All 11 tenant reviews.

“Cons: This is the worst landlord to deal with. He likes to intimidate women. My wife was dealing with him and he was very demeaning to her. I had to step in. He never wants to fix anything in the apartment. He makes threats to his tenants. He never wants to replace old fixtures or appliances. He does the minimal. Guys li”

“Pros: I love this neighborhood and my neighbors. They are kind and friendly. The super is also kind. Cons: There is a pest issue. The landlord told me to not be dirty. When I asked to get my apartment painted after 10 years and waiting a year to get it done, the landlord told me he was doing me a favor and yelled at me on the phone. The landlord JACK GUELA also turns off ur electricity if you are late on your rent. I’m not talking months late. I’m talking on the same month that it is due, he will ILLEGALLY have his goons turn the electricity off to ur unit. He is maniacal and evil.”

“Pros: Nothing the building is always dirty with litter, cigarettes, and trash bags Cons: Building is always dirty rarely cleaned once every two months. Packages always stolen and management will never help to view security footage, there is no super, any issues you have a with neighbors management will not do anything about it. Heat and hot water turns off on the coldest Nights of the year, broken marble staircases that anyone can have an injury on, he charges crazy rent for this filth. Also you have to pay rent in physical checks and walk it over to the office every month they don’t do anything electronically. Advice to landlord: If you want to charge park slope rent then clean and maintain your property. Hire a proper management team not just a rude unhelpful woman.”

“Unit 2h Pros: The building is friendly neighbors it’s in a great neighborhood the rooms are big Cons: There is no super who lives in the building the hallways are dirty the Lanlord only responds when you call 311 n blocks tenants numbers so you can’t call anytime there is a problem Advice to landlord: Hite a super who lives in the building treat your tenants with respect and courtesy because they’re paying a lot of rent even though it’s rent stabilized Hi, a super who lives in the building treat your tenants with respect and courtesy because they’re paying a lot of rent even though it’s rent stabilized”

“Unit 3F Pros: - Location is great, close to the park and many great restaurants on 8th avenue and 6th avenue - Super is nice and helpful, but he is overworked and super busy Cons: Building is filled with pests. My apartment had TWO mice encounters and I was constantly finding cockroaches around the apartment and in the hallways. Overall ITS SO LOUD. Walls are super thin and the neighbors below often played loud music/karaoke sometimes until 3am. Can always hear my neighbors full conversation regardless of what room I was in. The building is poorly maintained. Hallways are constantly dirty and the stairway often smells like urine. One neighbor leaves their trash under the stairway on the first floor for some reason. Neighbor often smoked inside which lead to the smoke smell coming into the apartment. Constant water damage in the bathroom ceiling that was not properly addressed. Building just doesn't feel secure. Sometimes the front door would just be left open and unlocked. Packages get opened in the hallway. Hard to talk to management. Their accounting is unorganized. Any requests I made to fix something in the apartment took months to get addressed or just got ignored. Random people loiter in the alleyway in the night/early morning and in the middle area of the building, leading to their voices echoing into the unit. Lack of natural light and very dark throughout the day. Radiator is old so its loud when it turns on. Kitchen sink sometimes does not have cold water. Overall, just bad.”

“Unit 4E Pros: Layout and size of apartment were great! Good corner shop nearby. This place has so much potential if management actually did anything. Cons: Roaches, roaches, roaches. I set traps, sealed the walls, but the building is infested. There’s no avoiding them. They come in through the cracks in the walls and through the shower drain. The water was brown. You have to run the water for a few minutes in order to get clear water. They would turn off the heat randomly in the winter at night. I regularly called and complained in order to get the apartment to a livable temperature. Management is awful. They don’t put any money into maintaining the building. Advice to landlord: Respect your tenants and at least do enough work on the place to make it livable.”

“Pros: Good price for the space! Had a great layout Cons: The apartment had barely any closets, and the living room was pretty small.”

“Unit 2D Pros: Close to Sunset Park Cons: Landlord is awful and disrespectful to tenants. Withheld my security deposit for almost 2 months after moving out for no reason. Major bug problems. My kitchen had roaches and several neighbors had roaches and bedbugs when I moved out. Terrible security. Homeless people sleeping on roof. Mentally ill neighbor on 2nd floor who was constantly yelling and threatening to kill people. Landlord and police did nothing. Packages constantly stolen. Building front door lock breaks often. Tenant parks their motorbike inside the building’s lobby. Avoid this property. Advice to landlord: Sell it to someone who can care for the building properly.”

“Unit 4L Pros: The location is safe and quiet. This apartment building is within a 5-minute walk of Sunset Park. Cons: The landlord and his management team don't serve their tenants. Near the end of my lease, I discovered that my apartment was infested with bed bugs. The management office was non-responsive and tried to deny the infestation. I killed several bugs and placed their gross little dead bodies into ziplock bags and presented it to the super (who was extremely sympathetic and did his best to help me). I hired an exterminator to treat my apartment because we couldn't live like that. The landlord then tried to reprimand me for bringing someone else on site. Followed by an attempt to accuse me of bringing bed bugs into the building. I was able to secure a new apartment in a better building and I just ate the cost of paying rent in a new apartment while the term was not fully done on the bed bug infested unit. In speaking with my downstairs neighbor, she told me that her apartment was infested with bed bugs and that he called her and her family dirty and never fixed the issue. When I moved in, the was an issue with roaches that I wasn't aware of until I moved in. There was, quite literally, a half a cup of spilled sugar and some other sticky stuff that was left from the previous tenant. We cleaned that up and made sure we kept the apartment clean, we also put down some diatomaceous earth and poof the roaches were gone. This was my first apartment, after leaving my parents' home where we had an attentive management staff who sent porters to address any issues that we had in the apartment. Initially, I though that this was just culture shock. The cost of replacing an apartment full of furniture, hotel stays (to ensure that we slept well) and bed bug laundry clean up, storage fees and emotional damage from feeling nearly homeless because we were terrified to go "home".... Thousands of dollars. Avoiding this guy and all of his properties... Priceless. Here is a story that I wish I had seen sooner: https://ny.curbed.com/2007/11/20/10583840/how-to-be-a-slumlord-easy-tips-from-sunset-park Advice to landlord: Stop treating your tenants like trash.”

“Pros: It is noise controlled Cons: Low maintenance on building and apartments, buildings are old so something is always breaking and needs repairing, disrespectful and intrusive neighbors, bugs and mold throughout the entire building Advice to landlord: Take better care of your apartments in order to collect rent some of the apartments are so bad tenants have taken landlord to court and won. Open violations galore!!”

“Pros: Neighborhood, apt layout, neighbors Cons: Cockroach infestation in multiple apts including mine. Seen day and night. Owner won't take sufficient steps to curb it. Spraying and bombing unfortunately aren't enough. (It is *that* bad.) Mice can be heard in walls at night. Landlord refuses to fix multiple problems: leaks, broken appliances. Threatens tenants. Advice to landlord: You please come live one month under these conditions.”