William Gottlieb Real Estate

I know people who deal with William Gotlieb real estate, from what I heard from my peers whom deal with them, the people in the management office are extremely rude and aggressive and are not friendly at all. Foolishly and carelessly the management office has not been fair and has done poor construction logistics regarding where they put a door in the buildings etc and favor others over others. They are trying to make my friends life's very inconvenient and uncomfortable they are also very unprofessional.

Absolutely do not rent from this company. I’ve lived in one of their buildings for two years and had many issues. First, they have had to tear up my living room wall twice to fix the same pipe. Then the gas has been shut off for months now, so have not been able to use the stove or oven. Worst was this morning. With two days notice they informed us they are changing the front door lock. I’m out of town for the month and have someone housesitting for me, who now will not be able to access my building. Management said that even if they were cat or dog sitting they wouldn’t release the key to anyone except me, in person. Total nightmare, rude employees. Cannot wait to leave when my lease is up.

Lived in a WG building for 4 years and had soo many issues, all of which WG made every effort to dodge responsibility for. They were renovating almost the entire 4 years, using incompetent contractors that would leave the apartment doors open so construction noise echoed through the building, unlock the building front doors and forget to lock them when they left at the end of the day, and sometimes even buzz my apartment at early hours to be let into the building. The crown jewel, however, was when a worker stepped through my ceiling, creating a gaping hole and blowing ceiling material everywhere. It scratched/stained several of my personal items and I was denied any sort of compensation by management and even told to just color in a scratch on my leather purse with a Sharpie (lol). Also h

we've had many issues despite only living here for less than a year, including the space being extremely dirty upon getting the keys, ants, mice, accumulation of trash that is not picked up promptly, the water being shut off randomly, no power/wifi for periods beyond what was explained, etc. not easy to get ahold of them - no way to after 5pm or on weekends. maybe the worst part of it all is the company's offices are on a prime block in the west village. fresh flowers, modern art and decorations in the office, which was weird to see - service to tenants is not the priority.

My advice: STAY AWAY from any buildings they manage. We have lived in 6 other buildings during our time in NYC - this is by far the worst manager you'll ever deal with. I have been leaving there for a bit longer than one year. I have had roaches and mice since the day I moved in... I have asked for the exterminator every month.... I saw him once. So far, I've had to call them about 2 different issues - it takes around 3 calls to be able to get the super to come... each time the person who picked up the phone ended up shouting at me and my boyfriend. I have never had another person shout at me on the phone (or in person) and it really makes it incredibly uncomfortable. I would like to have the super come and seal a whole that has been letting mice into my apartment for the past 6 months...