Truly a very disorganized management company. The broker who got us the apartment really did a great job up-selling the management company, the super, and the building. Unfortunately, on the day we moved in, we received a rude awakening and realized what we would be expecting for the year. We moved into one of their Bronx, NY apartments in December of 2016. Everything up until the day before we moved went very smoothly. The day before my fiancé and I moved into the building, I reached out to Cynthia, the woman we signed our lease with, just to make sure that we were all set with moving in, that the super was aware that we were coming and that we didn't have a key, so we needed to be let into the building, and she gave us the okay (Cynthia never gave us the supers phone number or email, before we moved in. She told us that he did not want to be contacted before then, even though we already signed the lease). However, when we arrived at around 3PM, on our move in day, the super was nowhere to be found. We had to then contact Cynthia, who then decided that it was the appropriate time to give us the supers phone number. We had to return our uhaul back to Staten Island by 7PM and whenever I called the super he yelled at me, BUT whenever my fiancé called the super he treated him with respect (pig). Finally we found our way into the basement and dropped off all of our belongings there. I stood behind, still waiting for the super, who did not show up until 7:30 (we arrived at 3PM), while my fiancé drove back to staten Island to drop off the uhaul. When he finally arrived, he proceeded to yell at me as if I was the one to blame for the miscommunication. Then, his tone changed and he was being nice, I had a very serious internal dilemma. Was I going to be nice to him or was I still mad? After I finally received the keys, I went to open the door of our apartment for the first time and found out that he gave me the wrong key, so I was still locked out. I had to call him again and that was seriously the last thing I wanted to do, but I called him and he gave me the right key.
Throughout the year, he showed up at our apartment unannounced at the earliest hours you could possibly imagine. Broke into the wall right next to our bed and left it open for several days before it was fixed, which then led to these enormous cracks forming just above where that huge hole was. Wanted to come into our apartment literally a few days before we moved out to paint the ceiling in our bathroom. Amidst packing all of our things, that's really the last thing I wanted to deal with.
As for the management company, when I tried to reach out to them a few weeks before we moved out, it took them a few more weeks to get back to us. When I contacted them about our security deposit, I was notified that we should receive it between 6-8 weeks after we moved out. As we approached our 10th week, we still hadn't received our deposit and I had to contact Cynthia, yet again, and she forwarded me to Gloria, head of accounts receivable. She could've given me her information when she first responded to me, but didn't.
When I reached out to Gloria, she never responded to me. A week later, I decided that I needed to call her because clearly I wasn't gonna receive a response. This was our conversation: Gloria: Hello? Me: Hi, Is this Gloria? Gloria: Yes. Me: Hi, this is Ashley Ocasio. I lived in 55... Gloria: yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it today, It'll be sent out today. Me: Oh... okay. Well, thank you. Bye. Gloria: Okay, bye. I'm not entirely sure why Gloria couldn't keep me in the loop with all that was going on with our money, but I did not appreciate our interaction, in the slightest. Our deposit was sent out on a Wednesday and we received it on a Friday.
Finally, all of our interactions are over and I am thrilled! Suffice to say, I am never working with this management company again and would suggest anyone who is interested in doing so, not to either. For the entire year, we went through a lot of unnecessary stress. Don't do it to yourself! read more