Review for Ballo Real Estate Services Apartments

As I a cannot speak about the Ballo family as a whole, I do have the experience of residing a building that Phil Ballo "manages". The one bedroom apartment I live in is quaint, reasonable size, and very quiet surrounded by wonderful neighbors. I have great access to laundry facilities and usually well maintained grounds.

Over the two years there are been some issues which were inconvenient such as the dryer failing, bathroom ceiling caving in during a plumbing leak, and then the issue of the oven sparking fire that burned a whole through the metal part of the stove near the knobs.

In the last eight or so months since this initial incident I have called and the stove has been "fixed" three times. Each time ofcourse leaving gupy sticky drag marks from the oven being moved to be worked on. Which is typical as when the bathroom ceiling was fixed I had to clean that up also. Finally I decide to ignore it and then had surgery so my mother was here to help and she about flipped.

Again Phil acknowledges the problem and claims to "fix" it which delays the next sparking incident for only a few weeks. I wait a few weeks hoping this time the man would actually BE ENOUGH of a man to do what he said and fix the problem.

Finally I get smart and call the city health department as the oven was sparking and not keeping temperature. I send Phil a heads up, in hope of last minute action which worked on the last slumlord Giovanni Curuso, but instead I turn my air conditioner on that night and it reeks of that juice at the bottom of a garbage can on a humid day. He calls me that Saturday to tell me this at 5pm but as the note said only action would solve the issue. Two days later the health department did not even make me turn the oven on, instead after visual observation declared a health/fire code violation. I was told not to turn it on.

Day after the health code violation arrives in the mail, I come home to find MORE gupy drag marks through my kitchen. The entire counter dishevoled and some sort of wattage meter was on the counter. And he took the note I left about the air conditioner but never fixed that either. The next day I returned to find my note about reasonable notice of entrance was gone and that the entire side of the kitchen where the stove was did not have any power. So again I sent a note informing him of my reason for not paying rent the following month. But it was a Friday night so I was happy to just not here from him and enjoyed a weekend free of cooking PLUS eating out on him.

Sunday at 7pm a note is left at my door informing me of work beginning in the morning address me with the incorrect name and address. And yet again I left a note that the that standard notice for entrance in 24hrs and reminding him again of what my phone number is.

This time I arrive home to more gupy stickiness and two hours later a note is left for me. Slide under the door while I am home claiming he was never informed about any problems and he is not responsible for any inconvenience.