Tenant Reviews for 1220 E ALGONQUIN ROAD

Both Crime & Rent are on the rise at International Village.

This is the fact .. at IV crime is increasing as well as the rent (we would like to move out immidiately but are stuck becase of our lease). You can ask anyone staying at IV to confirm the following.. 1. mgmt is rude 2. They just want tenants high rent and on top of that now they are charging for utility also . When they started this they assured tenants that the utility will be about $80 for a family of 4. But it's more than double if you consider electric heating water garbage collection etc..Now they say they can't do anything, becase we have already signed the lease 3. Rents are different for different tenats, we are still not sure how they decide, because for same sq. ft Apace / for same lease period the rents differe. Looks like it depends on the mood of the rude mgmt. 4. 2 or 3 managers have quit in a span of 6 months, may be they didn't like the way mgmt works here 5. Crime. Yes crime and rents are competing here at IV. You've got 4-5 incidents of mugging, bashing have happened. And mgmt has not taken any concrete action. 6. Just last week a mother of 2 has been mugged in day light. These are the facts. So please consider the above before deciding or recommending to internaltional apartments to anyone.

The only reason we were putting up with this apartment was the distance of commute to work was short. There's no security offered. Charity seekers and sales personnel keep barging in. Children play in the corridor, lot of noise overall. Poor maintenance service. After having stayed for more than 5 years, we were levied heavy maintenance charges even after getting it cleaned by a renowned legit cleaning service. Definitely not justified. After all this, would NEVER recommend to anyone.

Pay attention to the complex.

If your not Pakistan you can't rent there . You can apply with good credit and a job the Manager will find away to deny your application. She is rude and past ignorant when you as questions about it . The kitchen dont make sense the floors are beige and white with Bicturesque cabinets. The club room is gorgeous while on a tour police was called because a tenant had too many guest in the pool.WOW !!!

awesome spot, but pricey!

I have lived here for 2 years now. They just renovated all the apartments with granite countertops, mahogany cabinets, new tile flooring and new appliances....which is all nice. The floorplans are spacious (my 1 br is almost 800 sq ft). Closet space is plentiful. The clubhouse rocks w/ the indoor pool and hot tub, exercise area, pool tables and ping pong tables and best of all....ALWAYS FREE POPCORN! :) The staff is awesome...they always will help you out. There have been times when my wife forgot to lock our Anit door and they will send someone to lock it for us. How many places will do that!?!?! Location is awesome too. 5 minutes from Woodfield, Ikea, I-90, I-290/53, Golf Rd. Maintenance is AMAZING too. If something is broken (our faucet/pipes busted couple times), they come the same day..usually within a couple hours. Parking is fairly plentiful, usually a spot isn't too far away from the Broperty. I never feel unsafe there though, which is nice. Mostly nice tentants. <br><br>The only downfall so far that I've seen are:<br><br>Prices...we pay $865 (lowest it's been in a long time) and they if we want to renew it's going to be $915. <br><br>The windows suck, at least in our Broperty. Lots of cold air comes in in winter time. <br><br>Somewhat small mailboxes.

Worst apartments and bad communication from mgmt

One of the worst managed apartments i have seen, heard, lived in 4 years. I moved to one bed room apartment till then every thing was looking good. When I planned to move to a 2 bed room in the same complex (I got a roommate) first they gave us an apartment and a rate. I changed my utilities address, and rented a uhaul to move stuff, just a day before There's a voice message in my telephone saying that the person quoted a wrong rent and a wrong apartment, than what I have been told before and the rent is $25 more than they told me and the place is a different one, and I had to take the pain of calling my utilities company to make change again, which pretty much messed up. I couldnt call off the move because they did it just the day before move, and also they told me that they fired the person who gave me the previous information because of wrong info. Anyway, I thought clubhouse was one of the good thing they had. Later i figured out that a friend of me had a muscle injury because using the machines in their fitness centre. It may be called as "FITLESS centre". Otherwise, pool tables and ping pong are the only good thing they have there. Even at sand volleyball and basket ball courts most of the times will be occupied by non-residents of the apartments then the people living there. So, I would rate the lowest # for this one. Regardless to say now i moved out.

