Tenant Reviews for 226 S BERENDO ST

I had been looking all over LA for a decent place to call of my own for about 2 mo. I notice that mid-wilshire/koreatown area had pretty reasonable rent prices a month. So i decided to check out some places online and came across berendo apts. 716. s I fell in love with the old world charm of it...also, exposed brick...woodfloor, new appliances. And to top it off....all utilities paid! Couldnt pass it up..so i moved in....a Month into living there...things were fine...ppl seemed nice...very helpful...loved that there were some of my favorite asian restaurants around the corner. Close commute to downtown la where i lived. 2 months living.....the creepy crawls decided to visit...ROACHES! they came everywhere! i thought maybe if i threw the trash out often it wouldnt be such a problem...but NO not even a half full trash they were still around...so i decided to buy roach bate traps....STILLL didnt work. I Finally brought it up to management, and the best they could offer is to cover up any holes in the apartment that they probably could be coming through. Another problem was the noise....you could hear everything thing...i work long hours during the week..so when it came to the weekends it would be nice to sleep in piece...NOPE...building next door had a trumpet man playing at the wee hours for the morning...EVERY DAY!! not only that THEY WERE TERRIBLE AT IT!....also had a man who would chant every morning as well....Kids are always running around up and down the halls...foot steps through the halls in the middle of the night...absolutely disturbing. Also if you have dogs...i seriously say STAY away...neighbors and there dogs let their animals release all there bodily fluids...ESPCEIALLY SOLIDS AND NOT CLEAN AFTER THEIR PET.....its sooo unsanitary..and smeells outdoors everywhere.... The pavement and streets are cracked and uneven...and one night i ended up steping in a pothole and severly fractured my ankle! I JUST COULDNT TAKE IT ANYMORE....i decided to move out after 4mo and management only cared about the money...at this point i could careless i wanted to flee out of there as fast as i can...finally the last few days i had with the apt...there was apparently an emergency to where someone was able to access my apt without my consent....AND I COME TO FIND THAT THINGS ARE STOLEN! I WAS LIVID!! i told RYAN (------ bAG) about the situation..and told me there was no proof...and nothing that could be done! WORST PLACE TO LIVE....EVER!!!! NEIGHBORHOOD IS DIRTY AND SO ARE THE PEOPLE!

My boyfriend and I were looking for a decent place, with lower rent so we can get caught up on our bills. @ first, things seemed okay, everyone was very nice and seemed very eager to have a WHITE couple living in the area. Only ONE week in, ONE WEEK. we started to see roaches, and soon after we had mice. We told management and they came in and fixed only HALF of the laundry list of things that we mentioned. Maintanence came in and set up mouse traps which were effective but extremely disgusting when the mice exploded all over our very nice dishes. (can you say unsanitary?) we decided to take matters into our own hands by humanly catching the mice and releasing them. About a month into our lease my boyfriend and I woke up with mosquito looking red bites all over our body... these bites were consistent and new ones would pop up every day. After thinking it was bedbugs we were told they needed to exterminate, so we allowed them to exterminate while we left town for a week. Not 24 hours after we returned home, the bites were back in full force. After some research we learned that these bugs are microscopic mites which live in all your fabrics. Now not only are we bit up from head to toe, our brand new furniture is destroyed since it is pretty much impossible to get rid of these bugs. When we talked to the supervisor about moving out he seemed very uncompassionate and only spoke of Money and how much it will COST US to break our lease. This location is very unsafe and unhealthy. Kids running and screaming up and down the Halls. While some neighbors are very friendly, others speak of drug use and selling of drugs quite often. The front door is the community hang out, so its difficult to say who the Hell is coming in and out of the building. If you like the sounds of sirens and helicopters or you speak Spanish, don't mind living with roaches, mice and other bugs, if you like being whistled at every time you walk out your front door or your into dirty Laundromats and dark back alleys this is the place for you.

This apartment complex is horrible. The apartment manager is slime and the landlord tries to overcharge for everything from parking, laundry, to rent. Only the truly desparate and poor live here. It is in a ------ latino neighborhood with gangs, spray paint tagging and loud obnoxious ------ latinos everywhere. The apartment is rundown and the rent is high. I constantly see tenants move in and out. They come in thinking the place is okay, but leave as sson as their lease is up. There is nobody here except the latinos that stay more than a year. If you are ------ and like living in the latino hood this is the place for you. For all the normal people. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!

This whole area is complete ----. You have to be seriously desperate to live in this area. SERIOUSLY DESPERATE. I lived in 130 North Berendo for a year and it was THE WORST Place I had ever lived. The building looks OK on the outside but when living there like all of the building on this block, it's overun by rats and roaches. Guatemalan Kids screaming all over the place and out of control. Taggers paint up every building on this block. It's ridiculous. Gang bullets are flying at night. Again AVOID Berendo or at the very least DO NOT rent at 130 North Berendo.