Centennial Properties

Very good location, clean building, not. a lot of noise

the elevator damaged very fast, the stairs to get in

Friendly quiet neighbors, good location, renovated units have new appliances, ours has a working fireplace

The responsiveness of the management company is dismal, it requires several tries to get something fixed, hearing is not adequate we had to get space heaters

Location. Micro home.

Very thin walls / can hear neighbor. Should have paid to reduce sound 20x. Cheap of them & thoughtless.

Smoke smells in building from bar below. Noise and music at night near ground floor from bars. Bar is connected to building lobby with many stray people in building from bar, would never have anything delivered here.

Very quiet, great location, good neighbors

Have to follow up with management a lot to get things fixed

The superintendent Anthony is very responsive and kind. I am so grateful he was there to fix a lot of issues with our apartment when we moved in. Property manager is also fairly responsive and kind. Their team keeps the garbage and staircases very clean and tidy. It’s an old building but they definitely take care of it.

Lower floors have reported roaches and we heard about mice. We never had them but we did find roaches once, they’ve been gone since pest control came.
There’s no access for delivery people, so they buzz every floor in the building to get in. Parcels all get stacked on the first floor on the ground. Parcels easily can get stolen. USPS parcels won’t get delivered if the driver is lazy and doesn’t want to buzz.
Hot water takes a while to heat up, so you waste a lot of water waiting for the shower and faucets to heat up to hot every time.
There is are no windows for any east facing apartments.
Bathroom vents are not real vents, they’re just holes with fans. You need to keep everything very dry and clean as much as possible because mold grows very quickly on everything in the apartment.
There have been ceiling leaks in the hall and in one apt on the top floor when it rains. We were not affected.

Fix leaks, hot water, and any pest issues. Parcel locker outdoors would be great!

Affordable, good area.

Elevator was constantly broken

Location is good, super is nice

Roaches come back every few months because management refuses to pay for an exterminator more than 1x a month. The building lobby always smells like a dirty port a potty. Tons of stolen packages lately. Some have super low rent (1000-2000 for 1 or 2 bed) while others paying well over 4k for a disgusting, small apartment. Management hardly responds because they are “too busy managing several properties”. Building is gross, don’t live here.

Actually manage the building properly

Location is nice in an ideal, fantasy world. But rats and St Luke's is apparently where everyone takes their dogs to poo so the street and sidewalk is dirty and block always smells like pee. Also rats 24/7. Close to Hudson river but 7th avenue rush hour traffic and late night revelers are loud. We have a working fireplace but it has major structural issues.

Rats. Imagine opening a garbage can and seeing a family of rats....and the family of rats consists of 20 little rats. Rats ate tunnels through the backyard ground making the fence lean over and backyard tiles wobbly. You hear rats squeaking and fighting all night. At least once a week you have two or three dead rats in the yard. Rats also ate holes through the garbage cans. Eventually they ate into our bedroom walls.

Ceiling paint or plaster was peeling off.

Mini fridge not fit for adults.

Apartment has mice and water bug infestations but they were good about monthly extermination.

Tenants would often leave garbage in the hallway, possibly because the garbage area was full of rats night AND day. The perks of living near a subway line!

Overheard landlords son Jake croman scream like a mad man to the super in our hallway. It was nuts.

In my first month tenancy, real estate agents entered the apartment 3 times at least while I was home alone using a key. Scary.

Shady characters have showed up to my door lurking around my back yard. One day I came home to find the property owner standing in my yard without any notice. Scary. It took another few weeks for someone to fix the broken gate that he was inspecting.

Water boiler was louder than the subway and made the apartment vibrate.

Apartment was cold in the winter, not enough heat. Fireplace worked but looked structurally unstable.

There was steel wool sticking through every nook and crack in the walls AND THERE WERE MANY CRACKS AND HOLES where the baseboards should be sealed.

