400 Argyle Road,

Brooklyn, NY 11218

Large apartments, some with dishwashers. Lots of closet space. Pool.

I've had bedbugs twice since moving in. Another apartment keeps getting bedbugs. An entire line of apartments has bedbugs. The laundry room has bedbugs and management has not treated the laundry room once.

The pest company they use is absolutely incompetent and lazy. People don't even bother letting the exterminator into their apartments because he is rude, doesn't know what he is spraying, and the roaches seem to LIKE what he is spraying.

Sell your building to us renters. We live here. We will actually take care of our homes better.

The building has large apartments with basic appliances - some units have dishwashers. There's a laundry room. There's a pool that is open sometimes.

Management usually responds within a day or two to maintenance complaints that are cheap fixes - like a broken fixture etc. Don't expect it to be fixed correctly though.

The pool entrance is closed so you need to walk to the other building attached to the pool and go through there. The building keeps getting re-infested by bedbugs, specific apartment lines, and the landlord does not abate the problem properly. Somehow the landlord got multiple bedbug complaints removed from the 311 website complaint history. I didn't know that was possible. The building has a serious roach problem. In the summer time the lobby, hallways, garbage room, and stairs are filled with large waterbugs that are on the floors and walls. I found a roach nest in my kitchen even though I clean regularly and have my unit treated for bugs. The landlord sends a cheap exterminator that doesn't actually exterminate bugs. When I complained about the nest I found RIGHT UNDER MY KITCHEN TABLE I was told it was my fault. All the windows are broken/drafty. The heat sucks unless you complain endlessly and they get tired of paying fines for having the heat off.

The appliances provided don't work right, even the new ones. They buy the cheapest shit. Many tenants have opted to use their own fridges. I have my own refrigerator and if I am feeling like splurging, I might buy my own stove because the one I have is very cheap and I'm worried about inhaling gas.

Another note, red flag for bad management: They didn't change the toilet seat between tenants. Gross! Also, the toilets are all original and require high pressure (which the building water pressure is really BAD) to get the water to touch all parts of the inside of the bowl... since the water doesn't flush around every inch of the bowl the toilet gets smelly and dirty very quickly, requiring cleaning every few days. Neighbors have complained about the same thing.

Not sure if Revona properties is a shell company to cover up that the Trumps are still the owners/managers of Argyle Hall or if Revona is just a slumlord not related to the Trumps (they seem to manage all of Fred Trump's old buildings) but just get out of the business already and let these buildings go co-op. We'd do a better job maintaining where we live.