A disgusting, smelly, decrepit building. They attempt to dress it up on the outside by painting,…read moreputting up new signs, and planting bushes however once you approach the front entrance, there are already derelicts, drug addicts, and homeless people sitting outside on the steps chatting, drinking, and yelling all day long, all year long, whether it's hot or cold outside. As you pass them, they will either glare at you or ask you for money. If this building is attempting to attract a professional population, it is failing miserably as this is not what one of that demeanor would want to encounter before they even step inside of the building. For this building to be so close to downtown Hartford, it is more representative of unsafe areas in the south end, and actually changes the whole character of the immediate area from a professional location near courthouses and hospitals, to a loud, boisterous block full of unemployed people who roam around asking for money and blaring music 7 days per week, 365 days per year. This property should make more of an effort to keep a safer and calmer environment and it will attract more professional individuals who work downtown or at the hospital. The front entrance is not always secure, allowing homeless people to enter the building and ask people for money, follow them down the halls harassing them, urinate in the elevators, and sleep in the hallways and stairwells. If you choose to live here and decide to step out of your apartment late at night, you may be startled to find a homeless person sleeping in the stairwell, just 20 feet from your apartment that you pay so much money to live in. You may have to be careful while stepping over this individual, as you do not want them to grab at you or trip over them as you walk by. The hallways, stairwells, and elevators often smell like a cross between urine, cigarettes, mold, and other debris. The elevator also does not have a camera in order to catch those who urinate and spit blood filled mucus all over it (as they do on walls in the hallway as well). Speaking of cameras, the cameras outside in the parking lot are either poorly angled or blurry so that you cannot identify people on security footage. I've had my whole tire stolen off of my car (including the wheel, rim, lug nuts, etc...). A man climbed through a hole in the fence, went straight to the car, and removed my tire within 20 minutes at approximately 2:15am. This is extremely unsafe. What if I were to go and retrieve something from my car at that time? There might have been a confrontation. Lafayette Arms did not take any liability for this incident. Someone also backed into the front of my car, severely denting my license plate, and then proceeded to drive off. When asking to review the security footage of this incident, I was told that the security footage is deleted after 7 days. Why is that? What if there was a serious crime? How would the police feel about that policy? For such an unsafe area, there needs to be more consistent security. A security guard comes perhaps once or twice a week and sits in the office overnight, however these crimes still occur. Someone else had their tire stolen off of their vehicle here as well a few weeks after mine. This building is not the right place for hardworking individuals who are just trying to make a living and get by. There are many people in this building who do not need to work as they receive assistance from other areas so they have no respect for the hardworking individuals, their vehicles, and the rest of the property in general as they demand money from others and make noise all day and all night. The gate to the parking lot is often broken, creating another security risk, and takes weeks to get fixed, along with other maintenance issues. I've had the kitchen sink and the bathroom sink both leak, overflow, and flood my entire kitchen and bathroom. There is no emergency maintenance here at all. Our only response from the maintenance man was that he was out of town for the weekend and that he would "look at it" when he returned. He often comes to "look at things" and then leaves without fixing it or addressing the issue. It will often take 2 months of coming to "look at things" before he actually fixes them. He does not have any compassion for people who pay their rent and have to live in a physically unsafe environment while he simply does not feel like fixing issues right away. When he does fix issues, he does it haphazardly and we are faced with the same issue once again in a matter of days or weeks. The maintenance man lives in the actual building so this is unacceptable. They need more assistance to get work orders completed.