Hilariously incompetent landlord, Great location
Pros
it's across from a nice park
Cons
Landlord is a piece of cardboard - and that's an insult to the cardboard. slow to respond, incapable or unwilling to do anything about the pest problem. You can tell the landlord is a just inconvenienced by having to take care of the property. Not just my opinion either -- they were placed on NYC's Alternative Enforcement Program, where the city had to step in because of so many violations. There are wonderful folks living here, older folks who've been in their units for 10, 15 + years. those apartments lack the renovations of the units where long term tenants moved out. They're 1000% just waiting for the older tenants to die or move out so they can make cosmetic renovations to the unit, jack up the rent. Zero interest in the current tenant's well being, zero interest in looking after a gorgeous pre-war building. This building could be soooo much nicer.
Advice to the owners
Give up, you're clearly not good at this so pass off the building to someone who cares and go pound sand
Ok for starter apartment....
Pros
The rent was decent for my bigger, street facing room (<$1000). Super close to the subway and decent distance (less than 10 min walk) from laundromat and grocery stores. Modern stove/oven (digital temp control for oven).
Cons
Ceiling started to mold at one point but that issue was resolved quite quickly and didn't happen again. The apartment really retained heat so literally one of walls in my room would sweat, had to hang posters on walls that didn't or it would get ruined. Few large cockroach sightings. Lost hot water once for more than one day. Multiple tenants had to complain about the hot water to get it resolved. At one point, Con Edison posted a paper on our door saying they were going to cut electricity the building at some point since the owner hadn’t paid them. The apartments themselves were going to be fine since tenants paid their own electricity bill but the fact that the owner was not paying electric on time that Con Ed had to threaten to turn off the building’s electricity is abysmal. Rent increase at end of lease was ridiculous considering the apartment had no common area (if you treated the place like a three bedroom) and two of the bedrooms barely got any sunlight since they faced a back alley.
Advice to the owners
If multiple tenants complain about a necessity, it should be fixed immediately. And pay your own building’s electric bill!
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