Lack in Quality of Student Housing

SAMI started out in February 1989 with merely 150 apartments under their management. They have always prided themselves on "responding to the changing needs of students."

Now SAMI owns nearly 1,000 different student housing locations around the Illinois State University and Heartland Community College campuses. SAMI is now spreading themselves thin. On SAMI's website they boast about their student housing locations having extravagant amenities such as pools, nice furniture, and even flat screen TV's in some locations. But they are failing to upkeep simple facilities such as proper plumbing, working heating and air conditioning, and carbon monoxide detectors with batteries in them.

SAMI also claims to have their own full service maintenance company, but the average time it takes them to respond to a maintenance request is over a week. SAMI is sacrificing quality for quantity, the number of housing locations they manage has grown, but none of them are up to standard.

College students do not have the funds to be spending thousands of dollars a month to ensure they are getting student housing that meets basic safety requirements. But at this point, that is what it would take.