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River City Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2009

1/23/2009

Good to rent but terrible to buy.

I have lived here for a year and a half on the 14th floor and the experience has been okay. This place is good to rent but terrible to buy. There are some major flaws with this building. The first is it does not have HDTV capabilities. I kid you not. Directv has purchased the rights to this building so no other cable provided can come in. There is a large satellite on top of the building that feeds the signal to all of the units. This satellite does not have the capability to receive an HD signal. So if you have a large 55inch HDTV (like i do) render it useless. Granted it's still nice to have a big tv however I didn't buy it too see fuzzy running backs while watching football. The board has proposed updating the satellite however it was denied due to lack of funding. Most people in this building rent because mostly college or grad students live here and don't want to pay the enormous assessments they charge. My one buddy in the building pays $800 a month in assessments. Second complaint is the air conditioning, it BLOWS!!!!! Literally, twice a week during the summer the engineer has to come and fix my AC. TEchnically the AC unit works fine however it's the lines that feed the air up to the units. I live on the 14th floor which is the hardest to get the air too, during the process air bubbles form in the lines and eventually cuts air off to my AC unit but before that actually occurs the air turns warm and does the complete opposite off cooling me off. Every time the engineer comes to my room he says "i have to bleed the air bubbles out of the line" Once he does the air works fine for a couple of days and then he has to come back again. The coldest i've ever gotten the apartment during the summer is 72 degrees and that's when the AC unit is working properly. On average it's around 80 degrees however when the unit goes completly out then it's the samer temperature as outside. Picture this apartment during a 90 degree day...no AC...and all of the hot air rising to the top of the building...i'm on the top floor!!!!! Keep in mind there are no engineers on staff during the weekends...so if the AC goes out friday night your screwed until monday. It's happened to me numerous times!!! I have to have 3 fans blowing on me just to get through the weekend. During the winter this feature is nice..my apartment is a good temperature. Even if the heat goes out (which it has) the temp will be decent from all of the hot air rising to the apartment. But keep in mind the temperature is about 68 degrees when that happens. Also the electical wiring to this building is terrible. When AT&T came to install/connect my internet the man told me that the wiring was done terribly when building the place and he predicted within the next 10 years it would have to be gutted and replaced. He literally said and quote "I would never buy a unit here because once they have to do that the assessments will sky rocket" I live here because it was convenient for my life style. I currently work a full time job in the loop and attend grad school on the weekends at depaul...which is also located in the loop. So i could walk to work and school very quickly. I was also able to score a nice rent payment. And just an FYI, the reason why I was able to get that price is because the previous owner defaulted on the loan AND they weren't able to find someone to buy or rent for almost a year. I plan on being here for about a year because by then i will have saved enough money to buy a condo. I won't even consider buying this unit. As you can see i've titled this review perfectly. Good to rent but terrible to buy. P.S. The laundry units stink...i've ruined numerous shirts.

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