37 Weirfield Street,

Brooklyn, NY 11221

Good Space, Light, Closets, Close to train

Completely absent management. The landlord lives in a different state and has no idea what is going on with the building. The property management they hired to supervise the building is useless and difficult to schedule with. The first "super" they hired was someone who was only going to take out trash, who had to ask me where to find the trash schedule. He later told us that he was just a friend of the broker and had no property management experience at all. It took 6 months for someone to come out to look at the broken AC's. We initially had to pay a third-party service to diagnose the issue. (We were later reimbursed that cost after discussion). We were told by both the HVAC company we hired and the ones the landlord hired that the AC installation was done extremely poorly. Also the previous owner, who the landlord purchased from, did a sloppy job with the renovations so there is still blue shrink wrap in the corners the appliances, the counters are glued together with a sloppy silicone job, the bathroom tiles had a poor grout job and are all unlevel so they started falling apart after a couple months of living there. When one of the construction workers working on the basement came up to fix the tiles, he told us that if this building was in Manhattan, it would have never passed inspection. Whenever these issues were brought up, it was extremely difficult to have someone actually show up to a scheduled time. The landlord will often defer to the broker to handle difficult issues to which he will defer back to the landlord, so as a result it was difficult to get a reasonable resolution to simple issues. We were often told that we were being unreasonable and were talked down to frequently in our correspondence with the landlord/broker. During our time living there, there was also a huge flooding problem in the basement unit and huge blooms of black mold. There was no notice during the basement renovation that black mold was present, other than the piles of garbage bags of molded sheetrock in the front yard and construction workers wearing PPE and telling us how bad it was down there. There was even a mushroom that grew inside of the entry way of the building. Additionally the floors/walls are extremely thin so you can hear detailed conversations from the neighbors. Overall it is a shame because this could be a beautiful property, but due to its poor management and an inexperienced landlord it was a nightmare to live in.

Hire a proper property management company and check in with them more often. Also hire someone to re-inspect the building. Every contractor that came into the apartment during our time there told us how poorly executed the construction of the building was with just a glance.

High ceilings, big rooms, lots of storage. It's a nice looking apartment. Comes with washer/dryer.

Pests (ants, giant flies, little spider beetles that look like ticks, a squirrel burrowing in the wall), leaks from the roof through some open pipe has damaged parts of the ceiling, leaking A/C units in the summer. Try to tell the landlord about any issues and they will either ignore you or forward your complaint to their broker, who will just insult you. Don't expect anything to get done unless you threaten to withhold rent, and even then it will take several more months than necessary. Pretty sure the bottom floor is an illegal split conversion; the power is connected between the basement unit and the first floor. We had a power bill that was 250% higher than expected one month because someone left the heat on 78 in the empty basement unit. Neighbors are pretty nice, although the street is noisy.

Either take a more active role in the property you invested in, or hire a property manager who has any stakes/care for the building. Your broker is not a property manager. When tenants try to contact you about an issue, it's not because we just like to hear ourselves talk, or because we enjoy complaining, or because we want a rent reduction -- there are serious problems with the building that you are not addressing, and if you trust the people you've currently left in charge of the building, this property is probably going to become a big problem for you in the future when no one wants to rent your units.