside view. It was shitty, but it was majority college kids. Started hearing of break insurance when we moved though. From there went to Beauty Pre townhomes. Loved the townhomes, could have never survived the houses as it was a constant cluster frick of house parties and I was older by this point trying to graduate.

Went back this fall for some games and it's absurd how much shite has changed since 2010. E Boyd is completely different. River Road is crazy to see. And all the complex type places they've added is insane. I remember people who lived in the little rent houses hidden in the bushes at Burbank and E Boyd. Now it's a sonic! Is there any other ~5 year span that has seen more change in the area, or is that just standard practice around campus and it's my time to experience it.