The Yard

When I transferred into a new unit in the Yard (615 S Main Street, Ann Arbor), the room looks terribly awful and this is no exaggeration. Clearly someone just moved out and they didn't clean it at all before letting me move in, which was later confirmed by the staff who went to check my room and there were even left belongings of the last renter. There were a lot of disgusting trash in both common area and my new room. There were even rusty nails on the carpet, let alone countless hair and thick dust everywhere. You can even see bugs and flies on your mattress and kitchen table. Unwashed pots and dishes were lying all over the place and there were lots of oil spots on the counter. And there were so many white paint spots on the mattress and chair that took me half an hour to clean. The air quality was so bad that I started to cough and sneeze. The oil on the stove had congealed so sick that I tried to wipe it off for twenty minutes in vain. The living room has a strange smell. The drains in the kitchen sink and bathtub are broken and rusty. Chunks of wall have come off but not repainted. And I have no idea how long those soy-colored marks have been on the floor and they're sticky when I step on them.
Words can hardly describe the cleanliness of this room. This is the dirtiest and most disgusting room I've ever seen, and I'm not happy with it. When I asked the staff why they hadn't cleaned my room, they in turn asked me why I had moved in, saying that this room hadn't been cleaned in the first place, but I had received an email from the apartment asking me to check in that day, and no one can answer why the room they had given me hadn't been cleaned yet. What's worse, they threw out items from the common areas of my old unit without my permission.
When I asked them if they could clean my new room right now, unfortunately the response was, and I quote, very unlikely. One of the staff said she'd talk back to me later but it has been two days since I checked in, nobody gets back to me and I feel physically sick due to the unsanitary condition of this room. I spent two full days cleaning and still couldn't do it to a satisfactory level, and it wasn't supposed to be my workload. The staff at this apartment should be ashamed of making such a simple mistake and fix the problem as soon as possible instead of thinking it's okay. I feel this treatment is very unfair, and I ask for a reasonable solution and compensation.

They essentially charge you for August - a month where you only stay in the apartment for 4 days! They don’t prorate the rent for August. Insane predatory pricing and hidden terms in contract!

The pros of living at the Yard include that it is a relatively short walk to campus, a significant number of law students (at least in my year and the year above me) live in the building, and it is furnished.
The cons outweigh the pros. The rent is expensive and the building is poorly run. You are not given a choice in selecting your apartment, and my roommate and I were placed in a first floor unit that is 10 feet away from the train tracks - it is very hard to sleep with the noise of the train. The building staff is often rude and unresponsive. The building staff frequently lose packages and I find the hallways to often be dirty. If I were to select housing again, I would not choose to live in the Yard.

The Yard... exists. It is close and convenient to campus and the building itself is fine - good pool, amenities, apartments themselves, etc. That said, the building's on-site management is woefully bad. Unresponsive to emails/calls, charges added to accounts with no explanation. Similarly, the building has become over-run with undergrads. The floors, hallways, common areas, and elevators are always dirty and in the 3+ years I've lived here - I've never seen any general building maintenance.

You're paying a lot for location other than that not much else. Staff is unresponsive and rent is super high.

The Yard continues to take advantage of students and it is absolutely disgusting. They lied about what amenities were included and then took those amenities away, even though the leases say they will be included. They increase rent $400-500 every single year even though absolutely nothing is changed. Management is absolutely horrible and I would not recommend anyone live here.

Convenient, but look elsewhere for better value

Good location and quality

Great location - lots of noise

Living at the Yard has been fine so far, the train can be noisy at night though. Also the Yard is well-run, but not super close to a lot of food options.