Citi Living Solutions

I definitely would not recommend working with CHP. The sales person I worked with, Maggie Marko, was unprofessional and inexperienced. Her inexperience led her to personally decline me from the apartment I applied for. It’s not even up to the realtor to approve/​decline an applicant. Turns out she was unaware of the management company’s guarantor policy, so she took it upon herself to decline our application. I called the management company and within literally 2 min of being on the phone with their leasing agent, I was approved. So then I had to coordinate the paperwork with them and finally secure the deal myself. All of this is the job of the realtor. If I never called and dealt with the management company myself I would have never gotten the apartment, not to mention I would have lost my application money.
About her professionalism, here’s how the majority of the viewings went. I would get a text with an address and be told to just buzz any random apartment until I got in. It’s pretty sketchy coming from someone you just met on Craigslist to go into a random building and into a random apartment. Another point of sketchyness/​unprofessionalism — After she wrongly declined me of the apartment, she was supposed to return a deposit I gave her to «hold» the apartment. When I asked for it over the phone, she said she no longer had it. So she basically spent my deposit money that was not hers to spend.
After all of this, and this is the short version, I asked for a discount of the realtor fee we agreed on. Yes she introduced me to the apartment, fine, but then I had to literally take over and personally deal with the management company and secure the deal myself. I didn’t agree to pay her $ 1,500 to do half the job. Even after she acknowledged that all of this happened, and that she screwed up, she still refused to provide any sort of discount. The broker on the deal, Añu Dutta, agreed that she screwed up and he wouldn’t enforce a discount.
$ 1,500 is a lot of money, don’t risk it with these people. I’m filing a complaint with the Department of State and hopefully they can get me some money back.

I had the pleasure of working with Añu to find an apartment in January 2014 for February. He was very responsive during my search for a rental apartment in Queens, particularly in the Jackson Heights area.
I had key requirements during my search, in particular with respect to closeness to transport, layout of apartment, and my price range. He was able to identify a number of properties that met my requirements and I was able to complete the rental search within a week.
I am new to the New York area and was unfamiliar with the rental market and rental agreement policies etc. but he was very patient and open in explaining the details of my rental agreement.
Añu also was very kind in offering to help me with my move which I found very generous.
Overall I had a great experience in my apartment search thanks to Añu, he is very professional, open, and generous. I would gladly recommend him for prospective renters in Queens!

I would love to give Core Homes and Properties a better review but honestly I didn’t have much of an opportunity to work with them. Things seemed great when Adam Zadorozny said that there were a few apartments that Core could show us which met our specifications. He said he was out of town so we met with an associate of his who told us that the listings did not exist and tried to show us apartments that were out of our price range. She even suggested that we lie to the landlords about owning animals (we own two cats.) So Core Homes and Properties seems to be just another example in the growing list of Low Level Bait and Switch Realty companies in NYC. I’d be wary of using them considering they lied to us and had no problems suggesting that we lie to our prospective landlords.
I should also mention that Adam was very rude and informal in our correspondences. When we left the office, after having met with his associate, we texted him to ask him some questions and he was extremely condescending and tried to make it appear as if it was OUR fault. All in all, the experience was a waste of time. It should be clear that this review was written out of concern for future prospective customers. Be warned that if you choose to do business with Core Home and Properties you will be dealing with a shady business with inexperienced staff.

Añu was fantastic to work with. He was extremely responsive which is hard to come by in such a competitive market. He was available to answer questions (and I had many) and he was able to find the right apt for me. I’d definitely work with him again and recommend him to anyone who is looking for an apt in NY.

Working with Añu Dutta was an overall great experience. He was very attentive, reliable and persistent. My fiancé and I applied for an apartment over the weekend in Queens, and we were able to get an answer from him within a day or two! Añu is very professional and delivers when it comes to showing quality apartments in the NYC area. We love our new apartment and would recommend Añu to anyone who is looking for a top-​notch apartment!