Not renewing lease
Pros
Very quiet building in good location
Cons
The building stairs are always dirty/disgusting, management absolutely sucks, we had a huge pest problem when we just moved in that was not under control and took a lot of back and forth to get to a better place. Heat is either on when it's not supposed to be like in 70 degree weather and off when you need it most. Overall mid experience and will not be renewing when my lease is up.
Advice to the owners
Actually care about your tenants or hire real management
LOUD, DIRTY, AND PESTS. PLEASE do not rent here. STAY AWAY.
Pros
- Location is great, close to the park and many great restaurants on 8th avenue and 6th avenue - Super is nice and helpful, but he is overworked and super busy
Cons
Building is filled with pests. My apartment had TWO mice encounters and I was constantly finding cockroaches around the apartment and in the hallways. Overall ITS SO LOUD. Walls are super thin and the neighbors below often played loud music/karaoke sometimes until 3am. Can always hear my neighbors full conversation regardless of what room I was in. The building is poorly maintained. Hallways are constantly dirty and the stairway often smells like urine. One neighbor leaves their trash under the stairway on the first floor for some reason. Neighbor often smoked inside which lead to the smoke smell coming into the apartment. Constant water damage in the bathroom ceiling that was not properly addressed. Building just doesn't feel secure. Sometimes the front door would just be left open and unlocked. Packages get opened in the hallway. Hard to talk to management. Their accounting is unorganized. Any requests I made to fix something in the apartment took months to get addressed or just got ignored. Random people loiter in the alleyway in the night/early morning and in the middle area of the building, leading to their voices echoing into the unit. Lack of natural light and very dark throughout the day. Radiator is old so its loud when it turns on. Kitchen sink sometimes does not have cold water. Overall, just bad.
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