Pros:
I had a 1 bedroom, and it was spacious. Things that break are eventually attended to - broken stove or plumbing issues, leaking toilet or sink, leaking ceiling from upstairs radiator (plumbing problems seem to be a re-occuring issue, judging from all the cracks on the ceilings).
*If this building was cared for/cleaned more frequently, a little safer, and there wasn't an issue with a noisy neighbor, this would be a nice building
Cons:
The live-in superintendent is non-responsive. You have to call AND email management to get any work done.
It's never clean - maybe once a week during Covid someone cleans the hall floors, but rarely the stairwell. Surfaces are not cleaned. Desperately needs a fresh coat of paint.
The flies! A disgusting amount of flies. Where are they coming from! Side doors are left open and bugs and rats easily get in. There has been a mouse and pest/bugs problem, needed to take off work 4 times to have the exterminator come.
The photos of what the renovations will look like are not accurate, and the work is very sloppy. The apartment was never cleaned before I moved in. Bathroom tiles used to be pink and were simply 'spray painted' white. The bathroom ceiling and walls are cracking but they were just painted over instead of actually fixing the water damage from upstairs.
The elevator breaks down very frequently.
The washers/dryers are constantly broken. Someone props open the side doors that lead into the building and 'neighbors' use our laundry room.
The recycling is rarely taken out of the trash rooms on each floor, so people just pile it in until you can't even access the trash chute.
Neighbor on 4th floor plays their tv and music excessively loud - can be heard in all apartments on 4th floor, adjacent apartments on other floors, and in the stairwell (but he's lived there for 10+ years, so you just have to deal with it, as he says).
Do the security cameras even work? Can't seem to figure out who is stealing our packages, but if the cameras worked, maybe we could identify the culprit!
People prop open the entry doors, thus creating a safety and theft issue.
Advice to owner:
This place needs to be cared for and cleaned so much more frequently. It looks so run down, but a fresh coat of paint and regular cleaning would vastly help.
Please know what's going on in your building - this isn't a community laundry center!