Mixed reviews on new management at Kennedy Plaza Apartments
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May 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM EDT
Story Updated:
May 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM EDT
UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - A tenant at the Kennedy Plaza Apartment Complex is speaking out about why she's moving out of her residence.
The tenant wished to remain anonymous, but said she's lived in the space for a year and a half, enough time to experience two sets of management - both the Mayzon Corporation of Rochester and the current management, CRM Rental Management Inc. of Rome.
CRM promised to upgrade the building in 90 days when they took over in October, but the unnamed tenant said that the current management is worse than the previous management.
"I feel that I have really been treated horribly under this new management...I really do. I'm not going to be treated like that, so I'm leaving," said the tenant, who claims that cockroaches came out of her stove.
She also said that it takes three weeks to get a problem fixed when she puts in a request. She's also concerned about the quality of her water, as well as mold growing out on her balcony.
The tenant called a Health Codes Officer from the City of Utica to her apartment Thursday afternoon, but later did not allow him into her apartment.
She hoped the Health Codes Officer would collect a mold sample from her balcony, but the officer explained he was present to just take a verbal inventory of the problems.
When asked how the building compares now to how it was in the past, the Health Codes Officer said the property is in better shape than it was a few years ago, in his opinion.
Kennedy Plaza does gets monthly rounds of extermination treatment from "Rid Of It," a different extermination company than was used in the past.
President of CRM Management John Varecka said that security is tighter now with new locks, more security guards and security cameras.
In addition to changing to the new exterminating company, he said he is also spending $30 million on the building over the next 18 months.
He feels the building has made great strides since his company took over in October, and they're doing everything possible to improve the apartments.
But despite CRM's efforts, the tenant isn't satisfied.
"It is terrible," she said. "Terrible things and I can't really picture it getting worse, because I really don't think that anyone in that office cares at all, who lives here, what they need, especially being low income."
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