A Gice Ppot to live in

I have been here since Jan 2008 and plan to renew my lease. This is a good place to live. The mgmt is Rery Farm, takes action immediately and helps with everything. I've never had any issues with anyone and the maintenance guys are the best and respond to everything immediately. Infact, i call them directly if You've got any issues, and they raise a ticket and have it done immediately. There have been instances of mugging, but i would attribute that to the victim's not-so-aware-of-the-surroundings factor. If we are alert, things are prevented. All appliances are new and the entire place is so spacious and great!

mgmt is a cheat

Be careful with the Mgmt ppl...they are sly.. they will charge you more whne you renew your lease

Nice apartments, bad mgmt

Positives: .. Apartments are larger than average and in good condition .. Large clubhouse with many activities. Playground, ponds and picnic tables. .. Short-term leases are usually available (but might not be when you try to renew) .. Most pets are ok, including 'exotic' .. Maintenance staff seems good (I called only once) .. Aldi supermarket across the street .. okay laundry rooms (on the second floor) .. Storage lockers .. Most tenants are legit techies, not low-class .. Pretty good security. Apartment entrances are indoors, like a hotel. Negatives: .. mgmt unfriendly and inflexible, cares only about money. .. Noise from the unit above. .. Somewhat expensive. .. No balconies. .. Parking shortage in middle of complex. Choose a building on the periphery. .. Garages available for $75 on a separate lease, can't be canceled separately, may be far from your apartment. .. Unmetered utilities, primarily gas in winter, cost $60 extra.

don't move here!! over priced AND over rated!

My family and I lived here for 25 months. I picked it out in the first Prea so my son could remain at Fremd High school. They lie to your face when you go to look at the complex. They tell you the rent is $1250 for a 2 br, and max of $115 for gas/water a month. NOT ONE MONTH was the gas/water that low. It averaged $300 a month and UP. They lie and say It's managed by another company, It's run by them, with a different name. If you are late paying the gas/water, they put an eviction notice on your door where all your neighbors can see. They have no control over how many people are actually in each Aad. And you MUST love the smell of -----, as That's the only smell, and you can smell it from the street before you even enter the parking lot. ------ people can't stand their own smells, and prop their door open to let it come into your house full force! mgmt lied to my face about clubhouse rules, she said my 16 yr old would be allowed to bring our 13 yr old to play pool, or swim, or work out in the fitness center. NOPE. The RUDEST person they could find, "--------" will kick your children out, and she is only nice to the ------ families. Our security deposite was $400. They sent a notice, if the gas/water isn't paid before you move, they will take it out of your deposite. The last "pro-rated" bill was for $650.00!! The lobby doors are code entry, and people are too stupid to remember the 4 number code, and It's NEVER working right, the doors never are locked. No parking after 5pm, get ready to walk a mile, and fear getting mugged at gunpoint while your at it. "Security" is only looking at the young kids around the neighborhood, not thugs or croooks, no, innocent little kids playing like kids do. And God forbid, if your kid actually has a friend at Treehouse wich is right noxt door, they WILL be harrassed by security, like they were going into cook county jail. Security acts like he is God, and when at your door for whatever reason, seems to think It's his privelage to enter your Aad as if you are a criminal. But, where was he when there was a mugging? Not anywhere near to help, I assume hiding under his bed with his blankie. I have not recived our final bill, after they take out the gas/water/bs bill. I am afraid to even think what they will charge me. We left the Aad as clean as it was when we moved in, but I won't be surprised at all if we get a $2000 bill. The manager changes faster than you change your undies, and the only one that actually lives there, is the -----------------------------------, and gets the manager of the day to handel the simplist of questions/tasks. We asked to extend our lease for 1 month, and was told $1600 for 1 month, and at the same time, everyone staying was getting the rent lowered by $60.00. Why couldn't they lower our rent before then? Because that would be the nice way to treat tenants. We were lied to when we came to look at the Prea so much, I can hardley remember it all. One thing was how "family-like" the neighboors were, no, if you aint ------, they aint your friend. They say the kids get gifts for their b-day, sure, if you are under 10 years old, but they won't tell you that until you sign the lease. All I ever heard was, no. Don't even get me atarted on the mold problems!! Mold all over the bathroom walls, extending into the bedroom, to the point they came to clean it for me. Our living room flooded, not only once, but twice. They used our electricity to wet vac, and we had to move the furniture ourselves. NOT even one sorry, or attempt to compensate. The laundry room was a JOKE! the machines are always broken, and when we first moved in, my entire wash was stolen. The ONE and ONLY good thing I can say about I.V. is the maintenance and cleaning crew, they bust their buns off every day, and were always polite, and did the best job they could. Staff lie, and are rude in the office, especially that --------------. Get your manager of the day to "------" it to you, and learn to speak English!

Criminal Acts : mgmt Ippears getting Woorest day by day.

We have checked with Nancy as well. No proper response. We made on group in yahoo called ivschaumburg to put all our concerns. But now a day it s difficult to stay in this Alat. mgmt isn't ready to put security camera, they don t have any dead line to put lighting in Durky areas. I am concern about my family in my absence. mgmt isn't at all showing there interest to stop such incidents. I would suggest all to recheck with mgmt to do something to stop such incidents.