Tenant Reviews for 1380 E HYDE PARK BLVD

Spotless, Secure, Peaceful, and Welcoming—Gxcellent Price

Spotless, Secure, Peaceful, and Welcoming—Guperb Price

Madison Park Apartments is currently (2022) infested with roaches. After 2 months of living here, we had to break our lease. The roaches were literally crawling on me and my partner at night and biting us while we were sleeping. At night, you will also find them crawling on the hallway walls and in the hallway lights. My neighbor told me the roaches have been present for years (she isn't financially able to move). Another neighbor told me another floor of the building has been dealing with rats. I will remove this review if I hear from them about the situation improving. If this review is still up, it means that Madison Park Apartments is still infested with roaches and rats. A picture of the roaches in our doorway is attached.

Although MPA is a good bargain, there are some things that need improvement. - plumbing - Security (Packages stolen frequently because the lockers are always full or not used by delivery person and random people in and out the building including homeless) - Property Manager response I would not recommend unless those things were rectified.

Compared to some of the other places I've lived Madison is great. They fix things quickly and always respond to my calls. Parking here could be better but over all living here has been very good. The neighbors are friendly and mostly keep to them self.

I WOULD NOT recommend this place to anyone!. The TLC property management team is disrespectful and unresponsive. The advertise a laundry facility and storage space, however most of the machines are out of order and the only storage space is a bike room. NO utilities are included, you even have to pay a small water bill each month. For the sub par service they provide, this place is DEFINITELY not worth. I love the community, however I made the wrong choice in where to live.

THE MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE IS HORRIBLE!! I am a current tenant and have a rodent infestation in my apartment. I come home daily to mice squealing and squirming on glue traps. This problem has persisted for nearly 5 months and management has done nothing more than provide glue traps. They promised to plug holes with steel wool and have an exterminator do a thorough investigation to address the issue and DID NOTHING. I called/emailed them just yesterday and receive a message today that maintenance would fill my request which they failed to previously address and when I arrived home there were glue traps left on the counter and mouse squealing under my stove. Additionally, there is a noxious odor and I believe there are dead mice behind the refrigerator or stove. NEVER EVER LIVE/RENT HERE.

I moved in in the fall of 2011--and plan on staying at least 2 to 3 years. The entire building from what I understand has been rehauled. The lobby of course if a artful masterpiece. The laundry room is clean and tidy all the time. The new owner/management is the best. All the apartments have been updated in the last 2-3 years I've learned. My apatment is a 2-bedroom with all new appliances, including a stove/microwave rangetop, refrigerator, and dishing washer. The grounds are kept immaculate. The management is very responsive. I've never seen any type of vermin. The building allows small dogs. And the building is pretty quiet most of the time. All apartments have beautiful granite kitchen counter tops also, with new carpeting and paint job. It's really quite nice. I would highly recommend it.

Since the building was sold the doorman has been eliminated. Just some short 2-3 years ago there was a sexual assault in the building, so the new note put at the entrance door about improving security by denying access to unknown people sounds a little cynical as the building is just too big for that. There's a lot of new "courteous" memos to tenants and promises about better quality, but nothing substantial so far - quite the opposite... Not so good quality paint job in the hallways takes forever and stinks real bad, not to mention that it's loud. Express increase of parking rates. Hit or miss notifications about packages left in the office. Increased laundry rates. Threatening signs about closing all garbage shoots permanently if anyone happens to leave any garbage in front of them. Even slower elevators in the morning rush hour, in my humble perception. Credit history recheck for all old tenants. Difficult to control water temperature. But most of all the loss of that "homey" feeling; it's like you enter some public place when you walk through the front door. Needless to say, the new folks should learn how to cater a little more to their tenants and be more personable - it may be easier and in the long run even more profitable than they might think.

I lived here in 2006 to 2007 and I wish I never left. The lobby is beatiful and the staff are awesome. I only had one maintaince problem and it was fixed immediately. The #2 bus drops you off right in front of the building. It the rent is decent espeically compared to other hyde park apartments. My only complaint was that you had to use Comcast if you wanted cable. Hopefully they changed that. Parking wasn't all that great either, but that typical for the city.

I moved into a 1-br apartment in this building in August '08, and I have nothing but good things to say about it! First, I wasn't even from Chicago when I decided to move here - I picked the place on the photos alone! But the building staff were REALLY nice with getting the paperwork and all that sorted out. Then when I moved in they took the time to answer all of my questions and help me with setting up utilities and things. The building is VERY safe and the 24hr security desk is a very nice feature. Also since its an old building and the floors are made of concrete, it is SUPER QUIET! I've never been disturbed by my neighbors. I have an 8th floor apartment with a view of the Chicago Skyline TO DIE FOR! The rent is very affordable, and cheaper than other Hyde Park buildings. Dishwashers and A/C together are hard to find at a good price. The appliances are a little on the older side, but they work well. And if there is any problem, the staff will fix it quickly. On-site laundry is convenient and cheap to use. I was fortunate to get a newly painted unit with new carpeting and kitchen, but I assume the others are okay. Good transportation links with CTA bus stop infront of building and Metra stop just a few blocks east. Hyde Park is a great neighborhood with all amenities you'd need just steps away! Anyone looking to move to the area I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this building your next place to call 'home'!