You've been warned.

We have lived in this building for a year and a half. Now I am wondering why we signed the lease for the 2nd year. While the place costs less than comparable places in West LA, the drawbacks are not worth it. Last year, the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night about 5 times in the month of December, not to mention a bunch of times in the day. The management sent out fliers saying that it was vandalism, but it turned out it was a faulty alarm system. We followed up on this ourselves. Management never bothered telling us that it was their system, not vandalism, and never bothered telling us that the problem, the faulty system, had been fixed. I wish they could have figured the problem out sooner, since I had to come in to work late several times, after I was kept up all night by this. It was ridiculous. This, a year later, same story, 3 in the morning on TWO SEPARATE NIGHTS THIS WEEK. As we were standing out in the cold at 3 AM earlier this week, waiting for clearance from the Fire Dept, one neighbor said "I didn't realize I moved in to a college dorm." He's exactly right. It IS like a college dorm. And not in a good way.

On the plus side, the ladies in the front office are sweet and respond to calls and complaints better than the people in management. The management is pretty awful, and is very VERY unprofessional. Ask to meet them before you sign any lease. It may change your mind (Barbara is OK, but Molly is terrible. She doesn't know what she' talking about. I'd guess that the more positive notes on this site were written by the management themselves, because I honestly can't believe a tenant could have had such a good experience with management.)

On top of all this, there have been multiple break ins. There certainly needs to be better security in a building this large.

User Responses
From: cepnoi	Date: 05/27/2008
$2400-2700 is what pretty much every other non-ocean-front apartment complex charges for a 2 2, and that includes Archstone-Smith, BRE, AllRes properties on the West side. So when you say "the place costs less than comparable places in West LA" - which places are these?
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/17/2008
you are right. I don't know what I was thinking to write something so nice!

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