Palazzo East Reviews
Palazzo East located in 348 Hauser Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036, United States there are many issues and complaints with this community/location, scroll down to the reviews section to see the true reviews for this location
Contact Information for Palazzo East
348 Hauser Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036, United States
Phone Number
Website URL
www.palazzo-east.com
Year Built
2005
Total Units
611
Location
Detailed Information for Palazzo East
Exercise extreme caution when considering properties listed by the horrible company “AIR Communities” on rental platforms. While their promotional visuals might appear enticing, prospective tenants should be forewarned of a multitude of hidden fees. Beyond the baseline rent, there are significant charges for amenities such as parking, water, and mail services, which often require an additional subscription. The following are crucial observations derived from reviews by past tenants across multiple platforms. It is imperative that you review these insights meticulously to avoid potential regrettable experiences.
Here is 20 reasons why you SHOULD NOT! consider moving into Palazzo East:
- Chronic Maintenance Issues: Persistent problems with plumbing, appliances, and leaks leading to discomfort and inconvenience.
- Noise Pollution: Excessive noise from neighbors, parties, and maintenance work disrupting daily life and work-from-home conditions.
- Unresponsive Management: Difficulties in getting timely responses or action from the property management on various issues.
- Pest Infestations: Reports of roaches, rats, and other pests in units and common areas, even with pest control efforts.
- Security Concerns: Inadequate security measures leading to safety concerns, including break-ins and theft.
- Inadequate Parking: Limited or mismanaged parking spaces leading to vehicle towing and additional charges for residents and guests.
- Hidden Fees and Charges: Unexpected and sometimes unjustified fees added to bills, including for basic amenities and services.
- Poor Quality of Amenities: Amenities not maintained to a high standard, with reports of dirty pools, broken gym equipment, and unclean common areas.
- Unfair Lease Practices: Issues with lease terms, including excessive charges for minor damages and disputes over security deposits.
- Lack of Compassion: Management’s indifference to personal circumstances affecting residents’ ability to pay rent or needing accommodation.
- Poor Building Conditions: Aging infrastructure leading to frequent elevator breakdowns and water damage.
- Excessive and Unpredictable Rent Increases: Significant rent hikes making the cost of living unsustainable for many residents.
- Privacy Intrusions: Concerns over unauthorized entry into apartments by maintenance or management without proper notification.
- Restrictive Rules: Overbearing policies and rules that limit residents’ use of amenities and personal spaces.
- Ineffective Problem Resolution: Management’s failure to effectively address complaints and issues raised by residents.
- Lack of Transparency: Discrepancies between advertised amenities or services and the actual living experience.
- Poor Air Quality: Reports of unpleasant smells, including sewage and garbage, affecting the quality of life.
- Unwelcoming Environment: A sense of community is undermined by unfriendly staff and contentious interactions with management.
- Legal and Ethical Concerns: Practices and policies that raise questions about legality and fairness.
- Overall Decline in Living Standards: A collective decrease in the quality of services, amenities, and resident satisfaction over time.
Reported Hazards for Palazzo East
Dog Poop
Mice
Roaches
Urine
Mold
Termites
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Reviews for Palazzo East
Dear Mr. G of Palazzo: Instead of contacting you directly, I like to respond here so that more public can relate. I already suggested to let the management know regarding your current outrageous policy and think about adopting new policy to Ms. C. Smith, your Resident Relation Specialist in writing. You can ask her to see my back and forth emails with her making sure that I fully understand your 'policy.'
This place is awful. We lived here for a few years many years ago and it was a pleasant experience. We've been living here again for the past few months and the place is horrible. Upon move-in, practically all of our appliances were broken and needed to be replaced one by one. Our dishwasher was broken for 2 weeks. The rents are exorbitant, which makes this unacceptable. The guest parking lot is always full with Palazzo construction workers, so our visitors struggle to park. The elevators are terrible--one day, the security feature stopped working and we literally couldn't get up to our apartment for several hours due to elevators and hall doors being locked. Guards are completely ineffective. Now we've been dealing with constant cigarette smoke pouring into our apartment (in this non-smoking building). Despite a month of complaints, the smoke persists. Would never recommend this place to anyone.
TLDR: Zero soundproofing in the floors and ceilings. Third floor apartment bedrooms are directly below penthouse kitchens/living areas, and you will be kept awake if they stomp/bang around all night. Shenny has zero empathy, is deeply condescending and patronizing, ignores emails, refuses to respond in writing, and refuses to put me in contact with the company who owns the property. Andy ignores all of my emails and is never around. Maintenance enters the apartment unannounced on totally different days than scheduled, even while I'm sleeping. - Very soon after moving in, it became clear that there is zero soundproofing between the floors and ceilings. I can hear loud banging, scraping, dragging, and stomping on the ceiling, at all hours of the day and night. These noises are so loud that I can hear them while wearing foam earplugs with a 32 db NRR and running multiple white noise machines. These noises occur on a near nightly basis, going till 3 am or later and starting up again as early as 5 or 6 am. This is a clear violation of legally mandated quiet hours and has caused me severe sleep deprivation that damaged my mental and physical health and performance at work. Over the course of ten months I have filed noise complaints through the resident portal, and I also have sent video and audio recordings of the noises directly to Shenny. The noises haven't stopped, and my complaints and questions have been mostly ignored and the situation has not been resolved by management. One early morning during quiet hours, I was woken up by the sound of loud hammering on my bedroom ceiling. I can't imagine what was happening up there, but it sounded like a literal hammer. A day or two later, I was forced out of bed when water started pouring through the same area of my bedroom ceiling, flooding my bed and floor. Afterwards, I went to the management office to talk to Shenny. I asked her if the building could please investigate the source of the noises, the hammering, and now the flooding, but she dismissed my concerns and made it clear that they only cared about the damage to the property. I re-iterated that this suspicious activity had been going on for months, that it was getting steadily worse, and that if this wasn't addressed by management, next time it might be even worse and destroy my stuff. Shenny then looked me in the eye, smirked, and said "that's what (renter's) insurance is for". Of course, no investigation or action was ever taken by her or management, and the loud, late-night noises continue regularly. I've filed more complaints, and most of them never even received a response from Shenny. I've continued to make it clear how significantly this is disturbing my sleep, and the negative effects it's having on my physical and mental health. I eventually went back to the office and brought more recordings to share in person, but Shenny began gaslighting me. She told me that these were normal living noises and were not violations of quiet hours. When I pointed out that these noises stopped me from sleeping and occurred regularly during the legally mandated quiet hours, she said that my upstairs neighbor just has a "different sleep schedule" and that I'd have to "live with it". When I asked for her to tell me that in writing, she stared at me blankly for a moment and then refused. I followed up that discussion with emails with detailed, specific questions about the situation, and she ignored and refused to answer nearly every single one. I'm now stuck in limbo because Shenny is now ignoring every single one of my emails and resident portal complaints. I have not heard a word from her since. Andy has not responded to a single email. My upstairs neighbor continues to violate quiet hours without consequence. Also, maintenance does not care what day you schedule work for, and shows up and enters the apartment on any random day without any warning. They did this to me, and entered my apartment on the wrong morning while I was sleeping. That was not a one-off event, they have shown up on the wrong day other times as well.
They love scamming! When my lease was up, I told them I wasn't renewing. I ended up asking for an extra week because I couldn't move into my next place yet. They said no because they had "someone else moving in". I said "okay, what all do I have to do to move out?" the woman in the leasing office told me I just had to leave my keys. After I fully moved out, I realized I was getting charged for rent. I went back to ask why, and the woman in the front office said "oops! The system automatically renewed your lease. You must not have given sufficient notice of moving out." ??? They forced me to pay 3 months of rent after I fully moved out. I've now heard four stories of them doing the same thing to others. They don't even need the money. Do not live here. I can't.
Currently living here. Would not recommend you moving in here! They repeatedly constructing the complex, which makes the place super noisy! Awful management,Poor lifestyle and on the same time super high rent!
UPDATE: You do not want to live here, period. I've been living here since April, and I can not wait to move out. It is overpriced, and the management absolutely don't do shit. Most of the residents are rich stupid people who have tons of money to throw and think they can do anything. People drive nice cars here race in the parking and always park at the space they are not supposed to park. Save your money, and find somewhere that's actually worth living and has decent human beings than bunch of sugar babies/rich teenagers who don't live in the real world.
The worst service I have ever had in my life. I've accidentally locked up my bathroom door and I've requested the service to open it. It's been 3 hours now and no one is showing up. I'm calling them for 10 times now, every time I call them they say we can not do something about it, you just gotta wait. Are they joking or what??? I regret so hard that I have a leasing contract for 1 year for this stupid place. really wanna move out now. Just learn how to serve properly your current residents before taking $3000 (least expensive one) monthly lease from people.
I used to live here for a year in a one bed room apartment which was $2490 a month. The management is HORRIBLE. They never answer their phone calls or return the calls, ever. I always had to go down to the office to get a hold of them. They never seemed to get to the office at 10am, which is when they are supposed to open. All the workers there sounded like they are so proud or something. Come one right. Aimco which oversees all the apartments including palazzo and park la brea is a piece too. The central office in Colorado said that I could only get a hold of them through email or fax. What kind of business is that? Customer service is absolutely horrible. The place looks beautiful but poorly constructed. Walls seem thick but they are paper thin. I could hear people next to me and upstairs fight all the time screaming and swearing. My dog was terrified of people screaming and shouting all the time. Dogs are very very loud too. People who live there are awful too. I used to say hi to my neighbors and they would just ignore me. Basically this is a nest of spoiled rich kids. If you are able to afford $2500 a month for one bed room, look somewhere else. Don't be fooled by the website or what the office people tell you. Absolutely HORRIBLE.
