Holiday Inn with a Hyatt Price Tag
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
7/24/2006
Years at this apartment:
2004
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2006
The location is exreamly convienient, with 2 T lines, a full gorcery store, and restauraunts all within walking distance. But the justification for the exorbiant rent stops there. This building is the quality you'd expect from a Holiday Inn, but with a Hyatt room rate. The lobby heavly air conditioned and almost fridgid, however the hallways and stairwells are not. The gym is extrealy limited, and lacking any real equipment for an efficient work out. The pool hours and operating season are also severly limited. They also require you to bring your apartment key, and present an ID to use the pool, but this doesn't stop the pool attendents from inviting over all thier (high school age) friends, and siblings.
The doorman will only accept a package from a normal mail carrier, and most often will not let up food delivery's. To avoid comming to meet your guests, you must subscribe to a verizion land line, a horrible inconvience in this modern cellphone world. A sinmple call box in the apartment would be much more convienient.
After living there for 2 years, I have had no complaints about the noise, and infreqently if ever hear my neighbors. Although the building security once asked my roomates to turn it down. We are usually extreamly quiet.
The evevators do seem to freqently need reapirs usually taking more then a single day. However, I've never seen both broken at the same time. Although I have frequently, found a lack of availible hot water, either off peak, or on my way to work in the morning.
Managment seems content in running the building as they do. While the maintence people have promplty fixed problems with my apartment. The management personel, seem to think, that if your disssatisfied, they will just rent the apartment to someone else. And so seem to have little concern for "Customer Satisfaction".
The parking is far overpriced ($230 a month or $25 a day, last I checked). And the parking managment is abysmal to deal with and extreamly rude. Customer service is not in their vocabulary either.
Also the apartments themselves Don't apear to have been renovated since the early 80's if at all. While suffiecient, and functional, they alack the more modern ammeneties you find in similary priced "luxury" aprtments, such as stainless steel apliances, marble, etc..
Yes, if you like Euro trash, you will like this aprtment building. The building touts it's self as catering to young, working profesionals. However, as an aspiring , and upwardly mobile young working profesional, I find that the rent is cost prohibative, for anyone who is paying their own way, or not yet fully established in life. With $75 annual rent increases, the bar rises faster then a young pearsons salary. In reality this buildign certainly caters toward, weathy college students, coinicently of which most seem to be foriegn.
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