117 North 4 Street,

Brooklyn, NY 11249

New finishes, stainless steel, shared roof that’s usable, the nicest garbage folks

I don’t like putting reviews but this was one of the most horrible rental experiences I’ve ever had.

1. Garbage was a disaster. It’s in a popular area so people always throw their trash into ours, on top of already not enough cans for the 8 units in the building. When it gets overfilled, rats become our neighbors. Great people who manage the trash tho, just bad mgmt who have refused any request to get larger or lockable trash.
2. Flooding. The basement will flood when it rains and they won’t do anything about it. There will be no sense of urgency from them when all your valuables are soaked in sewer water and the basement is deemed unsafe to enter due to mold conditions.
3. Maintenance requests take weeks to get responses from. Even when they have people come, they mess up the first time that they have to come back again. Inefficient.
4. There are wires hanging so low in the backyard that you might just be electrocuted by accident if you walk too close
5. Electricity bills are through the roof. I’ve compared with local friends and it just doesn’t make sense.
6. If you are facing the window, you better be a light sleeper. Whole Foods trucks go until 2am and start up at 5-6am. They are loud. Otherwise, neighbors are chill

Listen to your tenants and address life threatening issues

Location is great and building is newly renovated so I guess that’s nice

Literally everything else. The basement floods every couple months. The management company (Arya) is rude and they clearly don’t know how to handle basic tasks such as
- making sure the apartment is LIVABLE before the tenants move in (e.g. I moved and we had no stove, no oven, a literal WALL was still being built, and one of the rooms had no door for several weeks)
- hiring competent people to do such tasks (e.g. careless workers broke valuable items from tenants and they didn’t get reimbursed)
- providing tenants with enough trash cans (the rats are getting frisky and we hope they don’t move inside…)

Not to mention the carbon monoxide situation which they tried to pass off as “fine” before the fire dept came and declared the actual CO levels to be deadly. Arya reimbursed each unit $1000 because they “felt bad” about the incident…and to avoid an impending lawsuit.

Also, FYI the electric can cost up to $500 in the winter. In case everything else wasn’t enough.

TLDR: Overall a complete disaster of a situation. Avoid avoid avoid.

Don’t…hire Arya

Location, I guess?

They're insufferable. They're careless, sleazy, unresponsive, rude, and downright bullies. They cut costs wherever they can. Every maintenance worker (Con Ed, etc) that's visited the place has said this apartment is a disaster and everything in it is a bandaid. When we first moved in, the apartment was not finished. Literal walls still needed to be built. The basement floods with sewer water every couple months and they blame the "city." Internet took weeks to set up via a dangerous work around. Appliances broken, in constant need of repair. Illegal construction work in the basement released unsafe levels of CO2 and the fire department evacuated the entire building for hours because of toxic CO2 levels.

You're probably lazy as well if you've hired Arya.