Our stay was 3 months at the Front Desk (FD) Red 20 Apartment. Overall, we give it a ‘C’ grade for a stay this long since negatives outweighed positives.
Positives:
-Good kitchen
-Bed quite comfortable
-FD generally quickly responsive to questions.
-Red 20 is a pleasant apartment building. The ‘quiet’ policy really seemed to work.
-Parking space off street and inside.
Negatives:
Maintenance examples-
-We lived the entire time with a bed sheet over a balcony window because Venetian blinds were in disrepair; during our stay we learned from a previous tenant that they were in that condition when they stayed previously.
-Luckily, we had a small tool kit because we had to tighten every handle and cover on pots and pans as well as well as the side table legs in living room area.
-Dryer lint had not been cleaned apparently for months.
-Fire/CO2 alarm started beeping one morning. It took 3 days, 3 contacts to FD, plus our own reading the fine print on the device to learn it had to be replaced.
Inconvenience/comfort examples-
-The policy is one-key-only. It was manageable, but for one of us to have to drive in, park in public space, enter building with pass code, go to 4th floor lockbox, back down to car, park in garage; it wasted far too much time. We were told it was a security issue, but after working as part of a group on our own condo security and observing how Red 20 actually works for 3 months, we think the policy simply does not make sense.
-No drawers in dressing or bedroom area made it difficult for long term stay. It is easy to live out of a suitcase for a week, but it is not the way to live for 3 months.
-The posted information for Wi-Fi connection was simply wrong. A person had to be sent out to figure out how to connect the day after we arrived.