Tenant Reviews for 917 W DAKIN ST

This is the biggest dump in the city! There are so many problems and the management company is not helpful and rude. My neighbor was without her bedroom for over 2 weeks because the ceiling collasped on her bed! There are so many leaks throughout the building but the management company refuses to fix them- just put "band-aids" over them that you can visibly see- check out the 4th floor! The front and back door locks are often broken.

I moved into 917 W. Dakin when I graduated school and moved to the city. The building couldn't be in a better spot. It's one block to the Redline so I could get to work downtown in 15 minutes. The apartment was clean, newly rehabbed and had tons of sun. I ended up extended my lease for another 12 months. I think the building use to be an old hotel at one point. Anyways it's not the Ritz but ideal for anyone moving into their first apartment. My one qualm would be street parking during Cubs games.

Don't move to a lower floor. High heel stomping goes on all the time in this building The guy above me was deliberately stomping. He told me he was doing it because he did not like me. The management laughed a me when I told them that.

The inside of the apartments are nice, but the entranceway and facilities are always grungy-- the laundry machines are often broken, and worse yet, the entrance gate is ALWAYS broken for some reason or another so that you either have problems getting in or the door buzzer is kaput, and more often than not, the gate's just propped open. (What's the point of a gate if it's never closed?) Also, the worst feature of this apartment is that since the gate and door are often broken, the mailman sometimes can't get in, and mail doesn't get delivered, and sometimes even gets lost-- a real pain if you pay for Netflix, magazines, or the paper.<br><br>Oh, and BTW-- I live on the fourth floor, and haven't had problems with ghosts per se, but I have noticed that every picture I take in the apartment has either orbs or wavy white lines as described by the other renter. Creepy.

I have lived in this building for the full year and didn't have any problems with ghosts, but thought that they way that Zale Co. maintained the building to be more disgusting than a college dorm. The elevator constantly smells like regurgitated Italian food, and the hallways smell like a zoo, the hallway carpets haven't been shampooed much less vacuumed in the past year that I have lived in the building. Although the most disgusting aspect was the laundry room; it has not been swept, washed or even touched by maintenance in the entire time that I have lived in the building. Honestly, it was much more disgusting than my college dorm, and I thought that was bad.<br><br>All these things may be overlooked as the apartments have wood floors, high ceilings, and great windows that let in a lot of light. I just wish that they took better care of the building as rent is ridiculously high in price for what you receive.<br>

I lived on the 4th floor. Within several weeks, my roommate and I began to notice strange things happening. My mom was taking pictures, because she was redoing the blinds, adding a rug to the wood floors, etc., and there was a strange white ripple through about half of the photos when she got them developed. No big deal right? I was watching tv on night and the channel jumped to the Spanish channel. Closet doors would open, things would fall off the table. I was constantly picking things off the floor. One morning, my roommate asked me why I was spying on him the night before - we had WINDOWS between our rooms (which was strange all in itself - guess there was no other way to layout the apartment). He saw a girl in the window. I´m not kidding you. He thought it was me. I showed him it was literally impossible for me to be where he saw this girl. That was the last straw. I went online and researched our address and came up with a guy (who set fire to the 3rd floor stairwell because he was evicted for not paying rent, killing everyone on the 4th floor, including a 15 year old girl. This place creeped me out. The creepiest thing was when the heat kicked on (we never turned it on being on the 4th floor - heat rises) after I said it was a little nippy, and I wasn´t able to turn it off by the thermostat switch. We moved in at a odd time, December, so the building managers wanted us to renew our lease 6 months from then, June. Needless to say, we didn´t renew the lease. I´m really surprised I stayed there that long. True story. <br> <br>Here is a link to the event: <br>http://www.state.il.us/court/opinions/SupremeCou