Westside Villas Apartments

Do not even bother… management is rude, overpriced, then they raise your rent $ 150 immediately, the worst DUST problem… they don’t change air filters and white stuff everywhere, even if you close the windows, hot water takes for ever to heat up, NOSY OLD PERSIAN LADIES… THEY WILL SNOOP IN YOUR LIFE… even shut front door if your carrying in groceries from car, gates get stuck all the time open, cars have been broken into. Only nice thing is maintenance people… they stay busy!!!

DO NOT RENT!!! The amount of rent here is not worth it. Be prepared for your rent to increase by $ 400-​$ 500 every time they try to negotiate a new contract (every 12 months).

Complete crooks. I put a $ 175 deposit for an apartment with the understanding that it would be refundable past the 24 hour allotted time since I wasn’t able to see the actual unit until a few days after. The building manager Nielco assured me that she would talk to corporate to make sure I get the refund if I didn’t like the unit once I saw it. She blatantly lied and my deposit was never refunded. She completely went back on her word and denied that she made that promise. What a horrible and unethical way to do business. This company only cares about making money at any cost. Not to mention the number of times she asked me to fill out the review form after my meeting with her so she could get her bonus. Very unprofessional.

I thought maybe people were being harsh in the reviews, but out of the seven cities I’ve lived in and countless apartments, this is the worst apartment I’ve ever lived in and by far the worst apartment management company. I was in the Beloit property and ultimately broke my lease because it was so miserable. I barely slept in the two months I lived there — the neighbors were awful, lowlife characters who would smoke and throw parties on their balconies. There was also a family with multiple kids living in the building across the way, so I was woken up to children screaming every day. The walls are paper thin and when your upstairs neighbor walks around, it sounds like the ceiling is about to collapse — good luck if your neighbor gets up and walks around at 4 AM every morning like mine did! There is also a guy with a drum set that lives here. (There was a review a couple years ago complaining about him — yes, he still lives here, and he still drums all day long — no, management still doesn’t care).
There was a body bag and a bunch of cops outside the building one time, no big deal. The front door also broke at one point and they refused to fix it, so everyone just propped the door open. Constant homeless people around the property. I never felt safe living here.
My power went out, my internet constantly went out, I had no hot water for a weekend, and NO cell phone service in my unit. Management didn’t care about any of this. They literally screens calls of residents, they don’t care about you at all once you move in. I had to reach out to a regional director to get my lease broken.
Equity may seem like a good, reputable national company, but don’t be fooled! These people are the definition of slumlords.

I have loved living at Westside Villas (Butler)! They have a few locations and we lived at the one on Butler. I thought the maintenance people were great and very efficient. Although management of the company changes often it doesn’t affect the great location of the property nor the quality of the apartments. We had a 2BR and lived here for 2 years, it wasn’t cheap they raised the rent from $ 2400 when we started to $ 2800 at the renewal for year 3. But LA is expensive everywhere. Love that it’s a small complex so you don’t have a million people beating up the property it’s quaint and quiet and you get to know your neighbors since there’s so few of them. Overall I loved living here. Moved because the person I was living with loved to DC bummed I can’t afford to stay but it was great living here!

Terrible management team. The office is always slow in responding to tenant requests. For example, my roommate and my name were not on the front door intercom. We called and emailed repeatedly throughout the 2 years that we lived in the building. The issue was never resolved. The various representatives in the office also have terrible internal communication. There was no continuity as the reps also turn over very frequently.

Disregard alllllllll other comments you see here. This place is by far one of the best rental places that ive been to before. The staff is the most generous and always willing to help. D’angelo was immensely helpful and did everything he could to make sure we moved in as easy as possible. They also were able to place us at numerous spots in la because they have numerous locations and buildings. If you’re looking to rent you’re next apartment, trust me, come here! We chose the Bundy apartments and they are to die for. The local is beauteous and the inside of the apartment is stunnning. Great amount of room and illustrious beautiful wooden kitchen. Westside Rentals is the way to go!

Great customer service. The staff here is hilarious and very helpful. I’ve had a great experience every time I come in and couldn’t ask for anything more from a leasing consultant. D’angelo specifically was extremely helpful with getting the apartment and I highly recommend checking out Westside Villas for a quality place to live. The apartments are very kept up. The places are very modern and they will take care of anything immediately. I’m thoroughly satisfied as a current renter.

