I lived in Founders Hill for three years.
Great place on the outside - pool, gym, limestone
However the place was hastily put together, with some suspect (read: cheap) building material in the last hectic weeks and our apartment suffered for it.
I'll go ahead and list some of the issues we had:
- Kitchen wasn't caulked correctly - water leaked like a bastard down the sides, front and back of the sink when you ran the water.
- Walls are paper-thin, mang. Our family room wall backed up to some Joe's bedroom next door and he could hear our conversations word for word. This also came back to haunt me while hooking up with a girl and talking bad about her roommate who I also hooked up with. She heard the whole conversation. Then when I went upstairs to talk to my roommates about it and complain about her being a looney, she could hear that too. Double whammy.
- No screens on the windows. My roommate almost fell out the third story window catching a football.
- Constant noise from Ft. Riley rattles the entire building.
- No stops on the door. All of the doors LITERALLY slam shut - in all apartments at all times. You'll be laying in bed and your room will literally shake when someone downstairs leaves to go to class. The worst.
- They started towing cars - really late at night. Instead of assigning spots to residents and allotting guest spots, management opened the place up for towing. They started doing it at the worst times too bw midnight and 2 am a couple nights a week.
- Upon checking out of the apartment we had a carpet cleaner come - we also had a cleaning company come in and scrub the walls, baseboards and behind other areas where we only dare put grocery sacks. The place was immaculate. Well, Founders didn't agree - they put down all new carpet, new paint, new blinds and footed us with the $2,000 + bill. We've gone to court over it and they've put it off and put it off - providing no evidence of invoices or anything else to justify the high-cost. My friends father is a landlord and he said he's never seen anything so blatant.
Pros:
- Pool in the spring/summer
- Laundry in apartment
- Gym
