This apartment complex has only one great thing and that’s the location. This is a high walkable score address in Hyde Park with a bus stop across the street, several nearby restaurants, a post office and a great bakery all within 5-10 min walk. However you have to balance great location with the following: (1) Crime is a problem at this property. If you check out the Trulia crime heat map for the area, you’ll see this property being a hot zone in relatively crime free Hyde park. There have been
...numerous car break-ins, missing Amazon packages and even clothes going missing from the laundry room. This complex needs better lighting and surveillance cameras. (2) This is an older apartment complex. You can hear your neighbors through the walls. Older also means less energy efficient with drafty windows and patio doors. (They are slowly putting in more energy efficient windows and patio doors slowly and in phases through the apartment complex) (3) My unit was relatively close to the swimming pool. If you also get a unit close to the pool, then be ready for noisy, late-night pool parties. At times the users are not even residents! (4) Laundry room machines are fitted with credit card swipe machines that often don’t work. Many times I’ve spent 10 to 15 minutes just trying to get a payment through. (5) My unit had built-in wall bookshelf right at the entrance of the kitchen. Why the heck would you build a bookshelf or open kitchen cabinet right at the entrance to the kitchen? To me it seems like a weird location. My feedback to property management about this came back with, “nobody has complained about this before”. (6) Continuing with the weird location theme, the shower head in the bathroom was not high enough and I’m by no means tall. In fact, I had to crouch down to wet my hair and shampoo. (7) Seems like they have high turnover in the property management office. Property management doesn’t respond to emails quickly. However, maintenance requests are handled fast. (8) Just like an old car, expect dinks and dents. For example, toilet water tank lid was cracked, bath tub had discolorations, and range had yellow patch with scratch marks. I have pictures of all of these. (9) Last but not least, they clean but don’t replace the carpet in the bedroom at move out. Happened to me and that’s so disgusting.
