Tenant Reviews for 5100 S CORNELL AVE

I just moved into this building right before the holidays and rented from Texas. Everything was in order for my move in date, very clean and they even allowed me to bring Jazmine, my dog. I have never been happier. Parking is tight but there are so many buses in the area and right outside the door is the train.....very convenient. A short walk to the school.

Between the management company, the building, the units...everything is horrible. This is the first apartment that I have ever had that I regret every second of the lease signing. My apartment was not ready on my move in date (paint, carpet, stove not plugged in, missing window screens, cabinet broke, closet doors off track, and worst of all, the nozzle to the bathtub was completed disassembled and I couldn't take a shower in my NEW apartment for 3 days. The maintenance staff is completely nonexistent. Then on top of everything, I pay rent every month on time and I woke up to receive a 5 day notice...after this I found out that they had the wrong rent amount on my account and were charging me this fee. Parking is horrible and then they had the nerve to start construction which limited the amount of parking available even more. Basically, stay away by all means necessary. You don't need the headache!

Not sure what the hype is, this place is a nice place to live. Great size apartments with plenty of closet space (for my clothes and shoes). I love to call this place home, give it a try you'll be amazed.

I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to live here. The location is great, close to all forms of public transportation and right by the Metra. It takes me about 10 mins. to get to school in the loop and at night everything I need is a short walk. I moved here for school and I have to say the space for my apartment is great, better than other places I have seen or lived in.

When i first lived here the building was named Chicago Beach Apts and i hated the building from day one for a few reasons. No 1. The building had a lot of malfunctions like the non functioning laundry machines which never dried my clothes. 2. The building had a lot of noisy neighbors where you can hear everything. 3. There was a break in at Christmas of 1996 and someone was trying to break into apartments because i heard someone spray mace in their face driving them away. 4. In 1999 and 2000 there were a lot of unwanted characters coming into the building and hanging out inside the stairwells. One of them had the nerve to threaten me. 5. Out of the two elevators one of them was always broken 6. What drove me to move out was in 2001 when the pipes burst and the water had to be shut off for 6 days. Since then the building renamed itself and claims to have did some major improvement so i took a tour of the "remodeled" building last year. All the building did was put a bike room and a sad excuse for a fitness room in the basement which all it did was make the whole basement look like something off the Addams Family and the building has the nerve to raise the rent because of this and plus there are a lot of teenagers hanging in front of the building. So do yourself a favor and move into Twin Towers, or Regents Park which are better buildings to live in, not this sorry insult to Hyde Park.

I love my apartment--I have archways, a real kitchen, and a terrific skyline view, all for the price of a closet-sized studio across the street. The building was rennovated several years ago and won some kind of award, which I'll easily believe because the unit looked neat and well taken care of when I moved in.<br><br>The building, while charming and vintage, leaves much to be desired. Most charming and vintage buildings do by modern standards, but you would expect, for example, elevators that function reliably. There is no real freight elevator, just another passenger elevator with wall coverings and a manual gate. Let me just say that the residents generally have futons instead of real couches. People get into the front door all the time, people are always smoking in the little entry area (even before the city smoking ordinace, there was an explicit rule in the renters' handbook about it), and the manager won't sign for packages for some unknown reason. The bike room is in the basement, which wouldn't be a problem, but in order to get your bike into the basement you either have to cram it and yourself into the freight elevator or drag it down the steep, winding stairwell. I didn't have a bike when I moved in, so I didn't notice this when I did, but now it annoys me to no end. <br><br>Oh, and there are half a dozen sets of railroad tracks right next to the building. It's nice living so close to the Metra station, but it's also quite loud. For some reason it doesn't really bother me, but my friends complain all the time when they visit. I can't imagine what it would be like living on the second floor at the track level.<br><br>As for the management, well, who doesn't gripe about their apartment management, but I think I'm putting up with an exceptional amount of bull for having a nice view and a kitchen. A few months after I moved in the property manager left, and even just a few weeks after the new one arrived the residents who had lived here longer were pointing out all the ways the building was rapidly going downhill. I hadn't much basis for comparison, but I can say that the common areas seem a lot dirtier than they used to be and the elevators break down much more frequently (though not so much in recent months). The management company is also next to impossible to deal with.<br><br>All in all, I suppose you get what you pay for. If you feel compelled to live in Hyde Park and can afford a nicer building, you might just want to go for it. If you can't, don't kid yourself with all the "luxury" amenities. If you want more space for your money or something a step up from a smelly old flat, I guess I can recommend this building, but be prepared to gripe a lot about it.