The gorgeous exterior of this community drew me in as I was driving the area, hunting for apartments. The resort-style pool looked nice and I liked the Spanish theme. Went to the leasing office to request information. A male associate told me he'd find someone who could take me on a tour. Ten minutes and two cups of coffee later, I was told that no one was available. REALLY? I'll take my moolah elsewhere. If you can't make time for me as a prospective resident, I'm quite sure that you won't think much of me as a resident. Too bad. Deuces
I wish I could give this place zero stars. The WORST community ever. Read all the negative reviews below. They are true, I have experienced almost everything people have written about. Don't move in here unless you want to shave a couple years off your life from stress and anxiety
If you can afford the Palazzo East, then you can afford to live somewhere better. We lived here for two years. The first year was great. It was quiet, clean, and the staff was super helpful. Any issues we had were resolved quickly. Year one was five stars. I'm not sure what happened in year two, whether the property changed owners or management but things changed. The property became loud and noisy. Dog excrement became a frequent sight around the property, even in the hallway of our building. The halls begun to stink of weed and cigarette smoke. Then, came the roaches. We reported seeing roaches and a few days later, an exterminator came in. They sprayed, told us to wait a week or so and alert the office if they came back. They did come back, we let the Palazzo East office know, and several days later they got back to us. An exterminator came out, the problem didn't go away, so we reported it again. This time it was a couple of weeks to get a response. An exterminator came back, then so did the roaches so we reported it again to silence. We finally found a new place to move but didn't hear anything about the roach problem for a month while we also waited to be let out of our lease. I know that it wasn't just us because the last two months we were there, the vacant apartment next to us was being sprayed for bugs weekly and they exterminator mentioned coming to Palazzo East regularly. That neglect on the part of Palazzo East to fix their roach problem led to us having to throw away all of our living room set because we found roaches in them when we moved. Like I said, if you can afford to live here, you can afford something better.
Do not move in but DON'T this place are really stilling when you move in everything Is nice and good , after 11 months that include more than 4000 dollars of coast that no one will really telling you it the entrance to the complex i decided to move out and stop let them to keep and charge me for what I never knew. Today they did my last check out inspection, I was again upset 125 for cleaning an empty 1bd 250 for small blind on the balcony door and 300 wash the wall it's not fair , but this is the palazzo. Do not move in you will be ripped
WARNING: This place sells itself like its some fancy place worthy of the price and full of amenities--- FALSE!!! This place has a quick turn around of randoms & countless times I've heard some serious domestic situations echoing through the halls with no security showing up. Speaking of security-- what security? Honestly, the guards at the gate are far more of an inconvenience than a security measure. The back gate, where I enter to get to building 3, was broken and wide open for a month and when they FINALLY fixed it- no ones clickers worked and nearly 2 weeks later they still can't be bothered to fix it. When I tried to get them to reprogram the remotes they switched out my remotes & then neither the exterior gate worked and then the interior parking gate wouldn't work, so I was worse off than I was before it started! Not to mention, they can't even be bothered to put your name in the call box for your guests & it's been over a year since we've lived here- calling, emailing every month only to be met with no results, just excuses and avoidance. They FORCE you into Direct TV & then the service is HORRIBLE- you pay for all the bells and whistles and they just can't deliver, but you can't switch providers because of some deal they have with a 3rd party company *which charges you again and again for coming out to "fix" things that continue to malfunction- it's a total rip off. And they don't care-- management couldn't care less that they continuously don't live up to the stated perks of being here. Once you sign your lease, it's basically a fuck you, good luck attitude behind false polite smiles of incompetent people, who don't know the first thing about how to make this a safe and convenient residence that lives up to the list of perks you think you get for paying the price. Oh, and the WORST PART... They can come into your apartment whenever they want, to do whatever they want, whether your home or not, whether you agree to have something done on a day where you can be there-- NOPE. Just constant notes saying "Hey we're letting you know we're gonna bust into your apartment to do 'upgrades' *which you don't ever see* at such & such a date/time." PERIOD. They don't care about your schedule, your privacy, your security. They couldn't care less. Just give us your money & fuck you. OHHHH and did I mention the constant sound of sirens & vacuums that surround your every waking moment. Don't worry, that's free. Lastly, after not living up to the list of things you pay for, they raise your rent every year... more than the 5% allowed by law & ride your ass for months leading up to the lease being up, wanting you to commit to staying, or let them show off your apartment while your gone to potential new buyers. No one stays here for long because it's secretly a semi-shady environment with no consideration given by management to live up to their listed amenities.
Pretty much a nightmare from the moment we moved in. The woman who showed us the apartment made sure to point out that the complex was non-smoking and assured us that any construction or renovations would be nowhere near our unit. Besides, the walls were thick and we should not have any issues with noise. None of this could have been further from the truth. The cigarette and pot smoke wafting from other units is intrusive and constant, despite numerous complaints to management (by several tenants, not just us). The neighbors above us regularly get into loud domestic disputes through the night, even leading to the husband being arrested recently. Management is apparently completely unaware of these issues, despite, again, contacting them about the noise levels. Other grievances include: construction (which we were assured would happen nowhere near us) often happening on holidays, weekends, and before 8 am Management taking out rent from our direct deposit twice in one month. Fine, a mistake. But instead of crediting us for the following month as promised, they simply took out rent again. And then claimed they had no record of the double rent from before. We asked to discontinue direct deposit after this, and were assured that it would be stopped. It hasn't. An alarm going off in the parking garage nonstop for 18 hours. When we mentioned this to management a couple days later, they "were unaware of any such incident." Trying to get cable/internet installed was quite an ordeal, as they were unable to enter the electrical room when they arrived. Maintenance informed us that the key was lost or stolen. They did not seem to understand how this could be a problem, or particularly concerned about replacing the key. It took an extra two weeks to finally get cable/internet. I could go on. A couple isolated incidents I can understand, no one is perfect. But this is just one thing after another. And management is aggressively ignorant of any problem, with no communication among employees. We are told one thing by a leasing agent, then something completely contradictory by the property manager. It is simply exhausting. The grounds are pretty. We were suckered. Please do not make the same mistake. Rent literally anywhere else. Palazzo is a hole.
My husband & I are current residents & we regret choosing this place as our home. We know a few of the celebs that live in the penthouses & for a fact all the attention & care goes to the penthouses. IF YOU ARE NOT A CELEBRITY OR AN IGNORANT KID WITH NO STANDARDS STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE. We have been here over 3 months. The noise level is outrageous because the walls are super thin. We hear EVERYTHING as if it were happening in our living room. We loose sleep every night because of the foot steps upstairs. We hear neighbors having sex, conversations that take place outside. Every door that opens shuts around our apt make our walls tremble. The quality of the appliances are crap. The light fixtures are from the 80's. They flicker & make the most annoying buzzing sound. The shower door leak water onto the floor after every shower. The sinks make gurgling sounds & dirty water has resurfaced into the sinks. Nerve wrecking! The plumbing is a huge issue including in the parking garage. Random pipes leaking water on to the cars & the garbage smell slaps you when you walk into the garage. The ventilation system is horrible. They have changed the filters however if I dust today in a few hours you will have a film of dust as if it were months since you've dusted. The employees from management, maintenance, & security are nice but they are conditioned to beat around the bush when an issue needs to be resolved. Essentially they are very apologetic & sweet but do nothing to fix the issue. I complained 2 wks after moving in & months later we are still having the same problems. After so many years of living in different apartment complex around the world this has been the worst! As I'm writing this review I am also trying to enjoy the sweet stomping noise from upstairs making my wall pics shift. Home sweet home if you enjoy this type of zoo. If you have nervous pets DO NOT TORTURE THEM BY MOVING HERE.
Do not recommend at all.
Worst gate keeper I have ever seen. Can't even speak proper English and trying to act like he's the boss of the whole building? No management AT ALL. WORST direction guidance ever. Makes both deliveries and tenants REALLY frustrated. Hollywood worse level of management
Anthill in the heart of Los Angeles
This is a week that I expect an answer. You should considered your existing customers as a priority rather than a jog trying to find new customers. My account is update daily with new amount ranging from $ 13,000 to $ 2,000 past due. I made screenshoot of daily error that appears in my account. Which makes me think of the incompetence of the people who manages the movements of the palazzo accounts, and that explains the numbers bad review on yelp. Today one more time , I lost my whole morning, has to wait a appointment that never arrives. I will do the research to find the email of the president and head of AIMCO, hoping he can take into consideration the tenants who keep the business AIMCO
The follow-up to our issues were met with the kind of sterile, corporate, anti-compassion that we have come to expect from this community. We tried to escape our lease just one month early so that we didn't have to experience further sewage explosions. But they couldn't understand why - their defence being "we clean it up every time"... We've since moved to a new place where everything works... The grounds are well kept... The rent is reasonable... And most importantly, the management team on the grounds are empowered to make decisions. I would be thrilled if my review deterred even just one person from living at any Aimco property. They really are a horrible corporation.
drove an hour to look at an apartment.couldnt get the girl off her but to show us over at East.she was too busy.really you have that many vacants and your too busy.went over to west and guess they didn't want to rent either .all 3 employees didn't want to show an apartment.what a nightmare.my family and I will take our money somewhere else.
