Tenant Reviews for 1745 N ORANGE DR

I had a wonderful experience at the Hollywood Biltmore. The location was centrally located. It's walking distance to LA Fitness, Fresh N Easy, CVS, the Roosevelt Hotel, the Magic Castle, Runyon Canyon and much more. The building manager was super friendly, approachable and handled any issues promptly. The neighbors were super friendly that gave the building a nice energy! Parking was included with laundry on sight. It's a great find for the price!! I highly recommend it!! ~Jason

I just moved away from the Hollywood Biltmore after living there for 3 years. It was the perfect building for me. I was a student at the Music Institute around the corner and the location of the building could not have been better. My maintenance requests were handled pretty quickly and the manager is very nice as well. The pool was my favorite part of the building especially during the summer months.

I heard this place USED to be something special. Not any more. Every plant is dying, management is a joke, and the water is off every other week. There are cats and kids everywhere, and water drips all over the garage so its best to keep your car covered at all times in the underground parking. Also, any time there is an issue, reporting it to the manager involves sending an email or filling out paperwork, then waiting for the owner's approval. Generally, he's not apt to approve much of anything that involves spending money, and she really doesn't go to bat for you. If you have an issue, its always "send me an email, I'll forward it on". No sense of authority there whatsoever. I had neighbors with a fridge problem and instead of replacing it the management told them they don't fix or replace fridges anymore, even if it came with the apartment; they'd have to buy a new one. You just know, if they took that fridge with them when they moved out, it would have come out of their deposit. Seriously, everything from the torn awning and the cracked concrete by the pool, to the rusted gates and the filthy garage, this place is in a great location but lacks any kind of managerial care whatsoever. The owner is just out for money, and he cuts corners everywhere he can. Sadly, it shows. Don't move to this over-priced mess of an apartment. Unless someone with better sense buys the place, I'm afraid this building has long seen its best days. I'm glad we're gone.

I really enjoyed living there. Management was very responsive. The grounds were always well kept and I always felt very safe.

Do NOT move in that building . Because when you move in you are on your own. Good luck with the bugs and rats. If you ask to fix something you are in big trouble. Not nice at all!!

I have been living here now for about 4 months and I love it. The place is being remodeled and they just finished painting the front of the building. It looks great! As with any building this size (I think 60 units) you get one or two strange people, but you have to face the fact that you chose to live in the heart of Hollywood next to the walk of fame. So, don't complain about "nut jobs". Maria is a great manager, she is very nice and understanding. I would definitely make the same decision of moving into this building again if i had to do it all over again. Great place, great location, pool....

I lived at the Hollywood Biltmore for three years from 04-07. There was constant problems with cockroaches, I reported it the Los Angeles Environmental Health, they never enforced any of the violations. Then when the rats started nestling around the central heaters and rustling around in the roof boards, it was all I could stand. before I could get myself enough finances to actually leave this horrible environment behind, the NEW Owners began their tirade of evictions, they tried every single tactic they could, even against an elderly woman who had been a tenant for over thirty years. Including serving me a three day notice to perform or quit when the owner knew I was out of town for the summer. Talk about about disgusting people to rent from. Fortunately, I knew my rights and demanded a healthy settlement from these slumlords. I won everything I had asked for. Deplorable ethics, racist owners who referred to -------- men as donkeys, when they hired them to help on the property. Good riddance!!! AVOID!!! AVOID!!!

I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like I'm living in a hostile situation (equivalent to anyone who has experienced a hostile work environment). A couple of my neighbors are crazy. Either I'm too loud or others are way louder than me. I should have known what I was getting myself into when I made my first appointment to visit the building complex and the manager wasn't even there. And the first impression I got from neighbors and building employees who I spoke to during my first visit here was very negative of the building complex. There's not even a neighborhood mailbox on my block to send out mail! I've got to go all the way to the post office everytime I need to mail a letter, which is crazy. No wonder the Hollywood post office is horrible and probably doesn't make much in wages, considering nobody probably wants to mail any letters! Especially if they've got to make such a trying effort. I'm most likely going to have to get a PO Box because the mail person is always stuffing my mailbox with useless flyers that I end up spending 10 minutes just to go through it and WEED out my mail! I hate Hollywood and living at the Biltmore is worse. Maybe some other building in Hollywood would be better, but not this one. I wish I had never moved here. The apartments are too small, you barely can walk around. You might as well rent out a hotel room cause atleast you might get better accomodations! I don't see the point of even having guests and family members visit for a few days because it gets cramped. The faucets are horrible. The bathrooms and kitchens are not the best. The interiors of alot of the apartments are not so good. There's no privacy and people are always in your business. Not to mention the creeps you've got to put up with on a constant basis walking down the streets of Hollywood, especially in the tourist area where certain people don't know when to back off. Try getting OUT of your building area with gigantic tourist buses blocking everything. Tourist buses should be prohibited from even being on our block, considering our street is too small for all of them. You can't even walk to certain restaurants and shops because the sidewalks can get really slow & congested or you have weirdos blocking your path everywhere. Not to mention the ANNOYING and harassing tourist guides!! The nearby gym SUCKS. And the nearby traffic is so congested I almost hit my car twice. The garage parking underneath our building is not so good because either strangers/ irresponsible neighbors' guests take your parking space or block your space so you can't get out, as well as, the nasty chemical leaks all around the garage ceiling that ruin the exterior of the cars. No matter how early I get to the laundry machines, someone's giving me a hard time about needing to use it because there's not enough machines. I'm better off taking my laundry to the nearby laundry mat, provided that I'm willing to go through the congested traffic and find parking each and everytime. The garbage dumps underneath our building are annoying. The building structure's weird in that you can hear every single conversation outside your apartment and hear every door slam. The parking around the building is a total nightmare. Oh and did I mention the drug dealers, homeless convicts, and murderers standing around? Yes, even murders have happened right around the block! Lovely. I refused to walk to Runyon Canyon cause of the nasty traffic you've got to pass by, and I don't want to worry about getting my head cut off in an unsafe area (yes that actually happened to someone). Neighbors move in constantly and move right back out! Nobody wants to stay here for long. Ugh... I can go on an on. Just not worth it! Can't wait to get out of this jail/insane asylum. Hollywood sucks! You've got to have some mental problems to be willing to live here.

In every apartment building you move into, there's going to be problems. And a smart, tough building manager or super is going to take care and HANDLE the problems! Especially for these increasing rental prices. This building manager has no 'bawls' and can't handle the tough problems that arise when it comes to managing tenants. This is such a simple apartment complex to take care of, compared to other buildings. I don't understand why the manager doesn't handle the problems urgently and appropriately in an aggressive manner. She's always leaving it up to others to handle the problems that are her responsibility. If I were her, I wouldn't care what other people think and get some BALLS to handle these ridiculous problems! She also needs to lay down the law to new tenants immediately after they move in or when she is showing the apartments. And she needs to reconsider the TYPE of tenants she has moving in here. If she wants to keep tenants for a longer period of time at such an expensive rate, then she needs to rent to busy professionals who can afford it and who understand the meaning of having a REAL JOB and not galavanting around, loitering the place, disturbing everyone. She's always moving in irresponsible people who have NO REAL JOBS!

The Biltmore is a great artistic environment with quick and friendly maintainence, an understanding manager, and retro charm. Perks are pool, courtyard, laundry, utilities included w/ rent, air conditioning lots of light, wood floors. As far as "potheads" they are in every apartment building in Los Angeles and I don't notice an outstanding concentration here. Yay!