Nice place to live
Pros
Location to transit and thins to do. Laundry in basement
Cons
Could be a little cleaner
Standard old pre-war building priced as if it were luxury housing
Pros
The super is amazing and it’s in a great part of the UWS.
Cons
Sound control between units is non-existent: even normal walking around by your upstairs neighbors will sound like elephants running a marathon to you. This means your neighbors will also hear you. Property manager is horribly incompetent- they didn’t tell me extensive construction (like scaffolding going up) would be required in my residence, which would also cause me to loose access to a significant portion of my residence, and all of a sudden a bunch of contractors forced their way into my residence with no notice given to me and no property manager or super on-site to explain who they were or what they were doing. The contractors called me a bitch when I told them to leave and threatened to hit my dog - so that’s the quality of people they hire and who will be in your home. The hallway carpeting in the common area is pretty gross and there are some holes in the walls that have been there at least a year. There’s laundry in the building but only 2 small washers and dryers and one washer has been broken forever. No repairs are done on the weekends - for example, someone’s key broke off in the main door to the building on a weekend night, so we all had to wait several days with the door to our building propped wide open because they wouldn’t send a locksmith on a weekend.
Advice to the owners
Hire more competent management. The super is great, but you need a property manager who is organized. It’s no wonder you’ve had a vacant unit for 60+ days during the hottest rental market NYC has seen when you allow your properties to deteriorate and refuse to spend even a few hundred extra dollars on simple improvements.
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