Don’t let the price + neighborhood fool you
Pros
Neighborhood (not immediate neighborhood)
Cons
Next to a loud street, under the loud BQE, next to a loud 24/7 tire shop
Advice to the owners
Respond to your well intentioned and good tenants.
Noisy Apartment, Shady Management
Pros
Carroll Gardens is an incredible neighborhood. There are so many great restaurants and shops just up the street. Living area is pretty big and addition of dishwasher and combo washer dryer is nice (although the washer dryer takes up to 4 hours for a single load).
Cons
Incredibly noisy due to practically being underneath the BQE - constant honking and occasionally shaking from large cars and trucks passing by. Kitchen and one bedroom look out onto concrete yard where a 24 hour tire repair shop operates. They are quite literally 24 hours and you will hear the noise of power tools in the middle of the night. Natural light in common area is pretty meh. Also, you shouldn't open window due to dust and pollution that comes through from the auto shop and the BQE. No A/C, gets extremely hot during summer. At the end of year lease Destination Real Estate, the leasing agency, informed us without any good explanation that they wouldn't extend our lease but rather we would have to reapply and pay another broker's fee (which was very large the first time and they were not upfront about it). They were extremely rude when we tried to ask any follow-up questions about why they were doing this and basically said that they would make us re-apply and pay new broker's fee every year if we decided to continue living there. Which apparently is not illegal, according to tenant's rights lawyer we spoke to. They were also going to raise the rent by a lot, which is wild considering the location of this building. The washer dryer malfunctioned several times and the super straight up ghosted me more than once. We don't even know who the landlord actually is, all we have is the number for the leasing office, Destination Real Estate. I've tried to find info on the owner and they're not registered with NYC Housing Preservation and Development, which is definitely illegal.
Advice to the owners
Stop making tenants re-apply and pay broker's fee every year, hire a super who responds to maintenance requests, be transparent about fees, generally stop being so scummy, install air conditioning
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