131 Malcolm X Boulevard,

Brooklyn, NY 11221

beautiful apartment, lots of space, love the neighborhood, and very fairly priced

the landlord does not provide 24 hour notice or communicate effectively with tenants. landlord refused to communicate through email or text, and thus does not allow you to leave a paper trail for when things went wrong (and things went wrong)

a pipe burst in the adjacent building, causing mold to grow on the wall in my apartment, when I pointed this out to the landlord he denied it was mold until I showed him a picture and he finally agreed that it was mold.

there were cockroaches (probably partly due to the moisture in the walls from the mold) - I repeatedly asked for an exterminator and I was told it was my fault. At this point I wasn't cooking, I wasn't entering the kitchen, I would move all of my dishes to other side of the room in fear roaches would crawl on them - I was living in constant anxiety - the blame on me was uncalled for.

on top of all that stress, the landlord would call me and berate me over the phone - and wring me out because I didn't want him to enter the apartment without a 24 hour notice. it was upsetting. it was in the middle of covid - we were all in stress. living in an apartment that had roaches and leaks, the last thing I needed was a landlord who didn't have any boundaries and expected me to be okay with him entering my apartment without my permission.

It's a shame because for most of the time I lived there I was perfectly happy, the landlord situation changed while I was there and the issues only came after that.

get a property manager if you can't handle the time requirements of being a landlord