Park Colony

I lived there for 2 years and its a very bad place to live. The units are very very old that even if a baby walks, you will hear squeaks all over. Pathetically highly priced units and for the price you pay, you can very well find a nice town home or house for rent. The manager Nadira is very rude and don’t expect a friendly hospitality when you visit the office or talk to the management.
If you want your money worth spent and have some peace of mind, just don’t move here. As simple as that. Its a word of CAUTION. DO NOT RENT HERE. YOU WILL REGRET IN THE END.

Great place to live ! Now under new management. Please stop by and check it out.

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Please don’t rNot impressed with Park Colony, they take your money and do the bare minimal for housing standards.
*Overall appearance of the building and apartment is run down and has not been updated
*Walls are very thin, we had children living above us and we could here every step they took. When they were jumping it felt like the ceiling would cave in… Management was made aware of this issue– they stated they would write the above tenet a notice about noise, when we talked to the above neighbor, she never received anything. We could hear people in the stairway and the hallways at all times.
*The heat is terrible, for about a month in the winter it was in the 60s in our apartment. It was either too hot, or too cold. They have a «fake» temperature control in the apartment, but it doesn’t do anything. its just for show. We had to have the maintenance guy come multiple times during the winter to fix our heat. It got so bad, we bought a small space heater to keep our room warm at night. When I looked at the housing site because I felt like this was terrible, our temperature was 1 degree above what it was supposed to be legally.
* When we first moved in we smelt gas, we had maintenance come take a look and fixed a leak. We could still smell something so maintenance came 2 more times… they couldn’t find any issues. What is frustrating is I was the one living there, I smelt something and guest who came to our apartment asked us if our stove was leaking. something wasn’t right.
*Washer and dryers are improperly serviced, they barely worked. usually one was broken.
* Make sure you read your lease carefully. you will have around $ 90 taken out of your security deposit at the end to have your carpet cleaned. Renting a carpet cleaner and doing it yourself is not sufficient…
We called to talk to a manager about why money was taken out of our security deposit, we were told to call in the morning to speak with her. We went in the next morning and we were led around shown our lease. when we asked to speak to a manager we were told she was busy… I believe we have a right to show pictures and justify why our apartment was left better then when we first got it. We don’t usually write reviews, but we don’t want other people to have this same issue. eview this business if you received a freebie for writing this review, or if you’re connected in any way to the owner or employees.

It was a terrible decision moving in here.
Roaches are everywhere despite moving into a newly gutted unit with new appliances we are infested with roaches.
Poor management that does not keep the units clean.
Do yourself a favor and do not waste your time and money moving in here.

Very disappointed with the way the management handles things. The laundry is NEVER working properly. My boyfriend and I have lived here for about 5 months now and can’t wait to get out. When the laundry «works» the washer soaks your clothes and a flood comes out as you open the door. And the dryer NEVER dries your clothes you have to dry it 3 times !! What a waste of money. I’ve given it too many chances and they just keep disappointing me. Also the maintenance is very lazy and half asses every job. Not worth the amount we pay ! For $ 980 a month you would think we would have better care !!! Never again.

Poor Management Decision to hire a towing company to patrol and tow cars from a practically empty parking lot in the middle of the day. If you live here then they will run off your friends. The tenant was not even aware of this regulation. Signs are not posted on buildings only a small one at the entrance.
I am not sure how this is legal for a towing company to troll a parking lot so they can pick up cars that are not abandoned nor blocking an area or hindering a tenant from parking. Seems like the fox guarding the hen house. This is just a scam to print their own money.
Now our brand new car has two large scratches on the rear and probably some flat spots on the tires from being dragged out. Our only recourse is to file a complaint with the IL commerce commission. Management was unwilling to talk about this matter.

