Not bad for apt in early 20s
Pros
-clean: never saw any bugs or rodants -great closet space & layout made good use of square footage -central portal made it easy to report maintenance, pay bills, etc
Cons
-the super was very responsive and completed simple maintenance requests (ie light bulbs) very quickly, however, outsourced maintenance took far too long. My AC was broken for over a month - I had concerns with the doormen drinking while in the job after overhearing them joke about it. They let whoever come up the elevators and didn’t seem to care about the job. They also didn’t wear masks and were openly anti-vax during peak covid - package system charged for packages left over 3 days and I would sometimes get notifications for non existent packages and would get charged $20 for late fees. Property management company would not help resolve with package company
Sweet building with bad management
Pros
Wonderful neighbors. Beautiful prewar building. Very responsive super with online portal to submit requests. Excellent neighborhood with so much convenient to the location - Trader Joe’s, fairway, and plenty of restaurants. Even a massive movie theater that often hosts premiers.
Cons
Horrible noise from the construction of the iceberg mansion a few doors down (google iceberg mansion upper west side to read about it in the times). The megacorp that owned the building when I lived there (Aimco) was AWFUL. They nickel and dimed for everything and notoriously tried to run out some long time tenants with invasive construction. They have since sold the building to a new management company but I hear they are no better.
Advice to the owners
Treat your tenants like human beings.
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