Tenant Reviews for 629 W. DEMING

What can I say? This was my first apartment after I graduated from college. A man tried to attack and rape me as I entered the building after dark, I had cockroaches that would constantly come up through the drain of my bathtub and a constant stench of poop from my toilet that NO ONE would ever address. If you want complete misery, move here. BJB Partners does not care once you move in.

Lived here for 2 years. The rent rate went up each year but nothing in the building has changed. The fitness room equipments are very outdated, and the laundry machines have had a tough time this year (2013). That being said, $920 for a studio is just BS. Guess what, they keep emailing residents and asking them to like their FB page in order to get free beer a some bar.

I moved into a Studio in August 2010. The building was still going through light construction, but finished by September/October and looks really nice. I haven't had any real issues with the Management Staff and love the fact that 24-Hour Maintenance is available when needed, b/c I tend to lock myself out of the building every once in a while because the keys to the apartments are electronic hotel card keys instead of keys you can put on a key chain. The sundeck and workout room have both been remodeled: there are new flat screen tvs, new floors, and freshly painted walls. The laundry room has been remodeled as well and is extremely cheap in my opinion (1.30 to wash, 1.25 to dry) and is always working. I have not had any issues whatsoever with any kind of bugs or with management coming into my apartment when I'm not there. A lot of the pictures they have online have not been updated and things look much nicer than they portray in the photos. The only drawback is that the steam heat is not as hot as I would like it, but I simply bought a small space heater and everything is cool. I really don't have anything really negative to say about this place. Im planning on renewing my lease another year.

I lived in a tiny, overpriced studio for one year. After the first week of living there I could NOT wait to get out. Upon moving in there was a major ant problem. The management constantly went into my apartment without permission and my stuff would be moved and sometimes MISSING. They always had an excuse to be in there which was complete bull. The building was under TERRIBLE construction for my ENTIRE LEASE. I was told when I moved in in September that it would be done in a few weeks. 12 months later I moved out and they were still redoing the entire thing. Construction went on 6 days a week starting at 8 am. I was a graduate student that got zero sleep when I tried to nap during the day, was unable to due to noise. Also, I was never able to study in my apartment. The management was completely useless and never did anything about my complaints. The elevators were always broken and the doors on all the floors were left open all night due to construction which was completely unsafe. The hallways and lobby were ABSOLUTELY filthy. It was actually inhabitable and embarrassing to bring guests too. Internet and cable were a complete joke. Laundry machines also constantly broken. Everything that they could have been broken or a mess actually was. STAY AWAY FROM THIS BUILDING.

Small, dirty, overpriced studio. Blinds were a mess when i first moved in and just got worse. "Kitchen" was so small with no counter at all. Bathroom tiny and dirty. My bathroom radiator never worked, despite calling to get fixed several times. Management was impossible to get a hold of and the building manager was the -----, i swear. Continually got ants and fruit flies despite cleaning regularly, and even found roaches under my stove. Maintenance ruined my tub while unclogging a drain. The elevators are slow and frequently out of order. The workout room was a total disaster. Outside doors are often left open due to poor construction, all night. Oh, and they showed my apartment several times without my permission, and locked me out both times. Stay away.

I moved into my unit only to discover that it had not been cleaned or painted (or even inspected by the management staff). After Pulling out the fridge to clean the kitchen, I found a large cockroach colony. Hundreds of cockroaches had infested my tiny kitchen and my very tiny studio apartment. What's worse is that the management would not hire an exterminator to clear up the problem because it was isolated to my unit (which is BS because anyone who knows roaches know that they will target an entire floor). The building manager suggested that the repairman caulk the kitchen so that the roaches couldn't get in. Needless to say, they still got in because the work was poorly done. BJB Partners owns the building and has done nothing to comply with my request to have an exterminator (obviously they care nothing about the health of their buildings). I have also had multiple plumbing problems that have yet to be rectified. I am living in a nice lincoln park area and paying a higher than average rent price for the nice location and would expect that the building would want to uphold its reputation and potentially retain good tenants like myself by giving them a reason to renew their leases.