great place to live
Pros
huge rooms, laundry in building, great location near the M
Cons
loud streets very sensitive smoke detectors
Reasonably renovated Bushwick find
Pros
Location was quite good - walkable to grocery stores, shops, some restaurants, the L and around the corner from the M. Laundry in the basement, even if it was only one washer and one dryer. Key free entry, if desired. There was a code for the front door and anther for your own private door. Small building, so not a lot of commotion inside. Pretty decently clean basement and stairs. Dog friendly.
Cons
The backyard was in a state of disrepair and unusable. There were rotting leaves and garbage everywhere. The basement was flooded twice and the washer and dryer were worthless for weeks at a time. We had cockroaches that weren’t handled before we moved in. They had to be exterminated after we had settled in. The stairs were very steep and narrow, very difficult to move furniture up and down. Once, they went on vacation for over a week and didn’t notify anyone in the building or give us an alternate super.
Advice to the owners
Read the reviews and consider a new broker. The one with whom we dealt was a total nightmare. He dragged the lease signing out for several hrs with us, and 5 hours for another tenant. Didn’t want to put in writing things we had agreed on verbally, such as the rent credit advertised. He also never showed the apartment himself when we were moving out and wouldn’t have given us enough notice for prospective tenants to view had we not insisted on it, via email. He wanted to conduct everything over the phone. We were unable to show the apt to several prospective tenants because we weren’t afforded enough notice. When it was time to renew our lease, they quoted a new, higher rate and before we could even agree to that, wrote us back and told us that was a mistake and quoted us a new, even higher rate. They also continually ignored our request to honor the rent credit we had written into our old lease for the new lease. And last, but not least, we had to argue our right to stay 60 days in order to get our affairs in order since they didn’t give us enough notice after raising the rent way more than 5%. The worst (best?) part was watching the broker argue with prospective tenants in the stairwell and then on the street
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