Nice Apartment, Kind Landlord, Noise is Unbearable, Safety Concerns
Pros
The unit I live in is fairly nice and fairly updated. There is lots of natural light. The landlord is very decent and pretty responsive and compassionate, depending on the complaint. The heat is great! Building is a 5 minute walk from the convenient Crown Heights Utica Ave. 3/4 stop.
Cons
If you move into a front facing unit of this building, please understand what you are getting into. You will be dealing with constant noise, and potential safety concerns. A group of drug dealers is posted up outside at all hours, partying day and night, weather permitting. Windows don't do anything to mitigate the noise directly outside. Armed with a white noise machine, AC unit, noise canceling headphones, and expensive earplugs, I still cannot hear myself think and have suffered many sleepless nights. I also witnessed someone getting stabbed directly outside the building. The stairwell is pretty dirty and not well attended to. The carpet could use a cleaning. Most, if not all, of the smoke alarms are unplugged and need replacing. Trash from the street often blows into the entry. The sidewalk is always littered. This is a non smoking building, but tenants are in constant violation of this rule. The stairwell smells foul, and secondhand smoke often filters into my unit.
Avoid living in this building
Pros
The neighbors were nice
Cons
-roach infestation -MAJOR heating issues. The heaters would be turned up so high that my roommates and I would need to open all the windows in the apartment.. in the middle of the winter. It was either extremely hot in the apartment or the heat just wouldn’t be turned on at all. -Water damage that never got fixed until the absolute last minute when water was literally running down my wall -I’ll say it again, ROACHES, ROACHES, ROACHES. My roommates and I kept our apartment tidy with no garbage in sight and there were roaches all over our apartment and in bedrooms
Advice to the owners
Do a better job at maintaining your building.
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