I lived here from 2003 - 2005 and not only was it a total rip-off, but once I decided to leave, they trumped up all these ridiculous charges (like having to replace the entire carpet) and basically stole my deposit. I worked at 20th Century Fox at the time and was NEVER home, so to say I barely used the place is an understatement. In fact, it's 2014 and I'm still so disgusted that I've just now decided to write the review so as to warn others. Yuck.
DO NOT Trust all reviews below. Most reviews are written by residents who are eager to get discount. I was one of them but failed to get the benefit. The property is well maintained. But, some staffs are not professional.
I am moving out of here in 3 weeks and it could not come soon enough. Let's start with the management. It does not matter how many times you call or how many voicemails you leave, they will NEVER get back to you. The staff that work for the building have half a brain. Don't expect them to know the answers to any basic questions without having to run and ask someone else. The walls are paper thin. Their "security" can't do anything about noise complaints, they ask you to call the police. And if the police decide to waste their time, it's about 2 hours of waiting for them. The building has turned into a community of people that you don't want to a surround yourself with, I.e. A shooing and stabbing incident in my building. There is a reason they are offering a month free incentive... Avoid at all costs.
I actually feel like it is my duty to warn others of some of the blatant issues of this complex, especially those involving safety. The landscaping and the apartments are nice, the amenities are great, but once you live here for a month or two, you'll see it is not a nice place to live at all. -The elevators rarely work -The garage floods with sewage every time it rains and sometimes when it doesn't - Maintenance enters your apartment whenever they want, including when you fill out the service form with an option to call you before they show up for the appointment. They don't even knock, just use a key, doesn't matter if you're indisposed (which happened to my wife. NOT happy about this at all). -Speaking of entering into your apartment, they give out keys to vendors to go into your apartment alone, including but not limited to: the exterminator (which you'll need, more on that below), cable companies, workers for things that break outside of regular maintenance staff's capabilities. If you're ok with complete strangers who have not been background checked by AIMCO (the management company) not only having access to your apartment, but access to your KEY where they can MAKE COPIES, I think you're living in a utopian dreamworld where people only do the right thing. This is absolutely not ok for either privacy or safety. - Bugs. A lot, and everywhere, including the spa where they recently put up signs saying "closed for fumigation" (not even smart enough not to put that on the sign) -Constant fire alarms. Clearly they are trying to remedy this issue in a cheap manner because they are continually testing them and have to enter the apartments to see if their new systems are working very often. With a young child, I do not have confidence that there are adequate fire safety measures taken here. -Paper thin walls where you can hear your neighbors' full conversations -Loud Gardening very early in the morning -The door handles come off -The lights all buzz and flicker before they come on I've heard the management team jokingly refer to this building as section 8. I'm paying over $4,000 a month. I don't think that's funny. The staff is completely unprofessional, and AIMCO is the face of corporate greed. Sign a lease here at your own risk.
Never been there
Update. Tonight I came home to find someone else parked in my spot. The one that Palazzo charges you extra for. When I alert security, they tell me I have to park in guest parking and that's basically all they can do. Like I said, they really don't care about the residents satisfaction. Also forgot to mention that there is a big insect issue here. I see spiders in my place all of the time. Saw a big one in a huge web in the hallway yesterday. The INDOOR hallway.
********** be awarded ****** ********Management doesn't actually do anything. it's unfortunate that this is the only way to get their attention****** This place and the people who run it get worse by the day they will promise anything but...... till you move in and then ...leave a massage on VOICE MAIL ...she /He will call you back......And then Im so sorry to hear that .....yes but nothing Happen the elevator is still Broken !!!!!! THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ALL THEY DO IS PROMISE LIE'S AND LIE'S This place is a ghetto !!!! The elevator broke down every other day the management use cheap company to fix it ..cheap cheap .....YES ALWAYS BROKEN OUT OF ORDER ....WALK ...WALK ..WALK AROUND THE BUILDING NO ELEVATOR.....THE PART WILL BE SOON YES..AFTER 2 WEEKSSSSSS or More ..... thats a shame !!!!!!!!!!! SEE IT YOURSELF COME VISIT DON'T LET THE INTERNET PICTURES BUY UR TRUST !!!!!! CARRY YOUR GROCERY FROM THE STAIRS OR OTHER ELEVATOR !!!!! VERY CLASSIC BUILDING AND MANAGER !!!!!!! ALL THEY DO IS DRESS NICE AND SMILE THEN .....FUCK YOU LEAVE A MESSAGE ON MY VOICE MAIL ....!!!!!!! 1.the parking garage security gate is always open and broken 2.noise cars with music at night coming in and out ...can't sleep 3.rats running all over 4.pitbull dogs are there...please say no pit-bull dogs but i guess if you have the money it buy peace .... Helloooo ( we have small kids here..... hello ) Wake up and read the lease no scary dogs and dangerous.... 5.dirty elevators frozen yogurt cups on the floor at night ..... 6.everything is extra fee... watch out and you will see it after u move in 7.they welcome you with a smile and promise promise everything till you really moved in to this getto ...then they dont give a fuck !!! 8.cheap pool furnitures...orange metal chairs 9.spa water dirty..old naked man in the jacuzzi ..yakkiieeee 10.everyone can come in to the pool (no security check) 11.residence from across the building join in the pool and spa for free....YES FREE 12.hot days forget to find a chair by the pool ....park la brea residence welcome in with no security check every one is there no room to get a chair 13.night time loud music from cars coming in and out ..BOOM BOOM BOOM MUSIC 14.manegment sucks all they care is $$$$$$$$$$$$ bring me your money 15.police is always here at night ....fighting.... Sometime shooting...drugs 16. is this the place you want your family and kids to be here...???? 17.no pool party... no bbq... no nothing all the money go to the management's 18.the gym.... everyone is welcome don't need to live here.. just walk in free gym .... no security check .....do you live here ??? Hello ...... i guess they don't give a fuck !!!! 19.over price .....and welcome to disneyland free admission ............. mickey mouse for the kids all over .....FREE SHOW rats.....rats.... running all over next to the spa area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20.Pool water always Cold !!!!! YOU Don't need to travel to Dubai....WELCOME to my island full of arabs here at the palazzo ++++ allahu akbar++++ you hear them pray !!!!!!! Now you tell me if you like to enjoy the palazzo WEST OR EAST OR NOTHING This place and the people who run it get worse by the day. 🙁 good luck section " A " soon to come GO FIND A BETTER CLASSIC PLACE FOR YOUR MONEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE CHEAP HERE !!!!! I WILL TRY TO TAKE PICTURES AND UPLOAD IT HERE !!!!!! SEEEEEEE..........YOU SOON
No one showed up to fix my sink
We received the apartment with noisy dryer and the fireplace wasn't working at all, which they didn't know about. I wish they checked the apartment before we moved in. We're now in our second month and they didn't fix the fireplace yet. They changed the noisy dryer with another noisy one! I don't know what's wrong!
So I don't write reviews but I have to protect people from moving here. I normally think that people are just trying to be hateful, but be warned. I have lived here since May 2013. I moved here because I needed a wheelchair accessible place. Here is all the horrible things that have happened to me. 1. cigarettes thrown on to my balcony from neighbors above 2. lighters and matches thrown onto balcony 3. dirty underwear thrown on balcony 4. glass ashtray broken onto balcony 5. 2 umbrellas burned from cigarette buts 6. dirty water thrown onto me while on my balcony 7. kids spit on me from above 8. Just this weekend a neighbor high on weed broke water sprinkler and flooded his apartment, mine and someone else's damaging a lot making us move to hotel 9. After my leg amputation, I was stuck on the wheelchair lift 10. You can hear every footstep above you 11. When it rains or when unit above has washer problem, my front door gets flooded with water making it hard to get out 12. Management gives a lot of false promises 13. The Aimco company does not care about the tenant just getting their checks 14. The security guards let anyone come in. They do not call you to get permission 15. The call boxes in the garage are broken, and the door is just left open or you have to go downstairs to let people in 16. The community door to let into the property is open, and don't need a key to get in 17. Dog poop all over the place 18. The pool is not heated and is cold 19. Rude neighbors making loud noises at all hours 20. I could go on but I hope this helps you understand I would not move here. Lease is up in August of next year and I will not be here again. Palazzo West 6220 W 3rd St Los Angeles, CA 90036 I live in building 4 if that helps people And Aimco, please do not respond to this on what you can do to help, because even your General Manager above the 3 properties here could not help me. All you will get here is sorry..........
Very confusing layout due to the lack of visible labeling on building. Difficult to have food delivered. Guards give zero information and enjoy confusing tenants, prospective renters, guests and delivery drivers. The thought of The Palazzo Communities now fill me with a lingering disgust. I would rather be subjected to fatwa then be within these gated walls.
