Terrible screening process
Pros
Great neighborhood, nice and quiet. Close to downtown and nice restaurants.
Cons
The owner use agents to communicate. Request every potential tenant to interview in person. I was moving across several states. They don't care how far you are from and how much money requires to spend on the application. I was asked to fly into and out of New York several times to meet their coordinator and owner in person. They didn't want to provide any lease information or copy before flying into to New York signing lease in-pesob. The agent keep lying about the process and miscommuncate when and where all the steps need to take place. She even insulted me in person, mention my budget is too low to be their concern. Watch out for agent from HighLine residential. And prepare to empty your pocket before getting the apartment.
Advice to the owners
Be a human
DO NOT RENT FROM MANIFOOKI PROPERTIES
Pros
* Amazing neighborhood - great community * Quiet street * One of very few studios * Allows pets * Nice neighbors
Cons
Landlord took cheap shortcuts that caused every single tenant a lot of financial pain and loss of time. None of us had proper heat or hot water when we moved in and it took almost three months to fix. Mail was improperly set up for over a month. Some of us didn't have the appliances we were promised - like no dishwasher, just a hole in the counter or a smaller fridge than the one we saw in the unit when we signed the lease. The windows aren't weatherstripped properly, the units downstairs have holes to the outside and are not heated causing the units around them to cost more to heat (we pay electric). Additionally, the electric wasn't properly set up so some of us received a bill for the entire buildings electric during the time it sat empty. Additionally, she bait and switched all of us at the lease signing by waiting until we had put down a $500 deposit and some of us flew in from out of state to sign in person (she mandated in person) and had us sign a waiver saying our actual rent was $2800 instead of the $2400 we were told it was. By this point, many of us had sunk too much money and time in already to back out. Some of us were also told we would get keys the day we signed the lease, only to be told that no actually we would be getting keys a different day. She also did not provide the same lease in person as the one that was emailed to me prior to putting down a deposit. She sneakily changed my lease from being the 12 months that I had agreed to to 14 without informing me at signing.
Advice to the owners
Maybe consider bringing the building up to code BEFORE you let people move in and torment them for several months and then send them an email saying we had "the privilege of living here while the heat, hot water, etc were fixed". Try to remember actual humans live here and deserve to have proper heat, hot water and not be hit with your unpaid electric bills.
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