10 Jones Street

Former tenant From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 7/26/2006 Years at this apartment: 2005 - 2006   I was a tenant for a year at 10 Jones Street, and am glad I moved out. Abington Properties is an atrocious landlord, and the other reviews are right: Linda Berley is terrible to deal with. I don't mind if a manager is rude or brusque, so long as he or she is rational, fair and efficient, but Berley is none of the above -- excepting the rude and the brusque, of course. She also refuses to accept any responsibility for anything, and instead transfers you to her colleagues' voicemail, who inevitably say it's not their concern. You end up going around in circles. Nobody at Abington returns multiple phone calls. I found that the only way to get them to actually do something is to leave a message saying (politely but slightly threateningly), "I'll be coming by your office tomorrow", and only then do they call back. The building itself is a shambles: They replaced the kitchens (which dated from about 1979) when I was there, but in the cheapest way possible, and I discovered that there were holes in the wall behind the backboards. The bathrooms are dreadful -- also seemingly dating from the 70s. Workmanship in all rooms is sloppy and cheap. It took more than two months for Abington to return my security deposit -- and they subtracted nearly $1000 for "administrative fees" ($200!), "painting" and "cleaning" -- all of which they claimed were "standard" charges. They know you can't do anything about it, and so they exploit the situation. These people are disgraceful. I've rented a lot of places in NY, and I've dealt with a lot of landlords, all of whom have been fine and efficient. Abington, however, is in a whole different league of incompetence, laziness, and pure spite towards their tenants. Go somewhere else. Abington and its employees ought to be ashamed of themselves. There are thousands of other landlords in Manhattan -- avoid this one. AD2Hw9Wn8Umb3NN1w1jt

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