Tenant Reviews for 4242 N SHERIDAN RD

I've lived her a month and moving here is now one of my biggest regrets. First off, moving in was a complete hastle the building wasn't helpful at all in the process. We were given very limited use of the freight elevator (which hasn't been checked for safety in 13 years, not an exageration). The receptionist is consistently rude and made the process even more frustrating. There is a work out center with only one machine that works and 5 that are there apparently just for looks. My biggest complaint though is that the main elevators are down more often than they work. There is an elevator directly across from my apartment that has worked a total of 5 days in the month I've lived here. Today when I went to do laundry the other elevator was also down so I had the joy of lugging a laundry cart down multiple flights of stairs. STEAR CLEAR OF THIS OVERPRICED DUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aside from the usual problems (elevator that smells like dead body and could plummit down the earth at any moment, freezing cold, burned out light bulbs, broken hand rails, FLOODED kitchen, warped hardwood floors, saying dogs are not allowed and then secretly changing it so that dogs ARE allowed without telling anyone (which contributed to the elevator smell), never returning calls, etc)... Horizon Realty Group is a joke. We have been living there since March 2008 and have had nothing but problems. In 2009 we moved into what we thought was a better unit. After that we lived with a bathroom so infested with mold that the tiles literally fell off of the shower. You could reach your hand through a hole basically into the bedroom. After complaining for four months, they did a joke of a job fixing it (painting over mold does not make it go away). Finally, they recently fixed it "for real" (still not an outstandig job), making us use a bathroom down the hallway for six days. Did you know hallways have to be kept above 64 degrees? Horizon doesn't. Try that at 5:30 in the morning. Oh, and the heat was off in the apartment they were so graciously letting us use to shower, and there were no lights except in the bathroom. Fun. I asked for them to prorate the rent for the six days that we were displaced since this has been ongoing, and I don't want to pay $1000 for an apartment that only half worked (and were given the estimation of 3 days to fix the shower, NOT 6!), and the guy had the nerve to tell me that we shouldn't complain about the UPGRADE they gave us. They also tried to bribe me with a credit if I would renew my lease. Nice. The actual maintenance staff is nice and helpful. The monkeys in the office are not. In order to get this guy to respond to me EVER I had to write one of the nicer realtors and ask why on Earth it took 8 days for a person to answer emails. I guess she finally guilted him into writing me back. He conveniently waited to answer me until the last day that I could pay rent with no penalty instead of the weeks before when I brought the issues up. And by the way, he still hasn't managed to even aknowledge that I brought up a mold problem a zillion different times. It's dangerous. And I will most certainly be posting pictures of the black mold infested bathroom that we called home. Everyone in this building has had problems with mold. Imagine what it looks like between the walls. Run, run as fast as you can!

I've lived here for 2 years, and while I cannot say that this is the best place I've ever lived, it is certainly not as bad as these other reviewers say it is! I give the building a B , the management team an A, and the maintenance team an A-plus . What I love most is my private balcony, the on-site fitness room, and the 24-hour security cameras throughout the building. All I know is that if I have a question or a problem, it is always addressed in a timely fashion and the manager always follows up with me. I guess people just use this website to complain, and people like me who have are generally satisfied don't really feel so inclined to post reviews. Oh well, that's my 2 cents....

The Landlord, Horizont Realty Group is sueing for $50,000 in damages 4242 N.Sheridan tenant Amanda Bonnen ( was abonnen in Twitter, now "abonen" ) for a tweet that said nothing worse than all the comments here, namely - in a personal tweet "@JessB123 You should just come anyway. Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/BU12190LEL.DTL#ixzz0MpWoiKN4 But Horizont Realty's Jeff Michael said to Chicago Sun-Time ""We're a sue-first, ask-questions-later kind of an organization." I will certainly mind in the future these guys .... There are so many other realtors ... I didn't rate the facilities, because the rating didn't work. So don't take a 3.0 for a real rating, it was the one already filled by the web site ...

I have lived here for one year. There are high points, but mostly low points. First, this is an extremely noisy neighborhood. Sirens CONSTANTLY, 10-12 times per day, and often at night. Secondly, the noise level within the apartment building is untenable. I can hear my upstairs neighbors and people walking down the stairs starting at about 5-6am. I think this is due to the hardwood floors and thin walls perhaps. Secondly, the heating system in my unit is a joke. In the living room, hot air blows sideways from the wall, heating only 1/4 of the living room meanwhile the remainder of the apartment is cold. Furthermore, black soot occasionally blew out of the heating vent. I had to have this fixed multiple times. There is a space heater in the bedroom that does nothing to heat the room at all. I have it turned on 24-7 in the winter and my bedroom was still always freezing cold. Secondly there is mold growing in the wall of my bedroom. I called maintenance about this and they literally painted over it. It is growing back a second time. Furthermore, the paint on the corners of the walls chips off quite easily, which i anticipate being charged for upon moving. There has also been drips from my bathroom ceiling which have yet to be addressed. Hot water takes a while in the winter, and the water pressure in the shower is supboptimal. The 'fitness center' has two functional machines, I suggest joining a gym. If it weren't for all these inherent flaws of the bldg/unit, I would not be moving. High points- lots of closet space, nice hardwood floors, reasonable kitchen, great windows. Management was always quite nice, and i found maintenance to be timely. The laundry room is fine, costing $1.50 to wash and 1.50 to dry.

I've lived here for almost a year and when my lease is up we are moving out! It was so great at first. cute little balcony, good area. But the longer we lived here the worse its getting. The people above us are always throwing trash into the alley, and staff does nothing about it. The staff is rude and lazy. There was a carbon monoxide alarm going off in an empty apartment for an entire day and maintenance wouldn't do anything about it, i think it stopped because the battery died. The gnats are terrible and i thought it was just us til i read other reviews. They are fixing up the hallways more which is nice but annoying. and they are fixing bricks on the exterior which is making my windows and balcony a total disaster and they aren't cleaning up after themselves. I've had maintenance walk into my studio apartment without knocking. There is only 2 things in the entire fitness room that works and laundry is very expensive. All in All not worth the money!!

gross. rude staff, nasty smelling elevators and hallways, refusal to fix anything then charges for it, millions of nasty gnats

First few months were great. Quiet place. Now the elevator smells like something died in it. There are gnats everywhere which they will not take care of and I just found a roach they denied came from here even when i showed the dead body. Nice on the exterior but the longer you stay the more scary it becomes.