John Ilibassi Attorney At LAW

The building itself is immaculate which is why it’s even deserving of a star but I’ve been living in a building managed by Daniel Ilibassi for 2 years and it’s been one of the most traumatic experiences ever. Since the moment I moved in, it’s been a downhill experience due to management. 1)His staff at the front desk is extremely discriminatory and followed my family & I to the roof on the first day we moved in, and we literally had to show her the key to prove that we belonged there. He did nothing about this— even when she would hide my packages, and I had to resort to calling the police this year (all documented). 2) I had a SQUATTER in my apartment and when I reached out to Daniel about this, he told us we had to put her on her lease as a roommate because she was a previous tenant of his. This was honestly just unheard of, and after months of her harassing us, and creating fire hazards in the apartment due to hoarding/uncleanliness, he simply ignored all of our complaints and helped her moved out early, granting her another lease in the building, and leaving us with a vacancy to be unexpectedly filled. 3) He also denied basic requests like having the apartment painted, saying this should’ve been done before we signed the lease but the building literally has a clause in the lease for repainting/maintenance every 5 years which is NOT done based on the walls in the apartment, which are dirty as hell. The apartment wasn’t cleared out before moving in, so there was no possible way to even see any of the damages/things that needed to be repainted until I moved in. 4) The super in the building has some sort of relationship with the lady at the front desk and hates doing his job. Everything takes forever, and I have had to contact management multiple times just to get something fixed. There was a time he got upset with us when we had to keep calling him to fix a broken door, and blatantly told my roommates and I that he “doesn’t work for us.” Yes you do, you’re a super in a residential building? Sorry you have to do your job for once instead of riding your bike around outside for once I guess? 5) Any issues or complaint, just keep them to yourselves because he will hold it against you as if it’s your fault he has to actually do his job. Last month I had to resort to calling 311 when my bathroom wasn’t working correctly. Even with photo and video evidence, he had the super come look and believed him when he said that there was nothing wrong. After countless back and forth, I reported him and was told I could withhold rent, to which Daniel threatened to evict me and bring my family & I to court. Which is funny because he then went behind my back to contact my parents (guarantors on the lease) to lie to them that I was refusing to let him enter my apartment and didn’t have rent money? Thankfully 311 documented this and he was reported for retaliation. After that, he kept sending the super to do the same thing which didn’t resolve the issue. It wasn’t until the super knew that Dan was coming to look at it himself, he conveniently came by the amen morning fixed in less than 15 minutes after a whole month of problems. Obviously after all of this, I was hit with our 2nd lease non renewal (he tried doing so in the first year as well due to complaints which isn’t legal, that’s called landlord retaliation)— even though he literally helped a squatter get an apartment. Do NOT rent here if you have standards and can advocate for yourself, they have continuously tried to paint as the angry Black woman because of that! They want you to just sit there meekly and take what you can get, instead of what you are paying for.

Very disappointing. They don't know how to treat/talk to tenants once they move out.

The people are so nice