Reading a lot of the comments here about poor quality of new construction have resonated with my own recent experience: I left a luxury high-rise in Chicago tha

Reading a lot of the comments here about poor quality of new construction have resonated with my own recent experience: I left a luxury high-rise in Chicago that had been built within the last ten years. The building was a later addition to a retail building which contained restaurants and shops. Shortly after moving in, I'd come home to find old grease and trash smells or the smell which I can only describe as an old warehouse. Thinking it was just residual odors, I would clean and re-clean and later installed a couple of hepa portable filtration systems but the odors remained. Started looking around only to find there was little to no sealant around openings for the sprinkler systems, or underneath the sink unit/washing machine, or any of the flooring etc. Because the building was pressurized, the odors from the grease traps and/or trash units deep below would come in through even the wall sockets. Mind you, this wasn't every day but regular enough to be very unpleasant. Similar complaints from other residents about cigarette odors coming in their apartments but building management would never be able to trace down issue and would just have restaurants empty out grease traps. All this for an apartment I spent nearly 3,000 a month for. My advice to others is to be very skeptical of any new buildings no matter the location and to be very sure you know what you are getting into.