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AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS!!!
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
4/30/2008
Years at this apartment:
2007
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2008
1 response
When I first toured Presidental Towers, I was mesmerized by the burbling fountains, the sliding glass doors, and the excellent downtown location. My tour guide even promised me that my unit would have a wonderful view of the Sears Tower. Unfortunately, when I moved into my room, I discovered that, despite what the leasing consultant promised me, I did not have a view of the Sears Tower. As a side note, she also said I would have no problem with cell phone service. That also turned out to be a blatant lie. As the months progressed, I realized quickly that I would not be returning for another year.
While all the amenties impressed me when touring the building, I quickly learned they are not all really that great. The sports bar is trashy (I went there once and never returned, food was terrible), the thai restaurant is mediocre (the pad thai tasted funny), and the Mcdonalds is, well, McDonalds. The japanese restuarant frequenty has tough, chewy seaweed in their sushi rolls. There is a coffee shop with the snootiest staff I have ever seen in my life. What kind of a coffee shop has to post a list of rules'! This one does, and one of the rules said that yelling or cursing at the staff was prohibited. I never understood why this would be an issue at a coffee shop, until the day I was sitting there eating my overpriced dinner and one of the employees actually told a customer to "Bite me". Real classy. That place is ridiculous. The owner herself is rude to customers.
The Presidential Towers market is decent if you are looking to pick up the basics, but I would avoid any fresh food. I bought some chicken breasts to make a sandwich, and the chicken was so tough and chewy I couldn't even finish it. And they often don't seem to have exactly what you want. For instance, your preferred brand of deoderant or the odds and ends that you occasionally buy. More often than not, I just end up going to the nearby Walgreens.
As far as the residents go, If I had to guess, I would say about 85% of the population is Indian. I don't really have anything against -------, but apparently some of them have a problem with me, since on numerous occasions, I have had an Indian fellow refuse to board an elevator with me on it. They also tend to stare at you quite a bit in the elevators, and the constant smell of curry and BO gets a bit nauseating after awhile. I am all for diversity, but this place is not diverse at all. If you want to feel like you are living at a hotel in Mumbai, then this is the place for you.
The laundry situation sucks. You have to take all your dirty underwear down to the main elevator lobby of the building. Plus, the dryers often have what looks like pubic hair in them. Combined with the long waits for the elevator, the whole laundry experience can get quite frustrating.
I can honestly say that maintenance has responded to all my requests quickly. I have not had a problem with that, except for the time I complained about the trash smell in my room, the guy came up and sprayed air freshener in the trash room. The smell went away for about two hours. The outside hallway and hallway of my room has smelled like trash ever since. And they're not going to do a thing about it, except send up more air freshener, for another two hour long fix.
The security is pretty good I suppose. They won't let you stand in the lobby hallways and talk on a cell phone. They won't let you sit down by the fountain. They won't let you enjoy a shake while sitting anywhere. The side doors also always seem to be locked when you need to get in, but that doesn't prevent bums from getting in and hanging out at the McDonalds constantly. Despite all the apparent security presence, one night I had a couple next door screaming, and I called security. It sounded like a woman next door was being viscously raped and beaten. Someone was slamming someone else's head against the wall. Security said they would send someone right up, but no one ever came. I am sure the security people laughed when they hung up the phone. Yeah, great security. No sitting by the fountain, but you can beat your girlfriend half to death.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that everything about this place is bad. On paper, it looks great. When you are living there, it will drive you nuts. They claim that "Life's easier at Presidential Towers". What is easy about taking fifteen minutes just to get to your car from your apartment' What is easy about taping up your vents so the smell of curry doesn't blow on you while you brush your teeth' What is easy about cramming into an elevator with ten other people for a ten minute elevator ride up to your room' What is easy about needing to carry around a huge key card, and having to use it three times to get to your room. And, oh god, I haven't even told you about the spiders. On multiple occasions, I found black spiders as big as a poker chip hanging out in my room. That was fun to deal with.
Please just avoid this place. I read a lot of the reviews on here before I moved in, and I told myself "Come on, it can't be that bad". Well, it was that bad. Please don't make the same mistake I did. odusyNYCcZ7yL3Bj5JtG
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User Responses
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From:
Anonymous
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Date:
07/28/2008
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Keep the spiders because they snack on roaches and bed bugs.
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