Our daughter graduated in December 2019. She lived at University Place Apartment before, during and…read moreafter the renovations. This was the perfect place for her. It's basically across the street from the University. As parents we love that she had assigned parking on the premises , that always had bright lights on at night. Whenever she needed the maintenance department to take care of anything which wasn't often, they made sure it was taken care of. Whenever I went to visit her, Doug the office manager always engaged in conversation and I left feeling that our daughter made the right choice. We were 14 hours away and we always felt a since of security with her living at University Place Apartments.

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Great guy- hard worker and showed up on time I would…read morerecommend Todd to anyone in north central Missouri

The only think good that comes from this place is the location. My daughter, her roommates,their…read moreparents and myself have reached out with over 50+ work orders. They have lived in this apartment with the smell of sewer gas. I don't live far from Columbia and have driven there on multiple occasions and smelled this. There were times it was so bad I could smell it 4 rooms before even getting to my daughters apartment. Nothing has been resolved in 8 months. I even received an email with them admitting this is an ongoing problem that has yet to be fixed. I wasn't going to come here and leave a review, as I was hoping they were going to make this right, but since they could care less. I figured I would try to save another person the headache from this establishment. They pretend like they care, but they 100% do not. We understand it student living and things may not be perfect, things may break, and things may not be in the best of shape cosmetically, but 8 months of sewer gas is ridiculous.

Great place! I highly recommend like it's so so amazing. Love love love this place. Also great…read morelocation

U center is a great complex but not this year!!! There has been construction for the whole year…read morestarting at 7am or earlier going till 8pm EVERYDAY!! Even Sundays..... I have to study, do homework, and sleep with constant banging going on outside. This is insane! I get woken up sometimes before the sun rises. I have a test today and was up late study for it.... guess what I GET WOKEN UP AT 6:30AM! For a grand a month, no warning or transparency about the construction, AND no pool. No one in the whole complex was aware that any of the this construction was in the plans for this year, management definitely wasn't transparent about it. It sucks because I lived in U center for my residency summer and LOVED it, but this year I HATE it. Don't sign here unless you want to get scammed. I am for sure not living here again. Parents don't let your kids live here. It's a scam!!

I have to show some love to my alma mater because I recently paid Mizzou a visit for the first time…read morein 8 years! It was so good to be back, and the school and town have continued to grow more and more over the years. I felt so proud showing my husband around the beautiful campus, there is really nothing like stepping onto the quad for the first time and seeing the columns and Jesse Hall. When you're a student, it's hard to appreciate how special it is, but coming back and seeing it for the first time in a longtime, I felt incredibly proud to be a graduate. I showed him around some of my favorite spots on campus including speakers circle, the student center, and greektown. I had the best time at Mizzou -- there really is no place like it! M-I-Z! Z-O-U!!

While achedemic teaching was adequate master's level nursing program lacked in both diversity and…read more any focus on rural health. Professor were stand-offish toward students with is very odd in a program of adult, graduate degree learners. One expected that I know cost / billing information never taught in the program No sense of mentoring of students and a definite "You're on your own" when in came to setting up clinical placements yet highly judgement about what one did choose. plus federal summer Internship was not counted for Clinical hours because I was minimally paid - odd for a State University.- yet the Med, Dental and clinical Social work students I met there were given credit by their programs.

Isabelle was the nicest person! She helped me with every single thing I asked and lead me in the…read moreright direction!

Nice living space but watch out for all the little scams. #1 Renter's insurance is mandatory. Which…read morethey will provide for a fee, nice. But this insurance does not cover the renter or any personal items. Better insurance is easy to get but registration with the Domain is difficult. #2 credit reporting scam. This one is golden. "In order to help the student build credit, the Domain will report monthly to the credit bureau on payment of each months rent". This service is a additional monthly fee. And you need to opt out. Opting out was a hassle and the confirmation back to the Domain was frustrating. #3 Excessive fees associated with the electric bill. Renter's are required to put the electric bill under one of the tenants names or the keys to the apartment will not be given out. We'll that is the policy. This was not the case. Instead they just put a 50 dollar per tenant fee. That's right a 200 dollar fee to pay a 65 dollar bill. I think this is one of the nicest places in COMO for kids to live. Just such a shame that they nickle and dime them with these scams. Let the buyer beware!

