UCF apartments near Waterford Lakes: the east Orlando option

If you are a student in Orlando looking at UCF apartments near Waterford Lakes, the most useful starting point is what is actually listed today, not what a friend heard last year. Waterford Lakes is an area of east Orlando that sits south of the main campus, and it came up in several student housing posts this month. This guide walks through the current listings on the Off-Campus Universe Orlando listings page that name Waterford in their own titles, sets them beside a few comparison listings elsewhere around campus, and gives you a practical checklist for deciding whether the area fits your lease dates, your budget and your daily schedule.

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Two current listings name Waterford in their own titles: Condo Room- The Crest at Waterford Lakes at $900/month and Rexford at Waterford at $1,020/month. For comparison, here are three listings that our data does not place in Waterford Lakes: Campus Crossings on Alafaya at $865/month, Plaza On University Relets at $1,039/month (listed with 2 beds and 2 baths), and College Station Relet Available $799/m at $799/month (listed with 4 beds and 4 baths).

East Orlando and Waterford Lakes: Reading the Listings Closely

Here is everything our listing data says about the two Waterford options, so you can compare them on the same terms. Condo Room- The Crest at Waterford Lakes is a furnished condo listing with 1 bed and 1 bath, a Year Lease (12 Months) with lease timing given as Aug 2026 - Aug 2027, and a Distance by Car field of "> 10 minutes" from campus. Its address is on Crest Springs Lane in the 32828 ZIP code. Rexford at Waterford is a furnished apartment listing with 1 bed and 1 bath, posted as a Sub Lease with lease timing of September to July, and a Distance by Car field of "5 - 10 minutes". Its address is on Lake Cypress Circle, also in 32828.

Notice the details that need a question before you commit. The Crest listing is titled as a condo room, while its fields show 1 bed and 1 bath and do not mark it as rent by room, so ask the lister directly whether the price covers a private room in a shared condo or the whole unit. Rexford is a sublease, which means you would be taking over someone else's lease for the months listed, and the terms you inherit come from the original lease, not from the listing. Neither listing gives us figures on parking, utilities or amenities, so we are not going to guess at them here; those are questions for the lister.

The comparison listings show what else is open around campus. Campus Crossings on Alafaya is a furnished listing with 1 bed and 1.5 baths, a Year Lease (12 Months), and a Distance by Car field of "5 - 10 minutes". Plaza On University Relets is furnished, listed with 2 beds and 2 baths, a Year Lease (12 Months), and a Distance by Car field of "< 5 minutes". College Station Relet Available $799/m is furnished, listed with 4 beds and 4 baths, a Year Lease (12 Months), and "5 - 10 minutes" by car. Several of these titles use words like relet, which usually signals someone handing over a lease, so read the lease type and dates on each page rather than assuming.

UCF Apartments Near Waterford Lakes: What Students Posted This Month

The best way to judge UCF apartments near Waterford Lakes is to put the listings above next to what students themselves have been posting, while keeping the two sources separate. Across 21 student posts in local Facebook housing groups from 17 to 19 October 2026, the median rent per person that students quoted was $945; that figure is a median of amounts students typed in those posts, not Off-Campus Universe listing data and not a market rate. Four of those student posts mentioned Waterford Lakes, and the dollar figures quoted in those four posts were $250, $850, $950, $956 and $999. That is a small sample, and a single post can mix a room price, a deposit and a concession, so treat those numbers as a snapshot of what students wrote, not a price guide for the area.

The same student posts also show what people cared about. In those 21 posts from 17 to 19 October 2026, furnished units came up in 67% of posts and sublease or lease takeover posts in 81%, both above the usual baseline (by 35 and 34 points), while roommate searches appeared in 52% and parking in 43%. In-unit laundry (38%), pool or gym (33%), semester timing (24%) and urgent move-ins (24%) were also above baseline in that student data. If those match your own priorities, the listing fields help: both Waterford-titled listings are marked furnished, and Rexford at Waterford is a sublease. Whether a given unit has in-unit laundry, a pool or a parking spot is not in our data for these listings, so ask.

One more honest note: our data does not include drive times measured from Waterford Lakes, bus routes, or anything about traffic, so we will not claim any. The only distance figure we hold is each listing's own Distance by Car field, which is what we quoted above. If the trip to class matters to you, test it yourself at the time of day you would actually travel before signing.

Tips for Choosing Between Waterford Lakes and Listings Closer In

• Ask exactly what the price covers. A listing titled as a room can show 1 bed and 1 bath in its fields, so confirm in writing whether the monthly figure is for a private room or the whole unit, and whether any utilities, internet or parking are included.

• Read the lease type and dates before you message. A Sub Lease or relet means you step into someone else's contract, so ask to see the original lease, confirm the end date, and check whether the property manager has to approve the transfer.

• Use the Distance by Car field as a starting point, then test the trip yourself. Drive or ride the route at the hour you would leave for class, and decide whether that time works for you every day of the semester.

• Compare at least three listings side by side. Put furnished status, lease length, bed and bath count, and price for each one in a simple list, so you are choosing between real options rather than reacting to the first post you see.

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