terrible place. i signed a lease with my boyfriend and we moved out 6 days later!! we stayed in building 2B #303 was our apartment number i think. the condo was shown to us literally the next day after the previous tenets moved out. they were tenants for about 10 years.. (is what we were told)
the woman who showed us the condo ("who is a friend of the landlord and the landlords wife") told us not to worry about the color of the walls (every room was painted purple), told us not to worry about the dirtiness of the condo, told us not to worry about any broken fixtures etc.
we were basically promised that the condo would have been fixed up before the keys were given to us. LOL! we received a call from the landlords friend saying we can go look at the condo again because as of now, the walls are being painted and the next step is to actually start fixing the fixtures and all the other damages that were left.. i was not able to make it due to work but my boyfriend went to go look at the condo and he face-timed me. the walls were painted and my boyfriend told me there was a guy there literally working on the condo. now, we were told everything was going to be fixed, right? so we assumed he was going to fix more than just the wall color...
long story short, we get the keys to the condo and as soon as i walked in i was ready to cry. the place was filthy and over all the condo was left in unhealthy living conditions. 3 days later i find out our landlord doesn't even live in IL. he lives in Cali.. he was so hard to get ahold of and at one point i thought the entire thing was going to turn into some scam or fraud just because he wasn't responsive. the condo was full of roaches. both dead and alive. we didn't fully unpack because i was questioning on living there. not once did i make a meal there because the kitchen was so disgusting. so we were eating out for the 6 days that we were there. we still had our previous apartment and i personally left things there because i knew that this condo was not going to be my new home. i started to send pictures to the landlord, Peter, of the roaches and all the damages. i literally sent him a photo gallery.. he was unprofessional with his responses to us. we explained to him that we spent so much money on just cleaning supplies and he made it seem like we were lying. we were going to try to make it work but every single day there was at least 2 roaches that we were killing. it was so disgusting. the landlord also basically told us that "some people don't mind living with roaches" UMMM WHAT? it doesn't matter if people don't care about roaches or not. if you are a landlord, it is fully your responsibility to make sure the apartment/condo is cleaned before you even think about getting new tenants to living there.
we also had a rude exterminator come out and spray everything down. including my boyfriends clothes and my lotions and perfumes. yes, he sprayed our personal stuff..... he also walked in the condo and didn't say hello back which is whatever but he literally walked in like he knew exactly where the bathroom was (like he's been there more than once) he basically told us if a bomb hit the entire building, the roaches will still be there.
minutes after he left, here comes a roach in our closet. i flipped and called Peter, the landlord. i told him if he does not get serious about this situation we will have to take legal action. Peter made it seem like he wanted to fix things but he was not responding on a timely matter. i don't have time to sit around and wait for things to get done when all of this should have been taken care of. now, we were stuck paying rent for a roach fest apartment on top of our old apartment. this was the worst move in experience. do not, and i repeat, do not! rent the condo in building 2B #303. you will be extremely disappointed.
my boyfriend and i stayed up till 4AM moving out stuff out of there too.
Peter texted me after he finally refunded(not all but most) of our money back saying he did not know about the roaches etc. overall this place is just disgusting.
Veronica the leasing manager tried her best to help us out but she can only do so much since Peter is the landlord.
NEVER AGAIN!!!! read more