AJ Clarke Real Estate Corp

AJ Clarke is quite honestly the WORST management company in all of NYC. I have lived in one of their buildings for almost a year now and have had nothing but issue after issue with not only the building, but the super and the company itself. Multiple windows in my apartment have fallen out of the frame, shattering glass everywhere. No heat during some of the coldest nights in the winter, but heat on when it was 65 degrees out. Poor electrical setup — blew a few fuses by simply plugging in things such as lamps. Horrible plumbing — nothing drains properly. The super of my building is rude and is always sending random men to my apartment to do his job and «fix» our problems. The buzzer for my walk-​up was broken for 8 months. They illegally put a gas line in our building and as a result Con Ed shut our gas off. I am now going on 3 weeks without cooking gas. I recently found a homeless man sleeping in my stairwell and I live in a decently safe neighborhood (Upper East Side). DO NOT RENT FROM AJ CLARKE, you will regret it!!!

Update: after calling again in the afternoon I got ahold of Rudy who was very nice and reasonable. He says he will be paying us back the late fee we were charged. This makes me feel a lot better, but does not explain the extremely (and unexplainably) rude receptionist.

Terrible management company overall. I have lived in multiple apartments in NYC and they are the worst management company I have encountered thus far. They take a long time to address issues and are extremely unreliable. I have had many issues with my apartment since moving in, most notably NO HEAT FOR A WEEK in the middle of the winter! The management staff is rude, unapologetic and not helpful. Save yourself the stress and rent elsewhere!

Staff are slow, non-​responsive and have an attitude problem. They seem to have forgotten entirely that their purpose is to serve the residents of buildings they are hired to manage. Not NYC’s worst but they make no effort to be good either. In particular, Rudy Gonzalez, is an extremely non-​responsive, disrespectful and unprofessional property manager. He ignores communications from tenants and when confronted, takes no responsibility. I cannot recommend properties managed by this company.

Their receptionist is so rude and unprofessional it is unbelievable for an agency to put someone so rude on the phone!

Bad experience overall. I would strongly recommend to look elsewhere for professionalism.

They don’t pay thier bills on time or ever, you need to force it out of them with threats before they decide to cut a check. Horrible people and horrible unprofessional company.

These guys aren’t nearly as bad as your stereotypical New York slumlord, but they sure make it difficult when they need to do something for you or give you any money back for anything. Would I avoid them if I had the choice? Definitely. But would I use them again if I found a great apartment that they managed? It’s New York, it could always be worse.

Aj Clarke is the worse management company ever and the superintendent is a useless, lazy, mediocre Dick that won’t hesitate to insult you. Please people out there, think twice before renting with these people. Is it a way to complaint or sue this company for their mismanagement and rudeness of their employees?
The superintendent says that he works part time, so you cannot reach out to him for emergency, the building on 82^nd is dirty and almost never taking care of, this has been my worse nightmare. –zero stars for this useless.

BUYER BEWARE!!!
From the time we moved in, we experienced
–Mice
–Cockroaches
–Water Leakage
–Homeless people sleeping on our floor landing
Once we moved out of this hell hole, AJ Clarke refused to return our security deposit because they can’t locate our keys.
I wouldn’t recommend this management group to my worst enemy

These guys are a very responsive management company. If you’re trying to reach the property manager, they’ll get back to you. Compared to other managment companies I’ve dealt with in town, AJ Clarke is way way better.

If there was a way to give no stars I would give no stars. I live in a building that they represent and have never experienced worse customer service, tenant care, or consideration for human life.
Last winter the elevator went out for almost 3 weeks and a 91 year old wheelchair bound woman on the 9^th floor was left there. I called every day to try to get them to put her up in a hotel and they never picked up a finger for her or any of the other elderly people in my apartment. AJ Clarke is supposed to represent the tenants, but all they do is represent the owner’s of their buildings.
I recently decided to move, clearly given this, the rent increases, the ill managment, and the fact that they have fired all the previous workers from our building and replaced them with part time individuals who sit around and do nothing all day. I found out from my neighbor who is retiered and home all the time, that they have been showing my apartment without notifying me multiple times prior to my even writting to them about ending my lease. When my apartment was shown I had a check book left in the open in addition to several personal banking documents and expensive jewlery, let alone the pure evasion of privacy.
I would NEVER rent any apartment if I knew that AJ Clarke was the property manager. I warn anyone who is the rental market to stay clear of ALL their buildings.

Beware! Beware! Beware! of this company.
Our two bedroom apartment is apparently a one bedroom and a poorly constructed add-​on room.
When the storm hits, the roof and walls peeled like orange. Water gets inside walls and it started growing mold. Multiple phone calls, email exchanges to the super and the management company. Slow or no responses. The place is still not livable after 3 weeks and counting.
We are reporting this company to NY HPD and getting a lawyer to sue this company.
Stay away from their properties. You don’t want this.

A J Clarke are scams!
Never deal with them. They are rude, treat you like a beggar, not helpful at all and charge reduculious prices for being useless. And the worst thing you can never rely on them. They don’t follow the agreements and even can cancel in the last second when you are signing up the contract. They will try to rip off every single dollar EXTRA from you and if you try to defend yourself they will screw up the whole deal on the very last stage to bring you down and make you feel the worst.
Never rent or buy anything with them.
Potential landlords if you respect your tenants, please, think twice before choosing AJ Clarke as your managment company.
Potential real estate buyers better look around for another company to help you out.

Beware of these guys!
I came from the UK to live in NYC and because of a lack of credit rating over here was charged a substantial deposit. This wasn’t too big of an issue but when I came to leaving is where the trouble started.
My firm closed down so I had to leave on month 10 out of my 12 month lease. When I called A. J. Clarke they told me that I would have to find someone to take over my lease (nearly impossible as they wanted $ 2,200/month for a apartment only worth $ 1,700) or I would have to pay the final two months rent.
In the end I had to pay the final two month’s rent and move back to the UK in month 11. I had one of my friends go round two weeks after I had gone and A. J. Clarke had moved a new tenant in and changed the locks while I was still paying rent! Effectively collecting double the rent for that month. The super also took my A/​C unit and cordless drill.
A. J. Clarke were completely unhelpful and unapologetic during this whole process, not offering to help contact super and recover my items. There wasn’t anything I could do as I was in another country without a job.
In the end after a lengthy email exchange they agreed to give me back 2 weeks rent, but it was too little far too late.

I have been watching a Marshall Eviction happen towards The Village Scandal and am appalled that something like this would happen to a beautiful store like them in the East Village, New York. After watching this Youtube video:
, I can see what type of management company AJ Clark really is. How can this company NOT even allow The Village Scandal to go to court to even prove their payments? For the last 7 years, they have been harassed by AJ Clark’s management company about non payment, but if they would only send The Village Scandal’s case back to trial court, they would be shown evidence of payment!