During our stay here, we paid $1300 in rent a month for a studio. It was actually closer to 1500 with utilities, etc. Our studio was on the top floor (no elevator), and after the snow storm in February, we got a huge mold bubble in the ceiling that wasn’t fixed until late April. It was right over our stove, where we make our food. There is also only 2 washers and 2 dryers, and they cost about $2 a load. The dryers don’t work and you have to spend about $6 to get a load of laundry dry. Also while living here, our hot water in the bathroom stopped working, the bathroom floor started to peel up, and there is no ventilation in the bathroom, creating a moldy environment. The handle to the hot water in the kitchen (no dishwasher) fell off and was never repaired. They left the painters tape on the light fixture in the kitchen as well and never took it off, even when they came in to fix the mold bubble. There was also multiple times strangers would come into the basement (where the storage units, mail, and laundry are) and one time, someone broke a window and started a fire.
Alan Hirsch, the owner of the property, rented an entire building across the street for 250/mo. because according to him, downtown is a bad area. Why are residents paying over 1000 a month for moldy, outdated apartments when the owner will gladly rent to businesses for 250/mo.? If downtown is so bad, shouldn’t he just be happy people even live in his mismanaged, moldy building?
