The Victor Hollywood
  (formerly Hollywood Studio Club Apartment)

The Worst Place to Live in the ENTIRE Northern Hemisphere!!! From: -Anonymous- Date posted: 7/16/2004 Years at this apartment: 2003 - 2004   First of all, Hollywood Studio Club Apartments suck in every aspect!!! This place was a NIGHTMARE!!!!! As mentioned in another review, Lucy ATARIAN, the assistant manager has absolutely no social skills to say the least. I went to her with a problem about not receiving a package and she immediately got defensive. Naturally, I got upset cuz she could not find my package and slammed the door as I left. She then CHASED me down the hallway yelling and screaming profanities at me!!! All b/c I raised my voice about them placing blame on me for their mistakes!!! (Since the office takes in all large packages.) I had to threaten to call the police to make her stop chasing me. I was sincerely scared she was going to catch up to me and scratch my eyes out. THAT PSYCHO -----!!!! Parking was hell on earth!!! I have NEVER seen such a thing in my life!! My guests got $35 tickets almost every other time someone came over and I, of course paid for it each time. The noise!!!!! I can't even tell you how bad it was!!! All of the apartments surround this quad where the pool is located and EVERY SINGLE night you can hear thugs drinking and fooling around out here!!! And safety!!! LOL!!! Every other weekend (and I'm not even exaggerating), there was some kind of shooting and our entire street would be blocked off by the police for hours!!! And everytime I stepped outside, I got bumrushed by a bunch of piss-smelling Panhandlers!!!! And there was a drug-dealer or a hooker at every corner!! Maintenence was a sheer joke!! The laundry facilities were ALWAYS broken and they never left a note saying that it was broken, so I'd waste a dollar everytime!! Also, the fire alarms went off 4 or 5 times at around 3:00 in the morning while I was living there(which was only for 9 months. I would have left sooner, but they would have ripped me a new one with lease breaking charges)!!! We were awakened from our sleep and had to evacuate the building each time in our pj's. Grr... They were also doing fire alarm checks while I was living there. And for three days straight, from about 9am to 5pm, the alarm went off every five minutes all throughout the day without a break!!! I was so pissed!!! I had tons of work to do(see, I work from home somedays), and I was ONCE AGAIN forced to leave my ---- hole apt!! My a/c broke one time (in the middle of summer) and it took them over a week to come and fix it! I was sleeping in my own sweat every night that week. ARG!!!! AND when the a/c broke, coolant leaked all over the carpet!! Many of my valuables, including my guitar and some furniture, were damaged and at that point I didn't even bother to ask them to compensate me for them. All of the hallways, stair wells, and elevators smelled like piss!!! Also, you get dust in there!! More dust than I have ever seen in my life and I've lived in at least 10 different apt building before 'Hell'ywood Studio Club!!! I have heard many complaints from other tenants in the building, too. Since I was there, I had about 12 trips to my doctor. At first, we couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. But then later, I realized that it was the dust in that place. That place has NO air circulation at all!!!!! ALL this for a grand total of $1000 bucks per month (and mine was a very small studio with nasty carpet)!!! I have never lived in such a dump in my entire life!! I wouldn't recommend this place to my worst enemies!!!! You couldn't PAY me to live there again!! Please DO NOT even consider living in this place, for your own mental and physical well-being!! But if you do decide to live there, may God have mercy on your soul!!

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