University Village Apartments — Local services in Los Angeles

DO NOT MOVE HERE – READ THIS BEFORE SIGNING A LEASE (especially because you are not allowed to see the apartment until AFTER you sign your lease).

If you’re looking for an outdated, poorly maintained apartment with unresponsive management, then this is the place for you. Otherwise, save yourself the headache and look elsewhere. Lived here for less than two months before finding a new lease.

Parking Nightmare: The garages are too small for SUVs, and management refuses to let you move into a larger one, even if they have availability.

Noise Issues with No Real Solutions: Neighbors are excessively loud, but management won’t do anything unless you call them after 11 PM and they physically come to your unit to confirm the noise. Their solution? A letter—no actual enforcement.

Old, Falling Apart Apartments: These units have not been updated in years. Kitchens and bathrooms are in disrepair—peeling laminate counters are literally screwed back on, there are visible holes in the walls and ceilings, and carpets are ripped and stained. The bathroom water temperature is also broken and cannot be adjusted.

Zero Respect for Privacy: Maintenance can and will enter your apartment without notice. They once walked in on us in the middle of a work meeting, with no work order to justify it. No apology, no accountability and it was so bizarre. It definitely scared me how comfortable they were entering without the door being answered.

Disgusting Laundry Facilities: The machines are ancient, often broken, and so filthy they stain your clothes instead of cleaning them.

Filthy Common Areas: Hallways are cluttered with abandoned furniture, water jugs, garbage, and even bugs. Regular cleaning clearly isn’t a priority.

Overpriced and Not Worth It: Despite the terrible living conditions, new apartments are rented at market rate. There’s no financial advantage to living here—just frustration. As of 2025 they are 2750 for a small two bedroom apartment. The second bedroom is more like an office nook and not a bedroom.

To be content living here, one really needs to feel comfortable living in squalor. Otherwise, you will get more for your money elsewhere.

Final Verdict? Stay away and find your own apartment. There are plenty of better places to live for the same price. We found a place with in unit laundry for $50 more than this rate. Do yourself a favor and keep looking until you’re happy with...

The one star is for the price because it is a good price. Also, the maintenance staff at my building are really nice but I hear it’s hit or miss in terms of that. Everything else about living here is horrible. You have to sign the lease before seeing your unit. Internal transfers are allowed but only after all new tenants have moved in (so if you’re stuck on a 3rd floor apartment facing the 405, don’t expect to sleep while you live here). The office staff are extremely unhelpful. The new wifi system is horrendous; it cuts out constantly - no one wanted it but administration still forced it on us. Honestly, if I could go back, I would live somewhere else and pay a bit more for a half competent management team and a culture of caring about residents. Instead. I’ve lived here for 3 years now and am constantly surprised by their ability to find new ways to make living here frustrating and...

I don't live here at all nor am I a student at UCLA but I come here for the food distribution every Sunday.

It's kinda hard to grab any food when you have a lot of the same self-entitled greedy white geriatrics coming back for 5 or 6th rounds of food every few minutes from the next-door apartment buildings like roaches leaving barely anything left for people who genuinely need it. Not to mention they were blocking the way to access the scraps they left behind ever so rudely. Other than that the staff is nice but they need to give 1 or 2 bags of food per...