I've lived at the Palazzo East for over a year now, and boy let me tell you about some of the experiences I have had. First of all, most of the management is a joke and thinks their time is more precious than their residents. I had a professional musician/piano teacher move into the unit above mine. He moved in with a piano and other musician instruments which he likes to play throughout the day, sometimes for hours. I could hear EVERYTHING, every note, every scale, and it was loud enough where I wouldn't even be able to hear my television when he was playing full force. I'm a law student and having a piano player live above me is incredibly disruptive. It is also arguably in violation of my implied warranty of habitability, covenant of quiet enjoyment, etc promised to me by CA Law. I tried to communicate with the management several times, and for the first month of so they did absolutely nothing about it. I finally went to the manager and politely explained the urgency of my situation. I gave him over a week to speak to his legal department and of course he never got back to me, and then proceeded to ignore my phone calls for 5 days when I tried to contact him over two weeks later. I had to ask my lawyer to call and help me handle the situation. Long story short, the Palazzo was hardly sympathetic of my concerns, were quite dismissive of my needs, and resolved the problem by telling me I could move (they didn't pay any of the costs other than waiving a $600 transfer fee, which is ridiculous money making ploy to begin with). They also raised my rent by $70 in the new unit I picked out (which is essentially the same unit I had before, just in a different location). They were even unwilling to help me lower my rent in my new unit a bit or cover any overlap costs that resulted from me being forced to lease my unit a week earlier than my move out day. I understand this may have been a legal gray area for them and they felt they weren't required to do anything, but when you pay excessive amounts for rent, you expect a sympathetic, professional, and responsive management that works with both parties to come to a fair resolution. I guess that's too much to ask for here. The Palazzo never fails to remind you how they're trying to cheapen your experience day by day and squeeze every single last dime out of your wallet if they can. To the Palazzo, it's quite clear that they don't think of you as residents/customers they value, but instead see you as nothing but giant wallets they're trying to squeeze money out of day and night. I understand most businesses feel this way, but at least they pretend to care about your needs. For example, Palazzo used to have wonderful amenities and services, but those long gone. The days of water and fresh fruit in the spa, towels and snacks at the pool, and a water boy service at the pool are long gone. They're slowly cutting amenities that are basic and of little cost to them such as providing a water dispenser and plastic cups in the spa. However, instead they've decided to invest in making the front desk of the spa a retail haven. They sell bikinis, chapstick, thongs, nail polish etc near the front desk which they try and sell to the residents. Residents live at the Palazzo and pay inflated prices for rent because they want superior service, NOT because they want to be a tacky leopard print bikini at the front desk. Instead of fronting money to purchase unnecessary knicknacks that no one buys, spend that money to keep residents happy so they'll renew their leases! OH YES, and let's not forget the class action lawsuit the residents filed against the palazzo because the Palazzo failed to pay their water bill on time and got excessive overage fees. Instead of handling the issue themselves, they quietly charged each resident more to cover the late fees. AY yi yi yi. You may be wondering why I still live here. It's honestly just because I'm too busy to move, the Palazzo is pretty close to where I go to school, and I'm also currently looking into purchasing my own place. I decided I'd rather spend my energy working with a realtor than wasting my time finding a new apartment for rent. As much of a dump as this place is, I'm putting up with it solely for my own convenience for the time being.
Where should I start? Leasing office? Leaks on ceilings? Lack of maintenance on the common areas? Stalkers around the building? Cero security? Dirty hallways? Cockroaches? I'll try to be brief but they make it so hard. The leasing office is a mess, they do nothing about anything, even if you complain but they're so good at bullying you and threatening to evict you. They do learn how to treat and deal with people. There are leaks in the gym, and some apartments that are NEVER fixed, also flooded parking lots and apartments. The gym has 4+ machines that haven't been working for months, but do nothing about them when we pay a VERY expensive lease. The fire pit has also not been working since July. How long does it take to fix a fire pit? Elevator of building five has not been checked since 2017 according to the paper stamped in it. Stalkers everywhere and harassing married and single women yet they still renew their leases. Security? Non existent, Duke is the only decent security guard in the complex. Months ago some crazy guy trespassed the property and hit someone. A courier from a delivery company was peeing at 12 noon, right outside my apt. Last week there was dog poop all over the hallway. (Images bellow) BBC They also threatened me with starting an eviction because apparently they "know" that my dog is a restricted breed (which he isn't and we didn't know about his dna) they put me into so much stress and always bullying me with "I have proof and videos of your dog barking" but they do that to everyone! The only star that I gave them is because of the people leaving here and the incredible community we've created WITHOUT the leasing office. When someone comes to the tour around the complex, they make sure of pretending that they're a pet friendly and that they have attentive staff, which to be honest the only valuable staff here are the maintenance people.
We came in today to see the apartment at 11am for our confirmed appointment... we even arrived early. The security wouldn't let us in, we called the apartment leasing office, managers, etc. and no one responded... so we couldn't even see the complex. No one tried to help us and we were basically told to leave when we had an appointment confirmed for 11am... email confirmation and all. We're taking this as a sign to stay far, far away. What a mess...
Bad Service! i don't take time to write reviews like ever, Basically they have one of the best locations in LA (palazzo west), but because of that they give minimal if any attention to their existing tenants, there are other better buildings in the Area, For Example, Broadcast center which is ironically owned by the same owner has much better service, so it must just be the management of the palazzo which is bad! Thanks!
Worst apartment in the world!!!! Management here is horrible ! Please do not even contemplate living here ! You will be paying close to 2,700$ for 800 sq feet and will receive nothing but an old apartment unit, terrible kitchen cabinets (slams when you close them), old bathroom etc Countless times I had ROACHES in the unit and had to vacant for over one week (lost all of my food in my fridge and pantry) given they had to fumigate the premise. Once I had the fire alarm go off and the help line asked me to answer a survey after the call when I was panicking. We had to terminate our lease early and management made sure to screw us of every dollar from our security deposit! Do not expect to see a penny of it after you move out ! They will charge for paint, cleaning and the person doing the inspection will grind you for everything and say the apartment is not to Palazzo standards (BS) - the apt is in terrible condition! Luckily i took pictures of when i moved in !!!! Stay away !!!!
I have lived here for almost a year so I am updating my review. In short, I am moving out as soon as my lease expires. I hate this place. Everything I said in my previous review still stands with the following additions: 1. Rats and Flies. Like I said in my previous review, the pest problem still exists. Pest control came by multiple times but could not fix the problem. There are rats in my patio & window sill EVERY NIGHT. Rats made holes in my patio furniture & theres so much rat shit I never go out my patio or open the windows at nighttime. A SWARM OF FLIES everywhere. I had pest control come out multiple times and at one point the office staff called me and said "you keep putting the same request!" Well its because the problem hasn't gone away?! And also the residents are charged with "pest control" fee? 2. Impossible Management. People at the office are rude and not helpful. Most them are very lazy and seem like they hate to be there. Always on their iphones and quick to dismiss your concerns. Working staff (cleaning & maintenance) are amazing though. Every time you call the office with a question or concern, you will be rerouted multiple times, only to be given a different number which they never answer (and mailbox is full). They call themselves a "luxury" apartment, but do not operate like one. I have never lived in such an apartment that is THIS difficult to deal with. The management is pretty much my main reason for moving out. 3. Plumbing Issues. I have one of the more upgraded units (Naples Premier) but the cosmetic upgrades and new appliances could not help with the issues related to the old structure of the building. I have had so many plumbing issues which even til this day have not been fixed even after multiple maintenance visits (also it sucked because we have a newborn at home and did not want people entering our home during the peak Covid times. We had to live with so many problems). Some of the more serious problems were: tub leaking and flooding the bathroom (had the mats soaked and had me cleaning the whole bathroom which sucked), bathroom sink backing up and disgusting residue and food scraps from upstairs kitchen coming up the sink MULTIPLE TIMES (exhausted a whole bottle of Clorox spray), and the hallway flooding. 4. Noise Issues. The building must be really old because I can hear my upstairs neighbor's dog walking. I unwillingly learned so many things about my upstairs neighbor. The worst thing is that my neighbor likes to wake up in the middle of the night and use the restroom which always wakes up my newborn. Noise proof is the worst I have ever seen. Their rent is definitely not justified for the quality of the structure. 5. Ridiculous Fees. Apparently, they require a 60-day notice to move out and if you give notice anywhere later than 60days prior, you are charged the same amount as your rent with what it's called an "insufficient notice fee." Meaning if you give your notice just one day short of two months prior, to move out when your lease expires, you have to pay a day's rent for giving the notice "only" 59 days prior to your lease expiration. This is charged even if you don't actually occupy the unit for an extra day. I gave my move out notice one month and a half prior to my lease expiration date and was charged $1,545.33 as an insufficient notice fee! A $1,545 fee for giving a 45 day advance notice! Customarily, a 45-day notice is considered more than sufficient as many other apartments only require a month advance notice. They pretty much charge you for a unit you no longer occupy so that they make money off a vacant unit all whilst the unit is either getting ready for the next tenant (biz cost) and available to rent out. Even if they rent out the unit soon enough, this money is not returned to you because remember, this is a "penalty" for giving the notice late and not a cost they actually incur. I think is predatory and unconscionable business practice. 6. Utilities. Expect your utilities to double when you live here. Don't know why but water & sewer is a lot more here than other apartments in the area when each unit has its own water meter. You are charged with various fees by the community. My rent is $3,600 and with utilities (those charged by the community), I pay about $4,000 a month. It sucks that this apartment could be an amazing community given its prime location, but the management is just ughhhh. I am so happy to finally move out and not deal with rats and the management.
