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Gabe's Place: Great place to live (Recommending!)

2009-01-28T12:27:45-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I moved in to Gabe's Place in 2004 and I have continued to renew my lease ever since.Every year I shop around to see if I am getting the best deal for my apartment and I have yet to find an apartment that is better then what I have and ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: worse of the worst (Not Recommending)

2008-09-29T16:22:31-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Agree!!! They stole our deposits. They charged me $300 for demages that existed before I moved in. Water leaking from the ceiling, giving shitty smell. They repainted my entire ceiling but put all the cost on me. What are they thinking? They charged $55 for an uncleaned oven. I didn't ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: ROACH INFESTED (Not Recommending)

2008-08-29T14:14:53-06:00

From -Anonymous-: (202 E John)Our apartment was filled with roaches within 2 days of move in. I called to ask to switch apts in the building, anything and the ladies in the office were complete bitches. I asked what would be done if the bugs keep reappearing after the spray and I ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Pleasant Experience (Recommending!)

2008-03-06T12:45:33-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I must admit, I read the reviews before I rented but decided to lease because the apartment was so nice. I lived there for a year and had some maintenance requests throughout the year. The staff always came and fixed sometimes even going above and beyond (they helped my roommate ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Don't count on getting anything back from them (Not Recommending)

2008-01-03T16:05:38-06:00

From brulez: They stole our security deposit ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Dangerous! (Not Recommending)

2007-08-16T13:15:34-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Check out the stories in the News-Gazette from last November and December. It seems that some guys living in one of the aprtments on Gregory nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Gabe claimed the problem was caused by a water freezing in a vent and blocking it, but later articles ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Not worth it (Not Recommending)

2007-06-30T16:50:59-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I'll admit that the locations are good, and if you know how to take care of your own apartment and can fix things yourself, it's not too bad. But that still does not protect you from the overall incompetance and/or underhanded dealings from this landlord. Yes, we have had the ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Gabe is a slumlord (Not Recommending)

2007-05-09T21:18:22-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I cannot stress enough that Gabe's Place Apartments should be avoided like the plague. I do not even know where to begin. First, like everyone else who has written a review, when we first moved in, our place was trashed. The bathroom was a mess, my mattress smelled like rancid ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Unblievable. (Not Recommending)

2007-04-03T11:24:52-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Dealing with the management is horrible. I'd like to agree with some of the other's who have said that they were shown a nicely furnished and clean apartment. When we were shown ours, there were a few things broken like a closet door and some drawers. We were told that ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Absolutely Terrible...Worst Landlord at U of I Without a Doubt (Not Recommending)

2007-02-19T01:57:23-06:00

From -Anonymous-: This is my fifth and final year at U of I and I have lived in a wide variety of living arrangments (dorms, fraternity house, 3 different apartments) and Gabe's Place is by far the worst landlord I have ever had.

I lived at the 810 W. Iowa location and my ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: AVOID!!! PLEASE!!! (Not Recommending)

2006-09-25T21:17:27-06:00

From dirkadirka2509: Lets start with the good:
-location is okay (102 E gregory)
-relatively spacious (except for my poor roommates, lol)
-on bus lines, so pretty easy to get to class
- not too noisy during the week
-right next to IMPE and sports complex

the bad:
- lots of ugly, terrible or uncomfortable furniture
- the building is trashed ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Worst Apartment I've ever had (Not Recommending)

2006-09-17T22:07:51-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Now, if you're asking if it's so bad, why did I rent it, I'll tell ya it's only because I found it within walking distance of campus, and because they offered a parking spot.
These people only car about getting your money, they rent out pieces of "*&%!" knowing they'll get ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Really Terrible! (Not Recommending)

2006-08-16T12:25:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: 1. problems never get fixed such as roof leakage
2. Services provided by some other landlords (such as Bankier) for free would be charged very expensively by Gabe's Place.

