Beautiful, unique & spacious, but severely lacking in many essential areas
Pros
- Huge living area, a lot of character - Large windows in front of building - Month-to-month lease with infrequent rent inflation
Cons
- Very old building with no substantial work done over the last 50 years, no standard building inspections for at least 10 years - Landlord lives out-of-state and takes ages to address apartment issues (up to a year), expects tenants to pay out of pocket for most repairs and submit for reimbursement - Paper thin walls, no insulation (freezing during winter and no control over heat), can hear everything upstairs/downstairs/outside - Only 1 window able to support AC unit and it’s in the hallway - Terrible WiFi (broadband only, because they will not rewire the building) - Tons of holes/cracks that are impossible to fill, so a decent number of mouse visits (can also hear them in the walls) - Drafty/broken windows that landlord will not repair - Only two of three bedrooms have windows, and one of the two rooms has only one window that is very small and not usable as it opens into a courtyard filled with rodents - Unmovable furniture left by landlord - Very damaged floors with splintered wood throughout apartment - Electric stove - Broken buzzer
Advice to the owners
Communicate more effectively with your tenants, resolve building issues promptly, schedule inspections to ensure safety of building for your tenants, rewire building for stronger WiFi — really, just make this apartment livable.