You can do much better, for much less.
Pros
Close to transportation 5 train 9-minute walk. Bx30 and Westchester (Bee-line 60/61/62) at the corner. Two supermarkets are within walking distance. Quite street.
Cons
Heat and Hot water are not included in the basement apartment with an ill-fitted front door that lets in air, water (rain), and insects (ants, flies, waterbugs). The energy cost for this smallish 1 bedroom is $300-$500 monthly with low to no usage. The smoke alarms go off with an air fryer (WAY too sensitive). Windows abut wall on another side of trash and recycling so no opening (smell). Maintenance(super) is not onsite and management is slow to respond to issues if ever.
Advice to the owners
Replace/refit the front door so that energy costs can be lowered and insects and rain stay out. Get a better management company (more responsive). If I email about water flowing into my apartment at 2 am you shouldn't be responding in three days and sending some around in 11.
Horrible Management and maintenance crew
Pros
The management never handled anything until you call the city and file a complaint! We’ve been living here for 15 years and anytime we complain about things that need to be fixed, they send guys to do a shitty job and even them selves claim that in other locations the job they do here would’ve even be acceptable
Cons
Nothing positive about this building! The management never handled anything until you call the city and file a complaint! We’ve been living here for 15 years and anytime we complain about things that need to be fixed, they send guys to do a shitty job and even them selves claim that in other locations the job they do here would’ve even be acceptable
Advice to the owners
Do right by your tenants, upgrade refrigerators, sand and refinish hardwood floors, clean hallways, salt the sidewalks and shovel them when it snows, paint and patch the hallways, fix the intercom!!!!
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