prewar apartment with issues
Pros
- Apartment is centrally located to many wonderful restaurants, bars and shops - apartment is quiet, not too much on the block
Cons
- trash management - the garbage room was constantly infested with rats - packages/mail UNSECURED - 10+ packages stolen during my stay - building super was responsive but often unhelpful - during the stay, a pipe had burst and had caused water damage. took a few days to get this fixed - many homeless folks would lie around the apartment in the neighboring restaurant storefronts
Great Location, Terrible Everything Else.
Pros
Everything outside the building - the location and the proximity to vital transportation, parks, markets, bars, restaurants, museums, nearby neighborhoods, cinemas, etc.
Cons
Too many to list. Everything inside the building from rats, to roaches, to the terrible super who lets the building waste away. There’s homeless people who defecate on the stairs to the building. I see it more often than I care to admit. The rooftop has leaks. The scaffolding in the front of the facade has been up for 2 years because the owner has stopped paying workers. The floorboards are rotting. The hallways smell like garbage. The super is inept and unresponsive - the first week living here we didn’t have running water in the shower and it took 2 weeks to get it back. No discount on rent. We also didn’t have a refrigerator. The one we were supplied with was filled to the brim with a fierce mold infection. The super looked at me like I was crazy when I requested a new fridge. His response was “wipe it down with paper towels it’ll be fine”. Meanwhile the mold was so bad it was in places I couldn’t reach. I eventually had to purchase a new fridge out of pocket. Packages get stolen often. I stopped ordering them here. The mailboxes don’t shut correctly. The doors are not up to fire code as they don’t shut properly. The doors have creases and cracks in them to let pests inside. There’s only 3 outlets in the apartment. The toilet runs constantly. The kitchen has a massive hole behind the oven. The oven doesn’t work. The shower was not waterproofed and leaked so badly into the kitchen below our unit that we had to leave our apartment for 3 days while it got repaired. The owner is a degenerate slum lord who lets his building fall apart. He knows their will always be a steady supply of college students to fluctuate on year leases and he has no incentive to pay for the building repairs.
Advice to the owners
Jump in traffic.
