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Madison Hyde Park Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2000 - 2004

1/18/2008

I just don't get it. The building was crap when I lived there. I lived there for about 4 years (full rent) - in 2 different apartments (same floor). The onsite management was HORRIBLE for a good while - extremely rude. They were eventually replaced by very nice Maja Savic and (I think) her brother - thank goodness. Two or three of the door people were almost always asleep or *nodding* for whatever reason. They let absolutely anyone upstairs. People would be knocking on my door without a phonecall. The laundry room once flooded and rats came up from the sewer. I found a rat turd in my sink one morning. ...The elevators were graffittied and often broken. ...The carpet in the apartment was really cheap - like walking on a lobby mat over concrete. ...The kitchen and appliances were run down and shabby. ...The fixtures and cabinets were falling apart. ...When I washed my white clothes in the washing machines, they came out dingy and dirtier than when they went in! When I began to notice this, I started going to the laundromat, and what do you know - they were white again! My first apartment in the building was unbelievably small at almost $800 per month - and it was the one with the rat turd in the sink. I moved down the hall to a two bedroom two bath. When I was shown the apartment, they had all of the windows opened. It was summer, so I didn't think anything of it. I moved in. I closed the windows that night, and when I left and came back to the apartment the next day, I walked in, and the place REEKED of CAT PEE!!!!!!!! Not smelled, REEKED - like a lion's den. It was strong. I walked around trying to locate the source of the odor. I walked into the second bedroom, and it didn't reek of cat pee - it smelled like stinky armpits! So now, I have two foul odors to deal with. I had management shampoo the carpet 3 different times. Each time, the odor was a little less intense, but it didn't go away. I finally traced it to the hall closet. (I wonder if the former tennant actually peed in the closet out of spite?) Anyway, I tried everything - 3 cans of pet odor eliminator, a box of baking soda, that carpet powder stuff you sprinkle and vaccuum. Nothing worked. I just kept the windows open and prayed that my clothes didn't smell like cat pee when I left the house. Then, they remodeled the lobby - HA!. The lobby has this inviting hotel-like feel to it with gold trim and new leather furniture, but the apartments were complete crap!! It's like they put a bow on a turd!! (Please forgive the constant poop references - I guess thinking about this place induces that type of imagery.) Needless to say, I moved out of the building and found a cleaner, better place. I don't understand all of the great reviews and the 100% rating. They had to have changed DRASTICALLY in the last couple of years for these ratings to be accurate. 50% or 60% is more likely... 75% understandable... but 100%? I find it really difficult to believe that EVERYONE is so happy with everything about this building. I lived in two separate units in this building, so it's not like it was just a fluke. I just don't get it. I wouldn't recommend it.

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