Not bad and little shop inside building

For years, most 1L students have lived in Regents. They take advantage of this fact. Living in Regents is fine as long as you never ever need anything, because the staff is rude and terrible. But you will need things--because the building is ancient and everything breaks. One of the towers caught on fire last year. I've had repeat water damage. They put huge metal pillars in the inside of all of my windows to stabilize the building while working on the facade. The pillars were there for months and caused my ceiling to crumble. The laundry room is always flooding and I've repeatedly had things stolen there. The elevators don't work. My neighbors throw loud parties. Regents has a lot of government subsidized housing so you're paying thousands of dollars to live in an environment that doesn't really feel safe and where other people are paying way less and have very different incentives. They don't turn the air conditioning on until June--you have no control. They also determine when you can turn on your heat because it's building wide. I've had to have them spray for bugs numerous times, including cockroaches. Trust me, you can do better. Major upsides are it's not terribly expensive (though expensive for what it is) and it's close to campus--the 172, which is free for students, picks up literally just outside.

I had a good year at Regents Park. My roommate and I had a spacious apartment with a great view, and any issue we had regarding maintenance was fixed within 24 hours. The building looks old but if you don't mind that, I didn't really care. The biggest issue for us was the elevators, which were terrible. It was rare that all elevators in our tower were operating, and it was not usual to waits for the elevators (both going up and down) for 10 minutes. Otherwise, we had no problems. I do have friends (most of whom lived in the building's south tower), who encountered substantial problems. The elevators there at least once or twice were all out of commission (I once walked up 36 floors to deliver something to a friend there), and they had a tower-wide power outage that lasted several days. I had a good year there and appreciated being in a building with a lot of other law students, but I truly encourage the Admissions office or the students themselves to coordinate another building to focus on.

When I moved in it was clear that nobody had cleaned the apartment since the last tenant moved out.

The apartment is good-sized, clean, and in a great location in the Hyde Park area. It has a dishwasher and laundry in the basement. Maintenance is fairly quick and responsive. And the building is surprisingly quiet - I never hear noise from my neighbors coming from my ceiling or walls.

The downsides are: the elevators are constantly down (usually 2, maybe only 1, work, out of 4 total; servicing 300 apartments with so few elevators creates huge waiting times); the garage for parking a car is expensive, very tight (people rub their cars all the time), and the garage door is always broken, leading to long wait times just to get out; the apartment is expensive overall, especially when you add in utilities; and I have seen roaches, especially in winter.

Regents Park is sold to you as a first year as a place where all the 1Ls live and study--that is not true. While many 1Ls live here, study groups typically meet at the law school or other spaces. While my studio is beautiful and very spacious, the ventilation in the building is terrible. A year ago, someone was smoking cigarettes into the bathroom vent every day for months and the building said they couldn't do anything about it b/c it allows smoking. Many other students had issue with people smoking cigarettes or weed all throughout the building since the vents are connected. Also, the walls are EXTREMELY thin so you can hear the conversation of the person next door. Also, they are renovating the elevators, one at a time. It has been extremely frustrating because it takes 10 minutes for an elevator to come any time I leave my apartment and its normally filled up. They also only run two elevators during the weekend. Instead of reducing our rent, they offer these random coffee or pizza days once every blue moon. My tv feed is also pretty crappy throughout the night. The gym is decent, but they dont keep it cleaned and there is dust on the machines. To conclude, I would live elsewhere, but if you do, just stay for a year.

Pros:
- Great views
- Great layout
- Gym is pretty good
- Staff is nice
- Great living where a lot of students live
- AC / Heat works well

Cons:
- Horrible elevator system (like, genuinely horrible)
- Staff lie about promised improvements for unknown reasons
- Walls pretty thin (often hear people in adjacent rooms)
- Pay extra for Wi-Fi, and at an increasing rate for quicker speeds (we pay $25 per month for 25mbps)
- Revolving door at front makes no sense
- Amenities fee of $140 per month (total)

Elevators are often broken down, internet is required through a DSL company that is slow and spotty (you can't get Comcast or AT&T for example), the heat/AC swap-over is controlled by the management company and you can't open windows, so some days will be hot or cold around the edges of seasons.

The building, amenities, unit etc are all amazing. In building gym and pool, laundry and package pickup, big space, relatively good rent, great lake view, good area, easy bus transportation to school. The administration is horrific. Moving in was a logistical nightmare. Elevators are slow. In apartment repairs are super fast, building level repairs are horribly slow

I booked at Regents after reading the law school emails strongly pushing law students there for social and convenience reasons. The building is overrun by section 8 housing applicants, and nearby apartments are often screaming at each other until the wee hours of the morning. Elevators are always broken or otherwise dysfunctional, the apartments are the equivalent of what a dorm room would be for three times the price, and I could not be less satisfied with the law school’s recommendation to live there.