AMA Management

Overview:
This company is the owner/​management for 3720 Avenue L.
Too many issues there: noise, roaches, repairs… I would not recommend. Not worth the rent, moving expenses, time or the broker’s fee.
Management:
(AMA/​Midwood Management/​Cammebys – not sure what name (s) they DBA but have seen all of these on correspondences)
Pros: Responsive but required much follow-​up.
Cons: Management’s idea of ‘resolving’ an issue is putting a band-​aid on it rather than finding permanent solutions.
Noise:
Pros: Common areas are generally quiet; no tenants running through halls, hanging out in staircases, etc.
Cons: Very little peace and quiet inside the apartments. Walls, ceilings and floors are paper-​thin. You literally can hear the neighbors next to, above and below you. On a daily basis I hear the downstairs neighbor snoring, next door neighbor clanging pots & pans, and upstairs neighbor jumping and pounding their floors. When I rented the apartment from Atlantic Management Co, the exclusive broker for AMA at the time, the agent told me she’d make sure to find nice tenants for the apartment above; now I realize what she meant.
Cleanliness:
Pros: Super works hard and does a good job keeping the common areas clean.
Cons: An exterminator comes once a month to spray inside tenants’ apartments and I believe in the common areas. Despite exterminator and super’s efforts, building still has a bad roach and rodent infestation problem. I have seen large dead roaches in the common areas at times. And despite my own best efforts in my own apartment, including the 1x per month exterminator visit, the roaches/​rodents still come.
Repairs:
Pros: Fairly easy to schedule repairs and flexible scheduling times.
Cons: At the time of rental, I was told my apartment was recently renovated – maybe for the tenant before me. I had four repairs within the first 10 months of moving in. There were 2 water leaks on the bathroom ceiling, 1 water leak on the bedroom wall and 1 water leak from the toilet.

No gas heat or hot water due to a gas leak! The management company has not returned any of our call. We can’t even warm up food and have no reasonable accommodation from the management company. How about providing us with space heaters or hot plates so we can at least stay warm and cook food or warm up milk for the kids.

This place blows monkey balls!
Lady calls me up and me all like excited because I’m thinking they are finally calling me about getting a transfer to a 1 bedroom apartment! Oh no! she is calling me because my signature doesn’t match the lease and I need to come in and sign it in front of them! so ‘m like wtf! I was like can you guys mail me the paper? No no no we can’t! you have to come down and sign in front of us! so i’m like that’s dumb! mail me the paper and i’ll sign and mail it back to you because I work everyday and i’m not coming in today.
waste of time and my day off to go there and re sign the lease which already had my signature on it. So I Lost a full day of work and I was like you guys could mailed me this… Now I lost like 8 hours of work to be here for 10 mins plus traveling down there. This AMA management needs to fix this as soon as they can!
I even told the lady… wait I called you guys for about 1 year and you guys finally called me back with this! every time I call a voice mail comes up.
Plus me and my sister had to pay my mother rent here when she died for the 1 month but it wasn’t one month it was like 1 week! she died on oct 28 and me and my sister called the office and told them about it. But I guess they don’t care and still charge us for 1 week! which was $ 1250 I told them guys my mom just died and we will have her things out as soon as we can!

They own the buildings at 2940 Ocean Parkway and 3000 Ocean Parkway as well, Trump, they are the worst landlords we have had sine 1991… replace the elevators with cheap crappy ones that break down all the time and work so slowly they make the old 50 year old elevators look like state of the art. They redid the laundry room and the machines break constantly. This company does lots of cosmetic meaningless work, but anything that is real and makes the building actually better for the tenants will never happen. Even the maintenance staff publicly talks crap about them.
They can“t keep people in the building and have a plethora of empty apartments they can“t fill because they want $ 1600.00 for a one bedroom with no balcony over the garbage room.
Do yourself a favor… any building owned by this management company is NOT one you want to live in…

Do yourself and your family a huge favor and run in the other direction from moving into these buildings or dealing with this management company! I will summarize what we have experienced here and this is BY FAR the worst and most dirtiest building we have ever lived in;
Here is our list as to why you should avoid living here at all costs!
(You will thank me later!)
1) 3 apartments (just on our floor) got robbed in a span of 1 year– no security at all anywhere, supposedly there is some security guy riding around in some little cart but since there are 20 buildings he has to patrol around the West st, West 2^nd and West 3^rd and Ave Z areas, he is never to be found!
And the Intercoms do not work!!!
2) Mice and roaches in the apartment, really disgusting!
3) After only a year and a half of living in this apt. we got a huge leak in the ceiling which only got worse every time it rained– we had a mushroom growing from up there– when management was informed in WRITING– they did nothing to fix the situation
4) We are unable to use our bedroom because there is a strong MOLD smell and MOLD problem in there (we have relocated to sleeping in our bedroom)
5) There is a HUGE crack in our living room ceiling that goes from one side all the way to the other side of the living room (looks like the ceiling will collapse any day now) thank gd we are moving out soon!
6) There is no sound insulation at all, we can hear everything that goes on downstairs, upstairs and even in the attached neighboring building!
7) Floors are very creaky and are really really old and outdated; as are all the other «renovations» in the apartment
8) There is NO SUPER in this building, if something goes wrong in your apt. (which after speaking with neighbors and having our own problems– I can assure you that it will) you will have to deal with the loud and arrogant maintenance staff who are not really invested in their at all
9) The building needs updates all around, the elevator broke down twice in a year and a half, hallway lights consistently go out, basement door handle is consistently broken and takes days to be fixed — wheelchair bound elderly cannot exit or enter the building!
10) Heat does not turn on in a timely fashion, cold in the apartments until December
11) Horribly rude property manager (lady) she barely speaks English and was always extremely rude to us whenever we had a concern about anything
12) I’m not going to judge what people do recreationally and in their spare time, But we could never leave our windows open because tenants here are constantly smoking MARIJUANA, day and night and yes even at 6:45am in the morning! from both sides of the building! Horrific.
13) When we requested to move out just 2 months in advance due to developing allergies to the mold and the horrid mildew/​mold/​standing water smells– AMA Management notified us that if we wanted to leave– we would have to pay a penalty of $ 3,000. Have you ever heard of such a thing in your life? I have NOT.
14) 2 working washing machines and 2 dryers for over 60 families! That is not normal.
Thus I would to advise anyone who is looking to move into this complex of buildings to be really really careful as you will not have a good experience. There are tons of better buildings around the area! Save Yourself!