The Grand Ohio

Love my apartment. Spacious, great location, access to gym.

Really love this place and the doormen are all great (especially Alex)! I can get from my apartment to my team room in under 10 minutes and it's conveniently next to a lot of major bus routes. Amenities are great, we have a pickleball/tennis court, pool/hot tub, and a pretty decked out gym. Everything but electricity is covered in utilities.

Some of the apartments do occasionally have cockroach issues (although they're not the German cockroaches that infest your kitchen, but rather just occasional ones that crawl up the pipes). The management has been pretty responsive in sending pest control and it's taken care of fairly quickly.

Pretty great value

Building is great, affordable and building management is responsive to problems, 24/7 doorman, pool, gym, outdoor tennis court

I've been incredibly happy with our unit, our landlord, and the timeliness of maintenance. The condo association is antagonistic at times (e.g. I put my bike in the wrong storage facility and they didn't let me get it out for almost a week, I got a chemical burn from the hot tub and they refused to compensate me). I no longer use the bike room or the hot tub and my experience is back to being positive. Big fan of the front desk staff!

Love that we have individual landlords so any maintenance or issues are very individualized!

For what you get, it’s one of the better values in streeterville. No on-call maintenance though because it’s a condo building. Only other drawback is that if you leave your key in your room, it’s like $60 to get let in after 5 PM.

very short commute to NU

I have had a pretty good experience at the Grand Ohio. My unit was newly renovated at the time. It's a nice building. It has a gym with a full weight room, cardio room with treadmills, ellipticals, stair machine, stationary bikes, Peloton bike and Peloton rowing machine, regular rowing machines, some pilates machines, punching bag for boxing, kettlebells. Also has a swimming pool with small hot tub, and an outdoor tennis court and pickleball court. About a 5-7 min walk from the main Feinberg buildings where lectures and other sessions are held, and only 1 block away from Lavin pavilion, one of the hospital buildings. Maintenance are usually pretty responsive to any issues. Front desk people are so wonderful. Package room is available 24/7, you tell the front desk person your unit number and they'll get your packages.

I strongly advise potential tenants to steer clear of this building due to my extremely negative experience with landlord and the management office.

One significant incident highlights the landlord's unprofessional behavior and attempt to scam me. My lease was supposed to end on the 31st at 6 PM, but he changed the locks on my unit at 4 PM, with all my belongings still inside. This not only caused me to be late for work but also resulted in a late return of my rental cargo van. I had to go to the management office to get a master key just to access my unit again.

Throughout my lease, I paid my rent on time every month and had no issues or complaints with my neighbors or the building. However, the landlord became upset when I decided not to renew my contract after learning that a person had been murdered inside the building due to security breaches (you can look this up on google).

These experiences have made me feel unsafe and mistreated. I hope this review helps others avoid the stress and inconvenience I faced while living here.