Crown Bell Management

This is an unethical business.
When it first pitched me the apartment, it reeked of noxious fumes (apparently from the carpet), which Crown Bell unapologetically and impolitely refused to abate.
According to another tenant, the tenant’s apartment was moldy (to the point of being a health hazard), and Crown Bell refused to abate the mold. To the contrary, Crown Bell, despicably, tried to charge the tenant for the mold on move-​out.
Minor fixtures were often broken. Rather than fixing them, Crown Bell tried to charge me for them on move-​out. Lolz.
The hot water heater did not have enough hot water for a single shower.
The entire building has a strange smell, despite notice to Crown Bell, especially during hot and humid months.
The air conditioning is loud (but effective!).
The lock to the back of the building is either broken or changed (without notice to tenants).
The clothes dryer was frequently broken, despite repeated prompt notices to Crown Bell.
I found Crown Bell’s bankruptcy filing:
. I asked Crown Bell whether it had been bankrupt, since, if it’s credit was awful, it would make sense for me to protect my security deposit — for instance, by having it held in escrow. Crown Bell replied, curiously (and, I think, deceptively, in that it was apparently a half-​truth answer to my question), «Sorry, but we are not in bankruptcy.»
Crown Bell raised the rent by $ 10 year-​over-​year. Curious — why not either attempt a meaningful increase, or not rock the boat at all? I apparently discovered the answer months later. According to another tenant (who did not change his monthly payment to reflect the $ 10 increase), Crown Bell, months after the increase, purported to, without prior notice, charge him late fees on all those intervening months between the increase and the present — late fees that were an order of magnitude higher than the $ 10 increase itself.
Crown Bell did not promptly respond to an offer to extend the lease by one month.
On move-​out, Crown Bell withheld from the security deposit rent for time after the mutually-​agreed lease termination date, alleging, incorrectly and hilariously, that they had not received notice of move-​out until 10 days after the mutually-​agreed lease termination date. Lolz.
I would gladly testify to these matters under oath.