Strathmore Regency

I’m a student at UCLA, and I’m so happy to be living here. My three roommates and I share a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, and pay $ 3050, including a tandem parking spot and not including utilities. Our apartment is significantly nicer than most apartments in Westwood. However, within the next few years, I expect there will be several more nicer and newer complexes if you’re willing to pay.
Pros: The facilities are very nice, complete with pool, hot tub, fitness center, package room, 2-​story parking garage, 2 outdoor lounge areas, a series of grills, a business center (with a printer!). Some units have been renovated recently and are gorgeous. My apartment hasn’t been renovated, but I’m still very pleased with the quality of it. Any service requests are taken care of in a timely manner. This complex is located on a quite street and is very close to Westwood. There’s always cookies and coffee in the office.
Cons: The office staff isn’t the friendliest. Hilly walk to campus. The fire alarm in my apartment is very sensitive and often sounds. Wifi can be a bit sketchy.
I recommend!

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE. I wasn’t going to write a review for my own apartment complex but they’ve really showed how much they appreciate their residents this time.
The first thing was when I moved in. Place was crawling in ants in just about every corner of the house. We dealt with it for a month but couldn’t take it anymore. You would think they would realize that the building had a bug problem and fix it before people started living here. It got to the point where I would wake up at night because there was an ant on my face.
Second was all the doors in my apartment. None of them were on straight and the locks needed to be fixed when our keys they gave us couldn’t even open our own doors. Even the refrigerator door was cheap. It completely snapped off a month into use.
And now this time they towed my car in the middle of the night. I woke up this morning rushing to work to find it gone. Initially they told me when I signed the contract that they don’t tow and only residents can tow out of their own spot. So with that in mind, I let my guest (my parents) take my spot last night and parked in an empty space that’s never had a resident assigned to it for the two months that I’ve been here. THEN I left a note saying if it is someone’s spot, call me and I’ll move it asap with my number. But nope, woke up this morning finding out that the manager and security guard towed it in the middle of the night without giving me a call or even saying someone needed that space. And on top of that, I have a parking pass they gave me to hang on my car that was ON MY CAR. So I’m thinking, wow this is how they treat their residents? What kind of a logical human being would do that without even giving their resident the courtesy of a phone call?
Save yourself the trouble and don’t bother with this place. I can’t wait till my lease is up. Besides, there’s two steep hills between this place and campus and the rooms are tiny, while prices are stupid high. Wonderful.

This place is okay, but don’t expect too much. They fix things quickly, and everything works alright for the most part. I still do have a few problems, however. For one, you can practically hear people breathing through these thin walls — well, it is mostly the apartment doors that are incredibly thin. I can hear my neighbors whisper as they enter their apartment, and walking down the hallways, you can hear anyone’s tv or music playing because the doors here are apparently made of rice paper. I also hear my neighbors walking above me all the time, as well as their sexual routines — not something included in my lease contract. The pool is pretty dirty. I mean, am I going to contract an STD next time I go for a midday swim? Oh and by the way, this place has an internet connection that you’d expect to get from a Mumbai brothel. Actually, I just noticed that the previous comment mentioned the shady, unreliable internet service, and everything in that review remains true today, over three years later. Suffice it to say that I am unsatisfied, but that this is a relatively okay option for an apartment in Westwood.

This building is absolutely amazing.
It’s one of the biggest apartment complexes in North Village Westwood, if not THE largest, and it’s unbelievably well-​maintained; seriously, the instant something gets chipped or scratched it’s fixed like new within moments. I’ve lived in 5 different places in Westwood and this one has been the best, which is why I lived here for 3 years, which is two more than I lived at any of the other places. And believe me, I would have stayed had it not been for my new place of work being in f’ing Northridge.
Anyway, the building has a great air conditioned gym space, various patios with wonderful furnituer, to host outside parties (including a really nice patio right by the pool), the pool, a jacuzzi, outside barbecues/​grills, balconies on every apartment, underground parking, laundry on every floor, vending machines all over the damn place, and probably quite a few other things I’m forgetting to mention. Oh yes, the fact that there is either a study lounge or business center (equipped with internet-​connected computers, printer, fax, chairs, etc.) one every floor as well.
Why didn’t I give it a 5^th star? The price. Granted, it’s Westwood, but the building is steep in pricing and the prices go up every year, except when they’re desperate to keep tenants (like during a recession). Not only that but there have been times where the building has unlawfully allowed one utility provider to monopolize the building (for example, there was a time where if you wanted Cable internet, you could only get it through a REALLY shady company that tends to rip people off and has horrid customer service).
I suppose the cherry on top of this sweet sundae is that even though I left my apartment quite a mess (I had to leave it in a hurry, and that meant dust, carpet stains [including red wine], a nasty restroom, and even melted glue and rubber on the harder surfaces), the only thing they took out of my security deposit was 50 bucks — 25 for cleaning the apartment, and 25 for cleaning the bathroom. Amazing.