Tower 31 review
Pros
Very clean, responsive management, beautiful views
Cons
Got charged at move out because their garbage room was too full
Nightmare in disguise
Pros
the view from the roof and windows is definitely amazing.
Cons
It looks like magic when you first walk in, but soon it’s falling apart; every problem you have will be met with “no one’s ever had that problem” gaslighting and harassment, there’s mold as the building has flooded multiple times and is built horribly and cheaply, the white sheeting glued to the cheap particle board wall will soon fall out, several times a day minimum you will be absolutely overwhelmed by horrible koreatown cooking exhaust, cigarette and weed smoke will come into the apartment ( in this no smoking building), the HVACS are broken 24/7 and just rotated, they are not only enormously in the way but it’s insanely loud 24/7 as they have to be running constantly while you flip switches to try and maintain the delicate balance in your uninsulatated apartment. Since the windows don’t seal properly half the time, it’s also insanely loud, with a halfway house on one side, loud rooftop restaurants on another, and fifth avenue on another- and if you live in the middle of the hallway, expect to hear the elevators and trash shoots all. Night. Long. Don’t forget that it’s also attached to an abandoned hotel turned meth house, and homeless drug dealers will try and sell you meth outside. Very sketchy area at night as a whole, especially near broadway. This apartment seems like a dream, but it’s an illusion, and there’s an insanely high turnover rate in these rent regulated apartments for a reason. If you gradually want to get allergies you’ve never had, talk loudly over your eyesore HVACS that cost you hundreds in electric, have a bathroom that gets dripping wet from a 5 minute cold shower from humidity that won’t fade, see cockroaches, spend too much time cleaning the never ending dust/lint that will follow you from the filthy laundry room, never enjoy the amenities they brag of (oh, and that roof isn’t open at night, in the winter, choppy and strict on holidays, for sunrise, etc, and expect to pay several hundred for any other amenities.) and so much more, this building is for you. Super high doorman turnover as others have said, no surprise why. Rental turnover rate is also crazy- if you take a look at the history you can see most people only stay a year, which is wild, especially in the rent stabilized apartments. Someone actually burned to death in their apartment a few years back- look it up, you can pretty much see how things are handled here in those articles. If you’ve ever seen HIMYMs joke about their apartment-(DoWiSeTrePla) where they think they found an amazing apartment for a steal, until they move in and find out they’re actually DownWind of the Sewage Treatment Plant and it smells like sewage all afternoon… that’s this lol. Go somewhere else!
Advice to the owners
As others have said; fire incompetent (and super shady) super, leasing manager, and replace management company. As building group chat thrives and tenants actually communicate, your long-time ways of running this place won’t fly anymore.
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