Tenant Reviews for 3278 WILSHIRE BLVD

Horrible property managers I highly highly recommend staying away. They will NOT cooperate, they will NOT help you when the time comes, heck they DON'T even return your phone calls. RUDE and if they do finally call back, it is to say NO!!! NO NO NO!!!I even tried to escalated my many many issues to the owner and he won't even call me back - this is how much they care :) I did a HUGE MISTAKE of NOT reading the reviews prior to moving in. SO BEWARE!!! They PROMISED me all kinds of maintenance when i signed the lease. They did half of it the day i moved in, and the other half was never completed. They promised me blinds, but after signing they took THEIR WORD BACK! I had to fight via threats to cancel my lease for them to pay for new blinds as that was going to be a deal breaker on the spot. I should have known this first fight was a huge RED FLAG! OLD historic building with NO MAINTENANCE done WHATSOEVER. Today July 2nd 2014 I am counting the days til my lease ends. approx. $2000/month for a 1 bedroom with NO HEAT (heating needs to be turned on by management so good luck with that) NO LOGS in the fireplace, they will require you to pay several of hundred of dollars to buy logs. Once you do go through this trouble, you will find out that the fireplace is CLOGGED so the entire smoke comes inside the apartment. So if you take the chance of passing out in front of it, you will probably NEVER WAKE UP! No ventilation in the bathroom you will inhale MOLD. Laundry facility closed for months and months with no updates, when you call them to ask for an Estimated Day/Time of Completion, they will respond "Ask the city of LA we don't know" 3 months now i can't do laundry ... Gym is inside a DUNGEON underground with no windows nor ventilation. And that's it for amenities (sad for downtown LA). They also promised me free guest parking ...after moving in Valet attendants REFUSED to park my own brother's car visiting me from Canada leaving him with a bad taste in his mouth. Takes a lot for a Canadian to be PISSED OFF and this company easily accomplished this task. EASILY. STAY AWAY!! Call the Mosaic apartments, check out the Chase building you have many other options MUCH better than this ----. *** Whoever that is going to respond to my review "trying to save face of this company", I have news for you, BACK OFF and let the population know what really goes on in this place!

price is fair but the maintenance is a disaster. they don't fix things in apartments or building. the manager (Cec...) just collects money and doesn do ----! rats in the building

I spent a year and a half living in the Talmadge and had a lovely time. The apartments are beautiful and spacious, with high ceilings and hardwood floors. The walls are also extremely thick, so even if someone was throwing a party below me, I was never disturbed by any noise coming from other apartments. The door men are all extremely friendly and very helpful. The building even has a full-time handyman, Moises, who is available to fix anything that goes wrong or, for a small tip, help you if you need to hang curtains, etc. The building's manager, Camelia, is easily reachable and prompt in helping out with anything we needed. In the last few places I've lived, getting the deposit back was always a stressful, contentious fight. In contrast, Camelia was EXTREMELY fair, and we got our full deposit back very quickly. I think this is always a telling sign when it comes to a building manger/landlord. Lastly, one of the best perks of this place is the valet parking. It's only a little bit more per month than renting a spot in a nearby garage, and I kind of regret it's unlikely I'll live in a place with a similar luxury in the future. In the morning, you cal down and they have your car waiting for you. Coming home at night, you park the car in the front driveway and just leave it. Overall, I would highly recommend these apartments to anyone I know.

This place is awful. The management is rude and unintelligent. There are cockroaches everywhere and the maintenance is terrible. Way overpriced and noisy. Do yourself a big favor and look elsewhere.

I was going to move into the penthouse there in the eighties the manager was one of the most accomodating persons. And I remember the price was 900 mo. which was expensive for LA at the time and the nieghborhood was a forgotten one aside from the former I magnin and amazing bullocks wilshire dept store there my grandmother and I used to frequent. Still it was so very haunting and charming. I had quite a large allowance at the time but opted for another building . I took a known young heiress from one of the most important fourtune 500 companies there a couple years ago to look at the building as she, like myself wanted something old hollywood she wanted to experience LA in the way one would have lived in the 1920s. I dont remember much this was two years ago other than we never made it to the front door something happened so offensive that we left. I said we should call the management and I think we did but what ever went on she was appalled and wanted nothing to do with these people and was hurt with me for ever bringin her there. She then became reluctant to go see anything else I had to show her. From what Ive read on here the management must be only nice to people they like and behave how they feel when ever they feel like it businness or not. I dont know how to rate it because we never got to experiece actually living there but I did definatly get the vibe that its a little shady.