The management team is very friendly, helpful and try their best to do what is within their power. Grateful for Anthony (Leasing Agent), Ms. May for trying to be on top of everything and also being so kind and friendly, I am also grateful for Glenda although she is no longer with Park Colony. As far as Customer Service goes and being punctual with getting the services ordered to be taken care of in a timely fashion they deserve 5 STARS. However, I HATE roaches and am an OCD type of Gal’ cleaning and being organized is my Motto because that is where I lay my head at night. They should have better vendors to be able to provide QUALITY SERVICE, Laundry room is filthy and the dryer takes HOURS to dry the clothes, the washer is not the best either. I only washed their 2x in 1 year and I have had to drag my items to a near by Laundromat 2x a week, tenants are always leaving their news ads in the corner of the entrance which makes the property look trashy, low class and dirty although the whole team including Maintenance etc try their very best to keep it up to par (THEY TRY REALLY HARD). We are NOT paying low class money so we should ALL as tenants keep up with our own Paper Ads and trash, dog poop etc. Every person that signs their lease has to be a LEGAL adult and we should know better then to NOT pick up after ourselves and our dogs or children. Guest Parking is horrible, Tenant Parking is terrible as the other side is the Senior Assistant living parking lot which makes no sense. Absolutely, No «DO NOT PARK SIGNS» where it should be so that guests would know not to park there & rust/​mole coming from the side of the air conditioner, parts of the closets, underneath the rug which I though was a spill from the previous tenants but it is not because it has been spreading through out certain parts of the carpet and when you clean it, it disappears at first but then it comes back up all over again. The view to the parking lot is horrible, the tenants are VERY FRIENDLY, the BEST set of neighbors, the pool is awesome although I was only able to use it 1x, the packet the front desk gives you when you first sign up tells you where restaurants, stores, schools, ups/​fedex strores are at which is a very good perk when you are new to the city as I was (I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT DES PLAINES), You get FREE Wifi which is AWESOME (WE ALL KNOW NOTHING IS FREE, BUT IT IS NICE NOT TO SEE AN INTERNET BILL EVERY MONTH & KNOW IT IS INCLUDED IN YOUR RENT). I don’t get the paying the water/​sewer $ 17.50 part when the unit I was renting is $ 855 per month for a HUGE one bedroom with the all the roaches and mice issue’s the building has had, dog poop my poor boyfriend and guests has accidently stepped on and the horrible smell of the building and no elevator is NOT worth it. I think $ 800 would have been more reasonable for Park Colony unless you had a Pool View which I DO NOT! I have seen soooo many different type of looking roaches, scorpion roaches, HUGE roaches I thought only existed in Puerto Rico, Florida or Georgia, Spider looking roaches, Brich red looking roaches with HUGE antennas… I NEVER thought there was even such thing called Scorpion Roach… Which I don’t even think they are here in Chicago so maybe someone went out on vacation and brought some of them here and now they are multiplying maybe? (I don’t know). Disgusting! Also, the building should have elevators and it should not have been all carpet as sometimes it looks dirty and it smells REALLY BAD! I got tired of buying the plug in oil for the hall to smell good so I stopped doing it for a very long time now. For some ODD reason I only see these roaches in the bathroom or near the bathroom, I don’t know if the neighbors downstairs have had their bathroom re-​done or someone put some roach bombs etc. I was told by Anthony not to do that bc it will not do much but I really wish I would have tried something. I don’t see it anywhere else in my home. Trust me I have checked and I find no trace anywhere else in the home which is weird they are typically in the kitchens I was told!

The management of the park colony apartments are not doing their job. The laundry place is very very dirty and the dryer is not working at all .We have to wait hours to dry out closes and they always say when we ask when the laundry place is gonna be working… The answer is yea we talk with our team management and we gonna find the way to fix that soon as possible… yea .This situation is going here and 1 year. No Change !!! I think they are looking only to get their rent every month and don’t care for the people at all. It is time the big bosses to make same changes in that management .I am very happy to leave this place and never come back here. They raise the price so high that is not worth it. they say that the new company bought the apartments and they change the prices so high .well if you want people to stay you can’t go that high on the apartment that looks like old lady with a new shoes … I went to ask for my rent and the manager told me that she can’t print the price for my new rent on the paper. Realy?she finally gave me the rent price high 150 $ more per month and didn’t even look at me at all. Really? I am the costumer and I pay for their offices. .i decided to leave specialy from that bad altitude of hers. representing the company and acting like is your house .we had apoiment the last day of my lease so the management can send somebody at my apartment so I can leave my keys. The apoiments was 10 :00 Am .I waited until 10:45 Am and went to the office but before I did called 3 times and nobody picked up the phone .I went to the office and finally one of the guys working there came over to check my apartment and gave all keys. Whay it has to be so hard for the management to do their own job? Whay all this mess? And they charged me 70 $ for watter… because they sad the new company took over the watter billing and start charging .The New company’s Name is VILLAGE GREEN .so. when you see that name on deferent apartments for rent run a way .they have deferent names but this is the main company name .
…People don’t go there !!!. Bye bye Dirty apartments… here is a video on the youtube for their dirty laundry .enjoy:)
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