Living in Squalor
Pros
Close to the train, next door to the library, close to parks
Cons
Extremely poor maintenance, very over priced for conditions and proximity/noisiness of highway. On multiple occasions we had no running water for days at a time. One occurrence happened near the beginning of the Covid shut down. We couldn’t even wash our hands and the management did not respond for a full week. The water temperature changes drastically and quickly while taking a shower almost burning me many times. The heating is very sporadic and most of the time it is absolutely freezing. The hallway and stairwell are filthy, never cleaned, and covered in garbage. Garbage is just kept in the hallway of the first floor so the building smells like garbage all the time. There are both extremely bad cockroach and mice infestations. There’s no respect for your neighbors in this building and no enforcement of that. The super and other tenants have loud parties in front of the building until the early morning hours. The volume level of the music shakes the whole building. My bed would be bouncing to the bass until 7am. No sleep. You can’t receive packages. The other tenants steal them before you can even run down the stairs. I had to rent a box at the UPS store and send everything there.
Advice to the owners
Maintain your building. Your tenants are humans that deserve basic living conditions.
Walk up in the heights
Pros
Great neighbors, everyone looks out for each other and loves to chit-chat in the halls.
Cons
Dirty dirty dirty. Some residents just don’t care and leave trash out, messes take weeks to clean, walls are sloppily painted. I think the super is overstretched with other buildings.
Advice to the owners
Hire another porter.
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