In a word, I will never rent an apartment from Gabe's Place. It is really a terrible landlord! ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: No to Gabes Place (Not Recommending)

2006-06-22T17:37:41-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Gabe's Place is one of the worst I've ever encountered. I wanted to give it a shout, but after a year of living there, they're are such garbage. Overpriced, for apartments they never clean after tenants move out. Yes I agree, it utterly comes down on the tenant to maintain ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: WATCH YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT!!! (Not Recommending)

2006-06-11T20:55:04-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Besides hating my apartment, I want to warn all tenants of their security deposit policy, although they will never admit to it:

If you have credits on your account when you move out, they make a statement up in excel (mine was different that my friends who lived in the same ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Terrible, DO not EVER rent from (Not Recommending)

2006-05-26T14:51:32-06:00

From DoNotRentGabesPlace: Apartment was in terrible condition, uncleaned in years, and garbage still inside when I moved in. It was so bad, a television crew came and filmed it for a news item on students getting ripped off by land lords.

Gabes place was un-receptive to our compaints to replace broken furniture and ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: You have to understand (Recommending!)

2006-05-07T21:28:43-06:00

From UofIChick: If you look at all the reviews for campus housing, none of them are good. If you complain about the clealiness of the apartments, that isn't Gabe's Place doing the dirtying, that is the students, like you and me. Maybe if the tenants would keep their own apartments in some ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Tens Reasons to Avoid Gabe's Place (Not Recommending)

2006-04-13T12:28:17-06:00

From -Anonymous-: 1) Cockroach smashed on the wall when we moved in.

2) Moved in to wet, muddy, urine-smelling carpet.

3) No shower curtain, bed, any kind of furniture.

4) "Laundry Services" is an old, smelly, filthy room with machines that don't work.

5) "Electrician" came over to fix a problem dressed like a thug when ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Like bats, ants, and flooding? Rent with Gabe's Place (Not Recommending)

2006-04-11T17:41:10-06:00

From -Anonymous-: We lived in 6 person Gabe's Place apartment our senior year. During this time:

- A city inspector found 30 code violations
- We had two bats
- Ants infested the ground floor
- Our living room carpet flooded several times
- A downstairs window remained broken all year

And those were just a few problems. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: thank god I am not still living with Gabe's Place (Not Recommending)

2006-02-28T19:13:03-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Gabe's place is haneous, I have never had a worse living experience, it was absolutely disgusting. I can not stree this enough- DO NOT LIVE AT GABE'S PLACE- YOU WILL REGRET IT!!! ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: SO BAD...DO NOT RENT FROM GABE'S PLACE (Not Recommending)

2006-02-01T15:02:15-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I live at 202 E. John St. and I have had a very bad experience with this landlord. My place was a filthy mess when I moved in, and had obviously not been cleaned. Our stove didnt work, no beds, no couch, and no other furniture that was supposed to ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Gabe's Place is TERRIBLE (Not Recommending)

2006-01-04T12:03:50-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Gabe's place has been the worst of all my landlords I have had in Champaign. It was filthy dirty when we moved in, and they didnt even have bed in my roomates room. It took them at least 3 days to bring a bed. They take forever to do everything, ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: DO NOT rent from Gabe! (Not Recommending)

2005-11-11T03:51:38-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Gabe's Place was an absolute nightmare to deal with moving in. We had to spend our first night in a hotel because our apartment was so truly awful. My roommates and I had a list at least a page long of broken stuff and pretty much everything you can think ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Do NOT Rent for GABES!! (Not Recommending)

2005-11-07T09:34:45-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Moved into a 9 person house and the basement was not finished like they said so only 7 people could live there. After weeks of constant phone calls did we finally get the rent down to reimburse us for the basements. Gabe's Place even told us during the summer that ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Sick of cry babies (Recommending!)

