The Pavilion at North Grounds Apartments

You pay for the location — 5 minute walk to the law school and to groceries and ups store etc. Not a horrible place to live but management could be way more responsive to resident complaints considering the price we pay. Washing machine has broken twice and lights are constantly going out, also wifi sometimes cuts out unexpectedly which can be very inconvenient as a student. but it’s close to the essentials and mgmt does eventually fix things

The building's age and the location are the main pros. Otherwise the management is not very responsible or professional.

Overall, it's a very nice apartment complex with good amenities. I enjoy being able to walk downstairs to use the gym and the outside pool area is nice. There is a parking garage attached to the building for residents to use, but it is an extra fee. The close distance to the law school is one of the main highlights for me. I didn't have to buy a parking pass at the school and it's about a 5 min walk to class.

It's also located right behind Barracks Shopping Center, which has grocery stores and restaurants, which is convenient. The building feels secure and you have to scan in or enter a code to access pretty much every door/room. The apartment, especially the kitchen, is spacious. My roommate and I each have our own bathrooms and there is plenty of storage/closet space.

Maintenance is extremely slow to respond to requests, and you have to repeatedly notify them to come fix anything. There is a computer center with printing but the printer doesn't seem to work consistently. It's more expensive compared to other grad housing in the area, but the location, atmosphere and amenities make it worth it for me.

This was the 'best' option out of the two other complexes closest to the law school it is incredibly over priced and there often are maintenance issues.

While the location to the law school is nice and the furniture that comes with the apartment is helpful, it is overpriced compared to other apartments. The wifi is also very bad and the building does not have cell service.

Our apartment itself is great, but the building has had issues with wifi and the elevator. Maintenance has been super responsive to issues.

Overall good, minor bumps in the beginning with Wifi. Lame that it doesn't do recycling

It's a five minute walk to the law school which is nice and lots of law students live there which is also nice, but management raises rent by like $115/month per year because they can. Plus every month it's an additional $95 for parking which is absurd

As a law student, I've found the location optimal. It eliminates unnecessary commute times, keeps me close to both the school and a large shopping center, and is great for students who don't want to bring a car. Windows are comparatively large, and the a/c system works well.

There are, however, some serious issues with this building.
FIRST: Plan to purchase a mattress/mattress topper. I don't know anybody who didn't do this immediately upon moving in - the mattresses are like stacks of cardboard.
Second, the internet is prone to outages, though this is supposedly being resolved with new internet infrastructure next year (2024).
Third, for anybody living on the 2nd or higher floors, there is one main elevator in the lobby, and that elevator is FREQUENTLY inoperable. More than once, when I've gone to use the backup freight elevator in the garage, that one has been inoperable at the same time.
Fourth, the handling of packages is bizarrely illogical and bafflingly chaotic. The package room, for reasons I have yet to discover, is on the 5th floor. This leads to a host of unnecessary issues, the first of which is related to my third point - when the elevator is out, have fun walking x number of stairs to retrieve your package. Second, the delivery drivers are (understandably) quite unenthusiastic about hauling truckloads of boxes up to the fifth floor. Which means that when the elevator is out, or when the staff at the front desk aren't looking, or the delivery is after 6pm or so, they will just drop the boxes somewhere in the lobby. This leads nicely into the third issue with this package room situation: your boxes aren't yours until you've completed the treasure hunt to find them. Maybe they're on the fifth floor. Maybe they're in the lobby. Maybe they're in the mail room (which is on the first floor, nowhere near the package room). Who knows? But suppose you've managed to overcome the inoperable elevator and climbed the peak to the package room. The fun is only beginning. Boxes are haphazardly shoved into 5 general spaces corresponding to floor number, and best of luck to you in sorting through all of them trying to find yours. As somebody who uses online shopping to meet many of my daily needs, I am at a total loss as to why the package room is located where it is, and almost completely unmanaged.

I've had lots of issues with the Pav, and I look forward to moving out. The two best things about living here are 1) proximity to law school and 2) the gym downstairs. The worst things are that it is so expensive, you have to pay additionally for parking, and the amount of maintenance requests you have to submit are ungodly. (I've had issues with air conditioner, nails sticking out of the carpet, and fans falling from the ceiling).