Apartment:Generally poor quality all around.The flooring in my bathroom has paint spots from the walls that were never cleaned up. Half the apartment has baseboard trim while the other half does not. The pant on the walls is chipped and looking fairly rough. One of the sides of my bathroom cabinet looks like it hasn't been repainted in a decade. There are also some pretty serious low and high spots in the floor. I get that its an old building and that it has settled over the years, but these
...should seriously be looked at.
Appliances:
The appliances are decent, although very basic. I had a problem with my fridge that took 3 different maintenance requests before the office would even acknowledge that there was a problem. I had to send them multiple videos of the problem and even find the part that needed replacing and a video on how to replace it before they would do it.
Parking:
Parking here is a joke. They implemented some new parking system where your car needs to have a parking sticker - but they haven't done anything with it. I walked through the parking lot and found 1/3 of the cars parked by my building didn't have the sticker. It seems as though the whole parking sticker system was just some kind of PR stunt to try and make people complain about it less. If you get home after 5, you will not find parking next to your building. Sometimes you'll have to walk over 1/4 mile just to get from your car to your building. Even if you do find parking, THE SECURITY TEAM MIGHT HAVE YOUR CAR WRONGFULLY TOWED FOR NO REASON. I found this out the hard way as my car had been towed 2 DAYS prior to me finding out. The office never called to let me know about this, despite my car being in their system.
Maintenance:
Maintenance takes forever. They are not very pleasant to work with.
Overall quality:
Poor. Old buildings that had the bare minimum upgrades done to them. Grammercy charges way too much for what you are getting. The front desk staff are very nice, but I have noticed there is a high turnover. Managers have been civil, but do not seem overly keen on helping you.
Summary:
Don't live here. Even if you have no other options, do not live here. There are better places out there with better everything, in better locations, for about the same price. Even those of us that want to leave here early, can't, because they charge an outrageous lease break fee of over $3,000.00. Go somewhere else and avoid this nightmare.
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