880 47 Street,

Brooklyn, NY 11220

Affordable, remodeled apartment

Dirty stairwells and floors. Doors need repainting. Washers and dryer break often

Have someone professionally clean the common areas of the building and maintain. Replace all windows with upgraded casings and glass

Very quiet building and a peaceful neighborhood.

The building is very old and has a lot of issues. The main ones being mice and bad heating. But the worst problem is the landlord and the super who refuse to take responsibility for many things. When I moved in I was told by the landlord I needed to call a locksmith if I wanted the lock changed. So I had to spend $300 to have the lock changed because I didn’t want any previous tenants to break in. There were mice in the winter and the super didn’t believe me because he “patched all the holes before moving in.” So I had to spend money on traps and poison and I had to get rid of them myself. The neighbors below us smoked a lot of cigarettes and weed. I called the landlord multiple times and he says he asked them to stop but they never did. He also didn’t believe because “they’re good people they don’t smoke weed!” So I had to move my bed to another part of the house, the least smelly part because the whole house constantly smelled like smoke and weed. Sometimes I would wake up at night coughing. I had to spend a lot of money on an air purifier. In the winter the heating is mediocre. I always had to have a space heater near me, which cost me a lot of electricity. I am moving after 1 year because I cannot continue living like this. Spending more rent on a nicer apartment would save more money in the long run as well as less stress.

Stop being a cheap jerk and care more about the hard-working people who don’t have as much as you and who just want a decent place to live.