Grandview Terrace

I I have lived in this building for 4 years. The first year it was great. The second, third and fourth years, however, were not that great. Here is my list:
1. AC units are from the 80s, my rent when I moved in was $ 1273.00, by the time I finally asked them to replace them, my rent was $ 1510.00 and the prop. Manager said that it would cost them $ 150.00 for each of the 3 units to be replaced. She told me to use fans and if my toddlers put their fingers in them it would only happen once. I left the office fuming and kept paying my NStar bill in the amount of $ 370.00 monthly.
2. From the second year on mice started appearing, now there are so many in the whole building that from Sunday to Friday I already caught 6. the building is infested.
3. Covered parking is very expensive and common parking is terrible to find after 7 pm.
4. My husband bought a new car and the sales man delivered the car to him the night before the scheduled pick up date, since we did not have an extra parking sticker, and we needed to park the car, we parked the car on the parking lot and in the morning we’d get a new permit. Well, in the morning my husband got up at 8 am to a towed car. Even though I explained to the prop. Manager that we had no choice and to please ask the guys not to charge us when we picked up the car, she said:” you could have called the emergency maintenance number to notify us of the new car or left it at the dealership until we open at 10 am.” I said, Amanda I didn’t know that we could use the emergency service for such things, the sales guy notified us of the delivery yesterday at 8 pm and the office closes at 6. I did not know that he was going to deliver the car a night before of the scheduled delivery date, and I worked with property management so I know you can request to the tow company to waive the fee this one time. She then proceed to say: «I can but I won’t, you’ll just have to pay $ 150.00 cash or money order if you want your car back.», needless to say I had to hold my tongue with my teeth so I didn’t swear or call her names.
5. Building stinks, my hallway smells like cigarette and pot at all times.
6. Dog poop is everywhere as soon as you step out of the building.
7. Security works overnight and sleeps in his car so the gang that was going around robbing cars, broke my window and windshield to steal my GPS.
8. My downstairs neighbor is old and grumpy and said he was going to call social services on me because my daughters were too noisy.
9. Maintenance is pretty fast and courteous, but that’s pretty much it.
10. Thank God I’m moving.

I had lived here for 2 years and found the overall experience good.
Pros:
Great maintenance
Rents are reasonable
gym and swimming pool access
Cons:
These apartments are right on Route 9. You need a car if you want to live here.
On a few occasions, there is some strange smell across the hallways.