The Highlander
The Highlander is a cozy community in a beautiful, historic tree lined community in downtown Madison, close to the UW campus and Capitol Square. We offer roommate placement in our Single Rooms and flexible by-the-bed leases where you're only responsible for your rent.
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|Recommended: NoNot the best, but good location — Good location right off State St, couple minutes away from the capitol, 10-15minaway from campus. The building itself is okay but very rarely clean the downstairs hall and lounge area, it could get really dirty sometimes. The units are nice but a little small. Amazing maintenance staff.
Main complaint careless management. We didn't get all the furniture we were supposed to get. There were supposed to be bookshelves in the room, but when we asked about it the management said that they had a limited number of those and they had been already given away. Also, it seems like nobody really cares about roommate-matching. I have filled out a page long questionnaire but somehow got the complete opposite. My roommate mentioned that she got matched with another person but for some reason ended up living with me.
Move-in wasn't a great experience either. I warned the management that I'll be moving in late at night because of my flight beforehand. They told me to pick up the keys from a different property's office. Turned out, they had changed the lock and left the wrong set of keys for me, which I figured when I arrived in the middle of the night and couldn't get in. I had to call security, but even security didn't have the right key to open my door. So we had to call emergency maintenance. Overall, it took me 3 hours to finally get into the apartment. The next day, I got only Sorry, we didn't know you got the wrong keys .
|Recommended: NoHighlander Review - 602B — First off, no disrespect to the individual staff members working to maintain Highlander Apartment. Everything is decent for the price of 595 USD in my opinion, but here are the factors I do not give full stars to this apartment.
1. No individual heater unit per household at this point, I am aware this is the same to many other apartments in Madison as well as the entire US, but I initially expected individual heater unit per household.
2. I do not know if this is the same in other rooms in Highlander, but the toilet of 602 is not good. Even if a repair guy, Russ, visited to fix the toilet today 14 OCT 19 , the toilet itself just has extremely low flushing power. It seldom does not completely flush or it takes 18 seconds for me to press the toilet button to completely flush.
Once again, I do not intend this review to dishonor Highlander Apt in any aspect. These are the two real-life conditions of 602 and I hope future tenets would take this into their consideration.
Every other factor of this apartment is fine and well for me.
|Recommended: YesGood — It is convenient and cheap to live in highlanders.
|Recommended: YesGood — good
|Recommended: YesAffordable and Convenient especially for Badger Students — The rent is individual lease so you won't have to worry about covering your roommate's portion of the rent if they leave. Laundry is amazing because you don't have to input coins to use the machines. Walking distance to the Memorial Union Terrace and other great spots in downtown Madison, especially UW-Madison campus for badger students. A branch of Madison Area Technical College is right around the corner of the building, which is very convenient for transfer program students as well
|Recommended: YesIt's very homie and the staff are very helpful — I would say it's a great place to live
|Recommended: YesStay at the Highlanders — It is a well-furnished and affordable apartment in a prominent location. The staffs fix your issues immediately and are very friendly. I would definitely recommend students to stay here.
|Recommended: NoI would rate it 0 5 if possible — It was horrible. Roommate matching is the worst. I was placed with a horrible roommate twice. They caused my mental health to deteriorate, and all Steve Brown Apartments did was allow me to move. First roommate threatened to kill me, yet I had to move. They would not let me out of my lease either time. Then, I was stuck paying for 2 apartments because I couldn't stand to live there anymore. Now, they are trying to find a way to get out of giving me my security deposit back because the other roommate trashed the place. They wanted me to clean the shared spaces, even though they knew I had not lived there for months. They take zero accountability and make a profit off of exploiting young college students who don't have much experiencing renting or living on their own. Save yourself the hassle and live somewhere else.
|Recommended: NoI would rate it 0 5 if possible — It was horrible. Roommate matching is the worst. I was placed with a horrible roommate twice. They caused my mental health to deteriorate, and all Steve Brown Apartments did was allow me to move. First roommate threatened to kill me, yet I had to move. They would not let me out of my lease either time. Then, I was stuck paying for 2 apartments because I couldn't stand to live there anymore. Now, they are trying to find a way to get out of giving me my security deposit back because the other roommate trashed the place. They wanted me to clean the shared spaces, even though they knew I had not lived there for months. They take zero accountability and make a profit off of exploiting young college students who don't have much experiencing renting or living on their own. Save yourself the hassle and live somewhere else.
|Recommended: YesGood location for UW madison — It is very close to downtown and suitable for UW student.
|Recommended: YesOne of the best in the business Would definitely recommend — One of the best in the business Would definitely recommend
|Recommended: YesProperty is fine — building is very quiet and when something is wrong, they will fix it immediately
|Recommended: NoGreat place to live — The staff and maintenance at The Highlander are very welcoming and helpful. If anything went wrong, they responded very fast and often fixed our issue the same day.
|Recommended: YesGreat — Cheap and convieniet.
|Recommended: YesGood — Nice place