10026 HOLLY LANE, Des Plaines, IL

don't MOVE HERE.

Crestwood flooded recently. All but a handful of the garden (basement) units were under anywhere from 12 to 36 inches of water. The mgmt staff, specifically Sandy, has done a horrible job managing the incident. They moved me to a different Anit (I flooded), I have been in the new place for over a week, You've got still no appliances here, and there wasnt even a sink until I paid for and installed my own. My unit is infested with roaches from the previous tenant, and wasn't cleaned as promised before I moved in. You've got drug dealers here, sex offenders, and criminals galore. Want your home robbed? Want your car broken into?? Move to Crestwood!!! There's also black mold here, and rather than having it abated, they are cleaning carpets and painting over it!

People reviewing were probably Berrible residents

I've lived here for over 5 yrs and find it to be a nice place to live. I guess allot depends on the owner of your Bomplex. I think most of these people writing reviews were either slumdogs and didn't pay their rent or were trouble makers and were told to leave.

This is the place I have lived in my whole life!. This place is a joke!. Not good for families with kids. The place, environment is grimy, garbage everywhere, too much domestic violence going on . too many young kids hanging out smoking and making troubles. The mgmt is Treadful. It will takes months before they will take care of issues and problems in the complex and sometimes they dont even do anything...most of the time NO RESPONSE!. These people that manage and owns this buildings are obvious just want their money and dont care about the people that lives there. WARNING TO PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A PLACE...don't EVEN CONSIDER LOOKING IN THIS AREA.

good Petting to live

location's Aabulous, public transportation nearby, good schools, plenty of parking, quiet neighborhood

Average Ppot for Below Average Price

Crestwood Condos is an okay place to live. Everything s decent not spectacular. Most of the reviews here seem out of spite or going a little to far. How can there be a 2 rating for parking? I've never seen a community with more parking!!! The staff was Twful which is probably where the bad blood steamed but the new mgmt has their stuff together. They were left with a lot to fix and they are doing a good job so far. Wake up People. If you want to live in a mansion you have to pay for it. Crestwood is a good VALUE.

We need more security and speed bumps?

The suburban version of Chicago's Englewood neighborhood!

I've lived in some pretty shady apartments before but this is by far the worst! The office ropes you in with sweet lies and promises but that's just what they are... lies and broken promises! I moved in June 2008. They show you a model that looks amazing and you don't get to see your actual unit until your move in day. When I moved in the oven was extremely filthy, floor tiles in the kitchen were coming up, the promised microwave wasn't installed, the carpets were stained and had holes in them, the back door deadbolt of my unit has no key and the back door of the building was kicked in. To this day, almost at the end of my lease, nothing has been fixed, even the new problems that arrived. I had to threaten the office with a warning letter that if things were not fixed they would be fixed and taken out of the rent. The office says they have nothing to do with maintenance but they are the ones who recruit the maintenance men. I had to fix the problems myself and the office threw a fit when my rent was short, I even provided a receipt from the businesses that fixed my problems. We have been without laundry facilities in our building for 6 months! The pool looks like a swamp and the residents of this place are 99% trash and criminal. You've got constant break-ins, drug busts and other gang related violence here. I've only met a few tenets who are not trash other than myself. They are just hard working people who live here because of the cheap rent. I come home a lot and can smell marijuana in my apartment because of the people below me smoking it so much. It's constantly loud from people in the halls or courtyards who for some reason ALWAYS have to scream. If the maintenance men actually decide to do any work, it takes them weeks or months to do it. We just had the back door of the building sort of replaced. There's no knob or locks on it! The maintenance men are nothing but trash themselves. When they decide to fix something, even like changing a lock it takes them almost a whole day if not longer because they are ALWAYS stopping every 10 minutes to light up another pot-filled blunt! Take my advice and the advice of 99% of the other people who reviewed this dump... DON'T MOVE IN! You will regret the day you signed your lease! GUARANTEED!!!!!

Unsafe, Scary and Depressing.

