'It's nasty:' NCSU students find dirty off-campus apartments on move in day

Parents and students did not expect the site they were met with Tuesday when they showed up at the Vie at Raleigh apartment complex on Wolf Creek Circle for move in day.
Posted 8/16/2017, 2:27:00 AM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:52:07 PM

SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

>>> TONIGHT SOME LOCAL COLLEGE

STUDENTS DEALING WITH HOUSING

STUDENTS.

THEY FOUND BUGS, MOLD, AND

OTHER PROBLEMS.

WE SENT CANDACE SWEAT.

SHE IS LIVE WITH WHAT THEY TOLD

HER.

>> Reporter: GERALD, THE

PHONE CALLS, E-MAILS AND

PICTURES WERE COMING IN TODAY

FASTER THAN WE COULD EVEN KEEP

UP WITH.

AND THEN WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE

APARTMENT COMPLEX, PARENTS

PRACTICALLY LINED UP TO TELL US

WHAT WAS GOING ON TODAY.

THEY SAY AT THIS POINT ALL THEY

CAN DO IS MAKE SOME NOISE AND

HOPE THAT SOMETHING CHANGES.

OF ALL THE THING THAT IS COULD

GO WRONG ON MOVE IN DAY, THIS

WASN'T EXPECTED.

>> THERE IS NO FILTER IN THE

AIR CONDITIONER.

IT IS NASTY.

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO

NASTY.

>> THE PICTURES AND E-MAILS

STARTED POURING IN ON TUESDAY,

A DAY BEFORE CLASSES START,

THIS IS WHAT MANY STUDENTS AND

PARENTS WALKED INTO ON WOLF

CREEK CIRCLE

>> THIS IS DISGUSTING.

>> Reporter: MORGAN LANG DON

SAID IT WAS SO DISKUSINGGUSTING

SHE TRIED TO BREAK HER LEASE.

>> THEY SAID IT WOULD BE

CLEANED BY THE END OF THE DAY.

I SAID, WE HAVE TO BE IN OUR

APARTMENT TODAY.

WE HAVE NO PLACE TO SLEEP

TONIGHT.

IT IS 5:00, AND IT IS STILL

DISGUSTING.

>> Reporter: THE COMPLEX IS

NOT AFFILIATED WITH LOCAL

UNIVERSITIES, BUT BOTH SHUTTLE

SERVICES FOR STUDENTS ON ITS

WEBSITE, INSIDE THE LEASING

OFFICER SEVERAL PARENTS AND

STUDENTS LINED UP WITH

COMPLAINTS OF BROKEN DOOR

FRAMES, BUGS, ODORS AND MISING

PIECES OF FURNITURE.

THEY TOLD US WE WERE PROMISED

WITH MOVE IN READIEN UNITS.

SHE WAS TELLING US WHEN ANOTHER

PARENT PULLED UP TO DO THE

SAME.

>> LIVE ROACHES.

>> ARE YOU ALL DOING A REPORT

ON HOW SCREWED UP THAT IS.

>> Reporter: SHE SAYS SHE

BOUGHT SUPPLIES AT WALMART, BUT

SHE IS NOT SURE THAT WILL MAKE

A DIFFERENCE.

>> THE MIRRORS WERE SMEARED.

THERE WAS MOLD IN THE TUB.

THERE WAS CHEWED UP SOMETHING

ON THE WINDOWSILL.

>> Reporter: A MAINTENANCE

CREW QUIT AT THE LAST MINUTE.

>> Reporter: AND SO I DID GO

INSIDE THE LEASING OFFICE AND

WORK MY WAY THROUGH THE PARENTS

AND STUDENTS AND TRIED TO SPEAK

WITH A REPRESENTATIVE INSIDE.

HE DIDN'T WANT TO ASK MOST OF

MY QUESTIONS AND ASKED ME TO

LEIGH THE PROPERTY, BUT NOT

BEFORE HE AT LEAST SAID THEY

HAVE ROUGHLY 1300 UNITS AND

ONLY 50 PARENTS WERE IN THERE

COMPLAINING, I GUESS HE PUT

THOSE NUMBERS OUT THERE TO PUT

THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE.

WE DID PLACE A CALL TO THE

MANAGEMENT IN MIAMI.

WE HAVE YET TO HEAR BACK.

I'M IN TOUCH WITH THE STUDENTS.

THEY ARE HOPING TO HAVE THIS

ALL WORKED OUT TOMORROW.

>> I'M SURE THEY ARE TAKING IT

VERY SERIOUSLY.

NOT VERY INVITING THERE.

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