Let me be clear: this place does have the potential (keyword: "potential") to be a really awesome…read moreplace to live.
Physical quality of the apartments are great for the price; I'm a huge fan of the exposed brick we have in our apartment. Really, really spacious, decent enough furniture included, electric oven, microwave, even a dishwasher. Plenty of counterspace and a decent size island countertop. All utilities and internet service included in rent.
Or so they say.
Yeah, sure, technically, "internet service" is included, if you can even call it that. If you come to live here, you should treat it as if no internet service is included at all. For starters, the network is COMPLETELY UNSECURED. Probably half the surrounding neighborhood is on it using bandwidth that we're supposedly paying for with our rent.
When we moved in, none of the ethernet jacks in our apartment had a connection, and it took literally almost 2 months of constant pestering the building management to get it fixed.
Then, when you are lucky enough to even have a connection at all, most of the time your average download speed is somewhere in the ballpark of 10-100 Kb/s (yes, Killobits), which for those of you who don't know, is unusably slow. It takes almost 2 full minutes to load a Google Image search result page.
You can only stay connected to the network for a few days at a time, and then you'll get a "Your connection is not private" quarantine warning if you try to navigate to any website. If you go into advanced settings and choose "I understand, proceed anyway", you'll arrive at an authentication page for "The Lofts at Ribbon Place Wi-Fi" (it says Wi-Fi even if you're on ethernet), where you can choose to "sign in" to the free Wi-Fi which promises download speeds of 2 Mb/s (which is still really, really slow), a promise it fails miserably to keep. You're lucky if you get 500 Kb/s.
Frankly, I think that their touting that "internet is included with rent" is misleading, and even borderline lying, and for that reason I feel that this establishment has stolen money from me in the form of failing to fulfill their responsibility to provide a usable internet connection as per the lease agreement; I have repeatedly made this clear to the management, and have received no response other than being shrugged off and ignored.
The Lofts management continually tries to take advantage of me because I'm only 21 years old by essentially not fulfilling their responsibilities as a landlord.
I would absolutely not recommend the Lofts at Ribbon Place to anyone; I feel that they're getting away with borderline stealing by taking advantage of relative youth and naivety of college students.