River Oaks Apartments

AVOID!
Never-​ending roach problem. Apartments do not have individual water heaters; there’s some sort of shared unit in each building. At peak times, there may simply be no hot water. Rude, inconsiderate management. Slow and poor maintenance. The climate-​control system is the very worst. Your apartment will never be cool when it’s warm outside. They switch it over to heat before it’s necessary, and your apartment will still bake. The most miserable college apartment I’ve ever lived in.

I’ve lived here for 2 years and it has been my favorite apartment. Management is very reliable and caring, and the apartments are very nice for the price. Very nice community and neighbors, and relatively quiet given that the majority of the tenants are law students. I would recommend this place to anyone and am sad I have to move for grad school.

WORST APARTMENTS. DO NOT MOVE HERE. I lived here for non consecutive 2 years and it has been the worst experience ever. Disrespectful staff. A/​C not reliable. You can hear everything through the thin walls. Work orders don’t completed and when done are very poor quality. Don’t waste your time or money!!!

Unfortunately, not a good living experience. Let me just say maintenance was in our apartment quite a bit. Also, the air conditioning system they have set up has got to go; they can switch heat on once when winter comes & it has to stay on until they decide to switch it back to cool for the spring. It was brutal considering the fluctuation in weather this past year! My roommate & I just had way too many problems with the apartment itself & with Rainier Management to ever want to go back. We were pretty excited when our lease was up!

Overall the only perk of this complex was the easy location to campus and the parking. We had terrible problems with roaches and rats, yes rats not mice. Despite the fact that we told management that the rats were in our vents they did not believe us and kept putting the traps behind the fridge and other places. Finally fed up we took it upon ourselves to take off the vent covers and place the traps in the vents. In 2 days we caught 3 huge rats and our air vents were covered in rat feces. The roaches were bad in the warmer weather, including my roommate finding on in her bed, and we are not even messy. The smaller bathroom had nothing in it when we moved in, no hand towel rack, regular towel rack or any type of storage.
The other huge issue was the air conditioning. They run on a «chiller» system. Basically you cant control if heat or AC comes out, its based on the weather. And even with running out AC all day, the apartment was NEVER cool. We had fans in every room. We rarely used the stove or oven in the summer because it heated up the apt. so much. Sadly I would definitely avoid living here.
My car was also broken into 3 times (while locked) in the apartment parking lot.

If I could go back, I would not have lived in these apartments. The building is really old, so my apartment gets so humid, the condensation on the windows ends up forming puddles on the floor. The staff are not very helpful. Also, a lot of theft has occurred in the area — including $ 200 worth of my clothes out of the laundry facility. Not what I expected at all. :(