Apartment Reviews for The Copycat Building - Baltimore

Bands used to play all weekend & huge parties were noisy all the time. Now the bands are gone, you can study & hear yourself think. Security is good but street parking is sketchy. You can pay for secure parking. The building is over 100 years old & was converted to apt. for art students to create art & live in. It's not suppose to be beautiful but it is very functional & you don't get in trouble for getting paint on stuff! Also maintenance comes whenever we call. What's the problem.

The landlord is the Prince of Darkness. Paint chips rain down whenever your upstairs neighbors carve blocks of stone or have band practice. You must have a "game face" and possibly a large dog to go out after 9pm. I lived with about thirteen roommates at one point, with at least three bands based in our house. I made artworks three and four times my height and I hosted parties with thousands of my closest friends and well wishers. I loved living there. I literally dream of it at night. Physically, CopyCat is like living in a ruin **** photo spread. It is like camping more often than not-- the heat doesn't come on until the temp dips below 32-- the facilities and windows are often broken. My neighbors were trust funded louts, detestable "punk" animals, romantics and addicts. The management, too, are ruthless and savage-- truculents, out to squeeze you for every last penny. Expect waits of up to three months to fix toilets. Only one floor is up to code. Living in the Copycat is like living on the set of your favorite film. The architecture is stunning-- 14 foot high ceilings, exposed brick, original crescent windows. Elevators that look like something out of that warehouse in "Highlander." The gutters don't work and there is a huge number of honeybee hives throughout the airshafts and roof. The building itself is over a hundred years old and has never been rehabbed. It is a haunting and lovely, dirty, mess of a place. I will never forget my time there and neither will any of the assorted drunks, debauchees, dreamers, idiots, losers and queers I shared the place with. I recommend it to anyone fearless. Anyone who wants to develop their character. Anyone who wants to experience a real life.

This building pretends to be an apartment complex. In my unit the ceiling is falling, I had a stove and now I don't. Management took them away and gave us hotplates for cooking. I have several broken window panes which were supposed to be fixed prior to moving in. Five months later, still broken panes. Sewer gas is leaking into my unit. Elevators do not work often. Don't waste your money on this place.

Hi, I'm looking to shoot in the Copy Cat but I don't know anyone there. If anyone lives there, could you please respond to this and let me know if it would be possible to shoot a 16 mm film on March 28th 2009? Thanks

THESE TOWNHOMES AR ETHE MOST SHITIEST PLACE YOU WILL FIND... LET ME REWIND AND START FROM THE BEGAINING. DAY 1 I WAS TOLD IT WAS WOODLAWN MD YOU KNOW IN BALTIMORE COUNTY IN WHICH YOUR INSURANCE WOULD BE CHEAPER WRONG. THIS **** IT ON A BORDER LINE AND IS CONSIRDERED BALTIMORE CITY AND CAR INSURANCE PEOPLE DO NOT CARE A HUNDRED DOLLARS MORE FOR DAM CAR INSURANCE... I FIGURED ME D DEAL WITH IT UNTIL THELEASE ENDED WRONG... ROACHES MICE MORE MICE AND EVEN MORE MICE WHO KNOW WERE THEY COMING FROM... THE CABINETS LOOKED CHEWED UP AND SPIT BACK UP ON THE WALL... BEFORE I GO INTO MY KITCHEN AT NIGHT I HAVE TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON AND WAIT FOR THE MICE TO WALK PAST AND THAN DO WHAT I NEED TO DO... ALL THE APPLIANCE ARE FROM 1640 BC (LOL) THE BATHROOM SINK WAS FALLING OFF THE WALL ANDFRONT WINDOW MAY AS WELL NOT BE THERE BC THE RAIN COMES RIGHT IN . USALLY WHEN SOMEONE BRKS INTO YOUR HOME THE LEASING I HAVE BEEN WITH COME CHANGE THEM FREE THE 1ST TIME AND YOU HAVE TO PAY GOING FORTH WRONG THEY DO NOT GIVE A DAM....... THEY COME HERE PUT THIS FORM BUBBLE **** AROUND YOUR COUNTERS AND SILL **** AFTER I CALLED BALTIMORE COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. BEFORE I CALLED THEM OF COURSE THEY DID NOT GIVE A CRAP.. THEY SENT THE EXTERMANATOR TO SPAY CRAP FOR MICE AND PUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF PINK CRAP DOWN POSION... THESE MICE DO NOT CARE... I WENT OUT YETERDAY AND MY FRIEND LEFT A BAG OF CHIPS ON THE COUNTER THE KIND WITH A PAPER OUT AND ALUMINUM INSIDE CLOSED NEVER OPENED BAG OF CHIPS... THE CRAPS ATE THROUGH THE OUTSIDE OF THE BAG... WHICK I AM KEEPING AS EVEDINCE FOR MY COURT CASE... I THINK I HAVE ROBOT MICE OR SOMETHING... I USED TO SEE LITTLE ROACHES AND NOW I SEE THERE MOM AND DAD WITH BABIES HANGING OFF THEM...EWWWWW... AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW THOSE CRAPS GOT INTO THE MICROWAVE... I KEEP MY HOUSE EXTREMLY CLEAN BLEACH EVERYTHING BUT DO THEY CARE NO MICE AND ROACHES STILL AROUND I USE TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT THOUGHT IF YOU KEEP YOUR HOUSE CLEAN YOU SHOULD HAVE THAT PROBLEM .. WROUNG. I AM A PRIME EXAMPLE... THE TOLIET DO NOT FLUSH RIGHT THE CRAP STAYS IN THE TOLIET... I AM READY TO GO AND HOPEFULLY THE JUDGE WILL SEE THAT TO... I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED... AND MOVING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PLACE LOOKED LIKE THE PROJECTS... AND ALWAYS HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE WHEN THE COME OVER... AND IT SEEMS LIKE ALL THEY WANT IS FOR PEOPLE TO MOVE IN. THEY CLAIM THEY CHECK YOUR CRIMMINAL RECORD NOT..MOST OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HERE LOOK LIL SEX OFFENDER UNREGISETED PROBALLY BECAUSE I SERCHED....AND LATLY MORE AND MORE COPS ARE AROUND... THE OFFICE STAFF RUDE... RUDE... I HAVE ASKED FOR THE OWNERS INFO NUMEROUS TIMES WITH NO RESPONSE FROM THE OWNERS... I AM SO READY TO MOVE... I KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE OUTCOME OF THE CASE

I am a current resident of 2 years. I have lived in several different units in the past (mostly sublets). The (new) leasing manager has fixed many of the burdens that were left from the previous leasing manager. Gated off parking lot, security cameras at almost every entrance. Parties have died down over the last year or so. Still very affordable (my unit is $600 for me and my room mate together). A wide variety of different warehouse loft apartments, that are seperated in four parts of the building. Maintainace is OK, you have to ask to get stuff fixed. An ugly building, but what do you expect it is a warehouse.

Still some parties, but only mild. I AGREE AND SAY: YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT YOU WILL LIVE IN A CHEAP RENT, ARTIST HOUSING. somewhat like a co-op.

great for responsible fun (no setting coaches on fire)

This place isn't so bad! I think it really depends on who you are renting from. I mean my rent is very very reasonable considering...and for example, I have a spot in the safe, gated lot for free. The residents are a little loud, unique, but what do you expect? When deciding to live here you are agreeing to live amongst a particular niche, so don't be surprised by the music, beer cans, or even...human **** in the hallway...it comes with the turf, embrace it. For me, the rent is cheap, the space is big, and I do what I want. I recommend it to anyone who knows what they are getting into. really -- it is not so bad. <P>