The Village at Lamar II

Whoa. I mean, WHOA… So, to be fair, I don’t live here, but a very good friend of mine does, and I have been spending a lot of time here. At first glance, during the daytime, this is in many ways a typical Austin complex. The rent is reasonable, and the apartments are spacious. They have great balconies off the master bedroom, and Separate dining room and living room. With vaulted ceilings. Not bad, right?
Here’s where it starts to go south. Toilets that you have to flush four times; cockroaches painted into the wall; a pool that is slightly larger than a hot tub, that is always filled to capacity with the most obnoxious and unruly kids in Austin; an over abundance of residents hanging out drinking beer, who randomly barge into your apartment uninvited; the dumpster pickup at 2am, with the gratuitous banging of the dumpster for dramatic effect; the untrained and untagged dogs who run loose and bite people; impromptu cable stealing that causes the cable company to shut down your service for two months; and the sheer ghetto effect that permeates every nuance of this complex. It should be enough to drive even the most stalwart apartment dweller running for the calm serenity of Oltorf and Haversham.
So there you have it. Now, my cramped space at the Double V up in G-​Town doesn’t seem as bad, comparatively. Take a chance – You only live once!