Even by Midtown standards, this complex is run down. It was built around 1940 and definitely shows its age. Windows are single-paned casement (crank) style with no insulating materials, so cold air flows in during the winter and hot air pours in during the summer. The property management company must be very frugal because repairs are done using the absolute cheapest materials possible. One window pane in my bedroom was repaired (before I moved in) with a sheet of what looks like plexiglass or some other plastic. When I moved in, there was just one working phone jack - the phone company told me that the rest of the wiring had been ripped out when the apartment had last been painted. There is just one triple-pronged outlet in the entire place, so I had to get bunches of converter plugs. The wall air conditioner in the living room is at least 40 years old (but so are all the other ones in the complex) and cools the front half of the apartment while sounding like an airport runway at rush hour. The back half of the apartment stays boiling hot.

The on-site manager is an elderly woman who is one of the most unprofessional I've seen in all my years of renting. Instead of giving written notice to tenants about whatever we need to be informed of, she'll call everyone on the phone at all hours. It's not out of the question for her to call tenants at 10 or 11 PM to remind them to leave a window closed or to ask if they put the recycling in the correct dumpster. She never puts anything in writing, which could be at the instruction of the property management company, but I suspect that she just loves the telephone becuase she's lonely. I've tried to cut her some slack because her life can't be easy with her adult son and grandson living with her, but even by the looser standards usually applied to on-site managers in smaller complexes, she's over her head. The property management main office, though, is staffed with people who are friendly to you until five minutes after you sign the lease, and then you're just another number to them and you'll never get your phone calls returned - ever.

On-street parking is generally available. Off-street garage parking is available at an expensive monthly fee - and includes a bizarre convoluted procedure requiring de-activating and re-activating an alarm which is located behind a locked gate so that you drive your car out of the garage, then you have to get out of the car to go back behind the locked gate to re-activate the alarm.

Recent new tenants are decidedly more down-scale than before (one apartment is full of what we call The Clampetts). No-smoking areas are generally ignored and not used, and cigarette butts are everywhere where they aren't supposed to be.

Security gates/doors are routinely left propped open, and front gates appear to not have been able to lock for a very long time. I do not feel safe here.

I will not renew my lease when it comes time.

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