New York Apartment - 1 Bedroom Rental in West Village (NY-8429)

Overall, my experience with this apartment was very negative. When my girlfriend and I arrived at the apartment everything was still dirty from the previous tenant. There was food under the couch and a layer of residue on the countertop. It was unclear how long it had been since the linens had been washed.

There were so many roaches in the apartment that they chewed through closed food boxes and kept us awake with rustling noises. When we told the owners about the roaches they tried to blame roach problems on us, even though we had been in the apartment for a total of 3 days. They tried to tell us they had never had roaches before, but under the sink we found several different kinds of roach poison. After continuing to blame us for a week or so, the owners finally addressed the roach problem and brought in some electronic traps.

This interaction really set the tone for our entire stay. After the roaches, we discovered that there were mice in the apartment. Later, waste water from the kitchen sink began backing up the pipes into the bathtub. Again, when the owners were told about this problem they tried to blame it on us and tried to force us to pay the plumbing bill.

For the duration of our four month stay, the owners booked the apartment for viewings 3 days per week for several hours a day. On these three days, we were expected to clean and vacate the apartment. Whenever we asked them to modify their apartment showing schedule, we were met with a terrible attitude and a refusal to accommodate us.

Overall, the apartment was in terrible condition. The couch had holes in it, the sheets (only one set) and towels were worn and stained, and the quality of all of the fixtures was laughable for an apartment that is $4,000 per month. At the end of our stay, the landlords had the gall to use a portion of our security deposit to replace their already worn towels.

My experience with this apartment and these landlords was so awful that it has influenced my views of New York Habitat. I will not use New York Habitat again, and I cannot recommend that others use your services when the apartments advertised on your site are so outrageously priced and run by slum lords.