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University House, apartment building near LSU decides to halt leases and move residents
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:27 am
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:27 am
LSU has seen a literal explosion of apartment complexes built quickly, cheaply, and with disregard to the impact on the area.
University House is one of those new complexes
WAFB
University House is one of those new complexes
WAFB
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Owners of University House, a $108 million upscale housing community near LSU, have halted new leases and are moving some residents from the property because of what owners describe as "substantial defects" and "pervasive leaking." The owners of University House, The Scion Group, are suing the builder claiming they have already encountered $3.2 million in needed repairs to the property and anticipate having to spend millions more.
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In a lawsuit filed last year, the owners claim that after purchasing the relatively new property in 2015, it was discovered to have "substantial defects in workmanship and construction, including without limitation pervasive leaking and mechanical defects that have caused a severe disruption of tenants and millions of dollars in damages and necessary repairs." The lawsuit was filed against LMK Baton Rouge Construction, which was hired by the original developer Landmark Properties. The complex at the north gates of LSU, opened in 2015 under the original name of The Standard and is mainly occupied by LSU students. The 287-unit complex has a rooftop pool overlooking Tiger Stadium. University House says, when it purchased the property, LMK warranted that its work on the building would be free from defects and agreed to repair or pay to repair any defects that were discovered but has failed to do so.
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 10:28 am
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:28 am to Tigeralum2008
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a $108 million upscale housing community
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"substantial defects" and "pervasive leaking."
No one saw this coming
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:31 am to Tigeralum2008
They should get Buquet & LeBlanc to come in and trouble-shoot the problems.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:32 am to Tigeralum2008
The LSU area is going to have a lot of trouble going forward. Way too many shitty apartment complexes popped up pretty much all at once
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:33 am to Tigeralum2008
LSUsual
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:33 am to Tigeralum2008
I’m sure the football team running down the halls drunk as frick having paintball fights didn’t help. Or Ben Simmons smoking a frick ton of weed and doing a shite ton of blow in the penthouse there when he lived there
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:33 am to Tigeralum2008
Lol that place is such a shite hole. I remember dog shite being on every hallway.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:33 am to Pelican fan99
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The LSU area is going to have a lot of trouble going forward. Way too many shitty apartment complexes popped up pretty much all at once
Tigerland on a much much larger scale.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:34 am to Pelican fan99
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The LSU area is going to have a lot of trouble going forward. Way too many shitty apartment complexes popped up pretty much all at once
So when the TigerLand Section 8 people move into the new Section 8 apartments RIGHT NEXT TO CAMPUS that means they can demo TigerLand and rebuild. Circle of life.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:35 am to Coach Buzzcut
But why?
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:36 am to Tigeralum2008
Baton Rouge can't build anything without fricking it up.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:39 am to LNCHBOX
So basically errbody will go bankrupt, somebody will buy it for pennies on the dollar and turn it into Section 8 housing. Stay awesome, Baton Rouge.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:41 am to Jim Rockford
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So basically errbody will go bankrupt, somebody will buy it for pennies on the dollar and turn it into Section 8 housing. Stay awesome, Baton Rouge.
With the amount of expansion LSU is doing with on campus housing, I was always amazed at the amount of off campus stuff being developed. There is no way there is enough demand for all this new housing. Whoever approved all these new complexes should have some questions to answer.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:41 am to Jim Rockford
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So basically errbody will go bankrupt, somebody will buy it for pennies on the dollar and turn it into Section 8 housing. Stay awesome, Baton Rouge.
It'll be an AirBnB hostel before going full blown section 8
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:42 am to Tigeralum2008
Does it actually have a roof top pool? Looks like they went cheap and put it on the first floor.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:43 am to Tigeralum2008
Believe me when I tell you that any new apartment complex in that area is almost certainly going to end up with serious problems. They were thrown up as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
I have been involved with multiple lawsuits between the builder, the architect/engineer, the owner, the insurance companies, materials suppliers, etc., for apartment complexes in the immediate vicinity of LSU.
Every single one of those suits centered around water intrusion, mold, and mildew issues with all of the parties pointing fingers at everyone else as to why the apartment complex is a leaky piece of shite. The builder blames the architect/engineer and the materials supplier, the owner blames the builder, the materials supplier blames the builder, the insurance companies blame everyone, the architect/engineer blames the owner and the builder. Fingers get pointed every which direction.
The attorneys and expert witnesses get paid.
At the end of the day, the court decides who pays what, and pretty much everyone loses some skin in the lawsuit once blame is assigned. Then all the usual suspects rearrange themselves and get together to do it all over again on the next project because even though almost everyone gets skinned a little in the lawsuit, EVERYONE involved still made gobs of cash in the aggregate on the project. They just start over with a different arrangement of architect/builder/owner/supplier and go out to make money on the next hastily built project. Everyone knows the score.
It's amazing that so many of them are shitholes. (It's really not.)
I have been involved with multiple lawsuits between the builder, the architect/engineer, the owner, the insurance companies, materials suppliers, etc., for apartment complexes in the immediate vicinity of LSU.
Every single one of those suits centered around water intrusion, mold, and mildew issues with all of the parties pointing fingers at everyone else as to why the apartment complex is a leaky piece of shite. The builder blames the architect/engineer and the materials supplier, the owner blames the builder, the materials supplier blames the builder, the insurance companies blame everyone, the architect/engineer blames the owner and the builder. Fingers get pointed every which direction.
The attorneys and expert witnesses get paid.
At the end of the day, the court decides who pays what, and pretty much everyone loses some skin in the lawsuit once blame is assigned. Then all the usual suspects rearrange themselves and get together to do it all over again on the next project because even though almost everyone gets skinned a little in the lawsuit, EVERYONE involved still made gobs of cash in the aggregate on the project. They just start over with a different arrangement of architect/builder/owner/supplier and go out to make money on the next hastily built project. Everyone knows the score.
It's amazing that so many of them are shitholes. (It's really not.)
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 10:58 am
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:43 am to Tigeralum2008
These "apartments" are all scams anyway. They sell them to subsidiaries of the same company every few years to take advantage of tax dollars from the government with no care to building, maintenance, or students who live there.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:44 am to Tigeralum2008
Kids got it too good nowadays. Tiger Plaza or Commons is where you needed to cut your teeth. Then you wisened up and found a house for the last 2 years.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:47 am to TigerstuckinMS
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Every single one of them centered around water intrusion, mold, and mildew issues with all of the parties pointing fingers at everyone else as to why the apartment complex is a leaky piece of shite.
I mean. It makes sense for the college apartment business model.
Cheap, shoddy put together cookie cutter apartments. Your typical tenant will only be there 2-3 years so no long term tenants you have to deal with.
They’re poor college kids so they don’t know any better. They’re drunk and high half the time so they won’t notice. And they’re more willing to put up with less than ideal conditions because of the short lease and lack of experience on the students part.
They look to run for a decade tops and then sell out to someone else.
All about the quick buck
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:03 am to beerJeep
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They’re poor college kids so they don’t know any better.
Poor college kids aren't living in these places. The poors are living in El Cid or the ones that have been there for 30 years.
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