Marks & CO Inc

One Montgomery avenue apartments is not a quiet place to live. You will always be overtired while living in this very noisy apartment building. The apartments have very thin walls, floors and ceilings without any sound proofing. You will hear everything your neighbors say and do. You will hear thei…

One Montgomery avenue apartments is not a quiet place to live. You will always be overtired while living in this very noisy apartment building. The apartments have very thin walls, floors and ceilings without any sound proofing. You will hear everything your neighbors say and do. You will hear their conversations, tvs, kids, video games and even toilets flushing just like they're happening right inside your apartment. The apartments have very old and creaky hardwood floors that transmit and amplify even the lightest footsteps and the slightest sounds. So when your upstairs neighbors wake up in the morning, their footfalls will sound like a herd of thundering elephants coming through your ceiling. And if your neighbors stay up late, you will also have trouble going to sleep and staying asleep. Within your apartment, noise travels freely from room to room because all bedrooms and bathrooms have very flimsy hollow core wood doors with large air gaps at the top and bottom. So all apartments will sound just like a studio apartment even if you have 2 or 3 bedrooms. The apartments have single pane, non insulated glass windows that let in all the outside noise right inside to you. You will hear the busy street traffic from Montgomery Avenue and any noise your neighbors make in the parking lots and on their balconies.

We lived in 1 Montgomery apartments, owned by Marks & co., for 4 years (2020-2024). This landlord raises your rent significantly every year. Recently they have been raising rents by $500/mth. The apartment is very old, poorly maintained and overpriced. Expect to wait a long time for repairs. The ap…

We lived in 1 Montgomery apartments, owned by Marks & co., for 4 years (2020-2024). This landlord raises your rent significantly every year. Recently they have been raising rents by $500/mth. The apartment is very old, poorly maintained and overpriced. Expect to wait a long time for repairs. The apartments have a problem with roaches and mice. Monthly exterminator visits do not eliminate the pests. These apartments are extremely noisy. They have paper thin walls, floors and ceilings with no sound proofing. You will hear everything your surrounding neighbors say and do. Hope that your surrounding neighbors are not noisy. If you do have noisy neighbors, Marks and co will provide no help with noise. They will tell you "noise is what you get for living in an apartment". This apartment building has security issues. All tenants, all ex tenants, all vendors, all package delivery services and all food delivery drivers etc know the access code for the front door of this apartment building. Additionally many tenants prop open the front door of this building for their friends during Sabbath religious restriction times on Friday nights and all day on Saturdays. This compromises security. Packages have been stolen. This apartment building is captive to Com for internet and cable. Comcast will increase your rates by 100% or more once the promo period ends and you will have no recourse. Also, this apartment building stinks of marijuana. The smell of marijuana permeates this building's hallways and often penetrates into the apartments of non users. This smell is offensive. In response to complaints, rather than prohibit drug use, Marks and co. sends emails to tenants suggesting that drug users place towels under their doors while smoking. Read google, Better Business Bureau and Yelp reviews for marks and co. Read your lease carefully before signing. All marks and co. leases contain a clause that allows them to take 1/2 of your security deposit for apartment repainting if you stay less than 2 years. They will remove this unfair clause from your lease upon request before signing. Their leases also require 90 days notice to terminate. 90 days notice is excessive as the industry standard is 30 or 60 days notice. Requiring 90 days notice limits your ability to search for a new property because new landlords prefer to rent properties only 15 to 45 days in advance. Requiring 90 days notice also allows marks & co to show your apartment many times over 3 months disrupting your quiet enjoyment. So ask yourself. Do you want to take a chance on this bad landlord and move into their apartment building where over 10 of their unhappy tenants just recently moved out?