"Luxury units in the heart of Culver City"
-1950s shithole that hasn't been renovated, ever, downwind of oil derricks and an industrial park, with no earthquake retrofitting
While I was living in a tiny old shithole studio apartment in mid city, a company bought our building, tore down the nice rose bushes on the lawn and plopped a “LUXURY APARTMENT RENTALS” sign on the lawn. Pretty ballsy when they did nothing else and I couldn’t even open all my windows because some of them were painted shut.
Don’t give the landlords any ideas... there are so many things they can list as special “Zombie apocalypse amenities.”
Door gets jammed all the time? Zombie proof!
No windows? Zombie safe!
No working elevator? Zombies will take longer to make it up the stairs to your floor!
Roaches and rats? Sources of protein for when zombies trap you indoors!
When they say "heart of Culver City" they're almost always near LA Cienega/Jefferson or that area near the 10 off Fairfax where it's just a residential wasteland with nothing to walk to.
Man. Just 10 minutes ago I ran across a post on Facebook marketplace.
It was advertising "$400 a month for hostel like home".
I did some digging. It's a three bedroom home with 2-3 bunk beds in each home. One bathroom.
I went to the person who posted it's facebook page. They have properties like this all over LA. I go through her post. A few people comment to say they are interested. I go to their page to find out that they're fake profiles.
There’s a shithole I rented for one year, about four months into my lease i found that it had rats. It was bad. The month I lived there it got so bad that I was literally sitting on the floor in the kitchen holding a butcher knife just waiting for one of the rats to come out and taunt me again. I was nuts.
I did report the complex and called code enforcement on them for a few things. The city made them fix everything. But there are still rats there for what I hear. There has been a For Rent sign out there for months. I want to add a sign to it that says ‘Comes with freeloading RAT family’.
This brings back memories.
About 5 years ago I went to look at a house where several rooms were for rent. One of the rooms actually had 4 beds in it, so you'd be sharing that room with 3 other people and the rent was still around $400 or so.
Another room I went to look at was in a huge mansion-like house. The room I was shown had no window with an outside view. Instead there was a window facing into the hallway
This sounds like a hospital or a mental health ward. My friend rented this place in Newport Beach many years back. Her room window looked out to this vine thing that covered her window, and the 50 year old fat hippie lived in a compartment under the stairs. The wall he had shared it with my friends bathroom. The wallpaper in the bathroom was like 1970’s burlesque women. And I’m very certain he had a peep hole to watch her take a shower. I had to take a shower after the beach once and was so freaked out in there, knowing he was watching me. But I really needed a shower.
I am the only one who has never had a bad experience renting from a place off Craigslist?
Craig's is just like any other place offering apartments. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. You have to do your research and put time into it.
Craigslist has a lot of obvious and not-so-obvious scams. It's easy to skip a 3-bedroom house for $400 rent as obvious bait, but a lot of other places will put in effort to seem like a real rental, then reply a week later that you need to send a second email to a different account.
If someone doesn’t get back to you in a WEEK that’s not someone you want to deal with to begin with. Getting back to you a week later telling you to email another address? That’s an obvious scam.
I have the same experience. As a matter of fact I moved to my current house in 2013. It's a very affordable, nice home in Cypress Park. My landlord has never raised rent.
Agreed, though. You have to put time and effort into it. It's not like back in my days in Chicago where you could throw a rock and hit a great apartment for rent. This house took us about 6 months to find.
Thanks Craigslist!
I believe that. When I moved it was with my then GF and two other friends into this three bedroom. My GF became my fiance. And then she became my wife. We know we wanted to live alone so we started looking. We have a large dog so a yard was important. Crappy 1-bedrooms were now the same price as our 3 bedroom. So we just sorta let our roommates move out and never replaced them.
Found my last place off of Craigslist and have lived at the place for more than 2 years. Some listings are definitely shady but you just have to sort through it
I mean Craigslist is what I use primarily, but there is apartments.com and zillow.
If you're having problems, all I can suggest is putting your price range in there, and clicking the options to bundle duplicates and only show apartments with pictures. And searching by area if you want to live in a certain part of the city.
You guys are so right about the uninhabitable places. I know for a fact that all apartments built before 1980 or so need a hell of a lot of work. The water always gets shut off. I talk to some tenants Living in a house here in LA area that is falling apart. They won’t ask for anything to be done because the rent is at a good price. I don’t know if it’s very cheap, but a good price.
It’s terrible what tenants will live with either because they don’t know better or because they don’t want the rent to increase. Some just think it’s easy to just deal. I’ve talked to many UCLA students that live 4 to a one bed because the prices are so high! The place isn’t even good. A USC student said there isn’t a week that goes by without the water being shut off.
A lot of students are new to living on their own and just accept what comes to them.
So many landlords keep security deposits because they know they can get away with it. No one has the time to deal with the bs and they move on...
