Evo at Cira Centre South Apartments

If you the chose floor plan that face the North(30th street Train station)

You will be awakened by the extremely loud pile driver and construction noises by 6:40AM everyday, even if you live in the 30th floor. The new construction site in the lower 3001 chestnut st is right next to the building. The terrible management team will just ignored all the tenant complained. I need to have enough sleep can not stand this so I had to move out!

The room and space are so tiny that I feel like living in a cell. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE FLOORPLAN FIGURE!!!!! It is extremely out of portion. They drew the bed so tiny that made you feel there is a lot of space. THERE ISN'T! RUN!!!!!

Rent was deceptive! Actual rent is almost 10% higher than what you saw on their website since you pay 12 months “installments” but are only allowed to live there 11 months unless you renew your lease. Also, a “carpet cleaning” fee was posted on my account after I moved out. Outrageous! I always wore slippers in my room and never had pets or anything that could lead to a special carpet cleaning service. If the carpet really needed cleaning, it should be charged to evo staff entering my room... without removing their shoes. Also, the room was not the cleanest when I moved in so I seriously doubt if a cleaning or proper disinfection (due to the pandemic) would actually be performed before the next tenant moves in. They didn’t deduct any fee from monthly rent since the close of their gym and rooftop pool; that is just robbing! The good thing about the apartment is that the rent is still affordable if you don’t drive and hence want to live close to school, and you are for some reason too scared to speak with a landlord to rent a decent place for a reasonable price in west Philly. Also if you have a pet it’s easy to entertain them at the Cira Green rooftop park. Think twice before you sign the contract. Read More

Cons-
-Whole building smells like trash because the trash chutes have been broken for 8 months and yet to be fixed
-apartments literally look like a garage(cement ground and cement walls..)
-you move in with only a week left in August, yet they make you pay for the whole month rent saying it’s prorated.. it’s not prorated.. (they will be hearing from my lawyer soon)
-only apartment building in the world that doesn’t have the unit professionally cleaned before move in( arrived to a unit very... dirty)
-10 rooms were robbed in a month because criminals were sneaking in past security and robbing units
-false advertisement of “Luxury” apartments.. again units look like a small garage with a couch in the middle
-management team obviously doesn’t care too much because the same problems have been in this building for over a year and nothing changes..

Pros-
-nice view
-gym and great pool and great amenities(but they don’t take care of any of them anyway)
-utilities included with wifi

Overall this building is just poorly ran, don’t get all caught up with the pool, only able to swim in the few warm months of the year and even then it’s just so dirty and never kept up with, if management listened to their residents about the issues with the building then maybe this building wouldn’t be a 1/5 stars from 95% of people that have lived here. Read More

I have lived at many apartments in US because f moving in between cities but this has been the worst. If I could go back into time I would never take that decision again.

List of problems I had while staying here:
1. Randomly the tap water will turn nasty and green, the lazy management doesnt consider it an emergency and takes it sweet time to fix it. In a duration of 8 months it happened twice. A lot of people didnt notice it kept using the water.

2. My apartment was flooded over the weekend... and maintenance refused to come and fix it and rather gave me a noisy fan to be kept overnight.

3. My apartment had some kind of weird insect and I kept getting insect bites for 3 months, had to leave the apartment for a month and stayed outside. Management was not helpful in finding a good solution. I eventually had to remove there entire furniture from my apartment and buy my own.

Oh FYI despite so many problems with this place (that I cant stop writing ) , the management wont let you leave the lease because apparantly under no circumstance you can sublet or leave. All you can do is relet which is your reponsibility.

If I had a zero or negative star...thats what EVO deserves. Read More