A Luxury Tenement Slum
Pros
Nice shared outdoor space.
Cons
I have been living here for 7 months now. The entire time, I have been able to smell my neighbor’s dirty cat litter from my own bathroom because of an issue with the shared ventilation system that the building can’t (or won’t) fix. My hot water comes out brown and murky several times a week (pictured), and has done so since I moved in. A mysterious crack appeared on my wall seemingly in the hours while I was at work one day (pictured), and although for weeks I have been told that someone will come and fix it but no one has. For months my refrigerator door would not close all the way, causing dairy items and meats to spoil faster, and it took them months to replace the fridge (it just got resolved days ago). Finally, and perhaps most egregious of all, my rent mysteriously went up one month, and I called to ask why and they said there was a clause on the 33rd (THIRTY THIRD!) page of my lease written entirely in indecipherable legalese that said it could happen, although no one gave me a heads up about it when I was moving in. Please avoid this building at all costs.
Advice to the owners
Please tell people about the midterm rent increase and word it more accessibly in the lease, preferably on one of the earlier pages. And be more responsive and actually fix the problems people have in these stupidly expensive apartments.
Generall Good, Brief Mouse Issue
Pros
Huge, great light, big windows
Cons
Temporary mouse pest problem
Advice to the owners
Address pest issues quickly
