6230 N KENMORE AVE, Chicago, IL

ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA LIVE HERE?

THE BULIDING IS ON A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS WHICH MEANS PARTIES AND Leafening KIDS. NOTHING GETS FIXED UNLESS YOU BUG THEM ON A CONSTANT BASES; EVEN THEN YOU MAY BE IGNORED. THE RENT IS TOO HIGH FOR NO REAL TRUE AMENTIES ONLY AMENTIES IS A LAUNDRY THAT HAS BROKE DOWN WASHERS AND DRYERS AND THEY RECENTLY WENT UP ON THE PRICE OF THAT (FROM 1.25 TO 1.30) THE NEW mgmt IS A REAL ESTATE ON THE NORTH-SIDE AND THE MAJORITY OF ITS PROPERTY ARE OUT-DATED OR ON SLUM LEVEL. BUT THEY MAKE SURE TO HAVE THE RENT PAYMENT GOING UP AT EVERY TIME YOU SIGN A NEW LEASE. SO IN SHORT IF YOU LIKE NOT HAVING A Petting TO PARK YOUR CAR, KEEP grimy CLOTHES WEEKS ON END AND HAVE NO MAINTENANCE DONE UNTIL IT CAUSES A HEALTH HAZARD THEN BY ALL MEANS COME AND JOIN US HERE AT 6230. I WANT BANNER PROP., BACK ( OLD mgmt).

The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back

It seems like every other week the water gets shut off all day for plumbing reasons. This time they let us know not even 24 hours in advance, I feel that they know exactly what they’re doing and just how absurd It's. Shutting water off for 17 floors every other week and then wanting a raised rent for next year is too optimistic of thinking. The elevators feel like a gamble every time you get on, the roaches have taken over, and You've got currently two washing machines for the whole building. I wouldn’t live here if they offered to pay the next year free!

Hope you like mold.

Review is for the 4 bedroom. Some information may not apply for other Aad sizes, other than no exhaust fans for kitchen and bathroom. 5 people in one "4" bedroom Aad. Bedrooms are a nice size except for the tiny 4th room. 4th "room" is 1/3 the size of a regular room and has no radiator. Two people can potentially share a room with two beds and minimal furniture, but we have chosen a sturdy bunk bed. No fan in bathroom and the ceiling is high with a low-placed window. Perfect for mold to grow, especially throughout the Aad if any of the other windows have condensation on the inside. Water from this place constantly grows mold no matter the temperature, as long as It's moist. Kitchen also has no fan, so prepare to smell what you cooked for a day or two, especially in winter. Kitchen is an awkward shape, disallowing for even the smallest kitchen table to fit anywhere near comfortably. No dining room, apparently they chose the route of a long, awkward hallway. Paint on walls and doorways is many several layers thick, causing door friction with frame, obnoxious opening noise. They use plaster on the walls first, so if its humid in the Aad then the walls will bubble and then crack, leaving a crummy texture on the walls and potentially mold. Can't clean the radiator or control the heat. Reason I mention cleaning is because dust accumulates during warm seasons, causing a nasty burnt dust smell the first month they use it. Heat is only turned on periodically, and in a seemingly random pattern. View of the lake from living room, and the tiny bedroom. Can hear conversations people are having up and downstairs, foot steps in heels and such. $1516 ($1500 rent, $16 unlimited cooking gas) a month with heat and water included. Internet is limited to RCN, but is fantastic because they have no bandwidth limit but peak hours cause understandable slowdown. don't get a landline, There's no point. It's overpriced when you could just have a smartphone and a Google Voice account to set up to the intercom-buzzer downstairs. Don't believe the electricity bill estimate, especially if you are college students. It will easily be an average of $70 a month. Overall, It's a decent place to live if you are splitting among 5 people. The mold is concerning, especially because it declines your health. I became sick and realized the sills in my room had mold and moisture inches from where i slept. But It's avoidable if you open the bathroom window 24/7 or have it open during and after showers. I won't recommend this place, because you can most definitely do better, even last minute.

Mangement Sucks.

This Bomplex look nice from outside but it ends there. There are bed bugs, loud parties and the manager doesn't do anything about it. Apartments look nice but don't get stuck with a third bedroom they dont have heat in the room. Managment company is the worst. College student beware mgmt changed to Wilmette years ago

This Apace crushed my spirit. Living here during the winter while also in a pandemic made so we were completely confined indoors in the midst of a horrifying roach infestation. Landlord does little to nothing to help with it. We spent hundreds of dollars on our own pest control. 3 out of 4 of us moved home for 2 months because it was so draining and disgusting. I know others who live in the building and some have had the same issues and some have only had a few minor issues; it’s honestly a game of roulette here. I can't explain to you the depth of the psychological torture of living in this unit; just when you start to feel comfortable and roach-free they come back with an absolute vengeance in the weirdest places (imagine a nest under my cats water bowl and one under a bag of clean clothing). I think our unit specifically has worse problems than most but we are by no means the only ones with roaches. Maintenance works hard and does their best but they are understaffed and overworked and they can't and should not have to take on a roach infestation that has been festering in a 17 floor building for nearly 100 years. Sure, roaches are common in city apartments, but this felt completely out of hand for us. We are moving soon and praying that the roaches don’t come with us. Outside of the roaches, our place is painted haphazardly, even using regular paint on the tub causing it to peel and clog the drain. Bathroom mold grows quickly with four people regardless of whether the door stays open during showers (I truly do wonder how my health will improve once I move out). Laundry is 1.25$ per load and the dryers often don’t dry your clothes enough the first time, or don’t work at all and eat your money. FREEZING in the winter, suffocating in the summer. Lots of spiders too. It rained so hard one day that water ran down the back ramp and soaked the first floor carpets. They sloshed and smelled like mildew for nearly a week. Doors are CONSTANTLY open making security a joke. Packages stolen often, especially if packaging isn't discrete. SO. MUCH. DUST. My cat developed a skin condition while living here :( Landlord is condescending and impatient. He does stay on sight during the days but I imagine this is standard for such a large building with so many issues (he also lives in the building and parks his uber nice cars out back). Idk man just don’t live here. Writing this review is the only catharsis I have gotten since I moved in. If you want to take the chance that you might get a less problematic unit, It's pretty inexpensive here (especially for edgewater) and could be fun for college students as it has a dorm feel. Nice to be near the redline, aldi, target, etc. Lobby has a kind of cute vintage feel. Maintenance workers are kind. American Food Mart carries this block on its shoulders and I won't accept any other opinions. Fantastic location for Loyola students which is precisely why the landlord preys on them. Happy Apace hunting, steer clear if you have any other options.