Do not move here. When we move out I will update this post and list all of the reasons but just trust me and don't do it. Living on the penthouse level I have been extremely upset by a myriad of things. I have yet to encounter one tenant who has anything good to say about the buildings, the upkeep, and especially the management. Plus side? Living near the grove. That's it.
Do not move here! they will nickel and dime you on the way out. I was a good tenant who paid on time no issues. They charge a bogus paint damage charge of 160.00. I had 4 pieces of furniture the entire time living there. they're calling 3 scuffs that could be cleaned by the cleaning crew which I paid them 150.00 to do paint damage. the apartments are expensive and they upcharge you for everything and then to use any excuse to keep portions of your security deposit is just bad form. 🙁
Don't live here. The neighbor above me are walking load and the sound ventilation is really bad. In addition, the new SmartRent system they have upgrading the keys with passcode access. When I was traveling to Europe, maintenance entered my apartment but I have not have any service request lately. There is not a notification before doing any service or entering of my home which was disrespectful. I called the leasing office, they just said that they will reach back to me when they get any information on anything going on in my apartment. But they never called back. You don't want to worry about your apartment being entered by somebody with no heads up and don't know what is going on with your home. And you really need a live camera to monitor your home just to make sure no one is messing up your stuff when you are not home. It's really bad this community gives you this unsafe feeling. And the community does not guarantee your valuables being safe even with this kinds of free, disrespectful entries.
BEWARE! READ ALL BELOW! SCAM COMPANY! I AM OUT $1100 for wasting my time and energy on this poorly managed company with employees who have no prior training and no ethics. Andy Tanner will belittle you via email so have fun with that, but don't let his rude communication via email make you think you're in the wrong because a true leader of a company would do their best to fix any issue regardless of the situation. He prides himself on customer service, but I have a chain of emails that would make people cringe coming from a person who leases apartments... I'm sorry, but I don't want people to ever go through the nightmare that I have had this week with AIMCO employees and Palazzo East Apartments. Don't let the "luxury" amenities trick you and read previous yelp reviews before setting up a tour here because there's so many BETTER places in Los Angeles that will be respectful and act ethically. please read below. $1100 charge straight to their account and it will almost be an entire week without receiving my money back. They make you wait an apparent 10 days after "application" for money they fail to tell you they are taking before being approved. Has anyone seen their brochure? It says $1000(on approved credit) and they claim they don't mislead? Only getting $1000 back because we did an "application" that was "denied" that costs $100. The manager could not even send me confirmation that I approved this charge, but threatened me with saying he'd contact local law enforcement because I am making this up? They never sent us any confirmation that our application even existed by the way. Most apartments send immediate documentation..we would know we got a place just as expensive down the street the next day with the same credit, same income, just the two of us with no hassle or unauthorized charges. Luckily, we could scrape together money for an actual holding deposit that was not taken prior to approval, but I'm still waiting on my hard earned money that should have never been taken in the first place from Aimco. Can you imagine if every apartment took $1000 without telling you or having youl you Ty sign your signature while applying for an apartment without disclosing that in the beginning of the application. I would have left had I known! Message me for more details on my experience with terrible management and attacks via email from Aimco's supposed "manager" who fake advertises that he first No credit ran or verified, 0 documentation sent to us regarding anything about our "denied application" that the manager said he would expose because I said I'd be telling my large LA network about this place. That actually happened. It is actually comical that a leasing manager would say that. I'm not ashamed of a denied application nor was that ever the issue. I am actually relieved that I dodged a bullet with this apartment complex and Aimco! For the record, incase Aimco still wants to email attack me- all I wanted was my money back, but they are taking their sweet time when it's been sitting in their account all week. Funny how that works right? ? Message me for questions! GOOD LUCK! Stay away from Palazzo!! I promise you. This place will not get any better as long as they have employees who act like you're beneath them.
I live at the penthouse palazzo WEST and i am paying almost $5000 monthly for the worst management ever. The people who works at the leasing office are horrible. I had to call them more than 8 times to get along with someone. Poor communication with the residents. The maintenance were great for a while then they start being as bad as the leasing office. I stayed for 4 days with no hot water.
Over-priced, and rent goes up EVERY year, no negotiations. Horrible leasing office staff; incompetent & no customer service skills. Not recommend these apartments to anyone. Huge waste of money. Very Disappointed.
I've been living at the Palazzo East for exactly one year. My apartment had a flood due to one of the pipes breaking and apparently it was the fault of a construction company who was working on something. Long story short, my apartment was flooded and not livable and everything was damaged. Insurnace was only able to cover a week or so. Palazzo East did not cover my rent when my entire apartment was affected and I had to take days off of work and months to get my apartment back to how it looked prior to the flood. Customer service was terrible. The building refused to cover the remains portion of my rent. This is not a place I will recommend to anyone. With all the stress and time off of work; getting my apartment back to a livable comfortable, clean, place the least they could have done was cover the remaining portion of my rent since it was there own contractor company that they hired. It is unfortunate to write this negative review but I want people to know that floods are VERY common here and they will not care to help you out with the rent and just ask you to go through insurance. Multiple people have told me they dealt with water pipe burst. I have spoken to an attorney and will be filing a lawsuit. Also when I moved in the unit was not complete, dirty and they never responded to my emails when I emailed them. Lastly, there are Airbnb units in the building. Think twice before renting from this building.
We moved in about 6 weeks ago and in those 6 weeks I've dealt with the noisiest most obnoxious neighbors that party until 5am AND at this very moment I'm listening to other neighbors drill and do what sounds like extensive construction at 11pm at night. I also have smoke and the smell of smoke (weed and cigarettes) coming through my vents and under the sink cabinets nearly every day. I thought it was a smoke-free property. We were sold a total lie. The people that live here have no courtesy for others. It's like a frat house.
Dont come here if you think this is a smoke free community. It is a plain lie. The manager Matthew Turner is extremely unreliable. I have been living here for a fee years paying their extremely high rent with yearly increases. For the past year there has been marijuana smoke coming into our bathroom from one of the vents. I have contacted the manager multiple times and the complaint has fallen on deaf ears. Mr Turner simply tells me that the fine print in the lease states that Palazzo cannot promise a smoke free environment. For around $4000 a month, I expect much more from this place. Stay away!
What a mistake it was to signup for a 1-year lease at Palazzo East. BEWARE! BEWARE! If you are asian, you will constantly face passive and active racism. I signed up after this Asian sales lady showed me around. The complex is clean and beautiful, although I think it could be better at such high rent. They charge extra for little amenities, like bringing friends to the gym or $250 for additional parking spot. VERY EXPENSIVE! Rent itself is very high, almost $3000 per month for one-bedroom apartment. YIKES!! The people at the office are nice and friendly towards everyone, but the few asian residents. The residents themselves are a whole another story. I have heard on more than one occasion, of residents making fun of the very few Asian residents that live in this complex. Racist jokes and passive racism towards Asians is pervasive at Palazzo east. This is definitely NOT a friendly community for Asians. Do not be fooled by the asian sales lady who works in the office. I'd rather live across the street in Park La Brea, where the rent is half ($1900 for 2 bedroom) and I never have to deal with racism. I have asian friends who live in Park La Brea and they love it there. They also have heard stories of racism coming from Palazzo East. They have another location Palazzo West, I don't know if it is any better. IF YOU ARE ASIAN and don't want to deal with the constant racism on a daily basis; at the pool, in the elevator, in the parking garage, at the gym, at the rental office, or just in general from most residents, then DO NOT MOVE HERE. I'd love to move out now, but they charge ridiculous amounts of money to terminate the lease. Cannot wait until August, when my lease is up ... If you are White or Persian, this place will be perfect for you.
Leasing office is terrible ! Almost impossible to reach ! So unprofessional they only care about leasing new residents as soon as they get your money they will prioritize ew residents. They gave my parking spot to new resident even though I was living in the apartment for a year and half !!!! And paying for it without even letting me know. When you try to move out very unhelpful ! Terrible service DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!
Despite the negative reviews online we decided to pursue seeing this property. We called four days in advance to schedule to see a 3 bedroom unit on Saturday. When we arrived for our appointment there weren't any 3 bedroom units to see. Believe what you read. ...
I am a returning resident i resided there 2 years ago. Management has went down the drain. I decided to move in a penthouse location so I can have That experience and let's just say this building Management is Horrendous. I have been living here a little over two months, and the elevator is still in operable. Last week both elevators was down, so I literally had no way to get into the parking garage. My toilets have been out. It was a defective toilet therefore two toilets didn't flush in the house. The showers were clogged up and poop would come up through the showers. I pay over 5500 per month and this is what I'm dealing with For a 2 bedroo. Shenny Ramariez is poor representation for Aimco. She lack empathy and is very condescending how she deliberates. Everyone is Extremely nice until you move in then the Real comes out. Lastly theor is a couple of long-term resident who bully other residents particularly African American and Management has nothing to stop it. I am requesting a callback from Timothy or Andy.
