Element by Stuho — Local services in Los Angeles

If you guys have ever thought about living at element !!! Literally NEVER EVER EVER EVER DO IT. I have had the worst experience here. It was my first living at USC AND GOT COMPLETELY SCAMMED BY THIS PLACE. It was a mess since I moved in. The place smelled disgusting and the other roommate was a complete mess. Then I go to wash my clothes a week into living there and there's mold everywhere in the washing machine!!! They told us for two weeks that they were going to replace it and STILL nothing. I go in to talk to the manager and he tells me he needs to talk to the maintenance guy and they haven't ordered the part after telling me for two weeks that they had ordered the washing machine. Bunch of liars. Keep in mind my rent is over 2k!!!! There's parties and people screaming from the pool. You can hear every single thing in that apartment! When someone closes their bathroom door, flushes their toilet, talks, walks, the cars outside, LITERALLY EVERYTHING !! There is no privacy. They have a rule of guests being able to stay 7 days and they can leave for a couple and then come back and stay another 7 nights so I have the pleasure of living with my roommates mom for 2 weeks in the tiniest apartment !! It's ridiculously overpriced!!! Get a studio at Jasper and it'll be cheaper to live by yourself. DO NOT LIVE HERE OMG!! I wish I had toured more places and never lived here. It's actually hell. I feel like all the positive reviews have to be paid ones especially for the renewal because this place sucks and I think you got extra entries in a raffle if you...

I wish there's an option to give ZERO star for this place. I lived in a handful of apartments and rent houses with my friends, and Element is the WORST experience I've ever had in my life. First of all, the walls are very thin. You will hear everything from upstairs, next door, and outside. I had a horrible roommate for three months and the management team didn't do anything. My other roommate and I definitely are traumatized from this experience. Second, the management team is not helpful at all. Yeah, they will act as they listen to your concerns and problems, but they honestly do not care about you and your living. Third, good luck getting out the lease EVEN IF you have a very difficult family emergency or anything because there's no such thing as contract breaking. I understand this part because I signed the contract. But under California Tenant Law (Civil Code 1942), you can ACTUALLY break the lease when the condition is "uninhabitable" which my case was a noisy neighbor in the building. Also, it doesn't make sense to NOT have a "fine/fee for breaking lease" for an apartment. Whenever I talked to the management with concerns and problems, I would come back with no answer but with more frustration. IF you are a current tenant, avoid getting help from Amanda and Christina. Maybe Chirag can help you but don't get your hopes up too high. IF you are a future tenant or considering this place, just don't... I do not recommend this apartment because they are full of lies and scams. AVOID....

The staff are very nice and helpful! But that’s pretty much the only nice thing I can say. This place is just not worth the money. It’s very cheaply built. The rooms are tiny and there is no storage - my roommate and I had to loft our beds so we had room to fit all of our stuff, and even then we had almost no breathing room. The walls are very thin, and noise echoes in the stairwell. The kitchen is very hard to move around in and the dishwasher and sink are terrible. You get water everywhere when you wash dishes because the sink is so shallow. The smoke alarm went off almost every time we cooked, even when there was no visible smoke. The building fire alarm also malfunctioned multiple times and went off repeatedly. We had to call the fire department three separate times because of a gas leak that we could smell and put work orders in for it each time, and only on the third time did someone actually repair the leak. The elevator was always broken. The layout of the whole apartment is just bad in general. Also, the apartment was not clean when we moved in. The floors were so dirty that when we mopped the swiffer pad...