Great location, convenient to lots of restaurants, ralphs is walking distance and close to UCLA. Maintenance staff is fast to respond and leasing office employees are nice. Only problem is the noise from beverly glen and olympic. Otherwise, great place to live.

Are you looking for an absentee landlord who attempts to maximize profit and providing minimal maintenance? Look no further! Westside Villas screams slumlord! Our first month moving in our washer and dryer kept breaking down. The problem has not yet been remedied. The kitchen countertop and drawers are cheaply made. We wish that we would have done better research before moving in but we were pressed with time. At first glance everything seems fine. But it’s far from being fine. Your packages get stolen. Someone breaks into cars. Maybe it’s because the back parking gate is not secure. Well, it lasted two weeks after the break in and then it’s back to old habits. Then after a year they slam you with a 16 percent rent increase which is about 400 bucks. No room for negotiations. The only redeeming quality is location. That’s all. I’ve lived in nicer apartments for less and with nicer amenities. Save yourself the stress and stay the heck away!

AVOID DEALING WITH THIS PLACE!
Yes it looks nice and new but you will hate it the second you have to deal with management! The main manager is the most rude person I have ever met. She will act all nice to you and like she’s doing a good job but takes weeks to return messages, gives numerous excuses to certain problems and is very inefficient. The other people working there have no clue about anything.
Also, moving out is a nightmare, don’t expect to get your deposit back. They will do anything not to pay and come up with stupid little fees here and there. And even though they take long to solve ever little issue they expect you to pay the second they solve and if you don’t they right away get you to collections. (This happened to me, took them 2 months to get rid of unnecessary charges and didn’t even give me a 5 day period to pay them even though I moved 2 hours away)
They are Ridiculously overpriced and will make you hate living there. Trust me I’ve lived at many apartment complexes and have never had such a horrible experience with ignorant management people.

I will start by saying my roommate and I actually lived in the South Barrington complex for 2 years with close to no complaints at all. In fact I couldn’t understand why the company got so many bad online reviews. We even referred a friend to the complex and were credited with a referral bonus.
Then it came time to move out. We gave our thirty days notice as was asked of us, and our unit was in extremely good condition. Long story short, during the move out process we were inexplicably charged an extra day. I was told we’d receive credit for this, but have heard nothing almost after 3 months time. Throughout the ordeal I could not get anyone to contact me back. Ive attempted numerous times to follow up via phone and email (I’ve just counted 5 unanswered messages to two different employees there) and still nothing. Once we were no longer a source of income to them, they seemed to have no regard for our satisfaction and all acceptable business practices seemed to go out the window.
All this has erased any good thoughts I previously had about the company. I feel scammed out of my money and frustrated at their blatant effort to avoid my calls and emails.

Ok, I know that everyone says this, but if I could give this place negative 5 stars, I would. Please, PLEASE do not move in here. I can’t even begin to tell you all the problems I had with this place.
The building I was in was infested with cockroaches. I would see them outside in the courtyard and eventually they made it into my unit. When I contacted the management and maintenance came, I was flat out told that it was a problem in the building, and they wouldn’t do anything about it! NOTHING! I had bugs in my unit for over 4 months before I was able to get management to send somebody. I have never been so miserable.
Add to that how disrespectful everyone I encountered was. They won’t give you the time of day. I would call, leave messages, and send emails and it would take weeks for anyone to get back to me. They are severely understaffed and just don’t care enough about their tenants to properly take care of them.
It’s a pet friendly building and almost everyone has a pet. A neighbor decided that their chinchilla would be happier roaming the courtyard than being in their unit, so it let it lose in the building and would feed it by the elevators. I would come home from work and see it eating the plants. It made a mess everywhere and when myself and other neighbors contacted management about it, they could have cared less. It’s probably still roaming around for all I know.
And no one picks up after their pets. The tenants above me let their dog pee off their balcony on onto ours. The man across the hall from me would just let his dog pee in the hallway. The courtyard smelled rancid, and the lobby area was always filthy.
I could go on and on. Bottom line. Moving out was the happiest day of my life. Please, do yourself and your wallet (considering they’ll raise your rent $ 500 after the first year) a favor and find somewhere else to call home.

