Tenant Reviews for 630 S KENMORE AVE

I lived in this apartment for a little less than a year and a half and I loved it. The building manager was always very nice and whenever I had a problem, I could always count on her to have the maintenance guys come to fix it. I would also like to note that I have lived in a lot of other apartments and the building manager here has been the only one to do a pre-walk through before I moved out to make sure that I would get a deposit back. The only thing I could really complain about living at the Evanston was the parking situation.

I had been living this apartment almost 2 years, the big problems of this apartment are noisy and no parking lot space. For noisy problem, every moring you gonna hear noises from outside building, construction, trash truck and blowing leaves machine. These sounds always make me loose my head. The second one is parking space. This apartment doesn't have enough parking space for tenants. I had to rent outside building parking lot space for $85 per month and every Friday and Saturday nights I must wait for parking space because the restaurant which located near building also rent this parking for valet parking. It was terrible when I back from work place almost 11 pm. and I couldn't find parking space. For parking space in this apartment you have to wait long long queqe and pay per month $75. I can't wait for apartment parking space because I don't want to pay for street parking ticket so I had to rent outside parking which located behind this building. If you want to stay this apartment, I would recommend you guy (if you don't have car) this apartment is perfect but just 2 ploblems that you have to confront....

I moved in about a year ago to start law school in the area. I had probably spent about 2 weeks looking at apartments in the area and the Evanston was the last place I decided to look before I was going to settle for another apartment building in the area. When I was shown my future apartment it was just nicer than anything else I had looked at within my price range. I had been looking at a lot of the old 1920's style buildings for studios under $1k a month. New carpeting, kitchen separated from the main room by a wall with a nice little spot for a 4 person dining table with a ceiling fan above in a room. My large window looks out South into the little building courtyard, with a few palm trees visible right outside my window. I've liked it and will probably stay until I graduate. With regard to safety, I haven't had any problems as a guy. Granted I was a little concerned when I read the review below before I moved in about some guy getting shot in the head, but it's LA I guess. The apartment entrance is always well lit at night and the street is pretty quiet usually, I've walked around a lot at night and it's been safe, not a lot of people around. I've never seen anyone loitering inside the gated courtyard at the entrance. Koreatown is an interesting place. It can look run-down while almost seeming upscale sometimes. 7-Eleven shopping centers with valet parking full of Mercedes and BMW's every night for one of the 20 Korean BBQ places within 3 blocks. I don't love Korean BBQ that much, but I like the area well enough. Management was quick to respond when I needed my ceiling fan and light fixtures replaced. Downsides - Two things. Parking sucks. I've been on the waiting list for a parking spot for a year, I'll probably move out before I get a spot. I walk to school and can live with a car down here, so it's bearable, but street parking can be a pain whenever people come visit. It's not that big of a problem, but there is the occasional cockroach. Yea, I don't like them, they're gross. I have small traps down and as long as I keep my apartment clean I rarely see them. It's a decent building and area. I love my studio in particular, so if you don't need to worry about parking I'd say it's worth a look.

Honestly, it's an old building and the owner is inattentive, cheap, inconsiderate and loves to cut corners. We haven't had heat now for over a month & more often than not, any maintenance that is being done, happens on the weekends and/or during holidays when most people are home... HOWEVER, having said this, the manager is on it...or at least trying to make life here better than the owner allows. I love our apartment. Neighborhood is to be expected, given its proximity to downtown. And yes there are bums in the dumpster, parking stinks, things don't always work properly, neighbors aren't always considerate, and there are sometimes bugs, but I have to say, I still like it. The rent is alright and I think the area will continue to improve as there's a school going in where the Ambassador used to be. Lots of great food around. Some landmarks too. For dense apartment living in LA, I would say that overall, I would recommend the building as I truly believe it will continue to improve. OH. Our "Evanston" neon sign doesn't seem to work either.

Great, big studio apartments that are well maintained. But no patios, and absolutely no parking for guests. The wilshire blvd. homeless folks occasionally sleep near the entrance. I was a single girl living there alone and had no problems, but a friend of mine got attacked outside.

Not only was some guy shot and killed in front of the front door in the middle of the after noon....my car is broken into on a constant basis.....my apartment is infested with roaches and has been flooded twice....my radiatior doesnt work....my landlady comes in to my apartment at her own free will.....and is a rod stewart loving nut job. I think shes the worst thing about living here. Shes as sweet as can be the first month or so and then she turned.....And FYI when she says that its a safe neighboorhood and that there arent any shootings, its crap.