Serious Mold problem in bathroom. And ceiling looked like it was about to cave in. I could see sunlight through the shower tile underneath the window. Strange ghost apartment 2 floors above us.

Bed room was literally the size of a full size bed.
Apartment is ridiculously small for a one bedroom apartment. It was also illegally destabilized. The next tenant should check rental records.

Sometimes the front doors were left open unattended and strange people would wander in and out. One person walked through, opened our backyard fence and burglarized us.

One washer dryer for the whole building. Yuck.

Oh yeah rats. There was so much rat fecal matter that the fake green turf was partially black. Probably rat pee everywhere too. My neighbor got sick from rat fecal matter and her dog almost perished from rat poison. I got some kind of rash on my feet from tracking rat fecal matter into the apartment.

Many more cons but that's all I remember at the moment.

Non plastic garbage cans of rat proof bins would be a start

Great location with many things easily accessible.

SMALL apartments with thin walls and floors.

Nothing.

Location
Appearance
Neighborhood is great

Overpriced
Small apartments
Landlord and super
No cooking gas for 2 years
Brothel run out of one of the apartments
Landlord served prison time for using illegal means to evict tenants
Heat and hot water go out all the time
Super refuses to fix things
Landlord refuses to do upgrades

Go back to jail

Super is one of the best you’ll find. Great location for getting around the city, but 14th st (and the courtyard in back) can get very busy. Very active building on the weekends.

Management company is unresponsive, rude, and fights on everything. Very inflexible and ignores blatant problems pointed out to them. Lobby and staircase/trash area always smells gross. ALSO THE ENTIRE BUILDING HAS COCKROACHES (AND SOME RATS) AND EXTERMINATOR DOES NOT PREVENT THEM FROM APPEARING. THEY IGNORE THIS ISSUEz

The design of the entry and staircase is nicer than a lot of walk ups, The location is prime, Located on a quiet block with good shops and places to eat, Super is very helpful and responsive.

Virtual doorman goes down quite a bit, Stairs are extremely steep and dangerous because they are marble. They mop them daily but leave them very wet and slippery as there’s no traction pads on the stairs, It’s miserable going up or down with a suitcase/packages but that’s any walk up, There’s always rats out front of the building at night but again it’s nyc..

Units are bright and renovated, building is relatively clean and well maintained, quiet neighbors

Some issues with trash management on the first floor, leading to rats and smells. Rarely seen any vermin in the apartment though

Take out trash regularly

The high ceilings, the crown molding, the exposed brick, washer dryer in unit and small outdoor space

Old building, the radiators aren't big enough to heat the entire apartment - space heaters required in the winter months, rats in the garbage area, mice seen in the hallways/apartment, some apartments have new appliances but others don't - old appliances break down constantly and the building management group will not replace

Be less of a slum lord

Affordable prices and clean hallways

The super doesn’t want to fix anything. We have reached out to the super of this building several times but they usually take weeks to respond.

Make sure everything is cleaned and is properly working before renting it out to other people.

Private Roof Deck and area

Leaks in roof

Don't have advice

Super is great

Upstairs neighbors are horrible and can hear everything

None

building was niceish

rents non legal bedrooms as actual bedrooms

awful management

no safeguard of personal information via management

does not fix problems in reasonable times

management group formerly known as 9300 and formerly a different name even before centennial properties involved in numerous lawsuits

sell this property to a company who can handle managing property.

Cleaned daily, supers have been fantastic and responsive, and neighbors are quite pleasant and quiet

There's a skylight in my living room which renders the heat upwards of 80 degrees in the summer as well as water damage from being on the top floor; I've reached out 5 times (and counting) and haven't heard a word from the building manager. Do not recommend leasing from Centennial, the new property managers.

Respond to your tenants.

Elevator in building
Exterminator comes in frequently. Never had problem with cockroaches

Small kitchen and space
Can face another building so no natural sunlight
Closet doors are sliding and I would prefer if they just came out