AIR Communities

Good services, slightly expensive

The only negatives have been that the community manager can be hard to get ahold of, but she is extremely helpful when you do pin her down. My wife and I love our apartment and its location. It also has some great amenities, like a good (but small) gym, a rooftop patio with great views, and a theater room you can reserve.

Great location with very tall ceilings, friendly for pet owners. Expensive.

Spacious, Ideal location, nice management

It’s a very convenient location and almost exclusively occupied by students - I will say that it’s an old building, so there are inconveniences that come with that but the lobby is really pretty so there are perks too.

I've lived here for two years before I started law school. We really liked living here so much so that when we renewed our lease, we decided to do a 3-year lease to lock in the rent. Maintenance was excellent. It is slower nowadays because there is only one maintenance guy. But they do try to get to you as fast as they can.

One downside is that you'd have to pay LuxerOne for your packages. But that's a fair thing to pay to protect your packages.

Good space but the community is a little older than KJD community. Open area that has many pets especially dogs. Gym is good and right next to the art museum.

Living at Left Bank is a great option for law students--it's about a brisk 7-minute walk to the law school and is close to the Schuylkill River trail if you like walking or biking. It also has different lounges, including a conference room and a theater. On top of that, there is a rooftop with grills and a fire pit, as well as a space to "walk" your dog. The ceilings are quite tall, so the place feels very open and spacious, and many of the apartments have renovated kitchens and bathrooms. There also is a package room with a locker system, lots of garage spaces, and a decent gym.

I like my apartment; it serves my needs. The building is freshly renovated for the most part. The manager is very nice but can be hard to contact.

the unit is nice and spacious. The kitchen is great and we like the building, and amenities, and love that we have free parking. The two hangups are location (I'm a bit further from school than I'd like) and the soundproofing between rooms. We don't hear other tenants but you can easily hear between rooms within our own apartment.

My best way to say this is that you get what you pay for. $1500 for a one bedroom apartment is a pretty great rate in this neighborhood and it is very convenient for me to live within a 10-minute walk to the law school. And as a woman I feel safe in the building and feel safe walking back from campus after dark, there is 24-hour security in the building. I have no major issues with the apartment that make it a bad place to live (I consider a major issue to be pests, rodents, leaking, or regularly broken appliances), but it's an old building and that comes with its issues: the apartment is not updated, temperature control is tough, the kitchen appliances are old (I do not have a dishwasher), the fire alarm has gone off a couple times randomly, and I have had to contact maintenance for a few random things (but maintenance has always been very timely and helpful). You also are not going to get any amenities here that you would get in a new apartment building. The biggest issue I have is that utilities are very expensive, it usually comes out to $150-$200 for me per month. That's all to say, if you have lived in an old building before and come in with your expectations reasonably adjusted, it's a perfectly fine apartment! But if you have only ever lived in a luxury apartment building (or you're an undergrad with rich parents and this is your first apartment), this maybe is not the place for you if you can afford a newer building or don't mind living further from campus.

A/C is switched in spring and fall and cannot control the temperature so it is too hot and sweaty in the fall and sometimes winter and spring.

Biggest gripe that i have is that the issue with roaches (reported on very apt reviews for years) is still ongoing. The building told me that they were taking proactive steps to fix it, but have been unresponsive on email and don’t seem to care at all. I have been connected directly with the building manager twice and he has flat out ignored my emails. Issue is that the roaches seem to enter apartments via the pipes and underneath doors, so you don’t need to do anything wrong and can still end up spotting them. Can’t feel at home here as a result.

Beyond this, everything is quite unprofessional - i have had maintenance enter my apartment without asking my permission (management control the keypad locks on the door) and failing to explain why even after complaining to reception. Emails are regularly ignored, package check-in can take hours to complete. Concierge is disinterested.

The building itself is fine, location is fine for Wharton students (v near trolley to campus and close enough to Rittenhouse although it could be closer), although JFK can be noisy on lower levels (NB Philly has an issue with gangs of roaming idiots playing outrageously loud music and modifying their exhausts to create maximum noise late at night, so plan for much louder road noise than you would typically expect).

Such a wonderful apartment!

Pros:
Feel very safe inside, walking to/from, walking outside building.
The closest you can get to campus.
Nice, very spacious apartment. Nice hardwood floors.
Conveniently close to downtown and restaurants, including whole foods if need quick groceries.
Management is nice and quick to reply emails.

Cons:
Utilities are incredibly expensive. I have never heard of anything like this. You are charged you a flat fee (can be up to if not more than $150) for just AC/heat based on your square footage, not your use. You still have to set up electricity separately for the rest.
No in-unit laundry but laundry rooms on every floor. Laundry costs add up but consistent with other apartment complexes ($2-2.25 per wash/dry). Also, inconvenient that you can't reload laundry card through the app - have to use cash and caps you at how much you can load at a time.
Appliances are relatively updated but not the best.
Limited temperature control (heating/cooling turned off during off season, only low/med/high options).
Walls are pretty thin. Can hear tv/podcasts from hallway, people talking from apartment next door.