75 & 81 Orchard Associates, LLC

There are no pros.

The management toggles between unresponsiveness and harassment. There is no heat, there are no rodents, there are constant leaks and flooding. Avoid at all cost. They will try to put repair costs on you.

Mostly clean
Has a rooftop
Neighbors are respectful
Nice area between line D and F

Mail box is a mess
Package keep got stolen
Loud party noise from across the street

Fix the mail box and the super is not really think trough when they have to do the work

Great location
Nice rooftop
Big windows in bedrooms
Most bedrooms are quiet

Occasional bugs
Tiny living room/kitchen

GREAT location. Amazing street with a lot going on but not too loud. Wide staircase that makes moving in and out easier. Rooftop is a plus.

It's a pre-war building so everything is just very old and breaks often. I'm not sure if the other units were like ours, but our apartment was VERY overpriced. Paid $5,800 for a very, very tiny, dark place. Just beware and make sure to tour before!

It’s fairly quiet on a not too loud street but close to anything you’d like to do.

We had some things break in our apartment and they took many many follow up emails to get someone out to help. This is New York but even for New York standard the apartments are tiny.

Kind super, improved dramatically over the time we lived there. Used to get packages stolen every day. They haven’t been stolen in over a year.

Lazy management. Leaks in the roof always. Expensive for what it was. Dirty af when we moved in

Super great location in the Lower east side, great street.

6th floor walk up, no elevator.

Good location. If you keep your apartment clean it’s a pretty cleanly apartment.

Management is not prompt. Went months without A/C. Horrible communication.

Please be better.

Location , great area

So small , building had a weird odor

Good heat, thick walls, and consistent pest removal and trash pickup.

Unresponsive owners. If anything breaks, expect a long time to get it fixed; the door to the building was broken for months and we had to go through the trash hallway. If you forget your keys, don't expect a response from the super or owner.

Respond more timely to tenants.

The location is amazing. Close to all the fun in the LES without being right on top of it. And there's laundry in this unit.

The AC doesn't work when it's over 85 degrees. And it's small.

Fix the central air.

Clean affordable great location key fob entry

Very small spaces. No closet space

Some bedrooms are not legal sIze to be considered a bedroom

Hallways are cleaned regularly, stairs are wide and shallow, the building interior was obviously renovated recently with nice stone & hardwood floors, bright lighting in the hallways, and security cameras. Front door is secure. Very fast WiFi connection!

Maintenance requests via the online portal are extremely slow, soundproofing between lateral apartments and through the unit doors is very minimal (but fine vertically). Steam radiator heat only turns on if the weather is below ~50 degrees so the units do get cold quickly especially with the drafty windows

Great location and decent space/apartment unit amenities for the area

Noisy - both inside and outside. Management was really uncommunicative with residents - to the point that when there was major renovation work, we weren't even notified until we opened our unit's door and had a plastic sheet covering our entrance.

Better communication with residents would go a long way

My unit had great natural light but many others were not so lucky. Be wary and don’t move in here sight unseen.

Broken appliances upon move in that took months to fix. Beware of false advertising and misleading information. No security cameras and only some units have roof access. No response from management even during emergencies. Malfunctions with heat and AC at frequent. You’re on your own if you move in here management and the super are useless.

Respond to tenants, at the very least do the bare minimum of your job.

Location location location

Landlords, price, and landlords

Answer your emails and fix your shit

Some units have new appliances and laundry in units. First floor has no units, which is nice for passing up and down.

Management is EXTREMELY unresponsive and unhelpful, don’t expect much help with figuring out rent portal set up/management. Supers are super nice and helpful but property managers aren’t always quick, helpful, or good at directing tenants on how to request support. If they don’t save your number, they just won’t respond.
Cockroaches in winter and flies in summer.
Drains get super nasty and water pressure is awful.

Find better systems for responsiveness.

Well maintained (for the most part) hallways.

Management hardly responds to issues and complaints, water pressure is poor, roof security system is constantly setting off sirens in the hallway.

Respond to maintenance requests and fix the roof security system

Some apartments are newly renovated and it’s a quiet but fun block

Hot water never worked. SMA equities is trash at responding to maintenance requests.