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August 2024 by Ga Ba
Do not recommend! They use high pressure sales tactics to get you to sign your lease a year ahead of time, but then they drop prices right before fall semester. If you plan to move here, definitely do not sign one year in advance. You will save thousands if you wait.
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August 2024 by Lital Azran
My daughter lived at the Lark last year and we all thought it was pretty expensive but were willing to pay it for the amenities and the location. When renewal time came, the management pressured my daughter and her roommates to renew the lease, stating “if you don’t renew it now, we can guarantee you’ll get the same rate or even get an apartment”. Of course we renewed it immediately so she doesn’t lose her spot, only to find out 3 weeks before school starts, that they dropped their lease prices significantly and wouldn’t apply the new rate for us. My husband tried talking to several people there but they all refused to give any discount. I do not recommend this place.
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August 2024 by Jim V
Don’t sign here. Wait until last minute if you really need a place. Once you sign, you are locked in and responsible for the full year. Wait until last minute and you will pay half price. Trust me, I paid full price and my child’s roommates are paying half price and living in the same unit. Called management and asked for concession to pay what the other students pay… they basically said “sorry sucker..”.
The owner of this apartment complex is the Scion group. I will leave a review on all 127 of their properties. It’s not about the money, it’s the principle. $4400 for a four bedroom apartment in Gainesville is absurd! My mistake. Hopefully others don’t get pressured into their sales tactics!
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June 2024 by Ian von Thaden
This place is not so nice... the apartments (that haven't even been occupied) are full of mold and mildew. The quality of the building materials kinda sucks.... vinyl flooring and modular carpet (no padding underneath). The building was built largely by immigrant labor paid substandard wages. I've worked in a few apartment complexes in G-ville... I feel sorry for the students who have to live here... you'll understand in a few months when your furniture breaks, your closet doors fall apart and you stink like mildew and develop a cough. Good luck.
In response to 'the owner'... I worked at your location through a temp agency. No mold? Why did you have dehumidifiers running non stop in building F/F2 up until last week? I have no desire to meet you... I feel sorry for you. You are paying for a sick building. Did you get the water leak fixed in F109? Watching water come out of the fuse panel was a little scary. If I were you, I would sue all the contractors. Good luck. And good luck to your new residents... I notice many of them are Chinese, I lived in China 10 years, I can tell you they will notice.
And you are aware of the multiple lawsuits against University Furnishings? If not, Google them...
Didn't see the mold? Or didn't want to see it? Friday is payday, eh?
Don't live here.
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June 2024 by Preston S
I stayed here for my last year at UF and it was really nice. The gym and pool areas are very clean and well maintained. The only complaint I had was the trash situation can be difficult being in the rear building. There was no trash shout for the rear building. Other than that the rooms are very nice and they are quick for fix issues if you have any . I would recommend staying here anytime.
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May 2024 by Troy Hannum
My Daughter was pressured into extending here lease about 3 or 4 months ago.The Lark stated that her place would be rented if she didn’t sign.Now it looks like they didn't get enough people to rent in the building so they drastically lowered the price and are offering free parking.Called office and they are not willing to help a resident who is in good standing and has never been late one time on her rent No she wasn’t strong armed to sign her lease but they made it sound like she wouldn’t have a place next year.This is for anyone looking to rent there.
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April 2023 by Michael Acemyan
Nice looking apartment with great amenities, but several continuous issues inside the apartment rooms. Roommates and I keep the apartment extremely clean, but my goodness this apartment is infested with a ridiculous amount of cockroaches, cockroach eggs, and other types of disgusting bugs. For example, just this morning before my morning work shift I woke up to the false fire alarm and then turned on my lights to 2 cockroaches running around the apartment at 4 am. Since the beginning of this semester, my roommates and I have killed upwards of 30 roaches and more silverbugs. Just noticed someone wrote a previous review of roaches outnumbering the occupants living there. Definitely should have read that earlier as a warning of this. Apart from that, Lark put us in a bad unit our first year right on the road next to the garbage and light poles so very noisy and bright during night hours. Can't do anything about that but the cockroach situation has gone out of control.
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April 2023 by Julie Chong
everything in our apartment keeps on getting broken. They had to get us a brand new dish washer, install a brand new washing machine, and now our microwave is broken and dish disposal is broken. would not recommend living here.
