With really only one reservation, I recommend the Belmont House as a place to live. The one issue is the management. They are ruthless and inconsiderate people (once you sign the lease). If you keep clear of them, however, you'll be okay.

In most respects, I look back on my time at the Belmont with some fondness. I had great views from my apartment, it was spacious and well designed, nicely renovated like the building in general. Nice floors in the main room. Very efficient heating/air conditioning system. The valet parking was really annoying -- I really would have preferred self-parking.

Great neighborhood (for Chicago). Very convenient -- right near express and local buses, lots of useful stores only a few blocks away. Any problems (apart from management) that I recall had to do with Chicago itself and not with this building.

Bugs: Not too bad. My apartment did have a large number of these little "zebra spiders", which are small spiders that jump around. This was annoying, but not too big a deal. One time a large number of ants marched into my apartment from the window, but this was an isolated incident. There was also a couple of times that large waterbugs or 'sewer bugs' came into my apartment, during the summer, but the building did come and spray after that.

I might have been lucky, but the building was in my experience very quiet. I never heard any neighbors.

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