<p>Anyone have experience with Mustang Village for off campus housing ? </p>
<p>What is the cost of a small studio apartment there? </p>
<p>Any other info and opinions would be apprecated .</p>
<p>Thanks !</p>
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<p>Can anyone update me on Mustang Village. It looks like my son wants to live there and tells me that there’s new ownership and the complex is being revamped. True, or will it continue to be the dump that the above ratings indicate?
I’d also like to know of any viable alternatives. He and his roommate lost out at Cedar Creek.</p>
<p>gotpeter: If you haven’t already, check out [McNamara</a> Real Estate](<a href=“http://www.slorealty.com/listings.html]McNamara”>http://www.slorealty.com/listings.html). They have quite a few properties listed in SLO and the “five cities.” A lot of Poly students use their services.</p>
<p>I lived in Mustang Village I when I was an undergrad at Cal Poly. I lived in a studio apartment, and I believe the rent was $720 a month. While the apartment was decent, the people living around me were not. It was incredibly loud and made for a poor study environment. The proximity to Cal Poly is nice, but overall I would recommend finding somewhere else.</p>
<p>Try going to the Mustang Village website for starters. If your student can walk down to their office, he/she can get a packet with the floorplans and prices as well as all of the forms. As a parent, you can call Mustang Village and they can email you the same package with the forms the adult will need to fill out. Ask how many of the (whatever kind of) apartments are left. That worked for me a few years ago, but might be different if the owners have changed? I’d recommend the student and roommates visit there at different times and hours of the week to get a feel of the place and what it’s like to walk there late at night.</p>
<p>I’m currently in Mustang II, and I pretty much have to second what patentlawyer said. The apartment isn’t that bad, but my neighbors can be loud and annoying sometimes.</p>
<p>Thanks patentlawyer and bjornredtail for the input. The problem is a lack of alternatives in walkable proximity to the campus and, the clock is ticking.
eduparent, we just Fedex’d the forms along with a deposit. New owners take over this weekend and the staff isn’t sure they’ll have jobs on Monday.
This should be fun. :(</p>
<p>Gotpeter—your student might consider getting on or staying on CPs dorm waiting list, just in case the student changes his or her mind about Mustang Village. Many dorm openings happen in the late summer. At first, my son was notified he did not get in the dorms, so we applied at Mustang Village. By late summer, he got the call that a dorm room was available. Although we lost Mustang Villages deposit, we were happy not paying their Sept to Aug lease. It was cheaper to live on-campus and critical to have wired internet.</p>
<p>Good idea eduparent although, my son does **not **want to live in the dorms, particularly Poly Canyon. BTW, does MV not have internet access or is it just wireless?</p>
<p>My son is in Mustang Village this year after his first year in the dorms. His main complaint is that it is noisy, and he is moving on somewhere else next year, but the apartment itself is fairly nice, and the ability to walk to class was a big plus. He and his roommates pay separately for wired internet, about $45/ month, I think.</p>
<p>Thanks tlam. We called and learned the same thing; same for TV and phone just like any other apt. complex.</p>
<p>Gotpeter—A few years ago when we were considering Mustang Village, I was not impressed with the wireless internet or cable tv offered to those residents. Maybe it has improved since then, but I was glad my son got into the on-campus apartments. Each bedroom came with two ethernet jacks for wired internet, one cable tv jack and one phone jack, all free. Personally, I think wired internet is faster, more secure and more reliable than wireless. But since your student prefers to live off campus, my opinion isn’t relevant to your case. :)</p>
<p>Oh yes it is and I appreciate the information.
Thanks.</p>
<p>You are on your own for Internet. Having lived under the oppressive dictatorship known as Resnet, I think that’s a good thing. </p>
<p>The cable around here stinks. But, Mustang Village is only a half a mile from the telephone Central Office. Which means, 6Mbit/Sec DSL acctually runs at… 6Mbit/Sec (or petty close). Given that I don’t watch TV, that works out very well for me.</p>
<p>What makes the cable service stink? Is it just at Mustang Village or throughout SLO?</p>
<p>It’s Charter. That should be plenty of explanation :)</p>
<p>Well, additionally, this is a weakness of cable modems in general. Mustang Village and other student-heavy apartment complexes are going to have particularly bad cable Internet based on the way that cable modems work. You see, everyone in a given loop has to share the same ~50Mbit/sec-~150Mbit/sec throughput. In student apartment complexes, there are a) lots of people on the same cable loop and b) most of those people are using lots of throughput. As a result, cable Internet is often unable to deliver its promised speeds. </p>
<p>I’ve heard some folks elsewhere in SLO have gotten decant service. Even in here Mustang village you can get a decant 3Mbit/sec or so even during peak hours. So, at this point it’s largely a personal preference and a dislike of television.</p>
<p>Makes sense. Thanks</p>