Ok building but needs a lot of updating
Pros
Very family-oriented building with great neighbors. They also just got a new super this year who seems to be doing a lot more around the building with what he has to work with (it is an old building). They have updated the laundry room with new machines. The building is also pet friendly, at least when I moved in it was.
Cons
Building still has cockroaches, even with monthly exterminators. Do have an updated laundry room but not an even number of washers/ dryers and there aren’t enough for how big the building is. Heat is obviously way too hot 🥵. I never know where to sort my recycling because the bins aren’t marked. Mgmt company seems bad, I’ve never gotten a renewal lease on time, I always have to reach out and ask.
Advice to the owners
Modern updates to the common areas of the building. Secure package room. More washers/dryers.
Broken pipes, broken hear
Pros
The other tenants were nice people
Cons
Upstairs neighbor's toilet outlet pipe burst one morning, flooding our bathroom with their sewage. Management was extremely slow to respond, and the super did a really subpar job of remediating the sewage floor. Our bathroom ceiling was fully saturated with sewage and they would not replace it. Took 3 days to hunt down the owner of the building so we could break our lease. Outside of the sewage incident, the building had a bad roach problem and garbage was constantly piled up in the courtyard.
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