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| - Parents and students, please avoid Illini Tower, avoid Campus Living Villages properties, so you will avoid trouble and unhappiness ahead. Not to mention canned food, dirty rooms which other people already mentioned. My daughter and her 3 roommates also had to work on the toilet every time it was used. The worst part is Illini Tower managers only care about money. When I called Marta Kazmierczak (from Campus Living Villages) and signed for the lease, I asked about the $100 referral for my friend. She said there is no referral at all. I thought maybe the advertisement I just saw was expired. But later when I went back on their website, the $100 referral ad was still there! I didn't bother to ask again. After paying the processing fee, she asked for $350 nonrefundable fee. To date, I still don't know what that was for. These don't prompt me to writing a review until they forced me to pay hidden preexisting damages.
A couple of weeks before the school ended, one girl moved a sofa looking for her stuff. She saw a fingertip sized dent on the wall behind the sofa. She reported to the building maintenance right away. No one responded. Two months after school finished everyone received $25 damage charge. $25 is nothing but I think I need to stand up against this greedy company and its employees. I talked to manager Eric Kappelmann (from Campus Living Villages) that the dent was behind the sofa and it was there before the girls moving in. There was no way that the girls damaged the wall behind the sofa while everywhere else was all right. They argued that the contract we signed requiring us to check preexisting damages before moving in. I told them the damage was behind the sofa. The contract doesn't say we need to move sofa, beds, cabinets and other furniture to inspect. Will anyone move the furniture to inspect the preexisting damage? They charged the students excessively for the poor job they did when the previous residents moved out. When I disputed this charge with them, Agatha Thomas (from Campus Living Villages) threatened to send the charge to the collection agency and she did and she won $25.They won $25 ($100 in total), but they got their bad name. Illini Tower (Campus Living Villages) and BYL Collection Services are working together. If they want to charge you anything, you have to pay since you don't want your credit to be ruined by Campus Living Villages.
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