The Sabina is a very popular apartment complex for law students because of how close it is to the school. The rent is a lot, but it’s manageable splitting it with my partner. The elevators are often not working which can be annoying, but usually at least one elevator is always working and overall not a terrible place to live at all! So so convenient to be walking distance from the school - I save money by not having to buy a parking pass.

I really love my apartment. So many of my classmates live in my building, so it doesn't feel like I am living alone in that regards. I have lots of space and storage, and the apartment has nice amenities. I walk to the law school everyday, and its about a 15 minute walk. My complaint would be the elevators don't work a lot of the time, but its only a 5 floor building so if you don't mind walking up it is not a big deal. Parking is included in rent which is great. There is also not a ton of food places in walking distance from the apartment building.

Convenient because close to school. Management is sub par but that's pretty standard for anything this close to campus. I've never had any real issues and have lived here 1.5 years.

The property is fantastic, especially for the location, price and amenities. While management is very responsive to maintenance issues, there are some problems being able to use fob systems to run the elevators and there has been a history of issues with break ins. However, these break ins have gone down some since new camera systems were installed.

Rent keeps going up, but quality of life keeps going down. We've had an elevator broken for ~4 months now, and about 50% of that time at least 1 of the 2 other elevators has been broken intermittently.

Package theft is frequent. I personally had a ~$500 package stolen. Numerous students have also had their cars broken into. Management's response is incredibly tone-deaf.

People let their dogs poop/pee right outside the entrances which results in them stinking to high heaven. Most people are at least considerate enough to pick up the poop, but there's still plenty lying around.

Raised everyone's rent by ~25% this past year.

I basically only live here at this point because I don't want to move again with less than a year until I graduate. The location is great for walking to school - but for what you're going to pay? Stay anywhere else.

I really like and feel safe in my individual apartment, but the management does not do enough to make the community as a whole feel safe enough. Packages are often stolen from resident's front doors (where they are delivered despite the leasing agreement saying packages will be held in the office or lockers) and multiple cars have been broken into in both guest parking and the gated residential parking. Management's response has been to send emails reminding us to lock our doors (not much help when multiple windows are broken by someone trying to get into your car) and install cameras that don't seem to function when you need it.

Sabina (along with Marq, Aura, and the upcoming Troubador) are all likely the best apartment buildings to be in that are close to UT's law school.
The area around the law school is where you will find the highest concentration of other law students. A very rough estimation puts about 40% of the people I know living within two blocks of my building. It's great because it's only a short walk away from the law school - avoiding the (frankly expensive) parking garage fees, and allowing me to get some extra steps in every day.

Within this area, generally known as Hancock, there are a lot of available options for apartments, and some townhomes, if you're willing to get roommate. While not being cheap options ($1300/mo for a 450-sqft 1bed/1bath last time I checked), they are all very modern, with Sabina, the oldest of the four, being built in 2014. This is in contrast to almost all of the other options available in the Hyde Park or Hancock areas, which are mainly holdovers from the population boom in the 70s and 80s. The prices are more bearable when the parking and washer/dryer costs are included in the rent price, as many other buildings will attempt to nickle-and-dime those kinds of expenses out of you.

The rooms and amenities are nice, but the complex has done nothing to prevent the regular car break ins and package thefts that occur at the complex.

Sabina is great because there are a lot of law students in the building. Other perks are the gym and the pool. My car's catalytic converter got stolen within three weeks of moving in and there are weekly reported break-ins, so parking is not great. It's also more than I wanted to pay in rent but that's what you get for living in a luxury apartment, I guess.

You are close to the law school and you control your own AC. Those are pretty much the selling points.

Downsides:
Tone deaf property management
Ridiculous rent increases (although, to their credit, these were somewhat in line with the wider Austin market)
Huge rash of property theft (stolen packages every week, cars routinely broken into in the lot)
Incoherent response to snowstorm that flooded a large number of apartments in the building and left residents without water
Front door lock (to entire building) has been broken for MONTHS
Lobby elevator (only one with guest access) routinely down for management
Exterior of building reeks of dog piss because people can’t be bothered to walk their pets more than 2 feet away from the door so all of the grass is dead
They want you to use 2 trash cans to set out your recycling separately from your trash, but cheaped out on valet trash companies and now only provide you with a single trash can for both (and no, it doesn’t have 2 compartments).
Somehow managed to convince ~130 law students that there is something they hate more than their Civ Pro class

But hey, I got a losing scratch off ticket for “resident appreciation”, so I’ve got that goin for me, which is nice.