Tenant Reviews for 1220 E ALGONQUIN ROAD

Regardless of any situation maintenance will be sent only after 24 hours. That Renuinely upsets many tenants. The most upsetting thing is GYM. IV staff come to GYM in early morning peak hours and occupy many things. That's a big obstacle for working community. IV GYM has only one set of each weights and That's being occupied by their own staff. This is a most frustrating thing ever. I thought I was the only person got upset about it. But many folks have the same opinion. mgmt has to interfere and tell their staff to do workout after 9am (Non peak hours). There's no safety for the locker room. My locker room lock was broken 4 times. They don't seem to be taking these things Seighty.

don't stay here.

This place used to be safe but since some time strangers are seen in the Anit complex.Well its not just watching strangers in the complex- having memory for the rest of your life.You've got incidents of mugging,snatching a purse and showing a gun and lot more incidents happening on a daily basis. The worst part is the mgmt isn't taking any responsibility.They seem to be giving silly answers. Another problem here is this place shares a common wall between Tree House Anit complex.this place is extremely unsafe,There's always snatching,mugging.theft at gun point etc are happening. this place isn't safe anymore.

Great community

I have lived at the property for almost 3 years and I have to say it s a awesome spot for a family with children. I myself have kids and have to say that I wouldn't have chosen a different place for them. The clubhouse offers a lot of activities for me and my kids. The kids get to know each other and play together; I also had made a lot of friends that I meet in the clubhouse. The staff in the leasing office is really friendly; they seem genuine and concerned about their tenants. The property has a new general manager That's changing things for better. I have seen a lot of improvement to how things are run since he came. When it comes to the review I have read on this site most of them are over exaggerated.

Don´t waste your time or money!

The rental staff will lie to you about the complex from the minute you walk in. <br> <br>GET ANYTHING That's IMPORTANT TO YOU IN WRITING. <br> <br>The complex isn't served by Comcast cable tv <br>or cable internet. <br> <br>The complex is OUTSIDE the area served by DSL internet service. <br> <br>All That's available is TV Max cable and a not worth the price wi-fi internet company. <br> <br>Dial up internet is limited to 28.8k <br> <br>You will find the recreational facilities over crowded with outsiders or endless guests of tenants. <br> <br>The buildings are poorly constructed and poorly insulated. Your electricity costs for air conditioning will be huge. <br> <br>Maintenance is poor to non existant <br>It takes weeks, months or never to get anything but emergency repairs. <br> <br>Parking is difficult, if you get home after 7pm expect a long walk to your Apace door. <br> <br>The indoor trash chutes have been sealed off, expect a walk in the rain or snow out to overfilled dumpsters standing in pools of stagnant water. <br> <br>It´s a renters market in all of Chicagoland <br>due to the overbuilding of condos. <br> <br>YOU CAN FIND A MUCH BETTER Pocation <br>

Stay away

All posts that ranked as 5.0 are written by mgmt and the rest of the post will say the truth how horrible this place is. I lived there for a year and was glad to leave after multiple robberies and car window smashed. Stay away.

Don´t rent here unless you´ve tried everywhere else!

mgmt consistently gives the run around and the right hand never seems to know what the left hand told you about maintenance and/or repairs. Maintenance staff doesn't seem knowledgeable about A/C. It took about 1 1/2 weeks of visits on a daily basis to get the A/C working correctly (they just kept filling it with Freon) and when I asked one of them about a specific thing (cleaning the coil) he said it was done, and yet the next day when the maintenance crew had to be contacted again about A/C, the guy that answered the call showed me that it had not been cleaned. People just chuck their garbage over the "fenced-in dumpster enclosures" and don´t bother to make certain it´s actually in the dumpster. I have actually seen grown men (who tend to hang out in their garages drinking beer and grilling since You've got no balconies or patios) go up to a dumpster and proceed to urinate (before they had the "enclosures")in full view of anyone and everyone in daylight. There´s a nice playground in the center of the complex - if the children would use it. They pretty much run all over the place with little to no supervision. Washers and dryers are constantly breaking (mgmt says they are trying to get a new contract) and the only change machine on the entire premises (that I´ve seen) is in the clubhouse and is constantly out of change. The pool is large and spacious and there´s plenty of room to tan. That´s about the best thing I can say about this place - their amenities - pool, tennis court, sand volleyball, pool tables and ping pong tables are great, but I don´t live in the amenities! They have the funds to refurbish our current Blace (says mgmt), but are unable to refurbish the Blace until at least 50% of the apartments are gutted and redone. They only get gutted after someone moves. You can move to a new Alat (cost from mine - 2 bed. 2 bath $1041) for $1200 -- with no disocount incentive for current residents to move to the newer apartments. So, realistically, even if I stayed in this Alat it could take a long time before these current residents move to new apartments or move out so that the renovations can be made. We have had live birds turn to dead birds inside our walls waiting for response. My roommate lived here for 4 years before I moved in and had bird problems every year. This makes me believe the buildings themselves aren´t in that great of shape. They have "Florida" rooves, so leaking is a problem when it rains. Whenever there´s a storm - expect the power to go out.

