Mice Infestation and Collapsed Ceiling
Pros
Heart of Chelsea
Cons
I feel like this building could be great, but the building owner does not care about it and slaps a bandaid on everything to get tenants to stop complaining. We particularly had a bad mice infestation in our unit. At one point, there were 4 mice in one bedroom and mice droppings everywhere, which made it inhabitable. The owner would not send an exterminator so we had to hire and pay for our own extermination services to clean the room so our roommates could live in it. At some point, when we kept having mice appear, the owner finally sent his own exterminator, who ended up telling me that he had serviced our unit for several years because of the same mice problem and that he always told the building that they need to do a building wide extermination but they would not because it cost too much money. Then, the ceiling/roof collapsed in one closet (we were on the top floor), so whenever it rained (which was frequently that summer), it quite literally torrential down poured into that room, which likewise made it inhabitable. The roommates living in that room had to move out. We tried to recoup rent because the owner did not send anyone to fix the roof/ceiling for 22 days (a month). He essentially told me to go f myself on the phone because "managing buildings is hard" and I "don't understand" his job.
Advice to the owners
Don't own property
avoid at all costs
Pros
none at all
Cons
Incredibly sketchy owners and building management. They refused to do anything to fix serious issues. The building management is IMPOSSIBLE to get a hold of. You call their office and it goes to an awful receptionist who tells you everyone is “unavailable” and refuses to give you direct contact information. It’s extremely difficult to get in touch with anyone about problems and when you finally do they will completely stop responding and never fix the issues. Only move here if you are absolutely sure you will never need anything to be fixed because you’ll never be able to reach someone. The building doesn’t give a shit about you and will try to get you to move out so they can move on to the next victim
Advice to the owners
Fix things. Fix problems. Stop being so fucking sketchy
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