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The last review is right on
From:
viscontitenant
Date posted:
4/13/2008
Years at this apartment:
2006
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2008
1 response
Okay, it's not as bad as some reviewers make it out to be. The place is generally nice. The problem is, there is this mystical figure called "the owner" who apparently calls all the shots and who plays the new management girls as his puppets.
These new girls have been running this place for about a month now and have already managed to completely piss off about 90% of the tenants here. Is it their fault' Well that's hard to say. When you ask them why they do the things they do, they shrug and say, "sorry, but the owner told us to do it." Oh yeah, and they love to blame the "old management."
It's true that they're hard to reach, but that's only b/c they have so many fires to put out - fires caused by actions instituted by "the owner." For example, shortly after the girls started, illegal notices were stuck in all month-to-month tenants' doors threatening to raise rent by $200 unless those tenants signed long-term leases. The rent increase was to become effective less than a week later. Many of these tenants, myself included, had lived at the Visconti since it was built - good, loyal tenants who had done nothing but make timely rent payments. After several tenants threatened to sue, "the owner" gave the girls permission to send out new notices extending the deadline to 30 days.
Last Wednesday, every single tenant at the Visconti woke up to a notice in the door announcing that all parking assignments had been changed, and that the new assignments would be effective starting Monday (5 days later). Apparently, "the owner" thought it'd be a better idea to change EVERYONE's parking spots than to take a few extra steps to find out who had too many spots, who had too few spots, who had spots unreasonably far from their apartments, and try to work something out between just those people. The girls candidly admitted they knew they'd be angering at least "half of the tenants" and yet, they had no problem issuing the notices anyway. Once they discovered they'd be spending a LOT more time arguing with tenants who were threatening not to move their cars, they sent out apologies and forms they should have sent out in the first place (asking each tenant about his/her parking situation).
So here's my beef with the girls - at what point are THEY to be held accountable' Why can't they think for themselves and use common sense' Even if it's "the owner" calling the shots, he isn't here - the girls are. So as his troops on the ground, it's their responsibility to let the owner know about what's actually going on here, what the tenants are like, and why certain things should be done differently. They should remind him that tenants are NOT the enemy.
To be honest, the things the owner asks for aren't unreasonable - he just want more tenants to be under contract and for all tenants to have fair parking. But the girls don't have to break the law and treat tenants with a total lack of respect. Instead, they can make both the owner and the tenants happy by thinking of creative, resourceful solutions (the old management was very good at this). Before doing something they know will fly back in their faces (and will likely have to be redone anyway), they should sit back, use some common sense, and think of better ways to do it.
Girls, do yourselves a favor and watch The Office - Michael and Dwight will show you what happens when common sense goes out the door. uWDgQKY3Vkv8FKIsB8Ax
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User Responses
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From:
Anonymous
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Date:
04/15/2008
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I'm a property manager of a luxury hi-rise complex in West L.A. You must be self-employed because, of course, no one should be subjected to following radical directions from a boss and city regulated laws. You'll just wake up in the morning without a job, that's all. Common sense could've told you that. IF you're too poor to buy a house in these market times, deal with living like rats.
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