Sedgewick Apartments

I too would like to give this building a ZERO if it was an option.
Horrible. Extra charges whenever they can. The manager thinks she is running a prison. Impossible to talk to.
They once couldn’t accept my checks for two months rent payment because of my handwriting, which is fine. They return the checks together in the mail, and when I got them and wanted to send the payment, they charged me a late fee for the two months! JUST PURE MANIPULATION!!!
My apartment had a problem with the kitchen sink. Dirty water was flooding, horrible odor, and who knows what kind of health-​risks with that. They did nothing to fix it. Rent kept going up, but my apartment kept getting worse.
It took me over a year to get a screen for my bathroom window! A WHOLE YEAR of asking and asking again, and reminding them, and trying.
Overall, I would say that I always told myself that the location makes up for it, but I admit that I was wrong. NOTHING makes up for bad treatment, for feeling that they are being taken advantage of, and of being ripped off whenever possible. Simple things (that they are expected and required to do) could’ve made my life much easier.

I would give it zero stars if I could. This place is a DUMP. They are clearly milking it for the location. Management NEVER FIXES ANYTHING, no matter how many times it gets a request. The gap under the front door that lets in the RATS!!! They refuse to spend the $ 20 it would take to fix it. That front door is constantly broken… so much for security. Just look inside, you can tell how neglected the place is.
That last review is obvioulsy a plant by the last owner (this building has sold a number of times in recent years… no wonder management doesn’t know what to do). You can get a MUCH better deal if you just go a block or so away.
Good luck!!! You’ve been warned!!!

I signed up for Unilocal just so I could write a review of this management company and share how I was treated when I tried to move out. I’ve lived a lot of places and have never experienced such incompetence and poor management. They are horrible. HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. The building manager is the kindest lady around, but she’s obviously worked to the bone and can’t keep up with the volume of resident emails and phone calls.
Getting a clear answer from anyone at this company is like herding cats. I gave my two months notice to move out (which is funny, because their move out checklist says 30 days notice is required), turned in my keys, and I still got billed for an extra month. The accounting office said there was nothing they could do about it and I would have to wait for a refund until I got my security deposit back. 45 days! I’m pretty sure there has to be another way to refund my payment other than processing my move out paper work I turned in TWO MONTHS AGO!!!
Their new website is a disaster. I’ve made my rent payments and still been charged late fees. It feels like I’ve been on the phone with the accounting office every month for the past year trying to figure out why I was or wasn’t charged the correct amount. They didn’t fix it when they said they would… or fix it ever, for that matter.
I can’t wait to have absolutely nothing to do with this company ever again for the rest of my life.

This property wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to deal with UIPPM. The worst. I hate every time I have to interact with these people. They make me want to punch a wall.
First of all, moving in was a total fiasco. l was promised a Wednesday move in at the Sedgewick… after days of calling to ask about logistics and getting deliberate HANG UPS by the receptionist/​leasing agent (who is a lying dog of a human being and is horrifically unprofessional– by the way) I finally get a phone call saying that the move in can’t happen. Of course I have a moving truck full of belongings ready to go 4 hours away. After this I have to pay extra for my truck and have to crash on someones couch for days, and keep my fingers crossed that nobody steals my stuff out of the truck. Furthermore, I get NO apologies. When I DO arrive, three days later, they have not reserved the unloading zone for me. I have to park on a street perpendicular to the building and cart all of my crap across 19^th in AUGUST. THANKS UIPPM! You are the best! In addition, when I filled out my lease I was told they would throw in an ac unit. Also a LIE. I arrived in 100 degree weather and was told there would be no AC… no Wednesday move in, no AC, no parking… They don’t give a FUCK.
Furthermore, they are in cahoots with Urban Igloo. When I moved to the city the rep from UI totally pulled the bait-​and-​switch with me. He, with the leasing agent from UIPPM (the one who ducked my phone calls) showed me an amazing property in Kalorama… stainless steel appliances, utilities included, freaking amazing… and cheap for the quality!!! Then they showed me the Sedgewick– nice location, but completely inferior property AND more expensive… I decided on the Kalorama property immediately. It was such an amazing find I almost cried I was so excited! When I got to the UIPPM office they told me the other property was shown to me ‘by mistake’. Yeah right. the leasing agent read some email about how they no longer had permission to lease the property,. The email made no sense, it was all real estate jargon that they thought I wouldn’t understand. They just thought I was an idiot. Which I was. I should have walked out of the office and found a different place. If I wasn’t completely out of time, I would have. I was desperate for a place to live, and they knew they had me. Then the leasing agent lied to me, to compensate for my disappointment they said they would throw an AC unit and microwave in for free. They also said there was bike storage on the property, that utilities were included, and that you could pay your rent online. All lies. Also, they told me they couldn’t clean my apartment before I moved in– so of course I was scrubbing toilets, tubs, and stained counter tops immediately on my arrival. There is no way in hell these fuckers give deposits back and they don’t even maintain the rooms. They are a total scam. They can all go fuck themselves and go to HELL.
I would never recommend any of UIPPM’s properties, strictly because of the office staff. Side Note: Maintenance has been great with me, they respond to my calls promptly, and are really nice in the halls… but the office staff?! They are vile human beings that have caused me to prematurely gray. I will not be renewing my lease and I encourage anyone looking at their properties to stop, and look elsewhere.
Oh yeah– and there are roaches in the hallways– hallways that smell like sour shit, the «steam heat» = no heat; and the stove tops have two pilot lights and there is no insulation. The stove top gets so hot that when you put fluid on it it immediately turns to steam. Nice. The beauty of the bait and switch tactic is that I was too enamored with the Kalorama property to really look at how shitty the Sedgewick property really was…