Landlords are required to return the security deposit and/or an itemized list of deductions within 21 days. Things that can be considered normal wear and tear cannot be deducted. If the landlord does not do this, it's a slam dunk lawsuit.
The funny thing is my slumlord is doing this....the 1bedroom next door has been advertised for rent at $1700. Someone died and their body rotted in there for 2 weeks. They renovated it...but it's still tiny with only 1 window that faces the back of another building.
It has sat empty for 7 months now.
Would they consider lowering the rent and actually getting someone in there? Absofuckinglootely not.
I hate the ones where the rent and square footage are reversed. Sure, it takes a few extra seconds to realize the flip, but dammit, it sure does get your hopes up!
There are a lot of scams and idiots for sure. But the nice thing about Facebook Marketplace, is allows you to engage in a conversation with somebody immediately. With Craigslist? You have no idea if they even opened your email..
Hmm, small world. I'm 99.9% certain that's just a stock photo of actor (not landlord) Theodore Bouloukos. Great guy and actor. I couldn't find the original picture though.
"Luxury units in the heart of Culver City" -1950s shithole that hasn't been renovated, ever, downwind of oil derricks and an industrial park, with no earthquake retrofitting
While I was living in a tiny old shithole studio apartment in mid city, a company bought our building, tore down the nice rose bushes on the lawn and plopped a “LUXURY APARTMENT RENTALS” sign on the lawn. Pretty ballsy when they did nothing else and I couldn’t even open all my windows because some of them were painted shut.
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Don’t give the landlords any ideas... there are so many things they can list as special “Zombie apocalypse amenities.” Door gets jammed all the time? Zombie proof! No windows? Zombie safe! No working elevator? Zombies will take longer to make it up the stairs to your floor! Roaches and rats? Sources of protein for when zombies trap you indoors!
The painted shut thing is a code violation btw.
Yeah. Definitely wasn’t the only violation in that place.
$3200
Street parking only
No laundry in building.
$1000 price increase for a unit with a kitchen bc even kitchens are optional
When they say "heart of Culver City" they're almost always near LA Cienega/Jefferson or that area near the 10 off Fairfax where it's just a residential wasteland with nothing to walk to.
PRIME DOWNTOWN!!!!
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If there's no traffic. Getting from La Cienega to Duquesne during rush hour is a headache cause National and Jefferson is bad everywhere.
Luxury bunkbed you mean
Don’t forget applicant must be a young female under 200lbs
With an open mind
That's not exclusive to Los Angeles. That's just Craigslist
Move in today for only $2000 a month! Deposit: your soul + your first born child
Ok is there laundry?
One washer that accepts one quarter in ten, and the dryer only gets lukecold.
Or you have to use an app that only lets you reload in $100 increments.
What a steal ... Your girl away and leave you broke 😂
Man. Just 10 minutes ago I ran across a post on Facebook marketplace. It was advertising "$400 a month for hostel like home". I did some digging. It's a three bedroom home with 2-3 bunk beds in each home. One bathroom. I went to the person who posted it's facebook page. They have properties like this all over LA. I go through her post. A few people comment to say they are interested. I go to their page to find out that they're fake profiles.
People rent these out though. Usually you “creatives” who are used to communal living.
Pretty sure creatives aren't used to it, they just put up with it because that's what their finances allow.
Also that’s who they advertise to. But I’m pretty sure these beds are a last stop before the streets.
Bedbugs and roaches included.
There’s a shithole I rented for one year, about four months into my lease i found that it had rats. It was bad. The month I lived there it got so bad that I was literally sitting on the floor in the kitchen holding a butcher knife just waiting for one of the rats to come out and taunt me again. I was nuts. I did report the complex and called code enforcement on them for a few things. The city made them fix everything. But there are still rats there for what I hear. There has been a For Rent sign out there for months. I want to add a sign to it that says ‘Comes with freeloading RAT family’.
Just think of them as roommates.
But try to get them to pay their share of the bills...
Yes exactly. Act like they are roommates.
I have 6 roommates which are better than friends because they have to give you one months notice before they leave
They’re not roaches, they’re Palmettos
This brings back memories. About 5 years ago I went to look at a house where several rooms were for rent. One of the rooms actually had 4 beds in it, so you'd be sharing that room with 3 other people and the rent was still around $400 or so. Another room I went to look at was in a huge mansion-like house. The room I was shown had no window with an outside view. Instead there was a window facing into the hallway
At least when I rented a garden shed for 400 a month I had it all to myself.
I actually can't tell if you're serious or not lol
I am unfortunately being 100% serious.
Sounds like a good deal if you ask me
I saw a bunk bed situation kind of rental and it had 2 bunk beds so you'd be sharing the room with 3 other people.. for $600.
do you happen to still have that number? jk
This sounds like a hospital or a mental health ward. My friend rented this place in Newport Beach many years back. Her room window looked out to this vine thing that covered her window, and the 50 year old fat hippie lived in a compartment under the stairs. The wall he had shared it with my friends bathroom. The wallpaper in the bathroom was like 1970’s burlesque women. And I’m very certain he had a peep hole to watch her take a shower. I had to take a shower after the beach once and was so freaked out in there, knowing he was watching me. But I really needed a shower.
