Extremely dirty building, packages stolen, roaches
Pros
This building is closely located to 191 st station which represents quick access to MTA 1 line. But you’ll prefer to walk rather than living there.
Cons
Extremely dirty building Very dark Quite common to have homeless people inside the building stealing packages and doing drugs inside. Ventura land corp took months to change the main door that had problemas and didn’t close properly. Be aware of this before moving to this place. Put extra lockers on your door, as you might see homeless people trying to get inside. Also Ventura don’t care about a single thing, I had to threat with calling to HPD in order to get my door fixed (I received the apartment with a crooked door, windows that didn’t close and so on) Also buy harsh chemicals if you don’t want to have your apartment infested with roaches. I wouldn’t even recommend living here if it’s your only option.
Decent building, terrible management
Pros
I lived at 367 Wadsworth for 3 years in an apartment facing the back of the building. Very quiet, basically never heard neighbors through walls (upstairs neighbor had a kid I could hear running around sometimes). Good privacy. A pipe / dishwasher blockage when I first moved in was resolved fairly quickly. Monthly exterminator visits. Very few pests although I did usually get around 2 water bugs a year.
Cons
To get into the lobby there's two front doors which both use the same key, but are both locked at all times. When I was carrying heavy stuff in it was a pain in the ass to have to put it down to unlock the door twice, esp since it was a physical key and not a key fob. The garbage area is to the side of the building, but to get there you have to physically leave the building and walk around to the side. Not the biggest deal during the day but I never liked the few times I had to go throw something out at night. The management as a whole had a weird, almost condescending writing style in their bulletins posted in the lobby. Kind of gave off a sense that you should really try your best to not have to call them about anything. The biggest issue I had was a dispute with Luis, the property manager. The apartment above me was gut renovated for around two months. I didn't receive any courtesy warning about it, and there was no information or permits posted in the lobby. My apartment didn't have crown molding, so every day, pieces of brick, dry wall, and dust were falling through the small gap in the ceiling into my apartment and getting all over my belongings. This was mid-2020 when everyone was still working from home. I contacted the office multiple times but was essentially waved off. After a month I got fed up by the lack of respect on their part and called 311 to inform them work was being done without any permits posted. Like clockwork, not 30 minutes later I got a call from management - not to respond to my inquiries from the past month, but to ask why I had called 311 on them. Luis finally came by to check my place out and essentially did and offered nothing to make it up to me, minus offering to send a vacuum crew in (which was useless to me, because I was already vacuuming every day). When I was applying to new apartments a couple of months later, I emailed Luis and the assistant property manager to get a letter of recommendation. The assistant sent me the letter, then 30 minutes later called me and told me "if Luis asks you if you got the letter of recommendation, you tell him I never sent it." I asked why. "Because I wasn't supposed to give you one." I asked and she confirmed that it was because I had called 311. I paid my rent on time for 3 years straight, called the office for maintenance help once or twice a year at most, and overall was a pretty easy going and understanding tenant. My treatment was completely unacceptable. Luis is a joke and a hack and I would stay very far away from any property managed by him or Ventura Land Corp.
Advice to the owners
Grow up and learn how to respect your tenants.
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