445 Landfair Ave.
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How noisy the apartment is with 1 being quiet 5 being very loud.
2.8
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How clean the apartment is with 1 being very dirty and 5 being very clean.
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How responsive the landlord is with 1 being unresponsive and 5 being very responsive.
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How spacious the apartment is with 1 being very cramped and 5 being very spacious.
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The building has been fully renovated, along with most apartments, which means that the floors and appliances are all new. Landlord responds quickly to maintenance requests and has been very accommodating overall. We had been scared of the negative reviews, but have genuinely loved living here. Our apartment is spacious and clean and we have no complaints!
Village Villa Apartments has been 100% renovated and is under new management. Unfortunately, the negative reviews posted here speak to the status of the building pre-2020.
Please visit www.villagevillaapartments.com for leasing information, or stop by 445 Landfair Ave. 90024 M-F for contact-less tours.
Warmest regards,
Village Villa Apartments
I lived here for over a year. The negative reviews are correct, unfortunately. As a person, the landlord is a good person. As a landlord, probably the worst. The units are unkept and never cleaned once they are vacated. He does not hire professionals to clean the units and does everything himself. Like a previous review shared, our fridge also broke down; not once, not twice, but several times. It was also very disgusting.
We also had cockroach problems where he had to call an exterminator (after he tried getting rid of them himself with no luck).
Part of this is also my fault. I should have inspected the unit more thoroughly and done my research. I also was a student at the time and very naive. If you can, inspect the units with an adult who has more experience. But please, do yourself a favor and find a unit that is more well kept and managed by professionals. It is worth the extra $100-$200 dollars. During my team here, I have seen tenants leave because they got sick from the AC or mold in their unit.
My advice: don't bother even inspecting the unit. Please look elsewhere. If you don't believe me, take a look for yourself and meet the landlord. Ask questions about the unit: is it cleaned by professionals?, etc. If you see tenants, ask them what they think. Look for mold. Inspect the appliances. Look at the carpet: ask if it will be replaced or clean. I think you get the idea.
Like I said, he is a very nice person, but as a landlord, I do not recommend, no matter how much of a deal he offers.
My name is Reed Elcott, and I'm the owner and manager of Village Villa Apartments (my primary profession is easily discoverable). My family has been in the residential real estate business across LA for three generations. We take our responsibilities to our tenants seriously, and we don't take kindly to unfounded hate speech and lies about how we conduct our business. I personally endeavor to treat every single applicant, and especially every tenant, with exceptional customer service and the utmost respect.
Given that our Westwood leases only begin in June and September (and that it is impossible for the review below to be true "been living in the building for a month" based on the date stamp), we suspect this review was left by the ONLY applicant we rejected this leasing season. This applicant group was shady, naggy, never completed the required documentation for half the applicant group, and was super pushy about reserving an apartment. They were upset when we wouldn't take their money after a week of requesting they complete their application. They've apparently resorted to trolling me to feel better about themselves.
We are a family run business, and members of the UCLA community for over 50 years. You can expect HONESTY and RESPECT from management if/when you choose to make Village Villa part of your UCLA experience.
Greeting from Village Villa Apartments Management. We truly appreciate all of the valuable feedback from prior residents. We are a family-run business and generational members of the UCLA community. Please be advised that the building is currently under new management, and we will be conducting significant renovation and maintenance projects prior to the 2021/2022 academic year. We have a full-time maintenance and leasing staff available 7-days a week to address any and all tenant requests.
For leasing and pricing information, please visit www.villagevillaapartments.com.
The landlord is one of the worst human beings on this planet. He enters and leaves your apartment without notifying you, he threatens to kick you out if he thinks you are "annoying" him. I had my car broken into, which was parked inside the apartment's parking structure and his response was, "that sucks." If you want to live in a disgusting, poorly maintained apartment as part of your experience at UCLA, then, by all means, contact the landlord, and he'll find you an apartment. He just won't tell the previous tenants that they've been removed until after summer vacation is over. He will yell at you to prove his point, he will do the bare minimum in order to keep the apartment building standing. Spend a little extra on getting a nicer apartment, maybe move in with a friend someplace else. Commute if possible, just don't waste your time, money, and energy dealing with the scum of a landlord that owns this apartment. The fire alarms have gone off at 3 am, the elevator is cramped and terrifying to use. My kitchen sink had burst, flooding the bottom of the sink. I asked the landlord to fix it, by which he replaced the broken copper piping with another piece of broken copper piping, and of course, the next day, the pipe had burst again. Every time I asked the landlord to fix the air conditioning, his response was, "it's working fine; you keep annoying me and giving me problems, you should just move somewhere else." I wouldn't have any problems if he just fixed the problems correctly, but of course, he doesn't care and isn't bothered by your problems. For him, some other sucker is going to move in regardless of what happens, but if you've read all the way up to this point, you'll understand my point, and will have already begun searching for a better place to stay. Take care in apartment searching, just leave this one out of your search entirely.
THIS IS THE WORST APARTMENT EVER. DO NOT LIVE HERE.
The landlord is terrible and the apartments are so old and dirty. Here are just some of my complaints:
The fridge in our apartment unit leaks water. Some days we'd walk into the kitchen, and there would be a puddle of water in the middle. We complained to our landlord about this, which is the completely reasonable thing to do. It's his responsibility to fix these kinds of problems. What did he do? We come back to the apartment and theres this dirty brown rug in front of the fridge. He didn't even fix the leaking problem. Then one day, I was cooking and I tripped on the rug and almost fell right onto the hot pan I was cooking on. Dangerous??? We complained to the landlord again. This time, we come back to find that he took the rug and replaced it with a dirty old mop. WOW GREAT THANKS MAN. GREAT SOLUTION. The fridge was still leaking all over the place the day I moved out.
My roommate has asthma. She said that whenever we turned on the air conditioning, she would get really bad asthma attacks. She suffered all those terribly hot summer days with no AC because the air quality was apparently terrible enough to cause asthma attacks.
Our screen door to the balcony kept falling off. We told the manager, and he took it away saying he would fix it. We never saw that screen door again... We could never leave the balcony door open when it was hot (SINCE WE COULDN'T USE THE AC) because then bugs would fly in.
My roommate couldn't get into the apartment building because the code wasn't working for some reason. This was at the end of the school year, so she's been getting in fine for the whole year until then. She calls the landlord, and he yells at her that she needs to enter the code slowly. My roommate got mad because she would know how to do it since she's been living there all year. Then the landlord says it's not his problem that she can't get in. EXCUSE ME? IF IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM, THEN WHOSE PROBLEM IS IT, MR. LANDLORD/OWNER OF THE BUILDING???
If you ever call the landlord after 8 pm, he will legit yell at you because he has gone to sleep. My roommate experienced this twice.
OVERALL: don't live here unless the ~$100 savings/month is worth it for terrible service and horrible living conditions.
The proximity to campus can't be beat and the building sitting sits atop the highest perch in the North Village. I lived here for my last 2 years of law school, had a direct view of the ocean in the distance and the building's "No Raging Party" policy was perfect for me. Landlord only gets pissed when people start smashing. Apartment was spacious and any maintenance requests were promptly addressed. Overall a great place to live for grad students.