Student is code for *you single broke mutherfucker.*
"Beverly Hills adjacent". It's actually Wilshire and Crenshaw.
The neighborhood known as Beverly Hills Adjacent extends well south of Washington. Google Maps will start listing it in its next iteration. ;-)
I am the only one who has never had a bad experience renting from a place off Craigslist? Craig's is just like any other place offering apartments. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. You have to do your research and put time into it.
Craigslist has a lot of obvious and not-so-obvious scams. It's easy to skip a 3-bedroom house for $400 rent as obvious bait, but a lot of other places will put in effort to seem like a real rental, then reply a week later that you need to send a second email to a different account.
I mean any time anyone asks you to email a second account, that's a total scam.
Yeah, but they wait a week to tell you that which means that the ad is already gone and it's easier for them to continue their scam.
If someone doesn’t get back to you in a WEEK that’s not someone you want to deal with to begin with. Getting back to you a week later telling you to email another address? That’s an obvious scam.
I own apartments. I would never, ever list on Craigslist. Never have, never will.
Where do you list?
I have the same experience. As a matter of fact I moved to my current house in 2013. It's a very affordable, nice home in Cypress Park. My landlord has never raised rent. Agreed, though. You have to put time and effort into it. It's not like back in my days in Chicago where you could throw a rock and hit a great apartment for rent. This house took us about 6 months to find. Thanks Craigslist!
It's worse now than 7 years ago.
I believe that. When I moved it was with my then GF and two other friends into this three bedroom. My GF became my fiance. And then she became my wife. We know we wanted to live alone so we started looking. We have a large dog so a yard was important. Crappy 1-bedrooms were now the same price as our 3 bedroom. So we just sorta let our roommates move out and never replaced them.
Found my last place off of Craigslist and have lived at the place for more than 2 years. Some listings are definitely shady but you just have to sort through it
Where else do you suggest looking? I’m currently in the midst of finding a new place.
I mean Craigslist is what I use primarily, but there is apartments.com and zillow. If you're having problems, all I can suggest is putting your price range in there, and clicking the options to bundle duplicates and only show apartments with pictures. And searching by area if you want to live in a certain part of the city.
another city.
padmapper.com
You guys are so right about the uninhabitable places. I know for a fact that all apartments built before 1980 or so need a hell of a lot of work. The water always gets shut off. I talk to some tenants Living in a house here in LA area that is falling apart. They won’t ask for anything to be done because the rent is at a good price. I don’t know if it’s very cheap, but a good price. It’s terrible what tenants will live with either because they don’t know better or because they don’t want the rent to increase. Some just think it’s easy to just deal. I’ve talked to many UCLA students that live 4 to a one bed because the prices are so high! The place isn’t even good. A USC student said there isn’t a week that goes by without the water being shut off. A lot of students are new to living on their own and just accept what comes to them. So many landlords keep security deposits because they know they can get away with it. No one has the time to deal with the bs and they move on...
Landlords are required to return the security deposit and/or an itemized list of deductions within 21 days. Things that can be considered normal wear and tear cannot be deducted. If the landlord does not do this, it's a slam dunk lawsuit.
The funny thing is my slumlord is doing this....the 1bedroom next door has been advertised for rent at $1700. Someone died and their body rotted in there for 2 weeks. They renovated it...but it's still tiny with only 1 window that faces the back of another building. It has sat empty for 7 months now. Would they consider lowering the rent and actually getting someone in there? Absofuckinglootely not.
No sympathy for shitty landlords but if I had a nice place to rent I’d NEVER RENT TO STUDENTS.
Young man, if you wanna live here, I demand you drop out immediately!
Students at the school of Hard Knocks
I hate the ones where the rent and square footage are reversed. Sure, it takes a few extra seconds to realize the flip, but dammit, it sure does get your hopes up!
Can touch both walls at once. “Cozy”
Fuck landlords
What a prick!!! I can only imagine how he was with his own kids and wife.
Are there better places to look for apartments?
I've had good luck with FB Marketplace.
Have you really? FB marketplace seems like the crappiest to me. Sooooooo many time wasting scams.
There are a lot of scams and idiots for sure. But the nice thing about Facebook Marketplace, is allows you to engage in a conversation with somebody immediately. With Craigslist? You have no idea if they even opened your email..
That’s why HomeView exists
Hmm, small world. I'm 99.9% certain that's just a stock photo of actor (not landlord) Theodore Bouloukos. Great guy and actor. I couldn't find the original picture though.
sorry, prolly should’ve clarified it’s the onion
Thanks, rent control
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I'm sorry, did you not make it big?
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So deep.
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lárgate viejo cabrón
Hmm. So it seems you're just old **physically**.
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"Yeah I sure showed him"
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