Pretty good but
Pros
- Very close to L train - Low rent - Roof access - Big rooms with closets - Spacious living room and kitchen - Hardwood floors throughout
Cons
- Mice in building - Loud neighbors - Loud area (near a nightclub, gas station, metalworks warehouse) - Heaters sometimes don't work - No gas vent in kitchen - No windows anywhere except in bedrooms - Thin walls - Packages stolen downstairs often
Advice to the owners
Keep stairs and lobby cleaned, check appliances/apartment before people move in, and don't let tenants get into hour long screaming matches in the stairwell
Don’t live here.
Pros
Bedrooms are nice size. That’s about it. Management is absolutely TERRIBLE.
Cons
This is an old, unkept building and management is terrible. Every issue you can think of arose in my years of living here: -rodents: mouse issues and centipede/cockroach issues. Oven smells like mouse piss. -loud neighbors: neighbors in rear host large outdoor karaoke parties that run late into 3 am hours. Called cops several times for noise complaints -building unkept: dirty, hair balls on floor, tenants smoking inside apartments, tenants jumping on roof and almost causing ceiling collapse. Loud tenants within the building. Parties, stomping, yelling 24/7. A baby lives on first floor. -heat breaks often. Small gas heater in each bedroom, not enough to heat the apartment efficiently. Heaters are old and break several times during winter months. -VERY POOR INSULATION. massive cracks around doors and windows. Windows blow inwards during high winds and at risk of coming off. -issues with gas and electrical lines. Electric wiring is rigged and may be paying for other tenants usage with conEd. ConEd bills exponentially higher than they should be. -ceiling crumbling in kitchen. May collapse at any point? -dirty and unsafe neighborhood. -unfinished, rodent infested basement. -paper thin walls. Can hear neighbors having sex at all hours. Spanking, etc. soft core porn echoing the hallways. - Pipes freeze during winter. Landlord will send an unlicensed electrician who used a BLOW TORCH on pipes. Ended up cutting a hole in the wall and leaving, telling us “it will be fixed later’. 18 degrees outside mind you, and we have a hole cut in the drywall exposing the outdoor elements. -buzzer system doesn’t work; no way to let guest or delivery into the building other than going down to let them in -landlord harassed us via text; asking to arrange sleepovers and get drunk together. -packages stolen from within building -do yourself a favor and do not live here. May have had lead paint exposure.
Advice to the owners
Renovate this building and stop hiring unlicensed people to do “cheap” repairs. Screen for better tenants that don’t act like animals. Mop the floors.
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