Mott Smith Laniloa

My husband and I have lived in condos for most of our 18 years together in Hawaii and on the mainland east coast. We are professionals in our 40s. In our opinion this is without a doubt the worst condo we ever lived in. The manager is useless and from what I heard the board thinks so too. He is apparently a tad bit better than the previous manager and that is why he is kept on in his position. His assistant really should be running the place. She’s great, but unfortunately he is the one with the «title» and the one we had to deal with. The building is old, poorly kept up and noise reverberates. It didn’t help that we had a family of five upstairs with wood floors, but from what I heard from others, the noise from neighbors was a daily annoyance for many in the building. The elevators are the means by which the building association/​board and management convey their latest updates to the residents. They are often in the form of «rules» and come across as condescending and authoritative. I don’t think we were the only ones who thought this because the paper fliers posted usually were defaced with comments or juvenile drawings by anonymous residents. The last one I had to remove from the elevator because someone had written on it a derogatory comment about the building manager I mentioned above, and as much as I thought it was accurate and even funny, I did not think it was appropriate for a public posting. If you think I am exaggerating it might help you to know that during the last few weeks of our miserable life there when people saw us packing and moving (people we didn’t know, but whom we saw in the parking lot and elevators) they called us «lucky». I guess that sums it up. We live in another condo now, and life is back to normal. We kind of forgot what a well run building is like. Bottom line, if you can find something else then take it. Mott-​Smith Laniloa is in our opinion the dumps.