CS Management

Let me throw a wrench in the gears of these negative reviews.
CS Management is the black pearl of Brooklyn & Queens. If you find yourself being led to the door of an apartment owned by Sam and guided by one of his lemmings, seize the opportunity. As long as the floor isn’t covered with roaches, whatever space you’re visiting is the last frontier of New York City.
I rented 3,000+ sq ft from CS for 3 years.
Get everything in writing.
It helps if you have friends as lawyers.
Take your own measurements. It’s not actually 6,000 sq. ft.
Once you’re signed, you’re on your own.
If they hire a contractor, watch them like hawks. There isn’t one thing they’ll do right. ie. waterproofing showers (tiles fell off after two years), sink/​plumbing installation, dead electrical outlets.
5 STARS for value.
0 STARS for lack of organization, communication, and honesty.
Now, go find your diamond in the rough!

Run the other way if you discover these people will be your landlord!
I agree with the other posters. This place is a joke. I went with my little sister to sign a lease. The representative showed up over an hour late with no excuse/​apology which by the time she got there, my sister was late for another important appointment. During the lease signing the tenants had questions about the apartment which were brushed off and stepped out of the room multiple times to handle things not related to their meeting such as taking care of other potential tenants. Afterwards, when I inquired about getting a signed lease for her records, they said they needed all people to sign the lease then a copy would be provided to them. I asked if it was important for all the tenants to be present for the signing, why not reschedule? I was told because they wanted to do it today. I said it didn’t make sense because the woman was an hour late to the appointment with no apology and you could have rescheduled. She did NOT like the fact I threw the lateness in her face. She just looked at me with daggers in her eyes. LOL I was having a debate with this woman and she did not like what I had to say. I was asking logical questions such as why not reschedule and my sister needed a signed document of what she signed without their authoriziation for her records. Not once did I loose my cool, curse at her, call her names or yelled. All of a sudden, she turns to my sister and doesn’t want to rent to her because of the «element» she brings into the apartment. You have to be kidding me? «Element?» Because I was asking logical and legal questions about the apartment and their professionalism (lack thereof) she didn’t want to rent to her. I was so angry. She didn’t answer any of my questions except with questions to me. She obviously didn’t know the answers to my questions and/​or didn’t know what she was doing.
After the signing they said the tenants were responsible for the total rent and if one person was late, it will reflect on all of them and their future reference from the management company if they decide to move. I was livid when my sister told me this. I said, if that is the case, go to the post office every month, get a stamp of when you mail your rent and keep the receipts. When she moves and her future landlord gets a negative reference from these jokers, she has documentation to prove she paid her rent every month. Also, in the future, to never phone these people, do everything by email to create a paper trail. Unfortunately, the lease is signed, but she plans to move next year. You can trust these people as far you as you can throw them.
BTW, this place could also be listed as CS Managment Karen Star on 239 Hewes
St. They may have moved around the corner.
Update: 1 wk before she was to move in, she was told the landlord sold the building. Really? So why even rent out units? You know selling can take months to do and we knew nothing about it. They offered to rent her something else. She said no, got all her money back and is another apt in Manhattan and loves it.

If you have any other option, do NOT rent from these people. They are unresponsive and impossible to get in touch with. We’ve had a leaky roof, black mold, bees, cockroaches, and ants in our apartment and they have done nothing to solve any of these problems other than put plaster over HOLES in the ceiling. Plaster isn’t a remedy for a leaky roof. Every other problem we’ve had, we’ve had to solve on our own.
It usually takes us 10 calls to even get in touch with anyone and they’re all rude. They’ll hang up on you if they don’t feel like helping and then it takes you 10 more calls to reach them again.
They’re the worst.

You are looking at an ad from C Management a/​k/​a CS Management and whatever other name they come up with (business now located at 410 Broadway in Brooklyn). Maybe you called Gitty (3 girls have the same name) from Craigslist. You think you found your next home-​think before you put a deposit. Once you put a deposit, you won’t get it back.
Steve Waitt shows me a great looking first floor apartment with the tenants still there. It appears to be very clean, has one large closet and a second super spacious (takes up an entire wall floor to ceiling) closet and hardwood floors. I tell him that I would like to move in on the 15^th so that minor repairs can done. I wanted to leave my place on good terms something I have always done for all of my landlords. He tells me he will speak to the owner about the date. I put a $ 500 deposit down after the owner approved the move date. Steve tells me (witness heard the same thing) if I am not satisfied at the walk thru that I would receive my money back. I reconfirm our understanding of the terms. I happily hand over my money on the 2.5 bedroom on 22 Menahan Street, Apt. 3L.
I schedule the walk thru with Steve; he reschedules due to a conflict. I meet him at his house and he tosses the keys out his window (I wish I was making this up) and says to call him once I am done. This is strange, he said he was coming now he’s not-​yet another conflict.
Upon entering the apartment, the first thing we see are hundreds of roaches crawling on the floor, walls and ceiling. Not just the itty bitty kind, all types, sizes and various shades of black and brown. I had no idea that roaches came in different shades besides the brown you see on the Riddix commercials. They didn’t scurry away when I turned on the lights-​I am literally stepping on them. They are dead and live ones on the counters, cupboards, IN the refrigerator, freezer, IN the toilet, in the metal door frame area from people slamming the door. We actually saw them coming out of the loose door knob. The wood floor looked like it was there from Attila the Hun’s era. One corner appeared to be a rat hole and had black soot or grime on it along the surrounding wall. The apartment is filthy not even close to being ready for a move in this century. There are numerous nail holes both large and small. The ones they bothered with are spackled incorrectly-​you still see and feel the holes. A huge long mass which I find out to be mold is on the bathroom ceiling, a shotty patched up ceiling job from a cave-​in of a recent plumbing incident, broken radiators, cracked tiles in the kitchen and that spacious closet is no longer there. I call Steve, I tell him that I am not satisfied. He began his amnesia act about the terms of the deposit and the apartment itself. He tells me to take it up with Sam at the management company.
Sam the Hasidic Jew, insists that I like the apartment no matter how many times I tell him that I don’t. My son tells him that he doesn’t like the smell or the roaches. He tells me that the reason the apartment was not touched was because they (his company and the owner) had no idea how I wanted the apartment. They had no idea if I wanted to keep the roaches, the mold among other things that most people would not consider dealing with, is he serious?! I did not arrive to his office disheveled nor did I present myself as a person who would «just deal with it». He admitted that he never even bothered to see if it was fit for rental. Maybe he was not seeing too clearly through his glasses, didn’t have his hearing aid on right or had one too many vodka shots that evening but he told me that I «was upset and I will get over it». He even tried to strong arm me into signing the lease; I refused. I requested my deposit more than once in writing and verbally. Suddenly, he is not receiving my messages… how convenient. Now, he is telling me that I should pay for the rent for that month because the owner was not able to get anyone else to rent it… lmao…is this guy for real? I didn’t sign a lease nor did I ever agree to pay any money after the walk thru. I could not move in due to the numerous defective issues that exist in the apartment. He stated that they would get rid of the roaches and mold as favor to me. He even stated that the owner «is not obligated by law to correct any of these things. When owners are ORDERED by the court to attend to these issues its because the courts have nothing better to do than waste everyone’s time»…you can’t make this stuff up. I have to admit, Sam is a riot-​you can’t help but laugh at the nonsense that comes out of his mouth.
I was forced to put 1 star… there should be –5 stars for «companies» like this.
Save yourself the aggravation, time and your hard earned money and deal with real professionals. Good Luck!