DO NOT LIVE HERE - understantement of the year. I lived here for 2 years. I completely agree with Takent A and Jenn H's assessment of the quality of life. Rules only seem to be selectively enforced and only when its convenient for the management. On my first week, I had a UPS package stolen from my doorstep. Managenment was completely unhelpful and rude. The rudeness seemed to be persistent as well as pervasive. Then there's the noise. The walls are so extremely thin. The tenant above me is constantly stomping on the floor at all hours of the night and day. I brought the issue to management who were unable to remedy the situation. I was told verbatim from an assistant manager that "the tenant is getting tired of our reminders." Nothing was ever done about the situation because management basically grew tired of me telling them about this extremely noisey tenant above me. It really was the prime motivator for deciding to move out Then, there is constant noise from other tenants in the courtyard from people singing or having loud conversations at all hours of the night. Very little is ever done about that. Then there's the constant short circuits that set off the fire alarms at all hours of the day and night. Nothing's ever been done to fix that. People leave dog feces in the hallways and the doggie park. Nothing is done about that. Oh, and a few times, my 12lb dog and I were pretty much malled by my neighbor's much larger dog (apparently there are no weight restrictions on dogs anymore). When I reported this to the manager, she said she was going to suggest "obedience classes." Nothing ever came of it, and we had to live out the rest of our time there evading Cujo. Other tenants make it a habit of leaving their garbage out in public - next to waste paper baskets. Nothin was done about that. Maintanence/Cleaning staff constantly make noise late at night. Nothing is ever done ablout that. Consildated Smart Systems provides the worst services and apparently because the entire building uses them, there are bandwidth issues which means you may or may not get service, especially when you need it. And forget trying to get a service appointment with them. Yet, when I gave notice that I was moving out, Alisha only wanted to schedule my inspection for times that were during my working hours. I work a 9-5 job, but apparently, that's an inconvenience for her. I was told that I didn't need to be present for the inspection. Seriously? Of course I want to be present. And finally, there is the issue of rules being made up as management goes along. When I moved out, my original movers decided not to show up. I had to scramble to find the only available movers to come the next day. When they arrived, they were refused access to the loading area because they arrived at 8AM (the only time I could get them to come) and weren't allowed in until 10am. THere was absolutely NO reason for this. Not a singly vehicle was in the area and no one would have been inconvenienced. Of course this new rule was something never communicated to anyone at any time...and I wasn't even provides a reasonable explanation for it. I was told to "call the office" at 8am on Sunday when of course no one was there...and of course the guard refused to call the building manager - because accomodation is not something that's well-regarded by management or their staff. Its ok for constant noise above my head at all hours of the day and night, loud balcony parties, dog feces, garbage in the halls...but god forbid my movers come and want to park quietly in the loading area while they pack up my apartment...apparently that's too much to be tolerated. In the end, they parked in the lot next door, packed up my things, brought them out to the loading zone and at 10am loaded the truck. Not a single tenant was inconvenience or disturbed. This is exactly how the move would have been handled with or without the truck being parked in the loading zone. All of the consternation was just entirely unecessary. I am just glad to be out of there. Don't make the same mistake I made. Go elsewhere.
Imagine paying around $3500 for a one bedroom and now you have to pay for guest parking. What makes it worse is that in the email they make it sound like it was our idea as a community for them to do this. Move here if you don't mind being nickel and dimed for basic needs.
Terribly overpriced for such small rooms. Neighbours smoke despite being a smoke-free apartment and the service never help.
I have asked maintenance to come for over 3 weeks now to put in another hanging rod in my closet. They told me during move-in that this was an easy fix and they just needed more rods to be shipped so they would come in a week. Fast forward 3 weeks later a maintenance man comes over and reassesses my request and tells me it will be another week before the hanging rod can be put in. When I was not home, a maintenance man came over and installed 3 shelves. I never asked for shelves and already removed the ones in that area. Now I have 6 shelves and still no hanging rod.
Just saw a rat running through my living room. 2nd time in 2 years! According to other residents, we are not the only ones dealing with this problem!! I really like living here when things are good, but when things are bad -it's horrible and I cant take it anymore!!! Bad - 2 times my apartment was flooded due to a fault of a neighbor, not ours. They forced us out of the apartment both times and displaced us for at least 1 week each time. Initially management refused to provide alternate housing/pay for hotels, offered absolutely nothing and directed us to contact the insurance company. We really had to fight tooth and nail (even emailing the CEO of Aimco) to even get our rent prorated for the period we were displaced, and we know that most people do not even get that. Very stressful experience. Bad - 2 times in 2 years, we find a rat in our apartment! First time, my wife saw a live rat in our toilet bowl (we have a picture to prove it!). Just now - saw a rat run across my living room and had to kick it out through the front door. I cant stand rodents!!! There are also massive standing water puddles everywhere in the garage and it never gets fixed quickly. Good - building is pretty quiet and walls are pretty insulated except for the wall sharing the hallways. Double-pain windows are good too and prevents outside noise. Good - apartment building is always being cleaned. So how do rats get in here? I think it's because it floods all the time in different parts of the complex and the standing water attract rodents during hot days. Staff - this is a very large complex with many tenant requests. They can't service so many tenants, it's virtually impossible. This is why this should not be called a luxury apartment because they cant give you personal attention.
Had one of your residents nearly run me over with their car, then threatened me with a weapon near the south driveway entrance. There's no security camera to have tracked the incident. Went to leasing office to address this and the girls in the office just gave blank stares no apologies and just said we have no control over what our residents say.
This building does not even deserve a 1 star rating it is a COMPLETE FUCKING SHIT HOLE with the most DISCOURTEOUS AND DISMISSIVE leasing staff. DO NOT SIGN A LEASE HERE, if you do, YOU WILL REGRET IT. I have lived here for 2.5 years and am finally moving out after being suckered into a second lease term. Throughout the duration of both of my lease terms, the building has made a complete 180 in all of their attempts to please the residents. THEY ARE AWFUL to say the least! They STEAL your money, pull from your payment accounts at random, and have gone through three property managers and multiple leasing/staff members. There has been multiple shootings (including a suicide/murder) - which they notified residents about via email claiming it to be a "domestic incident," AND multiple stabbings and burglaries - all of which they do NOTHING about. This building deserves to be put out of business. Their 24 hour security is COMPLETE HORSE CRAP. Half the security doesn't speak English and it takes them 45 minutes on average to tend to any minor issues i.e., cars being parked in your personal spot THAT YOU PAY FOR MONTHLY and noise complaints, not to mention major issues-which they don't even bother with at all. Apartments are broken into regularly and the property management team does NOTHING to help residents resolve these issues. The only decent people here are the maintenance staff. SCAMMERS, CON-ARTISTS, and CROOKS should be the palazzo communities slogan. Signing a lease here would be a major disservice. Do yourself a ginormous favor and DO NOT tour this property and/or even allow yourself to get suckered into signing a lease by these poorly trained, unknowledgeable, money hungry snakes. Xoxo
This is very Good place and location.Everythings was Good.That's the most deluxury communities in West Hollywood.But there has a manager and he is so rude.I want to move in that's why him.He doesn't allow my guest Or my family.I always living troubles.Spa is dirty always.Please talk with him.
If I could give this horrible place zero stars I would. This place is truly awful. Management is TERRIBLE, buildings are terrible workmanship and CHEAP. Not only that but the buildings fire alarms go off at all hours of the day several times a month! I am writing this review after the third one went off this month. Absolutely terrifying experience. The entire buildings fire alarm went off at 8:30pm. A really really scary experience to be taking a shower and the fire alarm goes off for NO reason. Never move here. Worst apartment complex in LA.
Have heard multiple accounts (with proof) that this place charged people rent for monthes after they moved out!! Sketchy, would definitely watch out for this place.
If you are looking for security who doesn't care about your safety, this is the place for you. If you have a mold issue be prepared to wait a for anyone to care. Be prepared to spend a lot of money. Be prepared to be disrespected by the staff. This is one of the worst living experiences I've ever had. I've had a mold issue, my car stolen, harassed by other tenants and staff. It's a nightmare. Oh and let's not forget the many windows of apartments with tinfoil in the windows... so sketchy. they'll let anyone move in.
Hard to give more than 1 star when every time it rains we have our tubs filled with the building sewage. In two years and a half here we also had problems with the stoves (to be replaced), washer and drier (to be fixed), dishwasher (fixed multiple times), the balcony (flooded) and I think that's enough for $4,000 a month for a 2bd 2 bath. Btw rent was increased 9% at contract expiration, but well...at least luxury living right?!?
We rented through air B and B and found out it was illegal to rent from this location as we tried to enter the pool. We understand fully that this happens but there is no reason to be belittled and treated like garage by I'm assuming the manager Andy Tanner. I was with my 70 year old parents and he told us we had 10 minutes to vacate the premises or else he was going to call the LAPD. Again, my parents are 70 years old. He screamed at myself and my parents telling us we were trespassing and we are going to be arrested if we don't hurry up. This type of behavior when I said it was inappropriate is stemmed down from the corporate office and this is how they want him to handle situations. That's one corporate office that I would stay far away from and I would stay far away from Andy as well. We are here celebrating my niece and nephews pre k graduation and he really has ruined this day for us. Hats off to you.
terrible experience with all 4 people who worked on Saturday .none of them would acknowledge we were there ,let alone get up to show an apartment.too busy to show an apartment with that many vacants.seems to me that's why you have so many.never have I had this happen o us before.lazy people.ill take my money somewhere else
The customer service personnel is top notch, but the leasing agents and the people who live in these apartments are less than par. Choose wisely when considering moving here.
