One word to describe this place: disaster. I was supposed to stay here for a few months which quickly turned into 5 days. This is a long review as to why you should go ELSEWHERE.
ENTRYWAY:
When you first enter the building, be forewarned, it looks like a trap house which is NOT pictured. I understand the building is very old but it was also filthy with cigarette buds on the staircase and god knows how long that dust and filth has been accumulating on it.
APARTMENT:
The apartment is as pictured. It has the amenities described. The bed was comfy- if I wasn’t afraid of the cockroaches and centipedes that were ABUNDANT in this apartment.
CLEANLINESS:
This was just downright DISGUSTING. At first glance, everything seemed clean. The 2nd day I am organizing my things I noticed a HUGE COCKROACH hiding in the bathroom cabinet. Okay; only one right? WRONG.
IN ONE NIGHT I HAD TO KILL 6 (YES, 6!) COCKROACHES. ALL IN DIFFERENT ROOMS OF THE APARTMENT.
There were also centipedes in the couch to accompany this disaster!
Every night I stayed in this apartment I had to kill cockroaches.
HOST/CHECK OUT:
When Cristina came for check out she was very curt, rude and aggressive to me. She didn’t say hello to me, or even respond to me when I let her in the apartment.
I asked her very politely if i was able to make two trips because my other apartment was only 3 minutes away and I had a lot of stuff still. I had classes in the morning and a later check in time for my other apartment so I didn’t have the time to get everything done as early as I would have liked.
She very curtly told me no, she has somewhere to be, and I need to make it happen in one trip.
Keep in mind, I still had a huge suitcase and 5 bags with me filled with food and other miscellaneous. Whatever, okay. I will make it happen.
As I’m gathering my stuff to leave she DEMANDED that I take out the trash. Excuse me? For an apartment filled with cockroaches who would have thought she cared?
After this she was rushing me to get out of the apartment. I understand she had to come later because I had classes, but she was overall rude and so aggressive. She even put a container of food I wasn’t planning on taking because 1) the container wasn’t mine 2) the food was old into a random bag of mine.
Finally when I was fed up with her LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM AND ABUNDANCE OF RUDENESS, I started putting my bags outside the apartment. They hadn’t even made it down the stairs FYI. She then pointed out I still had a bag inside, which I replied, if she wanted to help me she can because I literally didn’t have any capacity to grab another thing.
SHE THREW THE BAG OUTSIDE THE DOOR AND SLAMMED IT SHUT. I DIDNT EVEN GET A CHANCE TO WALK THROUGH THE APARTMENT ONE LAST TIME TO MAKE SURE I HAD EVERYTHING
NEIGHBORHOOD:
The neighborhood is not ideal if you want to be close to the center.