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| - Pros
-It's a social place to live. mostly students so it's not hard to make friends hanging out around the pool or talking to your neighbors.
-I like the basketball courts, Park, and layout of the buildings
-close to campus-- just have to hop on the orbit which comes every 15 minutes
-walking distance from a few bars
-incredible maintenance team
-you can have cats
Cons
-definitely a party complex, so if you're not about that life you won't like living here. be ready for neighbors blaring their music and flashing lights at 11 PM on a Tuesday.
-we did no damage to our apartment and spent an entire day (4 of us!) deep cleaning the WHOLE apartment-- carpet, floors, cabinets, fridge, bathrooms, patio, everything-- and they charged us a 100$ "cleaning fee" after move out. We tried to dispute it and they basically told us that everyone gets charged this fee. Great.
-CLEARLY that cleaning fee does not ACTUALLY go towards cleaning, because when we moved into our apartment it was FILTHY. fisgusting bathrooms, dirty floors, food still in cabinets.
-most apartments around Tempe are shitty like gateway, but you can just do better for the price. You pay over $2000 for a four bedroom that doesn't even have a garbage disposal or good facilities. The gym is tiny, our fridge didn't work very well (it froze everything on the top shelf), the dishwasher barely cleans your dishes, (I ended up having to hand wash everything), the showers aren't great, the printers constantly break, and there's no garbage disposal.
-I don't know if this is really an abnormal experience for the area, but I did not feel safe living here. We requested a top floor apartment several weeks in advance and they put us on the bottom floor. All of the neighbors above us were apartments full of men, but they put four girls on the bottom floor. Our next door neighbors were the only other girls in our building, and they were also on the bottom floor. Makes sense! Not. they had to call the police at some point because some creepy guy was coming around and peeking in their windows. We had someone break into our apartment, and I had someone attempt to break into my window. Nothing was ever stolen and none of us ever got hurt, but I just did not feel very safe living here. nothing happened to the neighbors that were living above us. Of course.
-The entrance to gateway is a very dangerous intersection. People both enter and exit from the same area and they are turning on to a five lane road that is very busy. In my one year living at Gateway I saw many, many accidents here. I saw people being carried away on stretchers, I saw a bloody crashes, and my roommate had a fender bender. I think gateway could really do something to make this intersection safer, or they could open up the back gate so that people can exit from the back. I tried to speak to Gateway about this but they were not responsive. I think many lives could be spared by making this entrance safer, either by putting up more signs or opening the back as an exit.
Gateway was a very social apartment complex and a great place to live for my sophomore year overall, but I definitely would not live here again and I wouldn't recommend it to others. Like I said, you can do better for the price or just live a little bit further from campus somewhere a lot nicer.
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