Privateer Place

I loved it. It was a great living experience! There were no problems with the apartment and it was very private and comfortable.

This place is notorious for unclean grounds. My son lived here and his roommates go into some trouble with the campus police, although my son was not home nor involved with the roommate, he was charged an exuberant fee and evicted. His roommate admitted to having the party, the girls and the weed but they made an“executive” decision to evict all four students and make them pay for the remainder of the lease agreement although they rented the room to other tenants. Very rude to tenants and maintenance is terrible. There were huge bugs in the apartment and it took over two weeks for the exterminator to come.

Any good reviews are from a fake account. Lived here for 3 years and the whole time it was one mistake after another. They charge you a ransom amount to break your lease, and each time you renew it they make false promises to keep you. The staff is rude and very unprofessional. They cater to certain people and harass others. The maintenance is always overbooked and under trained so nothing gets fixed. There is no chain of command so no one knows what is going on, or they send you to someone else so they can pass the responsibility and blame to someone else. The campus police who are also rude and very unprofessional have free reign and can enter your home or harass you at any given moment, and they do! When you try to ask about certain unexplained charges to your electrical fee use you are met with unanswered questions and misguided talk. Their dents go up every semester without informing you and they can even put your academic semester on hold if there is a financial problem with your rent. DON’T LIVE HERE UNLESS YOU WANT A HEADACHE!

Not worth the stay or rent. Don’t live here…

I have a studio on campus and its the perfect size and looks great. I really like the hardwood floors throughout, my own private balcony, and of course being able to wake up 10 minutes before class is always great too.

Privateer place does a lot for the community living there, there are constantly things to do during the week and ways to connect with your community. The rent is a little high for what you get, but it is close to campus and convenient. Overall I would recommend Privateer Place, although it could use some tuneups it isn’t to the point where I would go looking to live elsewhere. There is also often food offered at the main office, and if you don’t have a car to get groceries there is a Rouces located near to campus (walking distance), as well as the christian ministry offers rides to Walmart every Friday, which is extremely helpful, and makes living in Privateer Place and not having a meal plan (which is extremely expensive) something that is possible for students.

There so rude to me everyday, its overpriced, non of the students working here wont let me speak to any of the officals. they require to much of you. dont do it … run

BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LIVING HERE.
A friend of mine worked here and told me all about the behind the scenes of this place.
The corporate officials talked negatively about students, discriminated based on race and knowingly allowed termite issues in their apartment units. Some units had rats, some had pests.
The aim in their meetings was to ‘milk students’ and make them purchase the most expensive units.
It is disgusting. I lived there and i never had any work done to my disgusting apartment despite several requests. I had severe case of mold and termites and they did not care. They even asked me to try fixing the mold myself.
They were the worst to their student staff.
There was one evil lady called Thelma, and one man called Anthony but luckily they fired his ass. The finance lady, Anita was ok but she was really just a puppet. They fired her, then hired her bla la take about oppression of the black people.
They once threw out a single mother for being late on rent! She was a student!
I remember seeing her and her new born baby standing outside crying as the UNO police was throwing out her furniture. That is how they evict people. They throw out your furniture.

When I first was accepted to the University of New Orleans, I was looking for a place nearby, as I did not know the area. I was living in Portland, OR at the time, and I am a transfer student. I has assumed that because of the high rent prices, that I would be getting sufficient financial aid since this is on campus.
I got a studio apartment, as I did not want roommates. At over $ 1000 a month for the 2011 – 2012 school year, it was not worth the price. I did try to get a job with the complex, but was rejected, and I was unable to afford the apartment. There was mold along the base boards, mold spreading across the ceiling, and water dripping down from the ceiling in front of the closet. The maintenance personnel came in to «fix» the leak a week after I moved in. They put plastic sheeting down, a ladder and cut a small square in the ceiling. That remained for the next four months that I lived there.
I was accused by the management of vandalism to the apartment across from me three days after moving in. The vandalism was there when I moved in, and the manager refused to believe me. I ended up moving out in the middle of my lease (the exact middle), and they tried to hold my account at the university, restricting me to not being able to change classes or enrolling the next year. I ended up going to the law clinic in the CBD to get things rectified. I wound up not having to pay the full amount, and having holds lifted from my accounts from the pain of having to deal with them.
This place would be perfect for college first timers, just moving away from mommy and daddy, and who don’t care about maintenance issues, but not an ideal place for older students.