I've been live in this aprtment for years only thing that I like is the location convience for my work. Other than that it's a nightmare almost every month,I decieded to move out this month and I definitely don;t recomMend anyone to move here. You will be damm dissapointed if you move into this 80 somrthing years old apartment. I can tell you many problems with this apartment, it's not only for me it's for evryone who lives here and I can't believe people can live with this kind of condition. Problem as follow:<br>1. They shut down the water almost evey month or even evry weeek. becasue the pipe is to old and they need to repair.<br>2. every morning or every night when you take a shower, you will see some dirty water looks like a red color, becasue of pipe is too old I guess<br>3. Apartment smells really bad. Since new management take over. carpet is really diry & cockroaches all over.<br>4. There are two outside parking lots manage by some unknown company. almost evry night these young kids(LOOKS GANGSTER)gether and drinking alcohol & sometime doing drugs. Don't even try to call LAPD, they wouldn't come to this place becasue it's dangerous place in K-town.<br>5. For the past 4 months I saw 3 people got killed surrounding in this apartment. The last one I saw is last sunday jut infront of this partment's parking lot, this guy got two shots on his head and it happens just 40 feet form my window.<br>6. Another nightmare is water is licking from the ceilling, it's 3rd time already and it smells like a ----, water is all over my FLOOR and the management still didn't do anything yet. THE MANAGEMENT IS VERY MEAN, NOT FRIENDLY!!<br><br>I have so many more problems with this apartment, AND MY LAWYER IS PREPARE SOME LAW SUE AGAINST WITH THIS MANAGEMENT. I HOPE MY MASAGE WILL HELP YOU.

I first moved into the Evanston in January of 1999 and it was awesome. An inexpensive centrally located studio apartment in Mid Wilshire for $500 per month. The place had great charm and character which initally allowed me to overlook the single (ocassionally broken elevator)the ocassional roach and the fact that I had to pay $50 per month to park my car in a lot outside the grounds. The tenants were a mix of people which also made living there attractive. There were elderly people who had lived there for decades as well as young actors and others who needed that central, quick place to reside. I was a professional photographer and the building was great to shoot in and around. The manager even allowed me to do so without a problem. I was even allowed to shoot on the roof. Major drawbacks in the building were that they would constantly turn off the water for hours at a time WITHOUT prior notice to the tenants. Not only that but the single elevator was now broken 30% of the time. Sometimes this happened in scortching upper 90 degree heat which was unacceptable in an unairconditioned building. If the broken elevator did not make my climb with bags of groceries to the 5th floor easy, imagine the sheer angst for the elderly depended on it to reach the higher floors. <br><br>On one ocassion, there was a stench in the hallway for what seemed like weeks. The odor was absolutely intollerable. After weeks of smelling this odor we asked management to check for the source. As it turned out, an elderly tenant was found dead in his apartment after weeks of decay.<br><br>I lived only four doors away. <br><br>The first and second year saw many changes in the building. The sweet young manager who ran the building was replaced with someone from Central Europe who was not nearly as kind as she. She began to systematically post herself in the front hall and harass my guest who came to see me,one by one. Her attitude was outrageous. She singlehandedly offended my guests to the point where I just could no longer tollerate living under the same roof as she. Management did whatever they could to piss off enough tenants to have them move so that they could gain higher rents for the now changing price points in the community. I eventually had moved from my studio to a one bedroom that they could have received $1000-$1200 for but I was renting for $800 rent controlled. <br><br>In short the building had tremendous potential with hardwood floors covered by industrial carpeting, decent sized rooms and an antique feel. If only the owners would invest in not only the beauty of the building, but its internal operations including, design, heating, air condition, elevator system (s) security, and most importantly (the people aspect of the building) THE MANAGEMENT.

This apartment buliding is good compared to some of the apts. in this area. reasonable rent compared to other apts in this area. Apts themselfs are good in size, clean, clean grounds and comfortable. Heating units sucks (radiator). <br>Manager is nice. Now the parking is HORRIBLE! <br>Apartment owner charges tenents a monthly fee to park in your own apt.parking lot.Pagking lots are way to expensive,$60 to $90 dollars a month! The area is nice. Lots of places to eat once you get to know the area. Apartments next to this apt., down the street, does have some unlikable tenents, and that apt.is an eye sore along with the ajoining parking lot. Owners of the Evanston, also owns apts. next door. Doesn´t seem to care who moves in and hangs around taht apt. Needs to be cleaned up!LAPD patroles the area pretty good. They have a Wilshire security patrole, which is nice, but they should patrole also at night just for some added safty. <br>Tenents are mainly nice, but there are some that think they´re better than you.

Not a very good area, parking lot is packed on weekends w/ very unsavory thugs. Good manager, mostly respectful tennants, but a few bad ones cast negativity on the whole building.