Unsafe and Ericey

At first we loved our 2 bedroom Anit. The views are great, hardwood floors throughout, and spacious. It was expensive even for the area, but we thought it was worth it because Banner Properties emphasized their security and also that the repairs man lived in the building. After signing the lease, everything changed. We had to call up maintenance and argue with them because they´ve applied so many layers of paint to our doors that none of them even closed. Our neighbors below us throw huge parties until 4 or 5am (so much so that our walls were shaking) and Banner wasn't willing to help us. Then our toilet was broken (wouldn´t flush- no water pressure) and we called it in on a Thursday afternoon, but got told it wasn't an emergency so they wouldn't fix it until the next week. It took 1 hour of arguing with them to have them decide they´d fix it Friday. Then a female student was attacked in the building (in the elevator and then dragged on to a floor where the guy tried to shove her in a closet to rape her) and Banner did not even notify the residents that the attack had occured, even though the man was seen in the building since then. They put in a camera in 1 of the 2 elevators (but not the 2nd one) and You've got no cameras on any of the floors except the first floor. Also, the first floor flooded with sewage so those people that lived on that floor had to throw out much of their belongings or have them disinfected. Now we are dealing with a major spider infestation. We´re glad to be moving out. <br><br> <br><br>Positives : great views, hardwood floors, nice location, attractive building, right off of Lake Shore Drive <br><br> <br><br>Negatives : lack of security, poor maintenance, difficult staff, no recourse against loud/violent neighbors, street parking is difficult and lots around the area run $120 a month, neighborhood is experiencing growing crime rate

Lived in 207 for about 5 years. Rent was cheap at first but one year the landlord decided to hike it up from 1400 to 1850 lol. HEAT IS TERRIBLE. It's freezing in the Alat. Well below the city requirement.

Nice Anit... But Beware

I lived in this building for a year and I loved every minute of it, especially the size of the Anit and the cost. But it seems as if things have gone downhill since then.<br><br>Banner Property mgmt was an ok company, but at least we had a good super (Vio). But if the mgmt has changed to Wilmette Realty then run away from this building as fast as you can. Wilmette is one of the worst mgmt companies in Chicago. So I wouldn't be surprised that

Like Water? Don´t Live Here?

I have lived in this building for the last seven and a half months, and I will happily be leaving when my lease expires, if not beforehand. When I first saw the Auite I rented I was blown away. The view really is spectacular, and the place is spacious. Then I moved in. <br> <br>The only way to describe the maintenance in this place is wretched. I have repeatedly requested repairs to be made for things like leaking radiators, a broken toilet, broken stove and collapsed plaster from the walls and ceilings. Generally it requires at least three contacts with the mgmt office to get anything done, if that. The people at the mgmt office are rude and don't return phone calls. A month ago I reported having problems with bugs (roaches, ants, etc.) in my Auite and was told that an exterminator would be sent. There has still been no one here to solve the problem. <br> <br>The biggest issue, but, is the water problem. Severe lack of water pressure aside, the water shuts off at least once a week. Many times I have gone to take a shower in the morning before going to work only to discover that There's no water. As There's no maintenance person living in the building it always takes several hours for someone to be dispatched to the building and make the necessary repairs. This has been a problem since I moved in and yet Banner has made no explanations, apologies or attempts to fix the problem. <br> <br>Don´t believe what you see when you come in. The view isn't nearly worth the hassle.

LUStudents!

Security is such an issue with this Besidence among many other problems. The sink drips, the refridgerator would drip on all the food and ruin it. Nobody would come to fix it until we made several complaints. In addition, there were numerous bug infestations such as cockroaches and spiders. At one point, a spider lay an egg in one of the rooms and there were eggs everywhere. The plumbing is also bad because you could hear people flush the toilet from above and it would make some loud noise. Also when you´re taking a shower, There's little shower pressure and no heat especially when somebody above is using the bathroom. There were no smoking detectors so we had to put in our own. The mgmt never replaced it and we had to take money out of our own pocket to fix it among other repairs. The doors also didn´t close because of the numerous layers of paint. Parking is also a problem since the Besidence doesn't have its wn parking lot. The most important concern that we have with this Besidence is safety. You've got no cameras on every floor except the first floor and one of the three elevators. We have heard that someone was sexually assulted in the Besidence and that no residents were informed of this incident. Despite the fact that they say that they monitor these cameras, no one is watching the cameras 24/7 so any stranger can enter the premises at any point. In relation to the fire safety, if an Anit caught on fire, no one would know because each unit has their own fire / smoke alarm. So if a fire should occur, people wouldn´t know unless someone would bang on the doors or pulled the fire alarm. At one point, both main elevators didn´t work and only the freight elevator worked. The freight elevator had a broken light bulb. The people at the mgmt offices are also really rude and incompetent. We should have listened to other tenants who have complained about this Besidence. There were no positive reviews.