I lived here for 3 years, and it has been an exhausting experience. It is hard to find any sense of stability when the building goes through a constant turnover of ownership; it feels like the property changes hands about 4 times a year.
Management always uses the excuse that the construction is just a short term project but it has been an ongoing, daily nightmare for all three years I’ve been here. You can never truly relax in your own home. Between the endless, nerve-wracking drilling with
...tractors, the roaring rooftop AC units, and the piercing train horns and rail noise right outside, my peace of mind was completely destroyed.
The property is cutting every corner possible at the expense of residents. The leasing staff is so blatantly overworked that you see the same office people struggling to handle vacuuming, trash duty, and groundskeeping themselves. Because they refuse to invest a single dime into the building, maintenance is completely non-existent. When you bring up distressing issues like mold, poor water quality, or pests, they don't help you. Instead, they get defensive and completely dismiss you. If a fix requires actual money, they completely delete your maintenance tickets from the system to pretend the problem doesn’t exist.
Because the staff is stretched to a breaking point, basic human upkeep is entirely forgotten. The common areas are filthy and only cleaned once in a blue moon. Even simple, promised community comforts; like a functioning coffee station; are left empty and abandoned for weeks on end.
The building's ventilation is a disaster. The hallways, elevators, and balconies constantly reek of heavy weed smoke and deep trash odors. Worse, inside the apartment unit itself, there is a very stale smell, and the air feels incredibly heavy and damp like living in a swamp even during the months of March and April without turning on the heater, which is absolutely not normal. It ruins your quality of life because you can't open your windows or step onto your balcony to air it out without being choked by the strong cigarette and weed smells outside.
Home should be a sanctuary, but the atmosphere here is incredibly tense and uncomfortable. The management team always looks completely miserable, glaring and frowning at residents. It makes you feel like an absolute burden for asking for basic, livable conditions.
After three long years of watching this place fall apart through endless corporate handovers, my best advice is to stay far away.
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