CityBlock Properties, Inc

In my years of renting apartments in NYC, I’d never dealt with a company as underhanded as CityBlock. They have no compunction about bilking first-​time student renters with their neglected, yet expensive properties.
My daughter’s Hall Street unit was covered with mold and mildew. (CityBlock refused to do anything about it.) Screens, rendered useless, dangled from the windows and wasp nests with buzzing insects lived inside most rooms. The carpets were stained, threadbare and disgusting, the kitchen dingy, with floors and counters that had seen better days. We had to provide our own smoke detectors. And if you think the grounds around the house are better, think again: shards of glass, poison oak — watch where you walk!
I could not wait for my daughter to move out.
If you still decide to do business with these people, plan on kissing your security deposit good-​bye. They maintain a good percentage of your money for basic maintenance that landlords routinely do between tenants: painting, cleaning, etc. They also had the nerve to charge for carpet cleaning, when my daughter and her roommates provided a receipt from the professional cleaners that had already come prior to moving out. (See paragraph 2 for the condition of said carpet when our kids moved in.) Georgia law dictates that deposits are returned within 30 days of vacating the unit. CityBlock doesn’t even abide by that!
The day our kids moved out, a parent from the neighboring shack that CityBlock owns, asked if he could look around. «I want to see if this place is as bad as my daughter’s» he explained. (It was!)
If you’re looking for a rental by UGA, my advice is ‘keep looking.’ Avoid dealing with this company.
3÷25÷14 This review remains true and accurate. On 8÷5÷12, within days of moving in, we alerted the landlord to the plethora of problems. «As is!!!» he retorted. Very little was remedied. (Jessica, whose attempts here at public relations falls flat, was not employed by the company at the time our students moved in.) Believe what you will. Just remember, ‘caveat emptor.’