I can't in good conscience recommend the Collar Factory Lofts. The management style is lazy and unproductive. The apartments are cute but unfortunately you can hear and smell everything, which is especially brutal if your neighbor chain smokes cigarettes and weed (the non-smoking indoors is not enforced and dismissed by management). The location is nice for being close to downtown Troy, but again, we felt like we've turned a blind eye to some red flags from the beginning that turned out to represent the rest of our experience here. Management was too busy to do a key hand-off / walk through of the apartment when we first moved in. In addition to a pipe burst that has taken about 2 months to remediate (construction debris everywhere still on three floors), there's an on-going mice issue that we've known about since the summer. Also, all the residents' codes to enter the building stopped working one day and there was no warning from management. So if you relied on the one key fob they provided for two people in your apartment, you were out of luck and had to pay $75 for an additional key fob. The place is cute but the more you settle in the more you realize how rushed construction was. For example, our laundry door has fallen off 4 times (maintenance chalks it up to being the "shittiest door ever"), the light fixtures are unevenly placed on the walls, and the bathroom tiles look like they could fall off at any moment. Maintenance is responsive but there's only so much they can do when the bones are bad. All in all, if you decide to take a chance on the Collar Factory Lofts, at least you know what you could be in for- a mid apartment and absent management. Literally my favorite thing about living here is the camaraderie with other residents on how we can't wait for our lease to be up so we can get out of here. read more