Belcaro

The advantages to living here are mostly cosmetic. The Belcaro is the nicest-looking geriatric warehouse in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The current manager is somewhat competent at renting rooms, but has virtually no people skills (hiring / firing five housekeepers in 10 months). She also lacks the patience and empathy needed to deal with elderly people with problems. She is unlikely to grow into the position; so she has shrunk the job to fit her: What's easiest for the manager is officially what's best for everyone else. She breaks her word as easily as she gives it, and proudly carries on the Belcaro management tradition of ignoring residents' disability rights and medical privacy for personal convenience . The building's master control system has been operating independent of human control for 10 months (examples: the sprinkler system rinses the frost off the lawn in March; the heat and air conditioning run simultaneously in adjacent sections of the same hallway). The 100+ mostly fixed-income residents pay monthly for the waste. Management is unconcerned and (so far) unaccountable for what many easily fixed mistakes cost others. The dog situation is unhealthy here, too; so, if you have one, live somewhere else...