Angshuman Gooptu

I have been living in Yorktown for 3 years now. I have really enjoyed my stay overall. The apartments are really spacious and the amenities are great. Also the leasing staff (especially Rose and Carlos) are extremely helpful. However, I am seriously disturbed by the lack of concern by the management at Yorktown for residents who live here. We are paying a lot in terms that is comparable to rents paid in downtown Chicago, yet, the company continues to make renovations that is rather pointless. Last year, they face-lifted the entrance to make it look a bit modern. In that process, residents had to access side doors throughout the cold winter. They also got rid of an office corner that allowed residents to sometimes host a meeting in a private room since many of us work from home nowadays and may want to have a quite place outside of our apartments to make some phone calls (no residents were surveyed before these changes were made). Then they started changing our hallways... in the fall of 2016. We ended up re-signing our lease right before this started and got no warnings that we will have to deal with extreme noise levels (they used jackhammers to break apart tiles on the floor). This was kind of pointless because our hallways look like a prison cell now (dark with reduced lighting, gray walls, uncarpeted, with a bunch of random pictures hanging). We were accomodative still. We recently had a newborn in December. Suddenly, another set of renovations have started this month. This time I am seriously annoyed with the lack of concern for residents. The noise level is unbearable. I have a dog and a newborn and both have trouble sleeping or resting through the day. If I work from home, I have to go outside of the building to take a phone call. This is apparently due to renovation in empty apartments. We have asked the manager about this and all she has come up with as a solution is to move to another apartment. Why would we want to move with a newborn in the middle of our lease? And if so we should be able to move out of Yorktown without any penalties! The only solution I can see is that Aimco compensate us for the inconvenience caused by renovations. They should seriously consider re-compensating by discounting our rent since we were not told that further renovations would take place when we resigned in the fall. Also, if you are planning to live here... DONT!!! Although the staff is great, the continual renovations, the lack of concern for residents by the management will just aggravate you and make your stay unbearable (especially on weekdays).