Tenant Reviews for 1145 BARRY AVE Los Angeles

This is an honest review from a real tenant. Community management at 1145 Barry Ave has been very disappointing. Despite being responsible tenants—reporting issues properly, keeping the property clean, and caring about safety—management consistently fails to respond to calls, emails, or voicemails. Community managers change frequently, creating zero consistency or accountability. Of all the managers we’ve had, Chantelle was the only one who handled things professionally. Since her departure, the quality of management has significantly declined. Safety is a major concern. Even after many requests, no security cameras have been installed in the outdoor parking area. Tenant concerns are clearly not a priority, and management seems focused only on business, not residents. All we are asking for is professional, responsive management. Unfortunately, Douglas Emmett has not delivered that at this property.

12 year resident and about to move. Management is the worst. I do not recommend leasing this place at all. We finally decided to move ever since a new tenant moved upstairs and its been a constant battle to turn down the noise level, water leaks in every room including our both bathrooms. We had a another HUGE leak today, fortunately we are moving in several days. For the amount you pay, none of the above should ever happen. You would have better service and attention at a Holiday inn.

I lived in this building for a year and immediately moved out as soon as my lease was up. This was a horrible apartment. A week after I moved in to the apartment, the sewer backed up into the kitchen sink. It took me around 50 calls to the community manager, Linda Alverez, and the Douglas Emmett emergency line to get someone to fix the sink. I then had to clean the mess in the sink and the kitchen myself. 8 months later the sewer backed up into the sink again. This is a continuing plumbing problem that management refuses to address. There were several residents in the building that were often drunk and screamed at other residents. One would hang out in front of the building and claim to not have a key and try to sneak in to the building when you opened the door and swear at you if you did not let him. The apartments are old and have not been updated and everything is falling apart in the apartment. Without warning, management switched the front door key and only gave us one day to pick up new keys in the middle of the pandemic. These apartment are way over priced for the horrible state of the building and insufficient attention from management.

We have lived in the building for 6 years and have seen management steadily decline throughout that time. Over the last year we have had 2 extremely violent tenants who multiply residents had to call the police for on a daily basis. Management's response was not empathetic or satisfactory, and I both cases took about 6 months to resolve. During that time we have compiled photographic and written documentation of drug use, verbal assaults, indecent exposure, and hate speech. Again, this was on an almost daily basis. I would absolutely not recommend pursuing renting a unit with this property management company.

This is an old and cheaply maintained building. The management cycles through new apartment managers every few months The management at this location currently is extremely unprofessional and unwilling to address habitability issues within their units caused by their own service people's lack of attention to detail. There are too many problems to list, but it was tolerable until the current manager Linda Alvarez took over. She is horrible

I lived here for about one year. It was sketchy and terrible. I don't want to blame the Zuma Housing staff, but my roommates (I didn't know) they were rude and uncleanly. Keep that in mind a lot of foreign (non english speakers) move in here. Which is fine of course, although they don't respect a respectable noise level. I never remember getting a good night sleep here. As for the safety and grounds of the apartment is wasn't really okay at all. The power went out in the whole building numerous times and I was scared to walk down to my car because no lights were on down the hallways, and the garage was pitch black. Super scary being a twenty year old woman or anybody for that matter. I also had tons of problems with the tandem parking at this unit. I came home to a random car in my spot one time, and the girl was apparently getting arrested and she couldn't find her key in order to move it for it mind it was at 11 PM at night and I had no where else to park. There are NO street parking like at all, so that sucked as well. The pool was un kept, and the elevator was always breaking. The maintenance staff was terrible, they never showed up if you needed something fixed, or they would just walk in without even knocking. Which is never okay at all. My roommates would always smoke cigs and weed in the rooms and never were nice enough to open windows. Also a downside that there was no A.C. Over all it was safe, but I wouldn't recommend unless you don't mind being inconvenienced all the time. Literally everyday.

You pay for living in Brentwood. $1850 a month for a basic apartment with a tiny kitchen. Yes there is a pool, but it is hardly ever clean. If you want to swim, you have to go two blocks to their "sister" apartments on Barrington and Wilshire. There is secure parking, which is a bonus. Now to the bad stuff. My apartment had a lot of problems when my roommate and I first moved in. We were guaranteed these would all be fixed before we moved in, but this didn't happen. It actually took months for our apartment to have adequate shelves in our pantry and drip pans that fit on our stove. The management also told us our heater in the living room didn't work, when in reality the breaker had been turned off. My upstairs neighbors were loud! I could here there music at all hours of the day and night. For what I was paying in rent, I would have like to hear crickets. The area is ok, but it is loud if your apartment faces the back alley!! I was just not a fan. I requested my number to be added to the downstairs entry numerous times, but it never happened. The management doesn't seem to care about this property since they have a tower right down the street.

they are great. i highly recommend