A Rocky Start at The Clermont
All is not well at The Clermont, according to an email from one of the first people to move into the new 52-unit development at 375 Myrtle Avenue last fall after it abandoned its condo ambitions and went rental. First off, started renting out units out before the building was complete and broken pipes led…
All is not well at The Clermont, according to an email from one of the first people to move into the new 52-unit development at 375 Myrtle Avenue last fall after it abandoned its condo ambitions and went rental. First off, started renting out units out before the building was complete and broken pipes led to flooding of several apartments. Continued problems with low water pressure and slow-to-arrive hot water led new residents to form a tenants association to form a united front against the management. The list of grievances we received was long, and, most troublingly, included claims of insufficient security, rental agents marching into occupied apartments unannounced and filthy common areas. One piece of good news: The owners apparently sacked the original management company last month and things have improved somewhat since then. Do current tenants have anything else to add?
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Renters beware. This apartment building has an issue with shaking and tremors. It could have something to do with the bamboo floors but frankly they don’t seem to know and more importantly they don’t seem to be in any rush to fix this.
I live in the building and support the tenants association.
One day early January I returned home only to find that water was pouring down the Clermont Ave side facade of the building. The empty commercial unit next to Walgreens was flooded about a foot high and water was leaking through the ceiling of the garage underneath as well. My husband and I rushed upstairs to see what was going on. The water was coming from an apartment on the 2nd floor, steam and hot water were coming from underneath the front door. I called the fire brigade and they opened the door to find the apartment flooded in hot water, spraying out of the burst heating pipes. The water was about 1.5 feet high throughout the apartment. The fire brigade told me that the pipes had not been welded correctly and that similar accidents could happen anywhere in the building. Also, none of the heating units in the building had been insulated, which had caused the pipes to freeze in the first place. The small picture posted above is of the flooded apartment, after the damaged wooden floor had been removed.
This is only one of several incidents that have taken place in the building. The owners and management are addressing the issues, but still it is hard to deny that the construction of this building was a totally shoddy and loveless job and it shows. I will definitely not renew my lease and I would move tomorrow if I could.
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I agree with chorosch – stingray does sound as though he is connected with the owners or realtors. I too am a tenant and what he says about the tenants group is nonsense. I am never usually a fan of these types of organizations but in this case, it was absolutely the right thing to do. And they have never used it as a way of getting or asking for rent reductions, even if it was probably justified.
I’ve seen better architecture from the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen’s Council.
and what the hell is that little photo?? i’ve never seen anything like that in this building
Amen, stingray! I was afraid i was the only one annoyed by all the petitions etc trying to scare us. maybe we should start an “anti-tenants association” association! You in?
I suspect that last post may have been written by either the owners or realtors. I have lived in this building since November, and the “list of grievances” you refer to is undoubtedly an e-mail I sent to the new management company a couple weeks ago. The tenants association was formed solely to share information, and we have never advocated withholding rent or seeking reductions. I think a few tenants may have pursued those means on their own, but that’s their choice I guess.
When the building was first occupied, it became clear that there were a lot of things to be worked out. The realtors gave a VERY hard sell (and still do.) Initially, the owners acted as if we were crazy to complain about anything since we didn’t purchase for $800K.
There are still a number of things going on, but in fairness to the owners, they are fixing the problems. I have had major structural issues, and all have been addressed within 48 hours. I think this is just an all too common example (these days, anyway,) of a project that was started back when no one could see an end to the real estate boom. the developers probably thought they were going to make a few million and walk away. What scares me is not a relatively small building like the Clermont, but all the stuff going on down by Flatbush.
i live in this building and there were some problems with the heat in the begining of the winter, which was totally annoying, but it is fine now. The tenants association is a group of a few tenants trying to rile everyone up to “see what we can get from the owners” as in- looking for free rent. Really lame- trying to get something for nothing