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The Vanderbilt Condominium
Recently lived in this building for 2 years. Some notes:
1 - It is loud. You cannot work from home in this building. There is nonstop construction, as soon as you think its over it starts in another spot and supposedly this is just standard for the building. There is also a fire house across the street on the south side. The alarm goes off constantly.
2 - The amenities are often closed and have pretty inconvenient hours, although when open they are great and there is a wonderful woman who works there.
3 - These units are individually owned and therefore you always have to rely on a private landlord before anything can get taken care of. Basic things take weeks, sometimes even months, instead of same day as in a rental building. It also means that random strangers and workmen will be coming in to your apartment as outside handymen are often brought in to fix things by the owners.
4 - Due to the above you need to read your lease. Do not just sign this at random. Make sure you negotiate terms, and are OK with each line item. This is huge, and if you are from a rental building something you might not be used to having to do.
5. To get to the amenities, and the laundry room, often takes 2 elevators as you have to switch in the lobby - not a huge deal but becomes a pain when you have a lot of laundry to carry.
6. Delivery people are not allowed to come to the apartment and you must go down to the lobby to pick up your food.
7 - The doormen and the super are absolutely wonderful and a huge asset to this building.*
* Edited to note that post moving out of the building the super does not acknowledge correspondence. Three emails requesting meter reading information were completely ignored. The doormen are still quite nice.
1 - It is loud. You cannot work from home in this building. There is nonstop construction, as soon as you think its over it starts in another spot and supposedly this is just standard for the building. There is also a fire house across the street on the south side. The alarm goes off constantly.
2 - The amenities are often closed and have pretty inconvenient hours, although when open they are great and there is a wonderful woman who works there.
3 - These units are individually owned and therefore you always have to rely on a private landlord before anything can get taken care of. Basic things take weeks, sometimes even months, instead of same day as in a rental building. It also means that random strangers and workmen will be coming in to your apartment as outside handymen are often brought in to fix things by the owners.
4 - Due to the above you need to read your lease. Do not just sign this at random. Make sure you negotiate terms, and are OK with each line item. This is huge, and if you are from a rental building something you might not be used to having to do.
5. To get to the amenities, and the laundry room, often takes 2 elevators as you have to switch in the lobby - not a huge deal but becomes a pain when you have a lot of laundry to carry.
6. Delivery people are not allowed to come to the apartment and you must go down to the lobby to pick up your food.
7 - The doormen and the super are absolutely wonderful and a huge asset to this building.*
* Edited to note that post moving out of the building the super does not acknowledge correspondence. Three emails requesting meter reading information were completely ignored. The doormen are still quite nice.