5436 WOODBINE AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19131

Review: Landlord is always concerned with what everyone else is doing and has a weird obsession with needing to feel in control of others. She doesn’t get along with ANY of her neighbors: both home owners and renters. I have heard her make very prejudice comments about her Jamaican neighbors who I have never witnessed be an issue in 2 years of staying at this property. I’m fact, they have been very friendly and cordial towards me. She is constantly making unnecessary calls to 911 on others (including St. Joseph’s University students) and multiple, unrelated people have made calls to 911 on her for her irrational behavior(s). She will lie and even steal your belongings to get her way-make it you appear like you are a negligent and irresponsible person. She doesn’t speak to her tenants in a respectful, professional manner. In fact, she will speak to you the way one would speak their child when you read her text messages or while listening to her speak to you over the phone. She will harass you with multiple calls and texts back to back weekly over nonexistent issues: ie nonexistent trash fines for trash that was picked up by the sanitation crew religiously. She will only stop sending unwanted texts/calls after you hint to a lawsuit via announcing you are starting to feel harassed. She will attempt to say things you could use against her in court over the phone. She has learned to only texts things that can be misconstrued or are considered ambiguous via text. When communicating with her you must be very specific and beat her to the punch if possible. I would strongly discourage phone calls with this landlord-no record of conversation. When she is at fault for something breaking or malfunctioning ie the tub falling backwards she will not acknowledge or apologize for any inconvenience/pain this may have cause you. Instead she will ask if the item is broken and focus only on things instead of the person(s) involved. She looks for cheap fixes or short cuts to remedying issues which often times becomes another or bigger issue(s) instead of just paying for the issue(s) up front by avoiding further issues in the future. I have even witnessed this landlord is be unreasonable, unprofessional and outright disrespectful with contractors she hired to do a job. One particular instance she cursed at the contractor and told him in front of company he can “get the eff out”. She has no respect and no regard for others. She thinks it’s the tenant’s responsibility to upkeep the carriage house’s functioning: asking the tenant to run the water in the winter time to avoid the pipes from freezing over, running a space heater on the tenant’s electric to keep the garage (downstairs space) heated. This unit doesn’t have adequate heating especially for the winter months. An old space heater blowing smoky air is provided to keep tenant warm. This property has issues with mice especially in the winter-she does nothing to rid this infestation. Her rent rate is relatively cheap compared to other choices but living within the carriage house is costly considering who the landlord is. I would avoid this property if possible.