The Ravenswood is also a beautiful building, with art deco facade, crown moldings and a grand chandelier as well as an Historic Landmark Plaque (famous former tenants, Mae West most notably). This building was famous for its friendly artistic tenants, people used to hang our chatting in the lobby and the lounges, put on plays in the garden, network, enjoy a beautifully decorated annual Christmas tree. But since Talmadge took it over, there is very poor security, the lights in the halls burn out constantly and are not replaced for weeks, there are many power failures (we ve currently been without power in most of the building for more than 24hours), we have frequent water shutdowns, extremely low water pressure, fire doors malfunction and slam loudly for days at a time, garbage has to be taken by tenants to the dumpsters accessible only by stairs, the manager gossips and slanders, complaints are routinely ignored, broken fixtures are replaced with cheap, inferior products that fall apart in a few months and tenants are treated rudely and unprofessionally by the manager and by the aforementioned Camellia, who is every bit as rude and unprofessional as others have said. All this, in a building that charges exorbitant rents.

This building is beautiful. Great wood floors and tall ceilings. Aesthetically it is really nice, however if you are looking for a peaceful atmosphere this building is not up to the bill. The walls are paper thin, we could hear everything our neighbors did, from their conversations in their living room to their activities in the bedroom. The most uncomfortable aspect of this was we realized if we could hear them they could also hear us. Aside from the thin walls, there is a rowdy Korean bar next door to this building and you can expect drunk patrons screaming at the top of their lungs between the hours of 11pm on through 2 and 3am in the morning 7 days a week. A large crowd of bar visitors will congregate in the street next to the building during closing, as well as lingering out in the street to smoke cigarettes. Their voices are amplified by the alleyway on the side of the Talmadge effecting even tenants on the opposite side of the building.

I have been living at the Talmadge for more than twenty years and I am not plannig to move out. I was very surprised when I read the review about our manager "Camille". By the way her name is Camelia and she is by far the best manager we have ever had. She is on top of everything and she hadles all the problems very professionally. I asked around my neighbors what do they think about our manager and I heard only good things, she takes care of our problems immediatelly and she is very kind and strict that in my opinion is in our benefit. <br>I'd like to tell few words to the one who wrote the review on 01/25/05 : "You are the only one that has a problem in your had or you are one of the bed tenants that doesn't like the building rules. Just move out and let us live peaceful at the Talmadge."

My wife and I have been a resident of The Talmadge for 16 years. We have gone through three owners and four resident managers. Camelia Sandoi is our fourth resident manager and without question has been remarkable.<br><br>Whoever Mr. or Ms. Anonymous are and wrote his/her review had to have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed EVERY DAY or are on drugs. By the way, Mr./Ms. Anonymous, you don't even know how to spell the manager's name correctly.<br><br>Ms. Sandoi and David Soufer's management company have been exemplary in every way.<br><br>The Talmadge is a best kept secret in Los Angeles. Anyone who ever lived on the east coast will find a bit of NYC or Chicago with spacious rooms, ceiling moldings (that are not even made any longer), old-world charm, working fireplaces, hardwood floors, pantries, walk-in closets, valet parking, and a well-groomed garden that can be reserved by tenants for private parties.<br><br>Since Camelia and Mr. Soufer took over management, immediate response to any problems in our unit have been taken care of immediately. Kudos to them both.<br><br>So, Mr./Ms. Anonymous, we hope you're living well where ever you are. We certainly are.<br><br>Peace.........Out!

I am not sure how this lady got to be a manager of anything. The service I have received and manner in which she handles things is very unprofessional and sometimes very rude. I am definitely not the only tenant who experiences these problems with the manager. The doormen she hires are also very rude and speak english very poorly. The only good things about these apartments is the views, the floors, and the valet guys.