The Hamilton Company

annie p. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

Do not rent from them! When I moved into my Allston apartment, it had clearly not been cleaned at all. Several things were broken or nearly broken including a door knob, a towel rack, the buzzer and the smoke detector. The apartment also had roaches. It was very clear the company did not bother to inspect it before I moved in. The only reason I feel slightly okay with giving them one star is that they are very prompt with repair (things are usually fixed the day you call them) and the maintenance people are polite and helpf... read more

annie p. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

Do not rent from them! When I moved into my Allston apartment, it had clearly not been cleaned at all. Several things were broken or nearly broken including a door knob, a towel rack, the buzzer and the smoke detector. The apartment also had roaches. It was very clear the company did not bother to inspect it before I moved in. The only reason I feel slightly okay with giving them one star is that they are very prompt with repair (things are usually fixed the day you call them) and the maintenance people are polite and helpf... read more

Mariya V. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

I would say that the Hamilton Company is mediocre at best. We moved in last year on a Sunday and needless to say our apartment was lest a total mess by the previous tenants and since it was Sunday there was no one available at the maintenance office to come clean the place. Pretty much ruined my whole moving exprience (if moving wasnt aweful enough of an experience on its own.) They did come the next day and spent almost all day at out little one bedroom apartment cleaning and fixing random things, which pretty much made it ... read more

becca p. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

Update: Our Super has turned out to be a nightmare as well. A few months ago we discovered that he had been entering our apartment without permission when we weren't home. Most recently I had an terrifying experience in which I woke up at 9 AM to him in my bedroom standing over me. Mind you I am a single girl in my early twenties, I screamed bloody murder while he simply kept saying "i knocked". His explanation for being in the apartment was that someone was coming to look at it at 10. Apparently phone calls are not standard... read more

Lea C. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

I will soon be leaving a unit on Babcock Street in Brookline. What's sad is that I like my apartment on the whole--it's big, the location is fantastic, and there's parking. No pests, and I haven't had any serious maintenance issues (a leaky faucet, a non-working light fixture here and there). However, the management is so bad that I really can't take it anymore, and they're raising the rent $100/month in a recession. Seriously? From the week I moved into this building, I started to experience mail theft. First, straight out ... read more

Nana J. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

The Hamilton Company is very fortunate to own properties in high-demand areas, such as around the Boston University. They are too fortunate unfortunately to see that their properties are in pretty bad shape and they have a lot of unhappy tenants. This review focuses on the properties at 1144-1160 Commonwealth Ave. 1. Structural problems -- The building is late 19th, perhaps early 20th century, and most of the building has not been updated or significantly repaired since then. Cleanliness of common areas is... erm, to put it ... read more

Jill D. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

One word: atrocious. I would give this place zero stars if I could. We lived at 283 Saint Paul Street for two years, and we could not get out quickly enough. Among their (many) misdeeds: * delivering us a notice to quit for failure to pay rent despite the fact that we paid our rent on time every month * deducting two months of rent from our checking account in a single month (which caused us to overdraw our account) * failing to return *7* phone calls from us regarding a temporary parking permit while our car was in the shop... read more

Cindy H. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

DO NOT RENT FROM THE HAMILTON COMPANY! No matter how "nice" their apartments may be. I lived in one of their Cambridge apartments with my fiance for 2 years. If we had not signed a 2 year lease initially we would have been out of there after the first year. They sent us notices with charges that we had never HEARD of and threatened to evict us 4 times (we paid rent on time EVERY month). Their accounting department is incompetent...if we weren't organized and observant we would have paid them about $700 more than we should ha... read more

Jessica D. 

on Yelp

16 years ago

I live at 40 Boylston and it is AWFUL. It should basically be a dorm for the awful Emerson undergrads because they treat it like one. Besides the totally disrespectful slamming of doors and loud music and parties, they smoke pot and cigarettes constantly and the walls are so thin here it drifts in to my apartment. There is nothing the management can do since they all do it in their apartments so I'm screwed. DON'T LIVE HERE if you ever want to get a good nights sleep or don't like getting high in the hallways.