Pros:
- Doormen are very friendly and communicate openly with you. I'll miss the doorman/package holding most of all!
- All utilities are included in the rent! & since there is an AC in each room, which works decently well, it's great to know you can run it as much as you want during the HOT summer because the price is included in your rent!
- Super close to lots of train lines!!!!!
Cons:
- When you take a shower the water is VERY unpredictable. Switches from Freezing to SCALDING HOT in a matter of seconds... makes it really frustrating to have a decent shower and esp in a timely manner seeing as you have to wait for the temperature to balance out again every time.
- Hot water knob for the bath (not the shower) is almost ALWAYS brown, rusty water...
- Difficult to control the radiator - it works STRONG when you don't need it and doesn't heat up enough when you do!
- When we moved in, we would get recurring splinters on our feet (even through socks!) from the wood floor... The only reason we don't get many splinters now is that we personally sanded those areas down, so we wouldn't get more splinters.
- Not a proper peephole, since you can see the person through it...
- roaches/waterbugs
- mice/rat in basement
- laundry machines that don't work properly
- chipping lead paint
Advice to owner:
Come see the apartment yourself and ask yourself if you would pay that much for this apartment...