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UNCC classes start while students wait for apartment complex to be ready

By Ken Lemon, wsoctv.com
By Ken Lemon, wsoctv.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Classes already started at UNC Charlotte, but many of the students’ apartments aren't ready.

Hundreds of students are upset because they are without a place to live.

The options they have are to live in a hotel for a few weeks, and officials from the apartment complex Haven 49 said they would pay for it and provide transportation from there to campus. or find their own place to stay and the leasing company would provide $1,000 and waive the rent for September.

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Those options were based on the apartments being ready to rent by Aug. 31.

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One tenant told Channel 9 there is no way the apartment complex is opening that soon.

Loren Williams said she believed she was getting a state of the art apartment at Haven 49 across the street from campus.

But on move-in day, there were no walls for some of the rooms.

The management team said they had delays meeting requirements by the city.

Williams said she couldn't move into a hotel because she has a pet.

She stays with friends and has lived in three different places in the past week or so.

"I have three outfits to police off of because all of my stuff is in a storage unit,” Williams said. “I never thought I would be homeless."

About an hour after Channel 9 questioned Haven 49 management about the issues, they let Williams out of her lease, but she now worries about her three roommates and refunds.

"There is no way it's going to be done by the 31st,” Williams said.

A representative from the public relations firm working for Haven 49 said they are working to find someone who can explain why they seem to be so far behind and what happened to tenants waiting for the apartments they have paid for.

Haven 49 left a message on their website for tenants; "We share your concern and understand the inconvenience this may cause."

Williams said it has been hard trying concentrate in school with all this happening just off campus.

Williams said she found another place to stay and hopes to move in as soon as possible, but said there are many other students waiting to find out what will happen to their apartments.

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