Millender Center Apartments

I moved in right when Village Green took over the property. They said the place is dated and give them some time and everything is going to be great.
Well its been three months and things have gone down hill. I don’t usually complain about construction noise but when it goes past 11pm and starts at 6 am that is unacceptable. And management says they approve construction at all hours as long as its quite. Well tile saws, circular saws, and impact drills are not quite!
And the building smells specially the elevator to the ren cen! Not to mention all the elevators in the building are extremely old and usually broken. I have not been stuck in one yet, but it happens all the time.
But it doesn’t stop there. When I moved in I had multiple issues, broken door, broken drain, broke cabinet, and spiders! Leaving emails and VM with management for 3 weeks with zero responses. It wasn’t until I cockroach that was 3 inches long scurried under my front door that I promptly killed and physically brought to security that I got any response. And the response was they had the engineer set little traps smaller then the roach. And that they would have an exterminator come in. Which didn’t happen for 2 weeks!
Now they said it was a transient Roach and didn’t grow in my apartment. But it had to grow in the building somewhere!
To top everything off they gave me a poorly written letter saying rent is going up almost 40% with about 40 days notice. The letter had a number to call and set up an appointment to discuss. I did, and discussed with the manager where she said she has zero flexibility and she will have the GM contact me.
The GM doesn’t get back to me for over 2 weeks and again he doesn’t have any flexibility either. Saying with all the improvements this is a market rate.
Which Leeds me to what they have improved. They have painted some walls a really cold blue which makes you down, and put up a floral print wallpaper that I have yet to find anyone that likes. And if I were to sign a new lease with the new higher rent they want me to live through them doing construction in my unit to replace sinks, counter tops, cabinets, appliances, carpet, and painting. And I have seen the new improved units, they are nicer but not up to modern standards. And cheap appliance, paint and countertops don’t make for a 40% increase in rent. It seems they want new or current tenants to pay for all the so called upgrades with the first couple of months rent.
Showing some pretty pictures of nice apartments in Chicago, slapping a high rent on substandard, dated building, and hanging wallpaper! does not make for a luxury apartment.

Ok so these apartments suck. First year no noise. Second year a small family moved into a one bedroom on top of us, I hear everything, loud banging late at night, I have lost many nights sleep, so I guess I could pay the $ 1000 to break the lease or let them transfer me to another unit and pay more $$.
I hear when they take baths, go to eat in kitchen, when the kid acts up, I hear it all. It is terrible.
Would not recommend moving somewhere, where you can hear every noise above you. So yeah it sucks.
I have asked other tenants if they hear the people above them, they said yes, so I guess it is the norm here. Unacceptable.
If you want to pay $ 1225 for a one bedroom 840 square feet, go ahead, noises included.
BANG BANG, Boom, Boom, there they go again, Thank you.