Mauna Kai Austin

I loved living in Mauna Kai. The managers are great, they keep the place beautiful, the response to needs is quick, it is quiet (so great for serious students or adults), and is right next to UT. The neighbors are wonderful and as long as you take care of your apartment, there should be no troubles with the managers. I will truly miss my apartment and the friends I made at Mauna Kai.

My fiancé and I left his apartment here with a very bad taste in our mouths for several reasons.
The main one concerns the deposit. They made us pay a processing fee for getting our deposit back after they failed to send it to the right address, and then continued to screw us out of half of our deposit.
Before moving, we had cleaned for three days and got two confirmations that we had taken care of the majority of tasks. We have pictures to prove it. Some things like carpet cleaning we knew we had pay for. Fine. But after contacting them to discuss why they charged us obscenely for doing things we had already done, and included a pet fee for a pet we don’t have– they never responded. Because the time it would take to sue them is not worth the deposit, we have to swallow this and just do what we can to warn people about this shady place.
Additionally, the apartments are very dark with limited natural light. Also, if if you want to live in fear that your friends’ cars will get towed for parking in their lot, then this place is definitely for you. This happened to his sister’s and it was a lot of fun.
This place is not for young professionals or those who like to keep to themselves. The property managers don’t quite pick up that you just want to go home and not socialize. Overall the living experience here is one I could’ve done without.