Nicer than your run-of-the-mill ten-unit place...
From:
-Anonymous-
Date posted:
10/1/2003
Years at this apartment:
2001
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2003
The apartments are very nice looking with fairly modern kitchens (stainless steel stove, double sink, disposer), but you have to supply your own refrigerator. Moving in is a pain in the butt since you have to use the back (freight) elevator even if you live in the front of the building. There is a lot of noise from the freeway and Vineland Ave if you live in the back, and the building is in the flight path for the Burbank airport.
The staff are very friendly and very responsive; some of the management staff and some of the maintenance staff live onsite. The common areas are well maintained (pool, spa, gym, sauna, etc.) and usually clean. There is good parking (2 spots for 2BR apartments, 1 spot for all others). They will accept deliveries for you when the leasing office is open (UPS, Fed Ex, etc.)
With 127 units it's a big building and there is someone moving in or out every single weekend so there is a big old moving truck parked blocking part of the street every weekend (and if it's not for this building, it's for one of the other 20 buildings on the street).
Neighbours are usually fairly quiet but there's not really a sense of community... the age group is mostly twentysomethings, who have moved out of their university apartment, or sitcom or adult actors who have made their first decent production and can afford to move out of their hovels in Hollywood or Van Nuys. The noise level inside the building depends entirely on your neighbours. We have been lucky, but we have one neighbour who plays loud music at night (in violation of the bylaws). We have called the security company the management hires and they are certainly not as responsive as they might be -- we find we get better results by going downstairs and pounding on the door and screaming New York City style. The management swear by the security company but if I were in charge they'd have been fired long ago.
It's walking distance from the Universal City Red Line station to Hollywood, Koreatown and Downtown LA, and walking distance to a grocery store, a Starbucks, a bunch of restaurants including all the sushi you can possibly eat, yoga, a Bally's Total Fitness, dry cleaners, hair salons, and a decent English pub. You can also walk to the tram stop for Universal Studios and Citywalk which gets you to a couple clubs and a movie theatre.
Get the longest lease you think you can deal with, because they have this 'survey' of apartment buildings like it (we've never actually gotten to see this mysterious survey) and they will jack the rent at the close of the lease. You can push back, though, and tell them you don't think it should be raised that high and they might lower it a bit.
We like it there a lot and we intend to live there until we purchase a home. The negative comments in here are strictly for your information -- don't think that someplace else will be better, we've lived in
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