Svigos Asset Management Apartments

Svigos does not care about your needs. Do not believe it if your lease says it is a non smoking building. They hardly answer. I complained and they said they sent a notice to my neighbor and haven’t had a follow up with it since. My neighbors are still smoking and I’m left to suffer. I have asthma and it is not a healthy environment for me. They could have done nore servered a 10 day notice for violation of thier lease and gone through eviction process but i believe it’s because they don’t want to lose out on revenue. They would rather inconvenience the 1 person that’s complaining. I wish i would have done my research on this place prior to signing a lease.

I rented an apartment with them on Buckingham Pl. in Boystown. It is a beautiful space and a gorgeous old building, but they do nothing to support the building’s maintenance. I have submitted through their maintenance request form and never hear anything back. They do not upkeep the vines on the building which cause infestations of ants and spiders. They do not do any sort of cleaning or repainting with the apartment turnover. Do not rent from them if you can avoid it.

Great location, nice vintage apartments, lots of character! It sounds like there may have been some issues with these apartments in the past but I have lived there for a year now and have been very happy with my stay. A friend of mine lived in these apartments for two years before I did and she really liked them too, which was how I heard of them in the first place. I really don’t want to leave my apartment but my job is causing me to move elsewhere.
The location couldn’t be better; right downtown on Main St. in quaint Glen Ellyn AND right on the train line into the city. It would be ideal for anyone who works in the city and doesn’t want to pay the price of city rent. Also great for those who enjoy easy access to the city on the weekend. Great places to have dinner and drinks up and down Main St. They continue to open more bars and restaurants; in the amount of time I lived there they opened two more awesome places. Always nice to have right outside your front door.
Rent is reasonably priced for the location and apartment style and I never felt unsafe, even though I lived alone as a single girl. All in all, this is a great place. Highly recommend it.

We have lived in these apartments for two years. We always paid our rent on time, never caused any trouble.
BUT…
1) The first November, I walked out the 3^rd floor back porch door and almost fell to my death. Svigos tore down the back porch that morning without ANY warning or notice whatsoever. This also meant that ALL WINTER to get to the dumpsters/​car, we now had to walk around the entire block in ice, snow, wind, etc. VERY INCONVENIENT. They refused to give us any sort of information regarding when they planned to build the new porch. (There was nothing wrong with the old one.)
2) Since it was now a trek to throw out trash, some residents started stackign their trash bags in the laundry room. Ew. We complained, and Svigos sent out threatening letters to every tenant, saying how they would evict anyone etc. This would become a familiar tone in their communications with us on even the most paltry of items. They also threatened that if anyone complained about apartment conditions to the City, they would make us tenants PAY THEIR FINE!
3) The pipes froze that winter too. We were without running water for two weeks, and then only because we called several times a day.
4) The frozen pipes broke the bathroom sink, somehow. Since they didn’t do anything about it for A MONTH, we tore the sink out ourselves after the maintenence guy promised to bring another sink. This ended up with him dropping a vintage (but in need of new valaves) sink at our door and leaving US to install it. Yes, we remodeled THEIR BATHROOM. For free. (We didn’t mind because we sure as heck didn’t want to wait another two months for them to do another half-​ass job.) The bathroom sink was inoperational for a total of 3 months. Svigos didn’t even apologize.
5) The hallways are only vacuumed right before they show an apartment. Really. And they usually vacuum at 11 pm, when you’re trying to sleep.
6) The apartment was not properly insulated after they disabled the original hot water heat, (to switch to electric) so it cost a fortune to heat every winter, and was still drafty.
7) They make a concerted effort to do major maintenence on weekends, when there is nobody at their office to answer complaints/​quesions about the sudden, indefinite loss of electricity, phone, water, or washers & dryers.
I could go on and on for pages, but I just don’t have the energy. Thankfully we move at the end of the month, after two HORRIBLE years. (& they had the nerve to raise our rent!)
NEVER RENT ANY SVIGOS BUILDING