The pool and the SPA are always very dirty
Since posting this TWO days ago, I got not one, but TWO MORE LETTERS THAT THEY PLAN TO ENTER!! That will be the sixth time they've needed to enter this month!! There is NO PRIVACY here whatsoever!!
I've been living at the Palazzo East for exactly one year. My apartment had a flood due to one of the pipes breaking and apparently it was the fault of a construction company who was working on something. Long story short, my apartment was flooded and not livable and everything was damaged. Insurnace was only able to cover a week or so. Palazzo East did not cover my rent when my entire apartment was affected and I had to take days off of work and months to get my apartment back to how it looked prior to the flood. Customer service was terrible. The building refused to cover the remains portion of my rent. This is not a place I will recommend to anyone. With all the stress and time off of work; getting my apartment back to a livable comfortable, clean, place the least they could have done was cover the remaining portion of my rent since it was there own contractor company that they hired. It is unfortunate to write this negative review but I want people to know that floods are VERY common here and they will not care to help you out with the rent and just ask you to go through insurance. Multiple people have told me they dealt with water pipe burst. I have spoken to an attorney and will be filing a lawsuit. Also when I moved in the unit was not complete, dirty and they never responded to my emails when I emailed them. Lastly, there are Airbnb units in the building. Think twice before renting from this building.
If you are looking for a place close to the city center and with its own security, you should choose this property. Even though, monthly charge is about $1,000x expensive than other apartment with similar conditions, but you would enjoy the location and general settings. However, you should not expect anything from the office of the management and it's the worse I have ever seen. They never answer the phone when they are chatting in the office, and it was almost impossible to get hold of any of them standing while standing outside and knocking their doors. We could really see you pretending to be invisible. I have lived there for 11 months, just 2 months shorter than the contract period. Due to Covid19, my move-out date was two months earlier than the leasing date. When I sent mail to the manger, he said that I must pay monthly rent for the remaining contract period before I move out. So, I asked several times how much I must pay, but I didn't get a clear answer from the manager. Thus, I only had to believe the amount that was shown on their portal. I paid whatever I owed them and left. Approximately, a couple of weeks later, the final financial report arrived by e-mail, and they took three thousand and some dollars from my deposit, which I never informed from the manager. So, I sent an e-mail asking why I am getting much less than what they owe me, and the manager said, " This will get corrected as it should have added the remainder of your lease instead of the notice fee.' Then, he manually adjusted the amount I must pay and took almost all the deposit out, leaving only 57 dollars. I noticed that the system is very unstable, and should not be trusted, and managers do not seem to care about their mistakes. If the system has a problem, the manager should apologize to customers first on their mistakes and in fact, thank to the customer who caught the problem on their system. YES of NO? Also, do not expect to see vacancy status on the portal. I was told that all the availability of the apartment will be listed on the portal at https://www.palazzo-east.com/en/apartments/residences.html. I was informed that I may get more deposit back if someone rents that apartment. However, I have been monitoring the website and I found out that my apartment was not on that portal more 10 days straight. Manager said that it is standard practice to show the vacancy of the apartment randomly and he has no control over this portal. What is the chance of your apartment is being seen to someone, if the portal does not show the full availability? Everyone does not know all the standard practices because people are coming from all over the world. Yes! It is true that all of us need to do as the Americans do because we are in United States. However, if the community has so many racial/ethnic groups in your property, you must understand the differences and act like you understood them. Because customer has not asked, it does not give you a right to blame on customers not knowing YOUR STANDARD PRACTICES. It is a pity that I had the worst experience in a place I believed to be the best place at first. Lastly, please fix your elevators, my son and wife were stuck inside of your elevators several times, and we have heard people screaming and pressing alarms a lot.
10 reasons not to live at Palazzo apartments: 1. Dog waste everywhere many residents just leave it there. 2. Dog urine regularly in lifts. 3. Dogs off their leads all the time when this is strictly forbidden, it won't be long before someone is bitten. 4. Dogs roam around the pool jumping on beds when it is strictly forbidden. 5. Pool heating has broken down twice in as many months and you are not notified until you put your toe in the water - try explaining why you can't swim to a 2 year old. 6. Pool area a wasteland after 5pm of diapers, food waste, much of it in the pool. 7. No action taken by management when a neighbor below us regularly displays violent, harassing, threatening and aggressive behavior to us, including climbing up from his balcony with a stick to try to break our windows - apartments are poorly constructed and regular living causes noise below, most people understand, many don't - we are now in the process of getting a restraining order. 8. Recent shooting and stabbing of 2 residents leaves us with a feeling of being vulnerable and unsafe. 9. Gym and spa area poorly maintained/cleaned. 10. Service requests for maintenance items that previously were sorted within 24 hours are now regularly 72 hours.
Been a resident here for a few months and this place is not worth it - regret moving here. Noisy, noisy and smelly, smelly. Smells like an old bar from the 90's with cigarette stench coming from all over the place. Had to wash all our clothes on a few occasions since the smoke from (cigarettes and other) comes in from vents, cracks and windows. Did I mention noisy? Also finishes are mediocre - if you check this place just check the showers (cheap plastic). We've complained to management for months and they really don't seem to care - avoid our calls and ignore the problem. DO NOT MOVE HERE !!!!
The building was made so that it creates a tunnel. If you live towards the inside you can hear everything all night long. If a woman walks through with heels on she sounds like she is in your apartment. I live on the 3rd floor. Additionally I love animals but there is no control on the barking. The building is so greedy that they do not consider the tenants that do not have dogs. But since they get extra money for animals management does nothing to fix the problem. Which happens all night long and all day. Do not be a person that is self employed and work from home you will get absolutely no relief from the dog barking and noise. As far as rent, I have lived here for five years and they do not believe in not raising your rent every year by at least $100 per month. There is absolutely no loyalty.
Didn't enjoy my time here at all. Aimco managed properties are the worst. The leasing office was a joke, elevators were constantly not working, and despite having a gate to get in, plenty of people could drive right in. I do not recommend signing a lease here. Stay away.
This is disgusting , I woke up to my shower filled with poop and flooded with water . my entire apartment smells like poop . I pay $3200 a month for rent this is absurd, I now can not go to work because I can not shower and who wants to come home to a shower filled with poop.
Hey James G. Please stop commenting on all of our postings saying you're going to help. All you do is contact the leasing office-- which is obviously the first thing all of us have already done. They never get back to us and you drop the ball-- leaving us in NO BETTER a situation than we were in before we posted. This place is such a sham, just like your comments. P.S.-- Right now I can barely breathe because the elevator up reeked of garbage and the courtyard always reeks of urine. THE PALAZZO IS A RAT INFESTED RIP-OFF OF A COMPLEX, THE LAST THING FROM "LUXURY APARTMENT LIVING" AS THEY FALSELY ADVERTISE. WHAT A JOKE THAT IS.
I enjoyed my stay there in corp. housing. What I didn't like is the endless parties at the pool and drunken neighbors at 4am coming home and banging on the doors at all hrs. not to mention yelling and laughing like banshees. Also, when I first visited, a blond girl in the office showed me around. She walked so fast I was practically chasing after her, she was cold and unfriendly. I always stopped by the office to get my packages, and was never greeted. They always have a bad attitude. Yes, it is an amazing gorgeous place, but bad service and bad neighbors ruined it
Not so great, unfortunately. This review is based on just the first month of living at the Palazzo. Like many other reviews here, the location can't be beat! The ground and the building look great from the outside but once you are actually there, it's not what it seems which is too bad! It's all start and end with customer service. There is none from the staffs working in the office. They simply sent us an email to "notify" us that our apartment that we signed the lease for is not available 2 days prior to our move in date. Two days! I would think if someone were doing their jobs at the office they would have figured out what was happening and anticipated what needed to be done. 2 days was inexcusable! After that we actually had to initiated all of the contact and follow up (Let's not forget, no one picks up the phone even during the business hours of expecting a call!) The "manager" pretty much took no responsibilities in fixing the problem or following up. She insisted that it's our responsibility to talk to her boss if we wanted things done. Huh? We eventually got the new apartment lease sign after 3 days of rushing the "boss" to give us an answer. There was no apologies! None! What's worse was we ended up moving into a unit that was flooded with raw sewage the first night we moved in! It's pretty sickening to be paying so much money in the "luxury apartment" to have this happening. Apparently this happened once before when my partner stayed at one of the corporate apartments here. And it seems other yelper had the same issue as well. Again, the follow up from the office was lacking. No one took any initiative or any proactive actions to make the situation better. The favorite saying seems to be "we didn't know.." If your resident apartment was flooded with raw sewage, you sent a cleaning crew, right? Last gripe about the community is their account system. It's very confusing and when we made a call to the office taking to a couple of people, no one had any idea what they were looking at. Eventually we were told of a mistake in the calculation in the move in/transfer fee but we were hit with the penalty for late payment even though it's their mistake. It took 4 days for them to fix the issues. However if you make the payment electronically using check and if you make a mistake typing in the account number incorrectly, you will still get an email from them that the payment was made successfully! BUT 4 days later, they will send you a notice for a fee since the payment actually didn't go through. Why would you send out that the payment process was successful to begin with? May be it's cheap way in making money off people mistakes? And the only response we get from the office was to give them a call if we were confused! I think based on the experience living here so far, it's not possible to recommend anyone to be here and have to endure the lack of professionalism with the front office staffs. It's probably ok if we don't have to deal with issues however, there have been many issues and no one has stepped up. Truly disappointing. This place can be so much better. One star is for location.
