Ok to live
Pros
Fairly safe to live and close to train station and buses
Cons
Everything is old . Bathroom and kitchen needs updating. Prayed are not controlled properly. Not enough power outlets.
Pests are out of control ! Don’t move here !
Pros
Spacious apartments Near a lot of shopping centers and transportation
Cons
The building is pre-war and looks like it, with old creaky wooden floors, old closets with doorknobs that are hardly attached. One thing I want to point out is that the pests are out of control here. I’m talking mice, rats and roaches. The roaches are unbelievable, no matter how clean you are, it’s an internal issues with the building that needs to be handled. The rodents get in because there are holes in the apartments that they refuse to fix and rent is close to 2k. Pest control comes once a month and just uses sticky traps for the mice and that’s it, anyone can do that. Heat barely comes on during the winter, they shut it on at a certain time at night and it’s off for the rest of the day. The neighbors are INCREDIBLY noisy. Weekday or weeknight they’re playing loud music or having their kids run across the floor. I tried to make a complaint to the superintendent (who is incredibly rude and yells at everyone who attempts to speak to him) and he said there’s nothing he could do about it. Tried asking the tenant to keep down and she insulted me and tried to fight. On top of that, she had her bathroom over flood several times to the point that there is black mold growing from my ceiling. There is also illegal subleasing going on in this building, be careful with that because the rent is supposed to be stabilized, no one should be charging you over the rent price for a room. At the end of the day, no one should have to be forced to live in such conditions while paying so much for rent.
Advice to the owners
Make more repairs, call an exterminator to get rid of all the pests in the ENTIRE buildin. If you focus on one apartment, they’ll just run to the next. There should be a curfew for the noise, no one should be blasting music on a weeknight at 11pm
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