I lived in two different apartment layouts while living in the Weaver building. The first was one that has a loft section for the bedroom and bathroom areas. The loft section was always fine temp wise but the downstairs levels were impossible to keep cool in the summer and heat in the winter. The other unit was a two floor unit that was just a mess for many other reasons.

In the second one the kitchen was so small that the stove didn't really fit into the area of the wall that it was supposed to go it. When I FINALLY (about 3 attempts) got them to come in and make the stove work corrected you couldn't use it because the door to the stove got caught on the cabinets and wouldn't come down all the way. I spent a year living off of whatever could be cooked in a microwave or toaster oven other than soap on the stove top (made the holidays a joy, that's for sure).

Like everyone has said in their other reviews you have a number of terrible issues overall.
1. The walls are so thin they might as well not be there. I moved from the first to the second apartment because I was getting sick of hearing my neighbor across the hall having sex with a different guy every night (and yes, I could tell it was someone different...THAT'S how thin the walls were). I could tell you everyones names, what they watched on TV and when they were home or at work and I never met any of them in my time there.

2. The parking was a nightmare. My car at the time was a crappy one so nobody ever tried to break into it but it sure got banged around a lot and on many occasions I would have to park in what felt like the next town over and then walk a mile to the building because there were always people that didn't live there using the lot it seemed. Either than or there would be at least a handful of parties on the weekends and the cars would be everywhere.

3. The elevator almost never worked and for me living on the 3rd floor and having problems with one of my ankles which made stairs difficult, let me tell you it was no joy to come home and find that the elevator was out of service and knowing I had a car full of groceries to haul upstairs.

4. The maintenance workers are not only rude but hardly speak English and often left quite a funk in my apartment if they had to come in for anything...that is if you could get them there to begin with. Like others have said I found them entering the apartment without any notice to do "work" on random things. I worked at a club in New Haven several nights a week and would sleep late the next day and I was woken up by them coming in my apartment at 7am more times than I remember. As far as I could tell they were really there to just spy on certain tenants because they sure as hell never actually FIXED anything.

5. The management was a nightmare. I was seperating from my boyfriend who lived there with me at the time and he was leaving to go back to Canada and I was going to be there on my own but I wasn't really able to afford the rent on what I made alone. I wasn't able to get a rommate (even the supposed 2nd bedroom was a closet) and after doing everything in my power they refused to help us and said that he would just have to pay his half of the rent through me (HA! yeah he left and I never heard from him again...that's funny). So I was threatened with eviction just about every month even if I DID pay my rent before the grace period.

Over all this place is a nightmare. At least it was 3 years ago and it seems it hasn't changed. I don't know if the fact that they started accepting section 8 had anything to do with the overall changes to the people and the living conditions in the building but let me just say, homeownership is the way to go.

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