Biggest waste of my time! I called a week ahead to get an appointment and was asked some information regarding what I was looking for. When I got to my appointment, I was asked to fill out the same information, and waited an hour before I was seen. When I was finally taken back to speak with someone, I was asked the same questions I had answered twice already. The agent was rude and continuously told me that I could not find an apartment anywhere for the price I was looking at and having a dog. I had looked at 3 apartments earlier that day, on my own, that were newly rehabbed and incredibly nice. The agent then began looking on the website for potential apartments and proceeded to tell me that most of the places needed 24 hour notice to be seen. WHY DID I MAKE AN APPOINTMENT THEN!? He kept looking at options that were nothing like my specifications. He was looking off the Brown Line when I specified that I only wanted to live off of the Red Line so that I had 24-hour transportation access, he was looking at apartments that didn't allow dog, when that was one of my only specifications, etc. Once he looked for a half-hour, he told me to go wait in the lobby again. I waited another half-hour for him to be ready to go view three out of the 10 apartments we had found online. The first apartment he took me to a DUMP, that had nothing I wanted. He then took me to an apartment next to Wrigley Field that was decent, but he told me I "had to decide then and there if I wanted it, or it would be gone in about an hour," when I am looking for an apartment for June. The next apartment was another complete DUMP, the occupying residents had been smoking marijuana and the place looked like it was about to fall down. After, he took me back to the office and as I told him none of them where what I wanted and why he again proceeded to tell me that I was not going to find anything like that in my price range with a dog, rudely. I continuously tried to push me into applying for places I did not like and was really a sales man type. I found Apartment Hunters unhelpful and frustrating! You will have better luck walking around neighborhoods and looking for 'For Rent' signs and calling landlords.
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