Management sucks and neighborhood sucks
Pros
Building is relatively new and the neighbors in the building are for the most part nice and quiet. The super is pretty amazing
Cons
We have an F for efficiency rating and the heating/AC units in most if the apartments don't work. Management took over 1 year to take care of 1 of the non working AC units and never addressed the other. Woth the inefficiencies my con Edison bill was literally $1000/months. Outrageous. There's always homeless people outside shooting up and they get into the building constantly. We even saw one pick the locks to the building and steal out package (we asked the super to see what happened to out stolen package)... guess what nothing was done about it. It's super unsafe because who knows what else they could do roaming the building like that.
Big cheap and cheaply made units
Pros
Huge units for low cost In unit laundry Dishwasher Excellent live-in super Courtyard/garden out back Kind neighbors in building Management never raises rent more than $100 because they lost our lease two years in a row Lots of local coffee shops Great local food
Cons
High utilities Ice maker on refrigerator never fixed for 5 years because part couldn’t be ordered Shower in secondary bathroom had pipes that were old and made a screeching/shaking noise weekly Pipes loud; can hear them and a knocking noise in the bathroom Can hear upstairs neighbors Terrible management Cheap finishes (ex. Door handles often loosen) There are many rehab facilities in the neighborhood so there are a lot of people suffering from addiction or using who hang out by the 116 6 stop or outside the building New roommates name never added to the lease because management was so unresponsive for 2.5 years
Advice to the owners
Fire everyone in the management office and start over. They’re unbelievably unorganized, unresponsive and incompetent.
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