Illegal AirBnB where building manager, owner, and owners friends let themselves in.
Arrived and the building manager, Robert, decided to come in repeatedly to install fire alarms while we were moving in. No fire alarms were present when we got there. He also began to move everything that was in the hallway, into the unit. A filing cabinet and many boxes that were in violation of fire code
The next day Robert let himself into the apartment when I did not answer the door, in order to check the fire alarms again since one was beeping because the fire alarms installed the day before didn’t have been batteries.
Later someone knocked on the door and unlocked the door as I was standing in the kitchen. The owners friend (because the owner gives the master code to get in all the units to his friend who isn’t affiliated with the building) in an attempt to let the fire inspector in. He then blocked me from closing the door and then started berating me and calling me crazy for an expectation of privacy.
Police were called and they were told to leave us alone as you are not supposed to open tenants doors and the fire inspector did not want to come in if he was not welcome, who alerted police this was an illegal AirBnB.
When calling Robert to ask what is going on he said on the phone, yelling, “stop fucking talking!! You were just sitting on the couch when I came in!! Have your husband call me” then hung up on me. He also lied blamed the fire inspector for yelling at me instead of the truth that it was the owner’s friend. What a disgrace of a person. Truly shameful and insulting behavior.
We also argued about the pet fee because when we booked his email said that pets were allowed for a one time fee, which we paid. But then because they kept barging in they saw we had more than one pet and insisted that we should pay the fee for each pet and only stopped pressing when shown the policy from the booking.
We left 2 days early and reported this to AirBnB and Jersey City. Go anywhere else.
Also unclean, dust everywhere, grime clogged tub drain, dirty carpet, stained couches, broken freezer handle. And shattered glass in dishwasher. We laid sheets over what we used and brought our own cleaning equipment. There is a window in the shower that isn’t obscured so anyone in the building across the street can look in.