TL;DR You'll get nickel and dimed to death ## The good: The front office staff (Karim) and leasing agent (Jen) are fantastic. They're both exceptionally helpful with anything you need. The view: yeah, this is nice esp if you get a spot on wisconsin where you can see the sunrise ## The bad ### "extra fees" You pay a pretty high rent but every month you're hit with a seemingly endless stream of variable "common area fees" for gas, sewer, trash electricity. This isn't even for your apartment but an itemized fee automatically added on top of that for heating the hallway, for someone else grilling wagyu burgers outside, for disposing trash and what not. Like for a 1br, i once got charged an extra ***$277*** on top of the base rent for the things normal apartments give for granted. I'm convinced they got a group of MBA interns to do nothing but play some sort of drinking game where they figure out creative ways to nickel+dime you to death with "fees"...there's a fee for everything ### build quality. "the sky is falling": so, this is a picture of the garage where we parked. Note the crack in the ceiling and the sloppy spray-on cement. Blocks of this stuff just falls down and fortunately, that car wasn't hit. I just don't get what kind of a structural issue would lead to getting a new building already showing cracks this severe and the sloppy staple and glue used to "fix" it.. ### Paper walls: You can hear everything going on in the hallway and walls are paper thin...like the person upstairs practicing the theme song to "My Neighbor Totoro" followed by "Lion King" at 1230am. (yes that actually did happened, twice... and yes, we filed a noise complaint) ### Appliances: The dishwasher and cabinets are meh, they look nice but are kinda cheap (cabinets are very lightweight/flimsy, dishwasher is pretty basic) ### Plumbing: when we moved in, the cold water wasn't even turned on to the shower ### Internet: Took like 4 hours for a verizon tech to get internet setup since its new connection and the builders forgot to run the cable to our end of the building. ### Plumbing again: water pressure if you like it, you wont' find it here. One of the first things we asked for was to increase the pressure but nothing much maintenance call can do ### Parking: its allegedly market rate to the tune of: $225/month. Probably not including damage incurred if bits of the ceiling fall on it --- Finally, we moved out after several months once we realized all this and luckily found a place to buy. ### Moving out Moving out was another experience all together...its in the lease to give about 60day notice *AND* 3months fees though it maybe possible to reduce that at signing. Even if you move out completely and thoroughly clean it 30 days post notice, to my knowledge, no material effort was made to help re-rent it to offset so this company will just sit and make you pay the full 60days of rent ***AND*** the termination fee. If you had parking comped to you at the lease, Upton will go back and charge you back for that. What that means is if you close the lease early, they'll go back and reverse and charge any parking or other credits. That even applies to any "waiver" for the move-in fee ($400). While its written into the concession doc, there should be some flexibility here. Btw, we gave 2 calendar months of notice to vacate which turned out to be maybe just shy of the 60 days ...but.. you guessed it, another $225 "fee" for insufficient notice. Talk about squeezing you for everything till the end...but then again, the development is owned by Blackstone. caveat emptor ## Recommendation: if you're ok with stuff like this and you're not the one footing the bill, go for it. i'm happy elsewhere, you maybe too