Grecian Gardens

The good:
— Water front location — the view is beautiful overlooking Sheepshead Bay
— Each unit has a balcony
— Laundry in the basement
— Pool — decent sized (goes to 6 feet) plus a kiddie pool
— Management is actually pretty easy to deal with
— Each unit has a dishwasher
— Wall unit AC’s already installed in living room and bedrooms
— Pet friendly building with no breed/​weight restrictions
— ⁴⁄₂₀ friendly — obviously it’s not condoned by management (or the law), but you will smell marijuana smoke daily. Please note, this could or could not be a negative for some people.
— Parking garage for an extra fee, but I’m sure there’s a waiting list
— Doorman on duty until late in the evening
— Apartments are spacious, but kitchens are small
— Has a «gym» — and by gym, I mean a tiny room with 2 treadmills, bike, free weights, and bowflex. Not the greatest, but it does the job
The bad:
— MOUSE INFESTATION!!! I’m not talking a little critter here and there — I’m talking families of mice moving in and making themselves comfortable. They crawl into my dresser and poop on my clothes, crawl all over my closet and poop (many times into my shoes!), crawl on my counters and poop, crawl around my bathroom and poop — I am FOREVER cleaning mouse poop from all over… it’s absolutely disgusting. I have trapped and exposed of about 15 mice since moving in here over a year ago… not including the dead one I finally located in my closet or the ones that manage to evade my traps. No amount of cleaning, decluttering, storing food in plastic containers, stuffing steel wool into holes, caulking crevices, or conversations with the exterminator appear to be helping
— Started charging a fee for the pool — $ 50 for the first 2 people, extra charge for each additional person. Guest passes can be purchased for $ 10 per person, PER DAY!!! Not even 1 free guest per tenant… after paying $ 1,600+ for a 1 bedroom AND $ 50 to use the pool, you can’t even bring a guest! Also, the pool is shared with the neighboring yacht club so on a hot weekend, it could fill up with a lot of non-​tenants and children who don’t live there. Oh, and the pool hours suck — it used to be open until 7pm one day during the week and then until 5 on the weekend and remaining weekdays. Midway through the summer, they changed the hours to closing at 5 during the week and open until 7 on the weekend… which does not work very well for those who have to work their 9 — 5, M — F jobs to afford living here!
— Walls (or maybe just the floor?) are paper thin. I can hear everything right down to the tenant upstairs snoring at night
So, overall the amenities are nice, but considering I’m paying $ 1,600 for a 1 bedroom apartment, I’d really appreciate not stepping on mouse poop all the time! Definitely don’t think a lease renewal is in the future.