Apartment Review for Bil-Mar Properties - Chicago, IL

Unless you are a drug dealer, gang member or prostitute you don't want to live here. Management is a joke as is maintenance. Locks are always broken or jammed so anyone can get in. Building is super dirty, only 2 washers and 2 dryers in the cave like laundry room...both are never working at once. Bums often jam locks to sleep in the laundry room..their "professional" way of dealing with that was to post a note stating that "anyone caught jamming locks will have their knees broken with a baseball bat" NICE huh? Management likes to post passive aggressive notes blaming the problems on tenants when it is really their shitty management that has led to the condition of the building. They will rent to ANYONE and EVERYONE.Chances are your neighbors will be domestic violence poster children, prostitutes, dealers or pimps. My neighbor was actually forced out of his apartment by a pimp...CPD later raided the building...this happened frequently. It's not nice to be woken up to the sound of dozens of police running in the halls and knocking in doors! A man was murdered in front of this building a couple years back and the perps had keys to the building...and did NOT live there. My apartment was a crack house and was not cleaned before I moved in...but I was expected to clean it when I moved out. Shady people often party on the back stairwell and make you feel scared to even throw out your trash! Management is totally cool with letting a woman with 7 kids live in a studio apartment! Something broken? Good luck getting it fixed. Heat barely works and when you complain about it management really doesn't seem to care. Windows are so drafy you can feel a breeze if you sit by them. Just a bad, bad building...I have friends who live in other Bil-Mar buildings and they are living in hell as well so your best bet is just to avoid Bil-Mar all together...unless you are a dealer, pimp, prostitute or gang member than this place is perfect for you!