Gardner St, 83 Apartments

Do yourself a favor and don't rent here. We lived here two years and never in my life have I witnessed more disrespectful tenants in terms of their treatment of the building. They do allow undergrads but even my own college dorm was better cared for. Other renters blatantly ignore the rules about the trash room and leave trash on the floor, blocking the doorway for others, instead of taking two more steps to put it in a bin. They drag trash down the hallways, tearing their garbage bags and... leaking trash juice down the hallway which reeks for days. They order fast food to the front door and then never pick it up, so the bags get torn apart by rats. I'm honestly surprised there isn't a huge rat problem inside the building by now because I see one outside almost every night. Packages are regularly stolen despite the camera systems supposedly installed outside. The management company is clearly understaffed and can't keep up when things break, and there was a period of time when the building-wide fire alarms went off at least once a week for two months during the summer, almost always in the middle of the night (not due to a real fire but some issue in the system). Lastly, the front door to the building would not lock properly for a period of almost 6 months, and the elevator inspection certificate on both elevators was expired for over a year. The apartments themselves would be nice if better managed, but they're not, and it ruins any potential nice-ness you might get out of the unit. We're counting down the days until we can leave.
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