Ben Ohebshalom

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Creator: Openigloo

Shareholder·10 buildings·185 units

3.8

17 reviews

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Review summary

Summarized from anonymous rental reviews on Openigloo.

Recent reviews of buildings managed by Ben Ohebshalom reveal a mixed management experience. Tenants appreciate convenient locations, quiet neighbors, and occasionally responsive superintendents. However, many express frustration with the management's slow or poor responsiveness to maintenance issues, including pest control, broken laundry facilities, and building upkeep. Cleanliness and garbage management vary widely between buildings, with some admired for cleanliness and others suffering from grungy hallways and pests. Rent increases and lack of building improvements, such as promised rooftop renovations or laundry additions, are common complaints. Overall, while buildings have potential, management often falls short in timely and effective tenant communication and building maintenance.

Reviews

Former tenant·2 hours ago

especially at the price Mostly good especially at the price

Pros

Quiet, neighbors, extremely convenient location.

Cons

Grungy hallway, packages stolen.

Advice to the owners

Would be nice if you took phone calls

Former tenant·8 minutes ago

Could be so great

Pros

Pre-war walkup with super-high ceilings, tall windows, hardwood floors, and great built-in storage. Decent-sized kitchen (for a studio) Good transport links on a quiet block

Cons

The landlord does not seem to care about maintaining what could be a gorgeous gem of a building. The front doors are falling apart, the communal laundry machines break constantly. The the communal “roof deck” is super tiny (the majority of the roof is considered a private roof deck for the penthouse) and the furniture has been broken since the day I moved in. Management does not clean communal areas and it is a battle to get any maintenance requests completed. Cockroaches are a problem in the summer. Any sound from the stairwell echos into the units so while you don’t hear much noise at all between units/floors, it’s incredibly loud if anything happens in the hallway (typically a problem when rowdy guests yell going up and down the stairs as most of the tenants are in their 20s); “renovations” are clearly done as cheaply as possible (the tiles in my shower are the same as the ones in the lobby and were not installed with waterproof materials so the porous grout falls out in chunks); they raise rents as high as the market allows and don’t seem to care about constant tenant turnover