How safe is lake park? What is the environment like there?

Thanks!!

4/11/2006 10:51:03 PM

are you joking?

4/11/2006 10:55:28 PM

harlem

[Edited on April 11, 2006 at 10:55 PM. Reason : well thats not fair, harlem has fewer drug raids]

4/11/2006 10:55:30 PM

i'm serious, i really don't know how it is. my roommate and i are looking for an apt, but since we are two females we want to make sure it's safe

thanks

4/11/2006 10:57:25 PM

At least as safe as living on campus

4/11/2006 10:58:22 PM

Its not that bad, but I wouldnt live here without a gun....just kidding

I've never had a problem after 2 years of staying here.

4/11/2006 10:58:51 PM

it's the same as every other place around state........

maybe a bit louder at times.............

4/11/2006 11:00:55 PM

So is it a good place?

4/11/2006 11:00:56 PM

everytime i walk to lake johnson...there's atleast 1 cop car there. they're also really loud, atleast the one's my apartment backs up on....

4/11/2006 11:07:30 PM

it's loud... can't wait to move out in a june...
management=suck ass
pool=might as well swim in a gas station toilet... not that i have ever gone anywhere near the pool here...
it is nice to be next to the lake...
it's cheap, but a shit hole

4/11/2006 11:10:41 PM

Well we were also looking at University Suites... what do you think those apts? We weren't sure about the atmosphere. We went by tonight and even though it is beautiful out, there wasnt anyone on their porch... it was just dead there...

thanks

4/11/2006 11:11:17 PM

I've not heard of any rape cases there but there are some sketchy people. There are loud parties, and some cars have gotten broken into. I have a couple friends living there and they haven't had any problems except for some sketchy guys hanging out in the grass right outside their patio. I'm sure you can find comparable prices in a nicer area that's still on the Wolfline (if that's one thing you want). I live in Clarion Crossing, and my apt may as well be part of Lake Park it's so close, and we've never had problems, although there has been a car or two broken into over here too.

4/11/2006 11:12:37 PM

^^^^^ are you kidding, that place is the slums of nc state. a good friend of mine lives there now, two fun experiences to report

1) there was a drug raid on the floor above her, cops kicked in the door chased people around, some guy ran into a mailbox and bled everywhere. obviously they weren't selling weed up there, probably crack or something along that line.

2) she was thrown in with a 50 y/o disabled alcoholic who didn't work. dude moved in, set down his couch and roaches scattered. it just got worse from there. he didnt work, just sat onthe couch smoking, drinking and lookang at porn all day. had this 40 y/o stripper living there for awhile. dropped entire plates of food on the floor and left the food there, for good. had to call the police on him about 3-4 times for various things.

bad enough she had to live with that guy, even worse that priess took 6 months to evict the him...they don't give a shit about the tenents.

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=379427
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=391567
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=379436
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=384829

I would stay the hell away if i were you. the place is a shithole. ask yourself this: as a woman, how important is your safety?

[Edited on April 11, 2006 at 11:15 PM. Reason : ]

4/11/2006 11:15:27 PM

^ So was about that lake park???

4/11/2006 11:18:20 PM

yes, its about lake park. click the links to see more.

4/11/2006 11:22:20 PM

if you have to ask then you already know the answer

4/11/2006 11:37:48 PM

It's a shithole....
Don't go swimming in the pool because it's not maintained.
Don't leave any of your valuables in your car because you're asking to have your car get broken into.
I lived there for 8 months and that was brutal.

4/11/2006 11:43:08 PM

kinda like going swimming in the broncs sewer system

4/12/2006 12:03:26 AM

i lived there for a year and it was fine.

don't rent from the office, find someone who owns a condo and is renting it.

4/12/2006 12:13:11 AM

i've lived in lake park since august. i know the guy that owns the condo, and i guess that makes it better somehow, though i'm not really sure why. i live on the lake johnson end and i've never had any problems. i wouldn't be crazy about my girlfriend living there but that's because i worry too much anyway. it's cheap (around $275 plus utilities), but you get what you pay for. my biggest complaint is the location. there's nothing else south of campus worth bothering with and it takes an annoying amount of time to get anywhere since you have to use avent ferry, gorman, and western to get anywhere else in raleigh. either that or cut through a 25 mph neighborhood. campus blocks you from the decent parts of raleigh.

4/12/2006 1:39:02 AM

yea, Lake Park is a "has-been" apartment complex. It was the shit years ago from what I hear but now most of the college kids don't live out here anymore. It's a lot of sketchy older people or people who I don't think go to school (or maybe have never gone to school). Avoid it, run like hell

4/12/2006 3:45:22 AM

A friend of mine who lived at Lake Park a year ago used to keep a shotgun next to his bed, b/c he was worried about someone breaking in.

4/12/2006 8:49:11 AM

Quote :

" broncs"

thats cute



BRONX

mad disrespect y0

4/12/2006 9:51:32 AM

I lived there for 2-1/2 years, and Lake Park is definately a shithole. It only cost me $250/month + utilities though, so the cost was the only benefit.

We had one apt next door get set on fire, a drug bust 2x in my building, also cops were called for some domestic violence shit in my building. The walls are paper thin and you can hear everything going on, and some of the parties can get loud. Learn to sleep with earplugs in.

Dont ever leave anything of any value at all in your car, mexicans regularly break into cars and steal shit. I witnessed this one night around 4am.

Lastly, if you can get an apt on the top floor. In the winter your place will stay warm from the heat below, and in the summer on the 4th floor you get a decent breeze if you open your windows. Our power bill was like $60/month almost year round for four people living there.

