309 Mount Pleasant Road - Good location?

The building looks nice on the outside but the inside is not well maintained and not kept clean. The "jet engine" rumbling the above poster experienced is also heard in some of the other apartments, is extremely loud and may be caused by the hot water heaters which I doubt can be fixed. In the winter they do not even switch on the building's heat. In summer the building is always ten degrees warmer and more humid than outdoors, in winter the building is always ten degrees colder and draftier than outdoors; such that you will be paying to have a fan, a dehumidifier and/or air-conditioner running or a humidifier running in your apartment that your energy bill soars that it ultimately increases your monthly cost.

The garbage room stinks and they never clean it. The common areas are not cleaned adequately, and the walls and doors are filthy. They focus more on esthetics than on practical matters. The property manager does not speak English well and at times repairs are not done properly, or not at all. The maintenance people are not fit for the job. Some of the tenants are related to the manager's employees, and some building workers are related to the manager. The walls between units are thin so tenants can easily hear each other that if you live beside a loud and thoughtless tenant, you will not get any rest or peace. This building is not designed for loud people or partiers. It is very sad because the building is situated in a nice residential neighborhood.[/QUOTE]