Nice building/location, poor management
Pros
• Nice neighbors • Decently clean • Located near train/large grocery store
Cons
• Horrible management - difficult to get in contact with, makes mistakes with rent/paperwork
Nice location. Terrible management.
Pros
Live-in super is often helpful (he’ll ignore you if he’s in a bad mood). Laundry in basement, elevator, pet friendly, rent regulated. The guy who takes care of cleaning and disposing the garbage in the basement is super nice and helpful!
Cons
Management is a huge issue. Landlord gives tenants ZERO way to contact him for immediate issues besides a P.O. box address. Any letters with requests sent to his P.O box are never answered. I had to get his phone number from a neighbor (who had to ask around the building until she found a neighbor who had it… most of them didnt.) The landlord picked up my call the first time I called (probably because he didn’t know it was a tenant calling him). He was super rude, sounded annoyed that I got his number somehow, and had zero care for my concerns. Every single subsequent call I’ve given him, he has ignored. My roommate’s as well. It’s so bad that we have been trying to reach him to correct an error on our lease renewal form for at OVER A MONTH, so he can correct and re-send it. We now have 3 weeks left on our lease and still haven’t been able to renew it. Reaching out to the broker who works with him (to see if he can forward our message to management), is also pointless… seems the landlord does not even care enough to answer to his broker. The apartment building is okay, but the way management treats their tenants (by not treating them at all…) is gross. It’s a nice building, but I would not live here again if I had the choice. (May not have to, if the lease renewal never gets updated! Silver lining?) Unrelated: the heater is SO LOUD. No, whatever “loud” heater you’re thinking of, not loud enough. IT’S SO LOUD! Sounds like if someone Thor-slammed pots and pans on metal for minutes at a time. Wakes me up every night, even with a door in between.
Advice to the owners
MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE TO YOUR TENANTS. Treat them with respect.
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