1630 W. 3rd Street Inc. · avg 2.0 ★★★★★ · Los Angeles
“***BEWARE SECURITY DEPOSIT STEALERS, FRAUDSTERS*** Crystal House apartments managed by Anza Management company will do everything NOT to refund your Security deposit. Never ever make a mistake of renting an apartment at Crystal House apartments managed by Anza Management company. I leased a one bedroom apartment for 1,400 dollars monthly and paid Security deposit 1,000 dollars upon signing the lease. I always paid my rent on time , kept the apartment clean but due to a sudden unexpected personal reason I had to go back to my country. I discussed my issue with Guillermina Rich(Crystal House Manager) and she told me to sub lease the apartment with a woman named Kayra Darling who will keep paying the rent and after one year when my lease completes , my Security Deposit will be refunded. Kayra immediately moved in and Crystal House did not loose even a single days rent. I have been following up with Guillermina Rich and she had been asking me to wait until my one year lease ends. Now after one year when my lease has ended Gus (Crystal House new Manager)is saying that he will be unable to refund my Security deposit. Now that my one year lease is over and I'm asking them to return my security deposit , Crystal house is telling me that I'm still on the lease because Kayra is still living there and they can't refund my security deposit. As per California Laws, if the unit is immediately rented/subleased, the landlord is supposed to do the paperwork with the new tenant and refund the security deposit to the past tenant while collecting the Security deposit from the new tenant. Crystal House could have done this easily but they will not do this because they want to eat up Innocent people's my Security deposit. I am left with no option but to file a court case. **** BEWARE SECURITY DEPOSIT STEALERS, FRAUDSTERS, NEVER EVEN MAKE A MISTAKE OF RENTING AN APARTMENT AT CYRSTAL APARTMENTS**** DON'T TRUST ANZA MANAGEMENT COMPANY who is managing Crystal apartments. They will play games and trick Innocent people and will do everything to eat up your Security deposit.”
— 1630 W 3RD ST · Downtown“I lived at Crystal House Apts from 1985 until 1989. It may be completely different now. It was an experience I won't forget. My friend and I, both from Wi, moved to LA in Summer '85. We were definitely minorities in this neighborhood. This is waht we could afford. It wasn't all bad because I was young and "bulletproof", which is a good thing. I had roaches--Bad! I saw one the sixze of a mouse onthe stove. I never cooked there again. However, I learned that roach poison bait kept them at bay. The pool was okay. You could take a bus downtown quickly, if you have any reason to want to go there. You could also easily go to McArthur park and --------- woudl fight over who got to sell you a dime of pot. The manager at Crystal was white and extremely racist. I partied with her son, who got acid from one of the tenants named "Angel", a man who claimed he sold 'cid to John Lennon. It was unbelievably potent. The son eventually became adicted to crack and robbed my apartment several times with the keys he stole from his mother. There was also a drunk black guy named Roosevelt who got drunk all day long, talked, and occansionally yelled to himself. Police helicoptors flew the neighborhood constantly, and prostitutes took johns to the sleazy hotel accross the street. Overall, it was a neat place to hand out at, if you are young and bulletproof.”