Every time an actual issue arises Central House is unhelpful. They have recently employed a waste…read moreremoval company that seems to come whenever they feel like, skipping days and coming at very odd hours of the night. When they feel you have violated some sort of policy they are quick to threaten fees, even if all members in the unit are not involved. I reached out to them to remedy the situation and see if they could reach out directly to the tenant causing the issue, as it has been ongoing. They essentially gave me the same response 3 times and seemed they couldn't care less about the situation and finding a solution. It is very frustrating to be threatened with fines for not cleaning up after your randomly assigned roommates, especially when they refuse to step in in any regard. Additional issues I have experienced include maintenance entering rooms they were not permitted or prompted to be in- again central house took no accountability. We also reported issues with our fridge that were not fixed in a timely manner resulting in food spoilage. The gym frequently has treadmills out of order for extended periods of time and the benches are a huge safety hazard as Central House has not even bothered to properly screw them together. Not to mention the less than tasteful time of renovations- I understand it has to start at some time but having people in and out of your apartment during midterms is going to be less than ideal. Central house also sends out multiple calls/texts/emails to get you to resign but do not even keep track of who has already resigned- they continue to call. I know many people who have chosen not to resign for the upcoming year and I am not surprised. In person the staff has always been friendly so I'm not sure why there is such disregard when trying to communicate issues through the messaging system.

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100% don't recommend unless you want to be sick 24/7 due to their moldy and faulty HVAC systems and…read morecomplete lack of responsiveness in addressing. My daughter has been sick since she moved in and has black dust literally covering her walls every day. We have changed the filters and cleaned multiple times and it is back the next day. Put in multiple complaints and they just send a maintenance person to clean off the vent cover and change filter-obviously not addressing the real issue. Next step is legal action I suppose.

Don't live here. If you do, make sure you take pictures of what's wrong with the apartment even if…read moreyour roomate is already there before. THE VENTS ARE LEAKING WITH NASTY BLACK AND GREEN STUFF. If you have maintenance take an item out of your unit, say your tv is too small and you want to use your own, make sure you email the office because maintenance won't let them know, causing you to pay $150 for a missing TV which maintenance took, and they're just going to replace all the unit's TV's anyways bc the previous owners didn't have good TV's to beginning with. I paid my "exit extra damage" fee because I don't have time and money to sue such trash. I can only warn people of how bad this property is. Please look at google. There's no parking at night and God forbid, if you have a handicap tag on your car and they put a sticker on your car when it's visible and you park at a handicap parking spot.

I rented with them, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. My apartment was a studio…read morethat I paid 610 a month for. That includes the 30 extra for parking (which I heard has gone up in price). This studio did not come with a stove. There was a small hotel-sized fridge (not a mini fridge) and a microwave. The only sink was in the bathroom and was literally a kitchen sink put in the bathroom. The landlord only accepts cash or cashier's checks for rent, which requires visiting the office in person once a month. If you have to rent from them, I recommend talking to his secretary as much as possible instead of talking to him. This man has no common sense or empathy. I asked him to specifically put in the lease that I needed 24 hours' notice for him to enter my apartment, unless in an emergency, because I have an anxiety disorder. He broke this multiple times by telling me a couple of hours beforehand that he was going to show my apartment on days I had classes. He forgot multiple times that I had a cat, which I had given him documents for being an emotional support pet when I signed the lease. Everytime he asked to show my apartment, I had to remind him not to let my cat out because I would not be home at that time. I lived on the top floor of a very old building on Rosemary Lane. The summer was terrible because the hallways and stairs were not cooled. The stairs outside to the parking lot are falling apart. He only takes care of the weeds growing in the back, where the parking lot is, maybe thrice during the summer. He constantly parks in the only driveway to the parking lot in the back when he is showing apartments, and he gives no warning of doing this, so god forbid you have a doctors appointment or emergency and need to leave. If you don't want to pay for the parking lot, you can park on the street for free but the street is always parked up as much as possible, and you can barely drive on that road, which is supposed to be a two way road. When I first moved in and had utilities turned on, I also had to fight with him to come out and unlock the utilities to my apartment because he said it was the city's job and the city told me my utilities were already on and I would have to pay for them to send someone else out to do it. The fire alarms went off randomly for no real fire three times while I was living there. Once was at 11 pm when I had a 14-hour shift the next day, and it took him an hour to show up and turn them off.

