Wedgewood Hills Apartments

I lived at Wedgewood for several years. A lot of college students live here so it is easy to make friends with the neighbors. Wedgewood is safe, quiet, and above all else the neighbors are friendly. I never had any issues with management, and it was very easy to communicate with them.

Wedgewood Hills is a decent place to live if you are comfortable forfeiting any civil conversations when you have a disagreement with the landlord.

The lease will include that you show off your apartment to inquiring future tenants. This was really not an issue at first, but after the first couple times of individuals viewing our units, our apartments were scheduled to be viewed w/o our approval & on short notice.

There were a couple maintenance issues during our lease,. Wedgewood Hills took... care of these maintenance issues promptly, but we received more attitude the more we called with routine maintenance issues, as if it was our fault she needed to do routine maintenance on her units.

Lastly, my roommate and I were deducted $125 from our security deposit for routine carpet cleaning. I am no attorney, but to my knowledge, there are active tenant protection laws in Illinois which state landlords must provide an itemized receipt of deductions from a security deposit within 45 days of tenants moving out. In addition, I believe the law states the landlord cannot charge tenants for normal wear and tear damages of a property, regardless to what is said in the lease. For example, if you trash an apartment, you will be liable. However, if something breaks because it has not been replaced in X amount of years, that is the landlord's responsibility. In my opinion, this makes sense because that's essentially the whole point of renting. I called to ask Loretta what damages we had to the carpet to cause her to deduct the money, to which she stated the charge was for routine carpeting cleaning. In my opinion, if she needs to do this, she should increase her monthly renting rates rather than taking it from her tenants' security deposits. I told her I believed she could not charge for that by law, to which she got very upset with me over the phone and told me she was very disappointed in me, which I thought was very unprofessional. She told me, "one day you'll learn relationships are more important than money, but you clearly haven't learned that." My roommate also inquired about the security deposit deduction, and she told my roommate that we were making such a fuss over such a small amount of money, to which my roommate explained to her it goes both ways.

After this interaction, I also wish I had received an itemized list of the deductions from the security deposit because I have no way of knowing that the carpet cleaning actually cost $125. Read More

I lived at Wedgewood for 4 years and had zero issues. Mrs. Cooley is absolutely amazing along with the rest of the staff. If I could take them with me on the next chapter of my life I would. The apartments are well maintained and kept up to date and offer a nice quiet atmosphere.

This was the best place I've ever lived. Loretta the landlady is very sweet and a joy to talk to. The workers of the land do great work with mowing, keeping the general area clean, trash removal, etc. The service for anything that needs fixing in the townhomes is efficient and fast. They are very accommodating. Lastly, the layout of the townhouses are wonderful, beautiful space to be in, and a safe area with a great community.

I lived here for about 6 months and loved it, I only moved out because I no longer had a need to be close to campus everyday. The complex grounds are very well kept and the community is quiet and safe feeling. If I ever need to rent in Carbondale again I will certainly be back here! Loretta was a great landlord and a pleasure to work with, very helpful! I would 100% recommend this place to my family and friends.