Tenant Reviews for 200 N. DEARBORN ST.

Come live here if you enjoy being greeted by homeless people when you leave the building and when you come home. Come live here if you want to smell garbage all the time. Come live here if you don't want to control your heat or air conditioning (seriously....air conditioning doesn't come on until JUNE and goes off in September. The management people are run and don't do much. The elevators are horrible. It's common to see many people waiting for ONE elevator so bring a book with you so you can stand with all the other irritated tenants. Other than that it's a great location. However, you can get a new building, better location for less than what you will pay here. You will be miserable....I guarantee it. Stay away! Oh...and no parking included and you will hear trains 24/7. If you have to open your windows you might as well just get off the phone or turn the tv off because you won't be able to hear a thing.

Moved in 4 months ago and enjoyed my time here so far. Front desk people and leasing office are nice people. Laundry room is large enough. Elevators are usually fast although an additional one wouldn't hurt. Everything is well kept up. The L train can be loud at times, I wear earplugs when I sleep This thing about this place is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. I walk to work. Everything else is close: State St, Financial District, Michigan Ave. I have an upgraded unit with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. Considering that, I think 1500$ is a good price for a 1 bedroom in that location.

Overall, I enjoy living here. It's in a great location, clean and has some nice features (gym, pool, sun deck). A few things that caught me by surprise - when you set up Directv, it is linked through MDU Communications, which costs $30 every three months on top of your regular cable bill. We had a few other little "hidden" fees as well in hooking up our utilities, so be sure to ask about these up front. The leasing staff is helpful and friendly. As for noise, I have heard complaints from residents on other floors, but ours is generally quiet. I can't complain. The elevators can be slightly annoying - there are often people working in the building who take it a floor or two, which slows things down, but other than that it is pretty much what I would expect from a high rise that has three elevators for 46 floors.

the place sucks big time..management is lousy..doesnt help its residents in anyway..please dont buy or rent anything here..one hell of a place to live

I've lived in the building a little over a year. I'm moving out due to a job transfer but I would have stayed a few more years, now that things aren't as bad as when I first moved in. Leasing staff are very personable. Property manager is a little difficult at times, but the assistant manager is best to deal with. Maintenance & Security people are great! Letters under the door have been minimal, 1x month at the most, lately. This was one of my biggest pet peeves! At one point I was getting 3-4 notices daily! I was able to get parking a few months after I moved in and my renewal was a $10 rent increase!! I heard that this was unheard of, but eveyone I spoke to had $0 to almost nothing increased in rent. The location is awesome and the renovations that used to give me a headache (lobby) look really good and made the building more attractive. If this keeps up, I can definitely recommend 200 N Dearborn. FYI -- doesn't look like they are getting a handle on all the dogs, I've seen more & more pop in and the dog owners are not very respectful to those who do not care for pets... hope this doesn't become a problem.

just wanted to point out a few Cons about the building: 1. The building has some sort of deal with DirecTV so if you want cable you can't order anything but their service. And if you have a HDTV you have to consider whether you want to spend the money on getting the HD package because they have an old satellite dish that will only receive like 4 out of 30 HD channels that should be available. 2. They told me when i was moving in (11/07) that they were in the process of renovating the gym, and I haven't even seen them do anything in there. The equipment is old and outdated, make sure you really inspect the gym if it is something important to you. 3. They won't allow the units to individually control the AC, the building controls it and as of this spring they have not turned it on yet, it's getting warm and I had to go out and purchase some fans this week because it's getting stuffy. (Please note though that they do allow you to control the heat in each unit, just not the AC). And as for the Pros, the size of the units is a big plus (my 1 bdrm unit is 800 sq ft), and othe location is great too, 1 block from Clark/Lake stop for CTA.

Hi, Is all this still going on? I viewed one of the apartments last week, althrough I was impressed with the size of it, I am a little concerned because of all the negative reviews.

NEW LEASING SUCKS. AND THEY WILL SOON BE IN CHARGE OF MANAGEMENT. I CAN'T WAIT TILL MY LEASE IS OVER TO GET OUT OF HERE. ISELA BUSTOS AND COMPANY ARE NOT READY TO WORK WITH TENANTS. we were happy until new leasing/management came in. DO NOT MOVE HERE !!! Trust me.

Okie..so what if the location is great but at what cost?? They call it "luxury apartments"..haha..big joke. The homeless, beggers and all creepy people are always sitting right at the entrance of the building and the management does nothing about it. want to keep the door and windows open. In my one year of stay, they would have hardly cleaned the windows twice from outside. Bad maintenance.Wall construction is also poor and noise level is pretty high. Trains are always so noisy if you Front door crew is nice , especially Danny. He is too good!! But since the new leasing people have come, they have ruined everything. When I signed my lease, East Lake Management was the leasing agent. We wanted 14 months lease and at that time they told us you can sign for 12 months right now and extend later with an increase of $100-150. Fair enough..Then comes this new company..totally unprofessional, rude and unethical. They were not ready to give us month to month lease extension unless we sign for 6 months and then look for a sub-lesse. They were more than doubling the rent otherwise( close to $ 4000).Insane!!!Every building I know of gives the option of month to month lease with some additonal cost but not DOUBLE the rent. We have a 6 month old baby and they were still not ready to consider anything for us. Just for two months we had to move to another apartment before leaving the country. We brought two of our other friends in this building and gave them business. Big mistake!! We felt cheated and they did not even get back to us saying we will not be able to do anything for you guys. Basically they are bad people and not ready to work with the tenants. They don't give a damn to anything. Don't get trapped with their upper surface professionalism and later you will repent.This whole Codno publicity is also a big marketing gimmick..Their prices are way too high compared to other buildings in downtown. The amenities are bad.Gym is very poorly maintained..All and all the building is going down the drain..DO NOT RENT IN THIS BUILDING...

Just some public info to do with as you wish. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Agains American Invsco / Condominium Rental Services https://w3.courtlink.lexisnexis.com/cookcounty/Finddock.asp?DocketKey=CAAH0CH0AHEHE0CH General Allegations Count 1 - Violation of Landlord Tenant Ordinance Count 2 - Violation of Consumer Fraud Act Count 3 - Violation of Landlord Tenant Ordinance