NOT SAFE - lived there one year. There was a Drive-by shooting one month before i moved in. My apartment got robbed. Window smashed, tv & electronics gone. Shortly after i moved out a group of college kids were robbed at gunpoint and one of the robbers
was shot to death. The Apartments are full of meth heads and crack addicts.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?s=rss&storyid=57546
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060821/NEWS/608210352/1039
COLLECTIONS - moved out thinking i owed them no money. A year later i get a letter from a collections agency along with a million phone calls saying i owed them near $1,000 because i didn't give a written notice of what day i was leaving(was on month-by-month lease). After several attempts to get a hold of them to find out why they didn't just contact me for the money. They responded by saying they sent a letter to my old apartment and it was returned to them. So instead of calling my cell phone they had on file they turned it over to collections.
Cockroaches also a major problem.
There are much nicer apartments in Lakeland for around the same price.
I rented from fall '06 through summer '07.
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