I smell a rat from the three negative reviewers: here's my take on ARAS...
I've lived in this supposed "infested slum" for 29 years. The building is clean, and the property is well-kept. I won't say it's "spotless", but it's certainly clean enough for me. I always have hot water, and enough heat in the winter. There can be a mouse in an apartment once in a while if you're not careful about sealing up any holes in the walls - this is true on Fifth Ave as well as Sunnyside. The same is true of cockroaches - if you don't address the issue, it will get much worse. Also true of Fifth Ave luxury apts. I have almost NO roaches, but totally eliminating all bugs is nearly impossible.
If somebody has "hundreds of mice" with their "feces everywhere" and "hundreds of cockroaches" underfoot - that says a LOT more about the tenant than the mgmt company. If someone was living like that, they must have been of diminished mental or emotional capacity in some way, as no healthy individual would choose to live like that. read more