Kenmore Apartments

foster good will, and quite frankly is a monster. Beware when renting here.

restaurants. Suggestions for senior management: hire a energetic property manager who takes pride in caring for the building. Thank you.

roaches. The radiators are very loud. The building manager puts signs up all over to let residents know that the radiator knobs have to be either fully open or fully closed; that if they are somewhere in between, you will start a large leak, causing water damage. In the winter, my apartment could be freezing or sweltering. It could be 20* outside and my radiators won’t be on, or it could be 40* and my radiators are on full blast. I could never tell when they would be on. I have a space heater to make up the difference. Electric is included in the rent, so that helps with that problem. Smoking is allowed in the building. The hallways can smell of it. I put a thick rug at the base of my door leading to the hallway to stop the smoke from entering my apartment. There is no convenient way for people to smoke outside of the apartment. I personally do not allow anyone to smoke in my apartment. When I have friends over who smoke, the building manager yells at them for loitering if they are within 40 feet of the building. There is no recycling system for the building. There are three washing machines and two dryers in the basement. Often, the dryer will require more than one cycle to finish drying. If you leave your clothes in the dryer in the winter, they will feel frozen when you take them out. Each dryer has broken down at least once since I moved in (a little over a year ago). The best time to do laundry is when everyone else is at work or out on a weekend night. If no one’s used the toilet in a few hours, it usually requires a second flush to get everything down. If I haven’t run water in a few days, the bathroom drains will stink up the bathroom area and the hot water in the kitchen sink will come out orange for a few seconds. Last winter, the inside of my windows had icicles on them. They had such a horrible draft. The building is getting new windows as I write this. They are working their way from the top down and have finished 12 units so far.