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Ira Lichtiger

Officer·25 buildings·646 units
3.0

12 reviews

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40
Litigation cases

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Review summary

Summarized from anonymous rental reviews on Openigloo.

Tenants across buildings managed by IRA LICHTIGER consistently report significant challenges with cleanliness, garbage management, and pest control, often describing the upkeep as poor and inconsistent. Heating systems frequently underperform, causing discomfort, with limited tenant control over temperature settings. While some neighbors find the communities quiet and well-located, management responsiveness is commonly criticized as sluggish or unhelpful, leading to delays in repairs and poor communication. A few buildings with attentive supers and responsive management show better maintenance and tenant satisfaction, but overall, renters advise improvements in building cleanliness, pest control, maintenance timeliness, and management communication to enhance the living experience.

Reviews

Former tenant·10 minutes ago

Slumllords, building is dirty

Pros

Location and building is quiet.

Cons

Building maintenance is non existent. No garbage removal on the weekends, unless the super is on vacation and someone is covering for him, that's the only way the building really get cleaned.

Advice to the owners

As a tenant that has lived here going on 5 years. The cleanliness of the building has really plummeted with this current super, despite the constant hike on rent. The laundry room that's advertised as an amenity is always gross ,and overflowing with trash. THE ENTRANCE and lobby of the building that was once spotless with the previous Supers, get cleaned when the super feels like it. On top of that, they now expect paying tenant to walk their small broken down cardboard boxes downstairs in the back yard and not leave it in the garbage room, because this Super thinks it's too much work for him even though he barely cleans the building. There has been dried piss in the stairwell for months that I submitted a request in the portal to get cleaned, and no surprise, the dried up piss is still there. I have complained multiple times to property manager but most complaints fall on deaf ears. Avoid this building if you can, building is quiet, no issues with other tenants but the upkeep of the building is very atrocious.

Former tenant·8 minutes ago

Landlord is rude, dirty and very lazy

Pros

Near subway Everything is Nearby Units are spacious

Cons

Maintenance is extremely bad Currently there is no heat and they have given space heaters instead rising it asap (landlord is waiting for a part). Hot water also has frequent outages Elevator is out of service every two months for weeks. Once in 2023 the elevator was out of service for 4 months straight. The area near laundry smells bad because garbage management is poor. Cockroaches and rats all around.

Advice to the owners

Take insects, garbage management and elevator/heat and hot water seriously.

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44-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard

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1.5(1)

Hammels

138-43 Gar Barclay Avenue

138-43 Gar Barclay Avenue

Flushing

138-45 Gar Barclay Avenue

138-45 Gar Barclay Avenue

Flushing

138-55 Barclay Avenue
Good cause

138-55 Barclay Avenue

Flushing

Building ratings

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Pest control

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Water pressure

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Heat

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Neighbors

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Noise levels

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Owner responsiveness

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Cleanliness

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Trash management

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Pest control

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Water pressure

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Heat

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Neighbors

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Noise levels

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Owner responsiveness

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Rents and deposits

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Renters received their security deposits back

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Electronic rent payments

Open violations

From past 10 years · Updated 5 days ago

Average violations per unit for this owner or associate is better than the city average.

Owner average0.59Violations per unit
NYC average0.81Violations per unit
117Class C
Immediately hazardous

Rodents, pest, mold, inadequate heat or hot water, defective building parts

421Class B
Hazardous

Smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting, no lighting for stairways

90Class A
Non-hazardous

No peephole on a door, no street number on the building, unlawful keeping of animals

0Class I
Missing info

Missing or non-compliant with administrative information orders or filings

I

Ira Lichtiger

Officer·25 buildings·646 units
3.0

12 reviews

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