I am a current tenant in the James Building managed by Cedar Realty.
I would never recommend renting in this building or any building managed by Cedar Realty.
The building manager employed by Cedar Realty (Sandy P.) is often non-responsive to maintenance requests and passes blame onto the owner. The owner (Al LaBunski) is even more unresponsive and passes blame onto the building manager. In short, it takes a lot of initiative on the tenants part to get anything repaired. Most of the time (at least in my experience), it takes getting nasty, withholding rent, and faxing in 14-day and 24-hour lease termination notices to get anyone's attention.
It's a shame b/c the building is lovely and in a wonderful location, but those things come at too high of a cost.
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