I don't think I have never left a review on any website in my life, but I'm willing to do so here…read morebecause Hinshaw Properties is by far, the most despicable, unprofessional, DANGEROUS, negligent, disgusting company that I (or anyone else I have known) have ever dealt with in my life. Specifically, Paul Hinshaw should not be running ANY business because he will keep you in the worst possible living conditions as long as you are giving him your money. Dangerously negligent. DO NOT IGNORE THE BAD RATINGS this company has INTERNET-WIDE, not just on Yelp. This is the only business that truly deserves to be shut down for the health/safety of others. Broke my lease, thank god. While I could write paragraphs detailing why, I'll try to briefly summarize what you can expect if you decide to ignore the hundreds of red flags (if anyone wants proof via photos/videos I took there, message me): - When I moved in, multiple bulbs didn't work, had to replace them myself, and maintenance (surely under Paul's direction) waited 42 days to fix my central bedroom light. Also, it was dirty, multiple nonfunctional features, none being fixed except the light. It was also at 65-75% humidity at all times, excessively dusty, bugs running everywhere. - Since move-in, multiple raccoons/squirrels lived inches above my head, which I could see with my own eyes since the property was decrepit and had a gap b/w the wall and closet, allowing them to stick their noses into my room. Loud, smelly, nuisance, and literally violates municipal codes. Paul never made any effort to remove them UNTIL I had lived with them for over two months and called the city inspector, who forced Paul to hire an exterminator under the threat of monetary penalties (the city inspector also told me he was familiar with Paul because of numerous past complaints, surprise surprise). Before that, Paul's method to remove the raccoons was to set up cages, far down in the basement, for months, with no results... (my friend who lived in the neighboring apt for a year longer than me had been dealing with them for 6 months under Paul's genius method). When Paul was forced to hire an exterminator, Paul authorized them to remove a squirrel from a trap on the roof above my car, causing squirrel blood to pour all over my car's hood (this sounds fake, it's not - I have the video showing my car). - During a night of raining, a STREAM (not leak) came pouring through my ceiling. The next morning, approximately 4x4 foot wet, brown patch on the kitchen ceiling had been dripping onto my curtains and the stovetop. Breeding ground for mold. Paul did nothing to fix this (again, until I called the city inspector and he was faced with having to pay for his negligence). - I asked Paul if I could move to larger empty upstairs unit since former tenant broke his lease (surprise) and mine was unlivable. I knew former tenant paid $675/month. Paul quoted me at $800/month to move there and ignored the complaints/health issues included in my text requesting this. - The disgusting condition of the unit (dust, I think there must be mold too) led me to develop breathing problems where I was wheezing and coughing for one month straight. I've never had respiratory issues or allergies. I went to urgent care, required an inhaler everywhere I went (and meds) because of the impact on my lungs not improving, on 11/7/21 I went to the ER because I was so short of breath. Yes - that sounds dramatic, and that's because it is. Overall, seriously, for your health and well-being, avoid this place. There are plenty of places to live in Columbia and there's a reason he keeps his price relatively low - to lure people looking for those prices in because he knows they need any cheap housing. It's disgusting, and very akin to a slum lord.