Do not recommend
Pros
Cheap rent, good location
Cons
No natural lighting, it takes many emails/calls before owner responds (if he even responds at all), maintenance people come and go when they please, laundry in building hasn’t worked for months, apartment was not move in ready (dirty, furniture left)
Advice to the owners
Respond to the people in your building, don’t advertise what you cannot offer.
Not a bad place to live
Pros
TV in living room and individual rooms provided by landlord, responsive to pest control, clean entryway, decent price.
Cons
Lots and lots of cockroaches and mice in our apartment, pest control concluded another tenant’s habits were the cause. Landlord couldn’t do much about it but offered us no rent raise if we wanted to stay. Rooms are really really small, other tenants in the building are really disrespectful to their neighbors. The apartment next to us had a couple screaming at each other all hours of the day and night and the apartment below us was playing super loud dance music all day and all night. Both apartments would not respond well to other tenants asking them to be quiet. Verbal altercations ensued.
Advice to the owners
I know there’s not a whole lot you can do about how tenants act. I just wish there were a way for you to enforce noise or cleanliness. I would have definitely re signed if there were respectful people living in the building.
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