The apartment my wife and I lived in for a year was decent but definitely needed an upgrade, which apparently happened after we moved out. The issue is the street noise on Beverly Glen. It was much louder than we had anticipated. Secondly, for a smoke free environment building, there sure was alot of smoking going on, especially with the tenants below us. We complained numerous times but our complaints went unheard saying we needed to show them proof. Lastly, don’t expect anything more than 30% of your deposit back after you moved out. Even though we kept the place perfectly clean and in tact and we were told the entire kitchen and hardwood floors would be ripped out and renovated, we were charged for paint (even though the unit was painted the year before we moved in), cleaning and labor.
However, the staff has always been kind and responsive to us, thus the two star rating. IMO, there are better options in the area.

I would like to give negative！The worst apartment I have ever lived！Do not move in！The apartment is extremely old with good looking outside！Ridiculous！They just
make the ouside to fool you guys! Stuffs in leasing office is not helpful at all！I don’t want to mention how many packages of mine disappeared here！What is worst？Even though staff signed the package，they just find excuses but never take any resposibilities！What they will do，is saying «I suggest that…» So so so poor service！I can just tell，do not live here！

for the cost of living here you should have working appliances. The roof deck could be amazing if they kept up the maintance and cleaned it. Issues with packages being stolen so you cant really order anything to be shipped to you. Office staff is always changing. Hard to reach them by phone. Complex is in a great location.

I’ve never been a fan of Unilocal but my experience at the S. Barrington location has persuaded me to write my first review. You are committing to a living arrangement for at least 1 year so any information is helpful…
Pros:
–Decent location.
–Good price point for the area.
Cons:
–No one in the leasing office will give you the time of day, they were always making excuses and dodging phone calls or emails.
–The complex is very loud, thin walls and thin flooring. I lived on the 2^nd floor and you could hear the residents above, below and adjacent. Majority of the noise occurs between the hours of 12pm-​4am.
–Don’t expect your deposit back.
–My breaking point was when someone had a key to my front door. My door was locked with the deadbolt and it was being opened repeatedly. No one from the office would call me back, and when they did they simply said it was impossible and that no such thing could happen. I had to beg them to come change my locks.
All in all, if you are looking in the area, keep searching. You will find somewhere better with a more supportive staff.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!!! DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES I MADE!!!
I am a current resident! yeah unfortunately I have to deal with this apartment for 9 more months. The leasing consultants are nice but inefficient. If you sign a lease with them make sure to secure copies/​proof of every single payment you make because they messed up my account several times and now I have a new accounting problem. So what they did was they deposited my check to the wrong bank, which resulted to of course me being charged with two late fees and a 3 day notice to pay rent or quit!
Another thing one of their maintenance guy almost burned my unit by leaving the gas oven on!!!
So be careful this place may look pretty but I would turn my head the other way!

Some of my friends just moved in here, it’s very nice, clean and their apartments are very spacious, the price is good for the location

If I could give this negative stars, I would. Living and dealing with Westside Villas Apartment is a nightmare.
1. I lived in the Beloit property. There was a neighbor who refuses to give up drumming in apartment. There was a point of calling the police multiple times a day, which was no help. Westside Villas, as the apartment company, was very reluctant, and tried to dodge the bullet everytime there was a complaint. Finally, tired of dealing with the neightbor and Westside Villas almost everyday for 8+ months, I chose to pack all my belonging and moved out. GET THIS, Westside Villas, not only provide any help, insisted on the punishing me for moving out early, and had me paid early termination fee, and all the utility fees even when I no longer lived there.
2. Throughout my time as a tenant, most people in the Westside Villas Apartment office were very irresponsible and hard to deal with. All they care is have you sign the 1 year lease. Once the leased is signed, they did a very good job ignoring tenants. In addition, they will prompty raise your rent by at least $ 300-​$ 400 dollars yearly. They do so because they know there is a high demand due to it’s location.
3. The apartment itself is full of cheap materials and thin walls. Although the exterior looks pretty new. They used very cheap woods, especiallly between the floors. I could hear every sound when my upstairs neighbor make, such as opening and closing the kitchen drawer, every sound, every time.
The bottom line is that this place doesn’t care about customers. Because they can easily attract tenants due to the nice location, they really don’t care. I feel bad for the next person who will move into my old apartment, because I know the same thing would happen to him/​her. Westside Villas Apartment, will still charge and fine him/​her, regardless if there is any kind of legitmate reason. DO NOT MOVE IN HERE.