The Morgan at Chapel Hill

The Morgan offers great apartments with a lot of space, conveniently located near campus, all at a great price.

The Morgan houses a good amount of students, which is helpful for carpooling and social events. The location is roughly 10 minutes from Kenan Flagler Business School.

Though they are doing renovations and have a lot of work going into the apartment complex, the apartments are older and have issues that older buildings tend to have, such as limited parking in the evenings, manual thermostats.

The pricing for the Morgan is comparable to some of the nicer, newer complexes nearby. Unless you can get a significantly lower price at the Morgan by signing early, it may be worth looking at other complexes nearby.

Apartment is spacious and amenities (gym, pool, plentiful parking) are nice. Access to shared outdoor grills also a bonus. Unit itself is not well laid out (kitchen too small, lack of ceiling lights). Service has been unreliable (broken heater/AC three times in 18 months, patchwork fix on leaking window). Floors in unit are uneven in places. Utility pricing is VERY expensive ($175/month in summer), suggesting poor insulation.

We like our large one bedroom at the Reserve side of the Morgan. The landscaping is nice and the units are much more secluded. The apartment is newer and in good order. A downside is distance to public transit however.

Good value (at least for a double). Comfortable. Decent-sized gym and pool. Harris Teeter is close by. Probably the best part is that a lot of other MBA students live here as well. So carpooling isn't a problem. Downside: not really walking distance to Teeter/restaurants.

Nice place, safe pick if you have to find a place without seeing it, but there are better options for your money.

Simply put: you don't get a lot of value.

Spend $30 on trash collection that comes whenever they feel like it (and picks up whenever they wish). Then get slapped fees by the complex when they fail to pick up.

Have constantly fly issues and bugs outside the complex.

Deal with walls with bumps and bruises that likely will get charged for in not documenting the apartment fully before occupying. It was masked with paint before occupying, but I can tell their existence now moving in.

Staff doesn't really care about issues and complaints.

Oh, and you're screwed if you get locked out of the apartment since there's no lockout at all after 5pm...and that's just weekdays.

Go to Alta Blu instead.

Highly Recommend

Nice community, however as a student this is more on the pricey side. $1214 a month does not include any utilities. Renters insurance is also required so monthly you average around $1400 a month. There are other cheaper areas around town with the same amenities.

Not bad for the price and I bike around campus which isn't too bad at all.