Displaced, disgusted and displeased. IU students living in the Evolve Bloomington apartments are less than happy about the setbacks they are facing with the new luxury apartments.

“It was a hazard for me to be living here,” says Talia Cheatham, an IU junior that transferred to the Indiana University from California. “It was just a huge mess.”

Cheatham says her parents cancelled two of their flights back to California after realizing her apartment was not ready to be moved into. Ashe also found mold after living in her apartment for a week.

Evolve offers to place students in various hotels around Bloomington while they rid the apartments of mold. Many are staying at the Hyatt on Kirkwood, which is over a mile walk through town to campus.

“We just want our own space,” says IU junior Jamie Teitelman. “That’s the annoying part.”

Teitelman, like Cheatham, found mold in her apartment after her roommate got sick. She also does not have a shower door, and says she feels Evolve is full of empty promises.

IU NewsNet’s Courtney Sisk asked Evolve for a statement regarding these issues, and if they have a tentative deadline for construction completion. They have yet to respond, however an electrician on-site says he hopes it will be done before IU’s Parents Weekend in the end of September.

“I think Evolve had good intentions, but they should not have made promises they weren’t going to keep,” says Cheatham, who is now back in her apartment.