De Miranda

DE MIRANDA YELP REVIEW In the interest of wasting no time, here were some of the many things my boyfriend experienced while living at 4093 West 130th street, a property managed by De Miranda Management: FIXTURES: 1. My boyfriend had to immediately replaced the brand new shower head, which let out no more than a heavy drizzle of water out at any given temperature. 2. Blinds in the kitchen were installed outside the window frame. 3. Blind cords also broke within a month in nearly each of the windows. After an immense, IMMENSE struggle to get someone out to measure and replace the blinds (weeks of back and forth without any progress with DeMiranda’s office, eventually my bf took matters into his own hands and asked for the number of the guy who installs them directly; he came out and installed within 2 weeks and APPARENTLY DeMiranda didn’t want to approve the charges at first. Eventually, they were approved but this process showed us what unprofessional, incompetent people they have in the office). Called 3-4 times a week. Same guy answers phone and says will follow up. Never did. Call Friday at 3pm no one answering phones. THE FLOORS/CEILINGS - 1. Not only were the floors in the kitchen unlevel so much so that you could see a noticeable dip from the living room, but also, there were spots in the kitchen where the vinyl flooring was literally cracked and would sink in whenever any weight was applied to it. 2. There were also numerous weak spots in the tub that had begun to create small but growing cracks in the bottom of the bath 3. The WORST part of our experience however was the COMPLETE lack of ANY insulation between the floors. Even more unfortunate for us was the fact that a family of at least 5 individuals (one of which was a toddler and 4 large adults) of which at least 2 would remain awake and could be heard moving around the home at any point during any given day. You know how people say it’s awful living in a construction zone? Constant running of small feet, stomping of large adult feet scrambling behind, dragging of dining room chairs (there were six), dropping of toys, the motor of the reclining sofa, and then random mystery noises every 3-5 seconds. EVERY 3-5 SECONDS. For a year. Yes. This place is truly *** I cannot stress enough to you how much this affected on our daily lives. It was EASILY the WORST part of living in this place for a year. 4. The hallways and stairways would flood when it rained and standing water would be left behind until it evaporated over days. See photos. PARKING AND GARAGE- 1. The apartment technically has two assigned spots in the garage for compact vehicles however given the location in the garage and the fact that the cars adjacent are two mini vans in two spots labeled for compact vehicles; only one vehicle can ever fit in the spot. 2. People are constantly double parking in the garage without any regard for the tenants in the building. Tenants allow their guest to double park making it impossible for some vehicles to get out. Especially bad on weekends and street sweeping days. 3. Someone in our building literally held a 3 year olds birthday party complete with long tables and chairs in their garage parking spots. They also had a train full of kids hauled around the neighborhood. PHOTOS. No one was made aware or notified in advance. 4. Tenants will often let their kids play in the garage instead of taking them out on the sidewalks or the park located two blocks away. 5. Since many tenants are sharing parking spots and garage door openers with the people they live with there is an excessive amount of honking and blocking of the garage exit/entrance. 6. Tenants are constantly talking loudly from the top floor down to people in the garage without regard for the other tenants. 7. People on 3rd floor dropping their laundry and garbage bags to avoid having to carry them downstairs so it sounds like someone jumped off the roof to end their miserable existence living in this building. 8. Also people hang their wet dirty rugs over the railings and drying shoes in the hall window sills for everyone to enjoy. PHOTOS. CLEANING- 1. The extent of the apartment upkeep that is done is a man goes through the garage and front fenced in area with a leaf blower and attempts to blow all of the loose garbage and refuse out in to the street. Some weeks the laundry room trash is taken out and no bag is put in its place. Other weeks the trash just collects in the laundry room bin until it reaches a level of near overflow. 2. The hallways are never walked through and cleaned up. Some tenants leave garbage sitting outside of their doors for days before taking it down to the dumpster. 3. There are often candy wrappers and pieces of chewed gum on the stairs or in the shared hallways. 4. The laundry room is absolutely filthy. In the entire year he lived there, it was never once cleaned. There are lots of pictures of this. The tenants did nothing to help this situation including cleaning up their spilled laundry detergent or taking out the lint from the driers between use. 5. Also it was a unique experience having to clean up the ant infestation due to food being left in the laundry room garbage. He bought and used his own ant killer after alerting DMM on a Friday afternoon at 2pm with no answer and leaving a voicemail. No return call or response. He then called again several times after the dumpster and laundry room had been completely taken over more than a day later. He again got no answer, left a voicemail and received no response. When he finally spoke to someone a few days after originally alerting them, they finally sent someone out. I’m convinced had he not done it himself, the ants would have united, overrun the entire complex, and carried tiny pieces of each tenant back and forth between the laundry room and the dumpster. DUMPSTERS- 1. Only a single dumpster for the entire complex 2. No recycling 3. Dumpster would often leak sludge and liquids from the garbage. Many times I would go down with a hot pot of water and clean it up to prevent the bugs. 4. FLIES AND MAGGOTS the dumpster area would become completely insanitary on numerous occasions when people would leave their bags of garbage on the floor if the dumpster was full. Tenants seem to prefer to throw away full bottles of liquid in their trash bags which leak everywhere. There are pictures of this, as well. DELIVERIES - 1. The building is completely inaccessible to UPS or Fedex and Amazon and they will not even attempt to deliver your packages (these words came directly from a driver after having to track down a package on their truck) since they cannot enter the building. 2. No intercom system either to notify you if someone is outside UNPROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS: 1. It would ALWAYS take multiple phone calls and follow ups in order to get the ball moving on any maintainence request. 2. One day after someone had moved out, they relocated all of their trash like a box spring and other miscellaneous household items etc. in front of the dumpster area, knowing the following day was the day the dumpster was emptied, we notified DAVID and his response was “someone move out”. SEE PHOTOS. The following day when my boyfriend went to get in his car for work, all of the items like the box spring that had been left resting in front of the area dumpster had been moved to by boyfriends parking space. After sending a strongly worded text to David that the items needed to be cleaned up by the time he made it home from work; thankfully they were taken care of. 3. After giving notice, he was never notified as to how to return the keys or even sent any sort of acknowledgement that he would be moving out except 4. Two days before our lease was up David sent my bf a text “you move out yet bossman” my bf left him know the move out date as he indicated in his 30 day notice and the reply he received from David was a flat “o”. 5. After moving out he received yet another text from David asking if he had returned the keys to his office. He let him know he had left everything on the kitchen counter and locked the door from the inside and left. No response. 6. Finally after receiving and cashing rent checks from my boyfriend for 13 months they egregiously misspell his last name on the refund check. NEIGHBORHOOD MISCELLANEOUS (no fault to De Miranda at all) - 1. Parking can be a nightmare at night, especially after 7:30pm it is extremely difficult to find a spot within a block or two. 2. Someone goes around the neighborhood 4-5 times a week selling food and honking a bicycle horn that can quite literally be heard for blocks. 3. Fireworks will keep you up from early June to early August and any time there is any big sporting event on tv. Spoiler alert: you'll know if the dodgers win because it sounds like an active warzone 4. So many dogs left outside in their backyards to bark for hours at a time day or night. The homes that face the building have dogs that constantly bark during the day which causes others dogs in the neighborhood to bark as well. These homes also have a amateur cover band that do most "the police" songs and practice during the week. Hope you like Roxanne because they are still working that one out. 5. There was a LARGE drug raid that took place just down the block from the apartment while he lived there. This included a full armored vehicle with large automatic weapons carried by the police. Most of the neighborhood came out to witness the raid so the streets were packed.