4/12/2006 9:53:04 AM

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/NC-Raleigh-Lake-Park-Condominium.html

50% approval rating. hehe that's pretty shitty.

However my apartments

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/NC-Raleigh-Wildwoods-of-Lake-Johnson.html

Have an 85%, and that's because of the construction that WAS going on. The only semi bad thing is the each apartment gets 1 assigned space. Now that the construction is over there is plenty of parking. I've never had to park more than 40 feet from my building.

4/12/2006 9:54:46 AM

It's like the Holocaust, and you're Woody Allen.

4/12/2006 10:48:27 AM

I stay at Lake Park... the good thing, having the Big room and the basketball court

bad thing: everyone that lives there... my car hasnt gotten broken into yet

4/12/2006 11:20:21 AM

what she really wants to know is:

HOW MANY COLORED FOLKS ARE THERE

4/12/2006 12:04:52 PM

i live in lake park now and there are definatly betters places out thier but yall are tlakin like it's the WORSE. i have frineds who pay nearly double what i pay in rent and utilities and guess what?? his apt has had countless breakins, deadbeat tenants, AND loud parties.other friends lived in another complex off gorman and saw a simualar drug bust like the one mentioned above. also nobody has been brutally murdered in lake park.. yet

so i mean while it is bad you can't beat the price and u can expect alot of the bullshit in lake park to take place in almost any college apts.

that said i'm movin the fuck outta here in june

4/12/2006 12:10:02 PM

we had some great times in Lake Park... but we probably had the best condo/location in the whole complex.

4/12/2006 2:15:42 PM

i think there are 2 parts of lake park


theres the 4 bedroom side which is mainly college people which isnt bad

then theres the ghetto side which has maybe 2/3 bedrooms that is bad

4/12/2006 2:34:22 PM

you can always find a party on the weekends there. We walked up to random peoples' apartments that were having parties once in a while there.....but it is a loud place ot live. But we had horrible neighboors that kept really crazy hours and blaired thier music all the time (like 4am on weekdays). Its not the best place to live and I sure as hell would not want my fiance to live their but its not all that bad. I guess it depends on what you are used to.

4/12/2006 4:13:26 PM

Quote :

" However my apartments http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/NC-Raleigh-Wildwoods-of-Lake-Johnson.html Have an 85%, and that's because of the construction that WAS going on. The only semi bad thing is the each apartment gets 1 assigned space. Now that the construction is over there is plenty of parking. I've never had to park more than 40 feet from my building. "

i just moved in here, and I must say that I like it so far. Place doesn't look the best on the outside (although it is growing on me), but the places are nice on the inside and it is quite a large apartment for the price

5/3/2006 4:27:48 PM

u-suites = awesome.

5/3/2006 4:35:20 PM

shut the fuck up

u-suites is a shit hole

5/3/2006 6:09:52 PM

^I second that.

5/3/2006 6:27:25 PM

why dont you go find a townhouse?
basically the preiss company or any college-oriented rental company sucks donkey balls

5/3/2006 6:46:31 PM

^^^ based on the fact that she's considering LAKE FUCKING PARK as a viable option (for 2 girls, epecially), i'd imagine U-suites is a damn heaven to her.

5/3/2006 7:39:04 PM

u-suites management sucks and they kill you on move-out fees

you have to pay to have the carpets cleaned regardless
and its almost inevitable that you have to do some painting before you leave
they charged us for new drip pans on the oven b/c ours were apparently dirty

5/3/2006 7:51:50 PM

why is this under classifieds? Shouldn't this be in chit chat or the lounge?

[Edited on May 3, 2006 at 10:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2006 10:25:56 PM

LAKE PARK IS A SHITHOLE NEVER MOVE IN HERE, IT IS GHETTO AS FUCK. MY NEIGHBORS PULL GUNS ON EACH OTHER AND HAVE DOMESTIC DISPUTES ALL THE TIME. FUCK LAKE PARK.

5/4/2006 12:14:46 AM

this is Classified information, hence Classifieds...

and Lake Park is awful...check out Lake Johnson Mews just a few spots down on Avent Ferry Road...

5/4/2006 12:22:25 AM

pussies.

5/4/2006 1:18:04 AM

i lived there and i'm still alive.

5/4/2006 1:39:58 AM

i use to think lake park would be the perfect place to live considering the price

then i moved there for 3 months

[Edited on May 4, 2006 at 2:12 AM. Reason : .]

5/4/2006 2:12:04 AM

In the 6 months that I lived there, my neighbors apt. was broken into and I had to call the cops to get some sketchy guy to stop beating his girlfriend in the stairway.

5/4/2006 6:38:18 PM

Lake Park (atleast the 4 BR part) WAS the shit back in 97-2002 and even later. I lived there 2002-2003, it was ok. I never had my appt or car broken into. I never felt unsafe there. Its it really that much worse now?

8/1/2006 1:40:23 PM

its ghetto, has tons of cockroaches, has tons of ants, and looks really ghetto...out of places to live i'd give it a 4/10

8/1/2006 1:41:59 PM

Quote :

"Lake Park (atleast the 4 BR part) WAS the shit back in 97-2002 and even later. I lived there 2002-2003, it was ok. I never had my appt or car broken into. I never felt unsafe there. Its it really that much worse now?"

I agree with this, I was there about the same time for 2 years and loved it.

It has gotten worse though.

8/1/2006 6:42:55 PM

OMG Cary #10!!!!

http://www.morganquitno.com/xcit06pop.htm

8/1/2006 6:47:13 PM