Lived here for 3 months while working in Boston over the summer.
Pros:
- Private bathroom
- Awesome shower
- Good washer/dryer (shared with other tenants)
- Kitchenette appliances all work
- Comfortable bed
- Great location
- Red Line and Green Line subway stops fairly close by
- Lots of grocery stores nearby
- Pylon rope provided to attach bike to
- Driveway for cars
- TV in the room
- Thomas is pretty chill, doesn’t bother you too often, generally tries to fix problems quickly whenever you complain about something
- Private entrance to your room from the outside
Cons:
- This only happened 2-3 times during my 3 month stay: Piercingly loud fire alarm glitches and goes off multiple times overnight if it’s particularly humid outside. Scares you a lot the first night it happens. Annoys you a lot during future sleepless nights. Some other tenant upstairs has to get up and turn it off each time this glitch occurs. Thomas doesn’t know how to fix it, says it just happens when it’s humid outside and all you can do is ignore it. Doesn’t happen often, but I found it very stressful and annoying on the nights that it did happen, because it hurt my ears and prevented me from sleeping.
- AC works pretty alright, except when other people in the building set their AC too strong (a factor that is outside of your control). When that happens, your AC unit shuts off while all resources are prioritized to the other tenants. In my 3 months here, had about 10 days total of no AC in the heat of an unbearable, record-breaking heatwave summer. Thomas did his best to assist when I complained of this, but man, it was rough each time I had to go a few days in a row with no AC during a heatwave.
- Small room, tough to live in for months.
- Sometimes Thomas was a little too short-notice when asking for permission to show the apartment off to potential future tenants. One time, he asked me while the guy was already “on his way over” and I wasn’t around, so I didn’t have time to go in and hide my valuables or clean before someone got to see my room. Kind of weird. Also, doesn’t really feel like you have the option to say no or to reschedule if the guy is already on his way when permission is being requested. I do appreciate that Thomas at least always asked permission, though, even if it was short-notice at times.
- Very expensive for size of the room, but worth it because it’s impossible to find a private bathroom in this area (and the location is great)
- No dishwasher, so it’s hard to keep mold at bay when washing and drying everything by hand for months in a small, moist room