Don't waste a beautiful brownstone!

Subject: Don't waste a beautiful brownstone!

My boyfriend and I have been searching for an apartment in Ft. Greene and I just have to take a second to rant. I can't even tell you how many brownstone apartments I've seen that are in tragic disrepair. It actually makes me so angry, these landlords who own gorgeous historic brownstones in a beautiful neighborhood who don't take care of the building at all. It should be a crime. Instead of rushing to get a new tenant into an apartment literally hours after the last one moves out, why don't they just take a month or two and do some renovation? I don't just mean replacing appliances and a coat of paint, I mean I saw brownstones where the stairs were crumbling, the doors were rotting, the smell of mold was overwhelming. Those brownstones will just fall down one day. I saw a garden level apt a couple of weeks ago with a drop ceiling. A drop ceiling in a garden level. A 30-year old drop ceiling that was not remotely the color it originally was. So gross. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I just love brownstones and it pisses me off to see people who are lucky enough to own one but who don't appreciate their beauty at all.