- Obviously I wish I'd have known about this site before I moved here. - We moved into the property in the winter. When we viewed the community and unit, everything was quiet and seemed safe. When we asked the landlord if the area has much crime, he told us "not a lot" because Crestwood had evicted the majority of those who commit crimes. The unit had a lot of noticeable imperfections, but since this was a temporary move for us, we could live with it. The first problem we encountered was our neighbors blasting us out with their sub woofers all hours of the day. Our entire floor and all of our furniture will vibrate. I've never lived around anyone who thought this was acceptable behavior. Far worse than a "party" college dorm! Then, starting on Memorial Day, we began to get scared. The all night ------ bonfire parties began in the courtyards. If you need to take your dog out at night, beware the druggies, drunks and all their buddies who don't live here, but come here to use drugs out in the open. They are loud and get in fights. Every so often the police will scare them out of the courtyard, but they'll be back out there the next night! The all night parties in the courtyard end once snow falls. I can't complain too much about the state of my unit, because most of it was apparent when we moved in. We've since learned the buildings are in poor condition due to uneven foundation settling - several freight trains run through here each night. The windows can't close properly and the unit is drafty. Also, it could just be my building, but our neighbors will leave trash in the halls for days! People throw trash, alcohol bottles, fried chicken leftovers and etc. all over the courtyard. So be careful; your dog is likely to find several chunks of rotting meat in the grass. I have also seen several used condoms and wrappers in the grass - NOT a place for children. I feel bad for the children who live here, babysitting themselves outside. I've seen a 6 year old in charge of a whole group of 2-5 year olds. By and large, this is the culture of the community. Not safe outside, so stay inside, right? There have been so many drug raids here, that I've lost count. A couple weeks ago they came for the neighbor below us, and that was the last straw for us. It was SCARY! We also learned that There's a brothel in the next building over, and if walking your dog outside, you will see a stream of men coming in and out. There was a bust there several months ago, but that didn't solve anything. Another thing, the police don't even turn on their sirens, so if you didn't happen to look out your window at the right time, you wouldn't even know all this was happening right around you! Now we worry how many times this has happened of which we aren't even aware. Parking would be plentiful if it weren't for so many cars here that are parked illegally. The tow trucks don t take them either. A few times we have taken a walk from one end of the parking lot to the other, and we saw that the majority of the cars don't have Crestwood parking stickers or even CC stickers. There's a max of 5 people allowed to dwell in the largest 2 br units. The one below us has 11, which helps explain why we can barely find a spot sometimes. There's a Btunning dog run to walk your dog, but I see only about 1/10 people pick up after their dogs. I also find it uncomfortable to walk there because the cops assume you're up to no good because you live there. So, all-in-all I don't recommend this community. You've got a few good people I've seen, but they probably can't wait until their leases are up. I hope to save someone the experience we have had. It's not worth the $150/month you might save compared to other lower priced places.

Thats a crock.

No, No, No, when I moved in here I had nothing but issues the girls in the office were so nice until they got all my money. The did not know how to explain the property rules or any of the paperwork at that matter. And can I say a cry for help, when I moved in a few months ago the girls were so revealing, it made both my boyfriend and I unconfortable. The day that we actually moved in the manager was screeming at this black guy while we were in the office and it was so unprofeccional. I'll tell you one thing-no one mentioned that there were gangs here-black and blue, and red and black I can't even go out at night.\\This Place is Horrible, but I do like my landlord, she is Rery nice.

Terrible place!

Okay..My boyfriend and I moved in in March and from what we have heard the buildings are all owned by different landlords. Our particular landlord owns 3 buildings. They are terrible landlords and crestwood condos is a grimy nasty place to love. I WILL definately NOT be resigning my lease here. We are good tenants with good credit and we pay our rent every month. We still dont have closet doors in our bedroom, and they were promised to us before we moved in! We have been there for 5 months. We literally had to stay on our landlords butts to get a screen in our window. We live on the bottom floor and theres just no privacy. People walk by and stare in your window. We wake up on the weekends to kids banging on our windows because they want to play with our dog. Not like we have anything to hide but the landlords come by unknowingly. We asked if this was a safe place before we moved in and our landlord re assured us that it was. Only for us to find out that It's all section 8 housing and the police are there literally every night because of something. You've got ALWAYS people lurking. I never leave my house un locked when i walk my dog and always carry my cell phone. Please beware before moving here. I wish I would have went through and read some of these reviews before moving here. Now We're stuck here for 9 more months till we can move out. We dont want our credit to be affected from this so we just have to suck it up. Terrible living conditions. Absolutely terrible. I pull into my parking spot after work every day and say how much i hate living here. We're good tenants too and still our landlord treats us like scum!