Unfortunately my lease is not up until October so I am stuck until then…read more
Summary:
Rent: Rent stated online will not be the rent you end up paying (add $100)
Leasing: At the end the first year I asked if I could switch units early because I did not like my unit, they said sure. Cost $1,700 to move into a completely empty apartment in the same complex 2 months early.
Package deliveries: You are on your own there. They have parcel pending but lockers are always full and deliveries will be strewn across the floor. In the past 2 years I have had 5 packages stolen either from my front door or the parcel pending room. This is a complex that you need a fob to get into so basically your community is stealing your items. When I asked the office to email the community about the stealing or asked what can be done here was my answer, "I cannot help that there are horrible people out there."
Broken knee: Cleaning company did not put wet floor signs out, slipped on the wet floor, broke my patella. As a result, I was fired from my job because I had to have surgery the same week I was supposed to be at a conference. I was without a job for 4 months and almost became homeless. Responsibility goes to the cleaning company not the complex but here is what the insurance company offered me after all that I went through, $25,000. My medical bills alone were $16,000. So what a great insurance/cleaning company is working here. WARNING; DON'T FALL ON UNMARKED WET FLOORS AT ROOSEVELT ROW APARTMENTS.
Homeless, crazy people outside my window: I know it comes with the territory however, the first floor is not where you want to be here. Most recent: Some man on drugs screaming right in front of my window for 2 hours. I work from home and was trying to wait it out in hopes he would move on but he stayed there. At one point he realized that I was in my apartment and started hiding behind a tree and peeking in my window over and over and over again. I had to call 911. (And this is only 1 of at least 5 different times this has happened. Someone is outside my window for hours screaming and not one person managing the complex has a clue.
Fitness room: Whoever purchases the treadmills has no idea what they are doing and it seems they are buying consumer treadmills meant for in home, not gym use. The problem is that when they break, they are left broken for months. Here is the danger. When the up and down button for speed is broken and you you push to go up 1mph, it goes up by 5 or 6 mph. I almost fell off the treadmill when that happened and again DON'T GET HURT ON THE PREMISES OR YOU ARE OUT OF LUCK.
Garage: I pay $25 a month for the garage. I got in an accident and while waiting for the insurance check, I had it parked in the garage on the 2nd floor in a spot that I pay for every month. Get a text one day that my car cannot be in the garage taking up a space if it is not functional. I have to move it or be towed. The ordeal of moving it was a lot and I got my insurance check 2 weeks later.
BikeS: I have a bike that I bought for $50 to get around downtown so I am not driving everywhere. I asked if they had a bike storage and yes, they do for $10 month which makes absolutely no sense. So within 5 months I have paid for the bike again. I called around and checked other apartments in this neighborhood and all of them offered bike storage for free. So if you intend on having a bike here, know that it's $10/mo to store which, for a college students, and I am not one, that sucks.
Garbage: Unfortunately I live right next to the garbage room, One Monday the city did not pick up the garbage. I told the office they said they would handle it. Wednesday, the city did not pick up the garbage. I told the office a 2nd time, they said they would take care of it. The following Monday, and mind you this is a 4 story apartment complex, no garbage pick up. So essentially 1 week of garbage was falling from the 3 floors above me and it blocked the entrance to the garbage door on the first floor. (btw, the blocking of the 1st floor door happened on the Wednesday of that first week) 3rd time to the office. In the meantime people on the first floor are throwing their garbage all over the garbage room with no where else to put it. As a result stuff was oozing all over the floor in the garbage room, the stench in my unit became unbearable and I ended up with gnats that even after pest control still to this day live in my unit.
The pool is the only redeeming quality about this place however, it is closed off and on all the time and don't try going out there on a holiday weekend unless you want the twerk party in the pool.
STAY AWAY FROM ROOSEVELT SQUARE. THERE ARE A TON OF OTHER OPTIONS AT THE SAME PRICE POINT