312 College Ave

Renters BEWARE!!! Hopefully some of you parents are out there reading this. This company is extremely unethical. They will have the kids come in in late August/​early September and show them apartments. Then they will tell them that if they pay a deposit now, they will be able to pick from a list of apartments for next year later in the month. (They do state that it may not be the exact one that you looked at, but then you can add a bathroom for slightly more money.) WRONG! They have absolutely no idea how many apartments they have available next year because the current tenants have not signed their lease renewals.
312 will then e-​mail your child and tell them that they need to come in on a certain day and time to «pick their apartment». They arrive only to find a leasing agent there that will answer no questions other than to say he will call you by name. In our case about 15 groups of kids showed up for four apartments! They got through the first four and said, that’s it – no explanation, no nothing. They also did not allow you then to pick from a different size apartment! You were allowed to be put at the «bottom» of another list, but in many cases there were only a few apartments with very large lists. So they took the kids deposits so that they wouldn’t be free to look elsewhere without then losing their deposit if their name magically came up.
Being the only adult there, I openly asked all of the kids if they were led to believe that they had an apartment secured. Furthermore, I asked them if they all had left deposits. They all had… When challenged on this, the leasing agent simply said to take it up with his boss — Celeste Rega. Meanwhile, she is the one who told the kids that they would get one of their picks in the first place! Lesson learned — do not rent from these people or guide your child carefully to get something in writing first.