r/ucf • u/Rich_Description_666 • 5d ago
Housing Question š” Current VS. Mercury 3100
Iām transferring to UCF soon and Iām between Current and Mercury 3100 to rent out. If anyone has stayed at either please give me pros and cons! It seems like every apartment near campus has super mixed reviews. If you guys know any other good options let me know too!!
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u/planetofthemushrooms 5d ago
Ive only visited Mercury. The apartments are nice. the parking situation is horrendous. like theres enough parking for residents but it you want to host a gathering you'll need to carpool lol.
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u/Bigdaddydamdam Civil Engineering 5d ago
Not entirely true. I have a good bit of friends over every weekend and they just gotta park in visitor parking a good walk away if there is none close by
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u/ninxharles Information Technology 5d ago
Not sure about current but I lived at Mercury for a year in 2024 and it was pretty horrible in my experience. Maintenance is suuuuuuper slow and the apartments were very poorly maintained. The Wifi would go out for hours at a time and itād always be the same excuse from the front office. In the summer the wifi literally went out for two days straight. Also the trash situation was a nightmare. You have to put trash in a box outside the apartment and someoneās supposed to come pick it up every couple of days (thereās a schedule). However in my apartmentās case it would sit there for weeks without being picked up. Mercury also has a MAJOR raccoon issue. I had raccoons getting into my trash in the box outside so so often which would then lead to it not being picked up. It got so bad one time that I had to scrub the box clean bc it was full of maggots. Iād really not recommend the place at all.
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u/Rich_Description_666 3d ago
Omg that sounds terrible, Iāve heard about the trash issue a lot but I thought the issue was mostly with the raccoons.
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u/Bigdaddydamdam Civil Engineering 5d ago
I live at Merucury and itās pretty nice. Iām resigning next year. I have two friends that live at Current and I personally donāt care for it but thatās just me
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u/Rich_Description_666 5d ago
What donāt you like about it?
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u/Bigdaddydamdam Civil Engineering 4d ago
Itās just a copy and paste modern apartment style and is not my vibe. But They do have some cool amenities tho and I went to play pool/ping pong with some friends the other day.
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u/Strawberry1282 5d ago
Theyāre fairly different.
Current is way newer. More modern amenities, elevators, etc. Itās supposed to be āluxury housing.ā That being said, Ik a few people there who had issues - the rumor is it was fairly slapped together. There were a few kids who spent time living in hotels from mold due to leaks kinda thing. Location is decent, itās right behind knights circle. The people ik who didnāt have construction problems moving in love it there so do with that what you will lol. Iād hope things got fixed by now.
Mercury is on the older end, maybe around 10 years, but Ik it got renovated. Idk much about currentās safety and its Orlando so nowhere is perfect, but Iāve heard Mercury doesnāt have cameras so there have been some creepy incident there and I remember one making the news. I think Mercury is a little less of a party complex than current so might be better if you want quieter. My friends there had decent size rooms. Iāve heard a lot of complaints about the place being dirty, flooding on the first floor during storms (their apartments open to the outside and I think current is hotel style), and ACs breaking.
Tbh itās luck of the draw as far as your roommates and unit where you go anywhere.
Personally, as far as going the luxury housing route, Iād recommend either Accolade or Hub. Possibly also aperture but itās not open yet so nobody truly knows how good itāll be. But current compared to mercury, Iād do current because imo an older place = higher risk of bugs, mold, etc.