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Highland Park Apartments


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anonymous

Resident 2008 - 2013

8/16/2013

The location is off I-94 on OAKES road not Oaks Road. Depending on what building you are put it (Kinzie Ave apartments or the Oakes Road apartments) it is so much crap and drama. The value is not even worth it. Don't be fooled by the pictures. Not all units are upgraded. By Upgraded I mean the kitchen decor wood may be falling off or rotting and the carpets may have huge spots on it that the site manager refuses to replace even though THEY CLAIM it in the brochure. The bathrooms may be terrible. Sink may be broken. Just nothing at all is right here. If the neighbors doesn't drive you crazy the site manager is clearly a jackass and an insensitive prick. The website claims they accept cats only. HA! No they aren't. Your children have a lot to worry about here. You are safer having your children play in the house than having them play outside in the playground (which is located in the center but in the back of the apartment buildings so unless you have a back apartment patio/balcony that is the ONLY way you will be able to watch your child play from the house). The children can sometimes be bullies and not like newcomers. There's a basketball court out there that used to be extremely crowded. Why? Because children from ACROSS Washington Avenue that lives across the street from Case travel across the highway to come play here. There's a sign close to the main office that states "please drive slow children at play" and recommends you drive 5 mph. Yeah right. That sign is ignored. People whip around that curve constantly and I am surprised a child has never gotten hit (especially when kids from the front apartments have their children play in the parking lot which is also hazardous) Parking? No assigned parking. You get stickers but that doesn't do anything. There are guest parking which is COMPLETELY ignored. People park any damn where they feel like it and depending on how full the units are people literally fight over parking spots. Garages are pretty much no longer. Some people have garages but if you are in the apartment where the office is connected you are out of luck because once again the nincompoop we call our site manager has stored all the old toilets in the garages. If not toilets a bunch of other stuff. There is Access Doors. You need a key to get in. But hey if you are in the apartment by the office you actually don't because THE CHILDREN BREAK THE LOCK OFF THE DOORS! Even if we have locks the neighbors sneak their guests in and leave the carpet in the door in order to get in putting people in danger. Just as careless as can be. If you live downstairs the people upstairs are careless. Stomping up and down the stairs or running and sometimes it would be all night long. The laundry rooms are the epitome of disgusting. You are sanitary and better off going off-site to wash your clothes because people here are disgusting. They wash their clothes and leave their clothes in the washer so nobody else can use them and leave lint filters and everything all over the floors. Just disgusting as can be. The walls are paper thin. A person could be sitting in their apartment and could hear you stating your social security number to whoever. There's just no privacy. There are barely lights outside. When it gets dark out you absolutely need your headlights because it tends to get pitch black. When it's Snow? 1) Bring your own shovel and 2) prepare to fall because the site manager doesn't give a damn enough to shovel the walk ways in time. Sometimes it would be weeks after a bad storm and the walkways would still be covered with snow and ice. These apartments are horrid. The maintenance man literally looks like an uneducated 12 year old. Takes him a decade to come repair things. (BY THE WAY, BRING JOSH BACK! AT LEAST HE WASN'T LAZY AND HE REPAIRED THINGS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!) Reader, save your money. You are better off renting a house than living here. Also I WOULD Like to add after reviewing reviews I have been a tenant here for about 5 or 6 years. I believe most of these reviews have been about the Kinzie Avenue apartments because a drug dealer is not dumb enough to sell outside or inside the apartment and as far as "gang members" if they aren't out on the basketball court playing ball then they are not here. Don't make this a "race" thing and do not target all low-income families because from my understanding you could still not be on low-income and have no class or respect.

    Review 3 out of 7

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