“Pros: The Super and his team. That's it. Literally nothing else. Maybe access to the trains, but the building is a DUMP. Cons: EVERYTHING!! It's DISGUSTING! The property manager, Alex Salamea, DOES NOT RESPOND OR HELP YOU! Him and the landlord/owner Michael Alexander are greedy slumlords who will try to take your money and take you to court despite your legal right to withhold rent until they respond and fix things. But they don't even respond, so how can they even get to the point of fixing anything? Everything is disgustingly dirty, broken, moldy, falling apart, and just awful awful awful. It's practically tenant abuse and they know they can get away with leaving people who have no other option to rot. Advice to landlord: sell the property to someone who will take care of the building and its tenants. You do not deserve it!”
— 120 WEST 116 STREET · Manhattan“Unit 3b Pros: Close to transportation, parks, supermarkets anything you can think of. Friendly and attentive super. Super and his team work very hard to maintain this building clean with their limited resources Cons: No Heat! Rodent issues and Tenants don’t treat this building with respect often destroying the supers work. I am moving out due to bedbugs. People leave their unprotected mattresses, couches and furniture in the main hallway! Bathroom and room next to bathroom has mold Advice to landlord: Make yourself available- unable to reach management. No one answers and seems like their office is not longer open. Can’t leave an email either.”
— 1917 ADAM C POWELL BLVD · Manhattan“Pros: The super and his staff are amazing! Carlos and team do everything in their power to make it was easy as possible. They are so over-worked but they work so hard and are so nice. Cons: The landlord and the property manager are f***ing AWFUL! No responses, no safety, no care at all. I hope Langsam Properties burns to the ground. This building is SO dirty, it stinks so bad, they ignore their tenants, and they are awful. They try to do illegal stuff like raise the rent insanely for rent-stabilized units, thinking that their tenants don’t know better. They ignore you, they won’t help. The cameras have been broken for years and they refuse to fix it even though we get our packages stolen daily. The property manager is supposed to get us connected to the building buzzer and still hasn’t after a month. Matter of fact, I still haven’t heard from the property manager, landlord or anybody. The super carries this building on his back but he is overworked and under appreciated by this property team. I wish them nothing but the worst. They are just money hungry, stereotypical, disgusting landlords here. Advice to landlord: You’re disgusting.”
“Pros: The apartment unit was big with lots of windows and high ceilings. Garbage shoot on every floor. Cons: Bed bugs! Building was unsafe as people on the street just wander in. There are rats everywhere. In the wall, ceiling, basement. I couldn't go downstairs for recycling because it was infested with rats. Clearly a slum building and not taken care of. Advice to landlord: take care of your tenants.”
— 120 WEST 116 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: Amazing location. Close to Central Park, many buses, and the 2/3 and B/C trains. Loved my large windows. Great area. You could stumble into a pop-up festival any time in the summer. The super, Carlos, was amazing, but he was working with limited resources from management. Cons: Issues with roaches. Mice. The laundry room was gross. Laundry machines didn't always work. The building was not secure. People kept breaking the glass of the front door which made the building accessible to anyone. Heat and hot water weren't always hot enough in the winter. The elevator was out for close to a year when I lived there. Advice to landlord: Handle the roach and mouse situation. Figure out how to keep the building secure.”
— 1917 ADAM C POWELL BLVD · Manhattan“Pros: Big units, location, new appliances Cons: Rats in lobby, rats in my unit. Cockroaches, bedbugs as well. Garbage smell through the basement into the elevator. Food and spit on elevator floor, sometimes urine and feces! Neighborhood vagrants wander inside to smoke weed and piss on things. BEDBUGS BEDBUGS BEDBUGS. Roof alarm blares all day like an air raid siren. Just don't live here. Advice to landlord: Don't be a slum lord.”
— 120 WEST 116 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: The neighborhood close to the subway and Bussiness Cons: We don’t see super in this bld because is not that clean garbage in the bld elevator not clean rats running in the hallway? Advice to landlord: To clean the bld ,no heat no repairs on time lots of rats”
— 120 WEST 116 STREET · Manhattan