Tiny apartment filled with roaches
Pros
Air conditioning pre installed
Cons
Small apartment, incredibly overpriced. Half a mile to any train station. Bathroom fan is unbelievably loud. Two of the three pre installed air conditioning needed serious cleaning. Noise from the street is SUPER loud. But most importantly… ABSOLUTELY. INFESTED. WITH ROACHES. And the landlord doesn’t care! You will not go a single night without seeing multiple cockroaches. Doesn’t matter how many traps, how many you kill, how much you clean. They need to actually fumigate the whole building but they’ll never do that as long as they can keep overcharging people for a shitty apartment before they know any better
Advice to the owners
GET AN EXTERMINATOR
Run-down slumlord building
Pros
I liked the location, proximity to M15SBS bus and East River, restaurants and bars within walking distance. Lived here for five years. Rent was raised fifty dollars a year every year we stayed. Hot water was pretty reliable, only a couple of days a year when they were doing work on it.
Cons
Owner (Eli) pretends to just be the manager. There are roaches but it's manageable. Trash area is infested with rats attracted to restaurant on the ground floor. Management won't fix anything and often will send someone over to mansplain to you that nothing is broken and no work is needed. There is no on-site super (which I'm pretty sure is illegal for a building this size) so if there's a huge water leak the owner will just say "deal with it until the next day" as happened one time. Our toilet barely flushed for years and they would never fix it. Traffic noise from Madison is quite a lot for the outside-facing units, but neighbors were generally pretty quiet with one or two exceptions. Lots of turnover in the building—it's often Pace students who party hard and don't stay longer than a year. Water from the taps has a rusty color, which is not so uncommon for 100+ year old buildings but is not luxurious.
Advice to the owners
Fixing problems with the building will save you money in the long term.
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