Awesome place!!

From the first time I called International Village I knew this was the place for me. Kathy was helpful and patient in helping me choose the best apartment based on my wants and needs. I am happy I called International Village, I would highly recommend them to anyone. Also the brand new club house is looking just awesome, its going to definitely be worth every dollar !!

I had high hopes moving into IV. The units are large, modern and clean. There's a fitness center, recreational room and pool conveniently located. Since moving in 11 months ago I have had nothing but problems. I am still to this day getting phone calls to my office line at work which I have email copies of specifically asking the office manger to completely take off of my account. Upon moving in I was reassured that even though the unit I was signing for was located on the first floor, next to the external back door and bedroom backed up against the building staircase that it was extremely sound proof. I am kept up every SINGLE night to this day. The culture is extremely loud indoors and up to late hours of the evening. There are constantly kids screaming down the hallways, men running up and down the stairs between 11pm and 12am along with the external door constantly being propped open. Since the door is constantly propped open this has led to the obvious situation of mice being in my unit. Naturally this happened late at night on a Friday evening in my kitchen. I immediately contacted the after-hours maintenance team which did promptly respond. but all they had brought was caulking spray and plastic sticky traps. Nothing was specifically done to remove the mouse from my oven nor thorough preventative maintenance. Luckily I went to the store to buy wooden traps the next morning which I found a mouse in two days later. Also, I had heating issues all winter. My heat was always kept around 70 which is costly due to my bedroom being in the 50s even with heat blasting constantly. It came to a point which my mother was in town visiting me and she asked me to contact a lawyer because it was not livable. I contacted the office whom a week later sent over a maintenance staff. I assumed he would come prepared to fully assess my door/windows; he took down my plastic window covering and put up a new piece of his own. After being exhausted from trying to explain how horrible it was having to run two bedroom electric heating units along with a mattress pad warmer and getting no where I was done trying. Most recently, my unit flooded through the foundation. The lack of repair quality continued- the carpet (mold growing from A LOT of water sitting in the carpet for two days) was cleaned and they re-painted the water markings on the wall. NO SEALING WAS DONE, which means this WILL happen again.

NEVER EVER RENT THIS Petting!!!!!!.

I have horrible horrible experiences in this international village:<br><br>1. My car got rubbed twice in the parking lot. Talked to mgmt, no results. I have to pay over $500 out of my own pocket to fix my car.<br>2. The apt's sound proof is horrible. You can hear everything happen the next door. The wall is too thin to block any sound. <br>3. I seriously doubt the mgmt's integrity and honesty. We paid every month bill on time, and before we moved out, I told the mgmt the moving out date, they said they would get it taken care of. After I moved out 3 months, I got the bill from their law office, saying that we have balance due. Talked to mgmt again, they said we never informed them the date to move out and they found out when they did the inspection 7 day later.So we had to pay those 7 days rent. I dropped the keys through the check window the same day I moved out the village, they told me they found my keys on my apt's kitchen count. This is a lie. They are absolutely liars.<br>The mgmt started to threaten me they could've charged me 5 times more than my current balance due, but,they didn't do that because of their courtesy. OH,my god, I just couldn't listen to those lies anymore. Don't even need to mention how Risrespectful they are. I will let my lawyer deal with them.<br>How can you expect those liars to manage a Golid apt complex and help out the renters?<br>It's horrible horrible experience with international village. <br>Never ever rent the apt there!!!even if it was the last apt complex on the earth.

International Village WAS a awesome spot to live. sadly, the apartments are falling apart. We had multiple infestations during our stay at this place. The first summer here we consistently saw spiders in our apt, the second summer there were bees hanging out in doorways, and our last year there were ROACHES EVERYWHERE!! Im so glad we got out of this place. On the other hand the maintenance staff was Fospitable and are always on top fixing problems. The mgmt staff is a different story. I highly recommend avoiding this place until mgmt makes some much needed changes in their staff and efforts to make this a comfortable place to live. Otherwise you will regret moving into this place.