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anonymous

Resident 2014 - 2019

10/10/2019

The only reason I'm writing this review is for one issue: The design of the kitchen is poor. Specifically, the range over the over. In the 2 units I've lived in so far here (one was a an apartment and the other was one of the older townhouses) the range consists of a fan that just blows air from the stove into the kitchen, It's not an exhaust fan. What this means is that under many circumstances when cooking, this will set off the fire alarms which is annoying. A range is supposed to exhaust the heat and fumes out of the building, but there is no duct work for this, and it just blow right in front of the range hood, so it's sort of useless. Other than that issue, the rental community is quiet (it is next to IL 64 though so you do get some road noise, but it's not that big of a deal as it is a bit of a way back from the road), it's quiet, secure and they do keep the area in good condition and the apartments in good condition. The staff is also very understanding and easy to work with (Stone Prairie Mgmt staff that is, not sure about Lain Management though as they are overseen by Laing) They need to change this though and it would not be a terribly difficult modification to install actual duct work so that the kitchen stove and range can exhaust heat away from the kitchen, which in its current design, does not do that. And all of the smoke alarms are connected to each other so when one goes off, they all go off and appear to be very sensitive to smoke (or not even that, just cooking with vegetable oil in my case, in which I was standing right next to the stove when this all happened). I will recommend this, but on that one caveat. If you don't cook, it's not a big concern but if you plan to do a lot of cooking this could be an issue, and annoyance. I am, however, considering moving when my lease is up as this is unacceptable and due to poor design. (Sadly, the only reason this has come up recently is because I haven't done much cooking up until now, but this is just plain annoying that I can't cook half of my dinners without the smoke alarms going off...)

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