3440 Lake Shore Dr Condominium

3440 Lake Shore Drive also includes 3430 N. Lake Shore Drive. The building is a 160 unit condominium but many owners rent their units out and there is no rental cap. Currently, about 33% of the units are apartment rentals — about 52 units.
I thought I would love living here, but I am very disappointed. Sure, the location is great, the lobby and the hallways are very clean, most units have nice views, many units have balconies, and the doormen and the maintenance staff are all very nice.
THE PROBLEM IS NOISE!
UNFORTUNATELY, AN OTHERWISE NICE PLACE TO LIVE IS RUINED BY INCONSIDERATE NOISY NEIGHBORS AND A MANAGER WHO DOES NOTHING TO QUIET THEM (in my experience). AND THE BUILDING MAKES IT UNPLEASANT/​DIFFICULT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOISE.
If you have a noisy neighbor, even a super noisy neighbor, the building insists on coming into your unit to hear it — even though they can usually hear the noisy neighbor without entering your unit. So if you’re in your pajamas or your place is messy, you might not complain. And if your neighbor is noisy after midnight, there is usually no one available to come to your unit. And the building does not do much about noise until 10pm. Got all that? PRETTY MUCH A RUN AROUND.
I have one upstairs neighbor who likes to listen to his movies loud and listens to them regularly from the time he gets home from work until he goes to bed. He seems to like movies with a lot of things blowing up — so I FEEL LIKE I AM IN A WAR ZONE. Three weeks ago, I knocked on his door at 3am because his volume was so high I could not sleep, and a week later he was noisy at 1am. When I first moved in, I met his upstairs neighbor. His upstairs neighbor was on the way to the noisy neighbor’s apartment to ask him to turn down the volume (it was after 10pm). The upstairs neighbor was sick and tired of his constant noise. The upstairs neighbor has since moved out of the building.
I have complained about the upstairs neighbor’s noise to the manager MANY times and the MANAGER HAS DONE NOTHING. The neighbor says his volume is reasonable. It’s not reasonable volume if it keeps me up at 3am!!!
I have another upstairs neighbor who walks really loud day and night. I have asked the manager to talk to this neighbor many times and she has done nothing. I even asked the condo board president to do something. I have complained at least 10 times but THE MANAGER HAS DONE NOTHING!!!
In a nutshell, IF YOU ARE LOUD AND INCONSIDERATE, YOU SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER LIVING HERE. IF YOU LIKE PEACE AND QUIET, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU.
Finally, there are three other things about the building that bother me.
1. The maintenance staff comes into your unit many times a year. Twice a year for screens, once or twice a year for heating and air. If you’re not home and you have valuables, that is kind of disturbing.
2. The heating system the building installed in the past 20 years is forced hot air, so your apartment gets very, very dry. I have three humidifiers running all winter.
3. The windows are newer and look nice, but they leak so much that on the really cold days they are covered in frost.