GASLIGHT VILLAGE

I would love to give Gaslight Village a 5-star review. The apartments are spacious and the community is very friendly. The location is perfect for anyone who wants to be in the heart of East Lansing, with easy access to all the great restaurants and shops in the area.

Initially, I was deterred by the other review here, but after carefully reading it and speaking to the office I decided to take the jump and move in to a 3 bedroom. I love my apartment. It's definitely one of the largest in the area and I think it's a great price. The only downside is that the clubhouse is located down the street and I get my Amazon packages delivered to their office, but otherwise it's been the best place I've lived in EL.

I enjoyed my stay here at Gaslight Village. I just renewed for next year and hopefully will renew the year after. I currently live in a 1 bed and it is very nice and spacious. I enjoy Gaslight Village because I get my in-unit washer and dryer.

If I could give this apartment complex 0 stars, I would do so because 1 star is way too generous. After signing an “as is” lease agreement, the apartment was in subpar condition due to the previous tenants. As expected, my roommate and I had to put in a lot of work into cleaning the unit and getting it up to livable standards since it would be our home for the next year. What we did not expect, however, is to have to deal with roaches. Yes, roaches! I found a roach crawling on my bedroom door.… Before discarding the roach, pictures were taken of it to send to the leasing office as proof. The leasing agent tried to downplay the situation by ensuring to us that it was not a roach but instead an outside bug since we live by a wooded area. Pest control was called and he was able to immediately identify the bug as a German Cockroach. He came to our unit to put down a treatment and traps to get rid of the other potential roaches that may have been hiding. He even found a baby roach in one of our cabinets. Because we were still left with feelings of uneasiness but did not want to break our lease, we simply requested to switch units. The property manager, Kristen, begrudgingly agreed to letting us switch to a different unit under the conditions that we would have to move on that same day and take it in the current condition it was in. We did not want to accept it until we saw the unit ourselves and thank goodness we saw it first. It was in an even worse condition than our current unit was in when we first moved in. The paneling on the walls and alongside the windows were chipped as if an animal had been eating it for dinner every night. The smell was pungent. The carpet and flooring in the bedroom and bathroom, respectively, were coming up. The walls were filthy. Quite frankly it was insulting that they would even offer us such a poor unit. They downright refused to have any cleaning or maintenance work done for us. The level of professionalism from the regional property manager is laughable. She did not sympathize with our concerns in any way. After telling her about the unit that Kristen tried to give us, she straight up said she would not have even offered us any kind of transfer if it was up to her. Read More