Horrible!!!!!!:
I strongly suggest anyone interested in renting an apartment from Icon Realty Management think twice about it. The manner in which the company deals with it's tenants is outright dispicable. You may think that by reading the lease over careful you will not be hit with any surprises but the lease might as well read "Icon is allowed to do whatever it wants" because in reality Icon does not comply with there own lease agreement. Upon the end of a lease, the company may ask you to renew at a skyrocketed rate (they raised the rent 30% in my case) and if you decide not to renew because the increase is just too high they will come up with all sorts of reasons why they should keep your security deposit. And let me mention that even though the lease says that they are supposed to give you notice when showing the apartment to possible tenants they may slip a notice under your door saying that access is required seven days a week which they consider reasonable notice from thereon out. In other words, they will access your apartment at any time during the hours they list on the notice without calling you ahead of time to let you know someone will be in the apartment (a fact that is not clearly stated in the lease). I guess this only becomes an issue if you want ANY sort of privacy for the last two months of your lease period. With policies like this you may as well be living in a glass box in the middle of the street. And to top it off, Icon is the most irresponsive and rude company I have ever had the unfortunate experience of dealing with. I am so glad that I no longer have to deal with them. I never realized how important it is to have a decent company managing your apartment building until now.
by JJ Jr. on August 05, 2010