These people seem to think that it's OK to remodel buidings while people are living in them paying full market rent. Rent here at your peril: they may want to do construction on the building you live in. The entire year we were here, there was construction on our building. It was unsettling and the noise was sometimes deafening. Drifter workers (some of whom didn't speak English) were buzzing around the apartment all day for weeks at at time on several occasions.
Then, almost as retaliation for our complaints, they kept our full $300 security deposit claiming $336 of "carpet charges" even though we left the carpet in near-perfect condition. They kept $36 of the ELECTRICITY deposit. That's theft.