Front Gate are very rude. I came to visit friends (been coming for a whole year now) and every time they are acting like it's a JAIL!!!!! HORRIBLE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT GATE. ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING ME. my friends want to move out because of you
I'm a resident here on the penthouse level and for some reason, my review was removed. So here it is: the security guard here was robbing residents of packages and dumping them in the stairwell. I caught him, called the police and he was arrested with a large box filled with items from residents. He confessed to working with accomplices but there was no further investigation by the Palazzo. When I informed management of this, a particularly unprofessional aimco employee named Priscilla Gonzales became aggressive and started attacking me on the phone (I recorded the conversation and will send it to anyone who would like to listen to this incompetent woman who felt it was appropriate to be aggressive to a resident, just pm me if you're interested). She also told me 3 times that it would just be better if I moved out (rather than her doing something about this situation). She told me she was frustrated and getting impatient. This type of person should really not be working at the Palazzo! She compared being robbed by a security guard contracted by your building to having your car broken into by a random person and finally said that perhaps she should just start looking into me. What? Yes that happened. I don't feel that someone like this should even be interacting with residents. This just to me seemed like an defensive impertinent woman trying to threaten us in a nonsensical manner.
I actually lived here for two years. A decade ago. It was awesome. I literally was going to get a penthouse today for 5500 a month, for one person. Construction, loud banging. Kind of massive ugilification. Software that wasn't doing what they thought it would and then I got a lecture on how the agent was working past work hours. (7:30 pm) A true hero. So low end. Cancelled delivery of my new car there. Got to find a higher end place. Really really sad. I loved that place.
My name is Tina who just moved in few days ago. The residents service team is very hard to communicate. I was supposed to receive my FOB and remote so I can get into the property. The manager at the residence service said one hour. It took over 2 days emailing reminding several times. Eventually I called and finally someone picked up the phone this staff name Nevi. She was so rude and unpleasant to speak. Very Unprofessional!! We're paying so much money on rent and this is the service we get. Unacceptable!! Already having issues with the management team wow I might have to see if I can cancel the lease. They're great at taking my money but not doing their jobs!! And regarding the property it looks nice from the outside however inside the unit the walls are so thin I can hear the neighbors and the unit shakes like an earthquake when downstairs ppl slams the doors. I didn't want to say this but worse than parklabrea. At least over there it's old building but you can't hear much from the neighbors.
There are so many things wrong with this place, but one of the worst offenses is their continual lack of regard for privacy. I have been a renter for twenty two years and I have never experienced anything like this. I am friends with my neighbors, and we have all agreed that AIMCO completely abuses their right to enter into the units. On average, they enter into the apts three times a month, and at the most (so far) it has been ELEVEN TIMES a month. I don't know what it's for except for services that I don't want (AT&T - which gives AIMCO kickback), and "improvements" that we never see. They also enter to constantly check the fire alarms or service them. My guess is they're too cheap to install something that actually works. I don't like strange men coming into my space and working constantly. They even go into the closets. It is unreasonable and intrusive. Speaking of management's lack of regard for privacy, it has trickled down to the maintenance staff who also enter whenever they want. They illegally enter units and I have been told "oops, wrong apartment" after they used a key to open my door while I was home. Management also gives your key out to random vendors. The AT&T guys that were installing fiber in the building had my key.. WHY? The security guards, as nice as they are, don't do anything. They watch all the cars go in and out of the gates and don't check them to see if they live there. Some actually look like they're pretending they don't see people driving into the gate who don't belong. The whole privacy and security situation is unsettling. The security gates have also been broken and wide open for weeks at a time for people to come in and out as they please. With the amount of issues involving shootings and murders here, you would think they would be more careful. Another completely unsettling thing about the management here is that they are completely aware of things wrong with the building, but chose not to fix them. For example, there is something wrong with the plumbing here. The garage pipes leak sewage (I saw the AIMCO person try and dispute someone else's review that had that in it, but it is true, I have seen the pipes labeled SEWER leaking MULTIPLE TIMES), and every apartments' sinks flood with sewage at one point or another. Management is completely aware of this, yet no action is taken to fix or prevent it. Scroll through the reviews, you will see pictures of backed up sinks. It recently happened to me and it is absolutely disgusting. The management team doesn't respond to e-mails or phone calls, or even pick up their phones at all for that manner. Don't get conned into a lease here. It is pretty on the outside, but once something arises that shouldn't be happening and you bring it to AIMCO, you will see that you are treated like crap. They act like they're doing a favor by taking your money. And you work hard for your money, so you should live somewhere where you'll be treated with some respect for spending it. Yelp should make zero stars an option just for this place! *In response to George's comments* I am VERY UNFORTUNATELY a lease holder and have in fact received all of the of emails about the fire alarms. I also have ELEVEN emails and notices in one month about entering my apartment for fire alarms, at&t installations, and various other things. So please do not assure me of anything false, especially when I have proof. If anyone is interested in seeing those ELEVEN notices for entry, please message me. Also in regards to "the exact opposite of my thinking"... let's be honest here, there is a reason that the fire installations needed to happen. What we had before did not work (alarms constantly going off at all hours of the day and night), and since cheaping out is aimco's MO, yes, I am thinking that these new ones won't be top of the line either. About entering my closets for BOTH fire sprinklers and at&t installation, it was NOT COMMUNICATED to me. I was communicated that it would be happening, not that it would be as intrusive as it was. Also, what code is there for a yearly fire sprinkler inspection? None. You get a cheaper rate for your insurance at the expense of your residents' privacy. But you don't care, you can save a buck! And yes, the CRIMES I mentioned happened years ago, one by a non resident on grounds. Since then, the "courtesy attendants" who are apparently not security (lol) even though they respond to noise complaints and the ones that do their jobs (ie Sam), actually check cars going in and out of the gates, have been even more lax since the violent gun crimes. George, stop trying to deflate the comments by residents. We are on the ground level and have proof for our claims. We have all gone to the management multiple times for complaints before posting on public forums. Our concerns are not addressed or mostly, even acknowledged, and then we are basically called liars by you. Not a good look, George. Not good PR at all, aimco.
My apartment has experienced chronic sewage overflow in both my bathtub and toilet. The ceiling has also leaked in multiple places due to clogged lines, and this is only the beginning of a long list of issues I've encountered living here. The management staff is quick to "fix" the problem, until another plumbing clog occurs the next week, and to add insult to injury they only sanitized my apartment after I sent an email informing them I was moving out. The management staff seems to believe that living with these repetitive issues, and the stench that lasts for days afterwards, is totally fine and habitable. For the price of living here, you can find an option with better management in the actual city of West Hollywood. Save your money and future aggravation.
This place is the biggest ripoff of all time. If it wasn't for the kind maintenance and cleaning crew I would've moved out. I can't even get them to mail my security deposit to the correct name and this is after 4 phone calls and 4 emails. AIMCO is simply a joke. Their average employee lasts about two weeks. Follow ups are nonexistent. Don't live here
WARNING!!! WARNING!!!! Despite all the glitz and glamour this place offers, the security and customer service is by far the worst. We had moved into this place thinking that it is safe and secure, but to our surprise we got robbed one month after we moved in in broad daylight. The leasing office did nothing for us and did not even apologize. They would not even let us see the security camera footage to see how this could have happened, leading us to believe that it was indeed an inside job. 3 months later after this incident happened, 2 more apartments got robbed and the only thing the management had to say was to make sure both locks were locked when leaving your home. The office manager, Steve is the most unprofessional person in the office and does not offer any solutions to any of the problems we have encountered with them. He does not answer any phone calls or emails and is the rudest person. He does not deserve the title he holds and is a poor excuse for an office manager. When we came to the end of our lease, we had made arrangements to avoid paying more than our ridiculous $600 dollar /month increase for rent to find a better place to live. Upon our move out date, we were held responsible for a ridiculous charge for days that we did not occupy the apartment. After no help from the leasing office regarding this issue, we had to contact the corporate office, which still has yet to investigate the matter 2 months after the fact. It is not worth it to live in this place when managed by unprofessional, ignorant liars. Palazzo West has a much nicer management and is way more helpful in any issues you may have. Do not move to Palazzo East!!! There are much better, bigger, cheaper, quieter and brighter apartments on the westside.
Avoid living here at all costs. I was a resident of the Palazzo East for a year and a half during which time there were constant headaches, problems, and up-charges, with the nightmare continuing post-move out. This is not a "luxury" community; this is a poorly maintained and shoddily built scam: - the buildings are very noisy and police officers are a frequent presence - there is constant cigarette smoking despite the no-smoking policy - the gates and elevators are always broken - there are dog feces everywhere - the community is a cess pool of Airbnb parties Worst of all, the management company will try and scam you at every turn with fraudulent charges. Rebakah Larson and Jared Webb are two particularly terrible employees at Aimco that are both unresponsive and committed to perpetuating illegal and fraudulent activity.
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