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March 2023 by Bri
I don't know what happened, but the wifi here is really bad this year so far. It stops working multiple times every day and I would absolutely not trust it if I ever had to take an online exam. It really sucks because the wifi was really good in 2022
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February 2023 by Jamie Gentry
Papering scooters is trashy advertising. It's wasteful, and I just spent 30 minutes cleaning up more than 50 of your flyers that were littered all over UF campus. This makes our campus look trashy. Do better.
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February 2023 by Brodie Crowder
Great place- and Wario and Waluigi are really the life of the party! Their bring your own garlic Mario Party get togethers are the stuff of legend.
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November 2022 by Olivia T.
The lark used to be a great place to live. In the past year it has gone steadily downhill. We have nearly weekly issues with our air conditioning which in Florida is no joke. Recently my power in the bathroom has gone out and the air conditioning has totally quit working and I have to wait two days until Monday to get it fixed. This has happened every week for the past few months. The common areas are never cleaned and the parking gates are often not closed. On top of this the doors that are supposed to be key protected to get into the building often do not work so you can just push through the door. For the first month and a half of this semester there was no elevator from the parking garage to my building. There are some good people who work here but overall the management is lacking and they seem understaffed which is causing the community to get dirty and deteriorate. The parking is a great bonus, but often people park without permits or park so poorly they take up two spaces. There is also now a bus stop right outside the building which is great for getting to campus but there is no good route back.
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October 2022 by Michael Cohen
Lark Gainesville actively participates in lease abandonment. Over the course of my residency, Lark Gainesville has abandoned its lease, residents, apartments, facilities, and staff on several occasions.Lark Gainesville is infested with roaches, mold, mildew, and more. The roaches are in almost every unit and in my unit, in particular, the number of roaches outnumbered the occupants. Upon move-in, I discovered mold/mildew stains in my toilet, bathtub, and in the washing machine. Not to mention there was this mysterious residue inside the dishwasher which the prior building manager believed was paint stains. Paint is toxic and should not be inside a dishwasher. I also had the Air Conditioning Unit leak in my apartment which caused the water to flood across the floor and ruptured a hole in the drywall. Management originally tried to make me liable for the water damage. Even though management did not permit maintenance to fix this for two days. The maintenance team is slow due to the fact that there is a maximum of 627 people who reside in the building and are overworked. They are so overworked that at one point I witnessed one of the maintenance employees sleeping on the couch in the clubhouse. They really need to hire more maintenance staff.Around October/ November the prior building manager left unannounced due to a promotion at the corporate Scion Office. The building’s condition rapidly deteriorated within a matter of weeks with no appropriate employee to authorize the repairs. The amenities that were either damaged or unusable were the BBQ Grills, Hot Tub / Spa, Garage Gate, Fire Pit, Outdoor Light Fixtures not working (Which is a safety hazard), the elevator for the east/back building for weeks, and lastly the miniature bowling alley that has not to be operational for the entirety of my lease. Not to mention a huge chunk of flooring for the pool has disappeared.Additionally, I myself noticed that a Florida Health Inspector was visiting the residence and saw that the trash room was littered with trash. All residents, staff, and visitors can smell the stench from outside the trash room. I was in there a few times where the trash chutes were filled to the point where people left their trash bags litter on the floor, with some chicken wing bones, pizza boxes, tissues and etc.Aside from the building in its poor condition, Lark Gainesville has on occasions not followed its noise, guest parking, pet policy, and violent neighbor disputes. I had to ask Lark five times in the span of two weeks to let my friend park his car where it says in my lease that my guests can park in the garage. Lark Gainesville welcomes pets to their apartment to the point they let them walk around without leashes inside the buildings. Lark Gainesville also allows rowdy drunk people to bang and pound on residents’ doors from the hours of Midnight to around 3 a.m. There have been several occurrences of violent neighbor disputes as well.
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October 2022 by C C
We were happy that our daughter is living there... until she found mold in the ceiling, the washer stank and had mold and she found 4 live cockroaches in her room during the day!!! That is disgusting. Especially for the rent pay.
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September 2022 by John Matos
My keys fell underneath the staircase of the parking garage and the management was kind enough to get their own tools and retrieve the keys for me saving me $100 dollars for key replacement fee. Very nice gesture and I am thankful for the people here.
