Tenant Reviews for 1300 S FIGUEROA ST

I am a current resident at City Lights on Fig and have made the mistake of overlooking the noisy and boisterous surroundings of the building. The security personnel are hardly professional and useless at best.

I've lived here for about six months. The halls are very dirty all the time-sometimes there is puke! The rest of the building is kept pretty clean, but there are just a lot of USC students here that act like it's a dorm. <br><br>The resident manager is a jerk to everyone-on some level, I can understand that a lot of the kids can be hard to deal with, but I'm not like that and he treats me like crap anyway. There have been a couple of new people in the office-2 girls and they have both been nice. That guy has a major chip on his shoulder though!<br><br>My neighbors have been kinda loud, but when I've asked them to be quiet, they've calmed down. <br><br>The Maintnance guy is awesome and really friendly.<br><br>I think if this place got a different manager, it would be a LOT better. There is a tv room for everyone to use that is really cool, but you have to go through the office to get to it, and that's just not really worth the trouble of being hassled and treated like a 3 year old. I will definatly move when my lease is up.

College students come home at 2, 3am turning TV/Radio/walking down the hallway in group laughing & talking out loud (majority of the residents here are frm the nearby college), and the poor building sound insulation makes the situation worse. The bldg is using a very low quality material/appliances and the workmanship is terrible: dryer broke 4 times in 8 months, oven handle fell off for no reason, white bath tub stain-up easily but hard to clean, the connection of each pieces of materials are not smooth...just to name a few. Yet they have the most professional and friendliest leasing/maintenance staffs. They are very attentive. Unless u r living a student life tht don't sleep until 3/5am, otherwise, don't live here. Trust me, I am a professional that work in downtown and lived in the apartment that is right across frm my office before I moved here, this apartment is definitely not a suitable place for a professional that have to wake up early and go to bed early, or to come home to relax after a long stressful day at work. Yet if you are looking for a partying place or a place where you might hear the fight/crying/complaining to friends abt whatever tht happened in their life apartment anytime in a day (even at 2-3am), then this is definitely the place for you.

Well these apartments are rather pricey. If you have roommates then the price is almost bearable. The view can be extremely spectacular or extremely ugly. My apartment faced a back alley where I witnessed such things as men dropping off hookers and homeless people peeing. However, if you get the more expensive apartments, you get to see the lights from the Staples Center or you can face the pool and it's really nice. <br><br>The noise from my apartment, I can't speak for others, is really a problem. Since I faced the alley, we would hear a truck play "La Cucaracha" on loudspeakers every hour or so, sometimes late at night too. It was extremely annoying. Also, for some reason, cars always come to that alley late at night and rev their engines and I can always hear the homeless people who live in the alley play loud music from a radio. One particular homeless man would yell random things (many times profanities) at very inconvenient hours of the night, almost every night. It was also hard to sleep because the lights from the alley was blinding. I think for other people who dont face the alley, things would be slightly better. <br><br>However, City Lights has its good qualities. The management is nice enough, and helpful. We never had to wait long to get things fixed. That is mostly due to very hardworking maintenence staff, especially Tulio, who is a very nice guy who would go out of his way to help you. Mail has never been a problem either. <br><br>As for other tenants, most mind their own business and no one really talks to other people. There is a good mix of USC students and downtown business people who live there. Besides from some USC students being loud sometimes (and for someone bouncing a basketball on the floor above us for a while) I've rarely had a problem with the people who lived or worked there, which is amazing in itself, especially in LA<br><br>Since the building is new, everything is beautiful and well kept. It gets repainted almost perpetually and is always clean. There is a spectacular lounge area that all my friends fell in love with. There is even fresh baked cookies everyday and a huge tv viewing room. The pool, jacuzzi and gym is also great to have. It was rather luxurious to live there. Everything gets taken care of. <br><br>Parking is strange because you have to double park if you have more than car in your household. For people with roommates, it becomes a hassle. Other than that, you get free covered underground parking, which is wonderful! There is even a security guard in the parking lot at all times, so its very safe. <br><br>So, if you can afford it, these apartments are nice and safe and in a good location. But be sure not to get an apartment that faces the alley, you will surely regret it.