Olympic Studios

My review is about the staff on the leasing office! TERRIBLE! The girl there doesn’t know how to treat people. She was very rude when I was asking questions. It seems she’s not happy with her job. Obviously I stopped asking questions and I left the place.

The outside of this looks nice, so is the nice little show room they show you when they show the studio loft apartment. It has new stainless steel appliances. All this is DECEIVING! This place inst what you think it is at all! I have lived here for a little while and cant wait till my lease is up.
1. The apartments are super cheap! The a/​c never works, the shower constantly clogs up, my fridge just stopped working the other day and needed to be replaced. The paint on the wall peels off, and the walls are thin, you can hear the people who live next to you and above you TVs.
2. The power in this complex goes off all the time for no reason at all. I was in the shower around 6 pm about a month ago and all of a sudden the power goes out.
3. The fire alarms in the place go off all the time. Im going to say at least once a month, and im no joking. For no reason at all either. Sometimes they go off in the middle of the night. Like 2 am! Sorry I got to be up at 6 for school and that is not cool at all.
4.The people who manage this place are yes, IDIOTS! There is one kid who works in the leasing office who is a thug, no respect at all to anyone, very rude too. He walks around with his pants around his knees and shirts that are way to big for him. Isn’t this suppose to be luxury living??? There is a Janitor kid who is suppose to clean but he is always just walking around with headphones in his ear or he is on his cell phone. And when he does clean he always does a half fast job. The laundry rooms are always dirty, so is the parking garage. The head of maintenance, Melvin, not a good handy man. He to is always socializing, or on the phone, he said he fixed my fridge but it broke one week later, same story with my a/​c unit. And then there is the head property manger who is a B**ch. First you have no Idea what she is talking about because you cant understand a word she is saying because she is from some other country. Never Helpful at all! Tells you one thing when you are sign the lease then tells you something completely different that when you have a problem.
5. $ 4.50 to do a load of laundry that includes wash and dry. You supply the detergent. Sorry That is May to much to wash cloths. Oooo and by the way the washers and dryers break all the time so there may be only one or two working ones.
6. Now if you have one of the lower income units that isn’t at the 1499 a month price you have to pay an extra 250 dollars a month to park you car in the parking garage while the people who pay 1499 a month don’t have to pay that extra 250 to park your car. Can you say SCAM!
7.They say that this is affordable luxury at $ 1499… Yeah right, for the same price you could find a 2 bed room apartment down by the promenade for that price. Or spend an extra 200 a month and you can live in complex right behind Olympic studios that has is way nicer, has a pool.
In the end don’t let the presentation of this place fool you! Just Avoid it and the idiot scammers who run it!

I was attracted to this place because it had loft style studios, modern amenities, and the parking garage was located right downstairs (accessible via elevator) with your own assigned parking space. However as I’m going into the 6 month mark, I’ll be moving out once my rent is up.
1. Walls are super thin. My neighbor watches The Office. It’s that thin. I can also hear the neighbor across from me… not my next door neighbor but right across the window play techno music at 1am.
2. The people who manage this place are idiots. They told me there was guest parking before I signed, and to just call the office so they can give me a parking spot for the day for my guest. After I signed, they said that they never gave me this information. I replied that I have had a guest park here before… so please don’t lie to me. I’m not an idiot. Of course arguing with them doesnt solve anything. You’re still stuck with what you signed for. SHADY people.
3. College students live here. Its pretty much a dorm. People don’t sleep like working people… and therefore you have people running around in hallways and coming back late with doors slamming.
4. No guest parking.
5. «Discounted» $ 1299/​month. Rent is now $ 1499/​month. How is this «affordable luxury style living»? Ridic. I heard that before having a parking space cost money too (but because of the recession parking is free).
Ideal for college students who sleep at odd hours and who love to listen to loud music at 2am.
As you can tell I hate my neighbor right now who is playing music at 11:40pm at night when I have to wake up at 6am.
So finally moved out… and they charged me for carpet cleaning (mandatory), painting my walls (mandatory even though I never nailed anything on the wall), and cleaning (not mandatory but I decided not to clean because that was only $ 100). They deducted a total of $ 400 from my deposit.

It looks great from the outside — contemporary architecture, remote keys to enter, clean, etc. And even inside its nice — stainless appliances, lofted bedrooms, AC, mirrored closets… but then you realize that the maintenance is TERRIBLE, the cost is RIDICULOUS for so-​called «low-​cost housing,» parking is NOT included, and the apartments are tiny, airless, dim, and the only lights provided are like those you would find in an operating room. I’ve lived here for about 3 months and they still haven’t fixed things that were supposed to be ready by my move-​in date. Parking is expensive and the only garage is located under one building that requires anyone not living in that building to walk along busy and dangerous Olympic Blvd at all hours. The apartments are inconveniently shaped, requiring special furniture (or none at all, as I’ve noticed in other sad looking apartments) to fit in. The trash chute is only on the 1^st and 3^rd floors, the laundry costs $ 2.50/wash and $ 2.00/dry, and the machines are tiny. I could go on, but the worst is the property manager — she’s rude, doesn’t listen, talks over you, is unfriendly, and incompetent.
BOTTOM LINE: if you want to hate where you live after you realize all the bells and whistles are just a smokescreen, live here. If not, live somewhere else. I’m down-​grading to an older place without fancy appliances, but I know its worth breaking my lease here!