re: Apartment Complexes Being Constructed Along Burbank

There are a lot of $500/month per person rentals around LSU. One of the things that has happened is as new places have come you wind up with a few undesirable non students living in older apartments that were generally well kept but far from luxury. This causes a bit of an exodus from places like tigerland or some of the older complexes along brightside or Burbank. But like I said before the only thing that can't be beat as far as student housing goes is location. There is nothing like rolling out of bed and walking to class.

These new apartments like cottage and woodlands or other new ones are also built by construction companies that are owned by the developer. They are built of cheap materials that won't last but create enormous cash flow for the developer so that he can sell and profit.

Baton Rouge has a very affordable rental market and for the price people pay to complain about upstairs neighbors in crappy complexes that aren't "lifestyle" complexes like the cottages or woodlands they could be in a decent house with less that a 5 minute drive to LSU.