2005-11-03T21:44:03-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Ok seriously, all these bad reviews are a bunch of spoiled brats. I live at 202 E. John. During move-in I saw a bunch of spoiled north shore brats with their parents who don't know that this is a HUGE party building, screaming at every employee they could find. Although ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Awful (Not Recommending)

2005-10-15T13:58:46-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I have had the worst experience with this particular landlord. Not only was my place NOT cleaned when I moved in, but any repairs (including a GIANT hole through my roommates door) have yet to be attended to. (our sink has been LEAKING since we moved in. We had no ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Best of my places here (Recommending!)

2005-10-10T22:39:35-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I have seen looking over these reviews that every company has negativeties. My apt wasn't clean when I moved in but I was reimbursed cleaning supplies and time for my work. My apartment was painted and steam cleaned within 45 days of moving in. I would say I would recommend ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: 50/50 (Not Recommending)

2005-09-16T00:09:25-06:00

From swiftojr: Service was good. Toilet broke, fixed fairly quickly. Apt. wasn't cleaned when we moved in though, and there was damage done to walls/doors that wasn't fixed.
Spaceheaters didn't work very well to heat the whole apt. A/C only in main bedroom. Very noisy place (202 E. John). Compared to some ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: What you get for the money... (Recommending!)

2005-08-21T19:50:16-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I understand some of the complaints for Gabe's Place, but I have to say I disagree. For the last year I have lived at 202 E. John and I have some positive things to say.

You can't expect the RITZ when you get a two bedroom for 600/month. This is a ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: You can do better (Not Recommending)

2005-08-01T14:54:28-06:00

From chunk.lite@gmail.com: I rented 3 consecutive years from Gabe's Place at 102 East GRegory (corner of 1st and Gregory) in Champaign. On my move-in date, the apartment was dirty, and the power was off with old food and flies in the refrigerator, plus pizza stains on the carpet and a crack in ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: 1st/Greg. and John St. (Not Recommending)

2005-07-25T22:42:58-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I haven't actually rented from Gabe's Place, but I viewed the apartments. They were disgusting, and I realize that a lot of that is the tenants, but the common areas and hallways were so nasty, there was food all over the hallways, and at once when I was walking out ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Stay Away! (Not Recommending)

2005-06-28T01:15:50-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I lived in a one bedroom at 202 E. John. The apartments are falling apart. Had to call the police twice to report a noise complaint against my neighbor b/c landlord refused to act even though noise level is written into the contract. Security is next to none. Took 3 ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Horrible (Not Recommending)

2004-06-01T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Gabe's maintenace staff is the only decent thing about renting from Gabe's place.... This year was filled with unfulfilled promises, an ignorant staff, and a condemed basment. Would NEVER rent from Gabe's place again. ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: LOVE IT!! (Recommending!)

2004-05-12T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: We live in one of the apartments on Locust and WE LOVE GABE'S PLACE!! The maintenance staff is super friendly and helpful and we absolutely LOVE the girls in the office. Also, Marty, the office manager, is one cool guy. Anytime we've had a problem he's gone out of his ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Decent space, terrible management (Not Recommending)

2004-04-26T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: I lived at the 202 E. John (triangle-shaped building) -- we had a corner unit so there was a lot of space. No problems with the layout, etc., but whenever anything needed fixing it was like pulling teeth to get them out. Our oven was broken for literally 3 months ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: TERRIBLE! (Not Recommending)

2003-11-10T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Live at the 8-bedroom house on Iowa in Urbana. It´s terrible, I would never ever recommend Gabe´s Place to anybody. He is a terrible landlord; he drives a Hummer, but won´t put screens on our windows, fix the leaky plumbing (toilet water drips into the bedroom below).

Part of the ceiling ... [click to read full apartment review]

Gabe's Place: Fair (Recommending!)

2003-09-02T00:00:00-06:00

From -Anonymous-: Definitely an apartment building designed from the outside in. The rooms are very oddly designed, which results in many hours of trying to figure out how to fit both a bed and a desk in the same room. Once that is taken care of though, it isn´t such a bad ... [click to read full apartment review]