Roach infested, outdated, poorly maintained, poorly managed, ugly, and inhospitable are the first words that come to mind to describe these awful apartments.
Each apartment comes equipped with the best utilities 1975 has to offer, including stoves with non-functioning burners, fluorescent lights that have long since burned out, and air conditioning units that leak coolant. In each room there is at least one light switch that has no clear use and at least 2 power outlets that output no power. The
...doors are a mixed bag, some come with working locks but stretch all the way to the carpet, to a point where they scrape across the carpet when opening or closing them, some doors are recently and poorly replaced with a large gap at the top, and others will have their hinges coated in a thick rust.
In each apartment, you have roommates; cockroaches. Now, I have to give credit where credit is due; these cockroaches could be much bigger and much more disgusting to deal with. These cockroaches will come and go as they please, and every exterminator you call will be so familiar with the apartments to a point where they tell you it would be a waste of money for you to pay them to come out and spray your apartment, since the cockroaches will just hide in the vacant apartments.
Speaking of vacant apartments, each vacant apartment in your building will cost YOU. Because either their meter-systems are from 1975 or they're just into extorting their possibly illegal tenants, they divide the cost of the entire building's water by the number of tenants in that building. Your new neighbor is obsessed with turning on their sinks all day long to scare the cockroaches out of them? You're footing the bill even if you only flushed your toilet once a day. But don't worry, sometimes the hot water will go out completely and you will be left with no choice but to shower in strictly cold water for days; IF your plumbing doesn't scream every time you turn on the cold water in the shower, like mine does. Management will give you the standard statement of "we're on that" and won't divulge anymore information, almost as if they aren't even paying attention to the apartments and just collect the checks.
There are infinitely better choices in the area and even better choices in the city for the price. Don't settle for Arcos, do your research and pick somewhere better; or don't, and help lower my water bill.
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