This apartment IS NOT MEANT FOR LONG TERM STAYS.

This apartment IS NOT MEANT FOR LONG TERM STAYS. When I stayed in the Airbnb prior to moving in I had a good experience but I regret signing the lease. I can attest that most of the positive reviews are either paid, fake, or from people who stayed short term. The people who have lived here long term cannot give it a high rating because there are too many issues for the price—You are paying for luxury but getting the bare minimum—a lot of times not even that.

Throughout my lease I felt that the management’s focus was on filling vacancies and generating new leads with flashy marketing instead of trying to keep its current tenants by improving their experiences and meeting their needs.

Here are the things I wish someone told me honestly:

1. Internet never works, they went on and on about fixing it but it somehow still has issues. There were even talks about residents suing the apartment for this issue.
2. Random things in the amenities will be broken and your maintenance request to fix them will be ignored.
3. There is a nightclub quite right next door. They play music extremely loudly on the weekends and sometimes even during weekdays. It doesn’t just sound like music from a distance, it’s so loud it sounds like your next door neighbor in the building is having a party. They play every single weekend and will play well past midnight. If you have small children or pets, I recommend that you stay far away from not only this apartment but from this street as well. This is not directly the building’s fault but it still affects a residents quality of life.
4. The apartments are built poorly. You can tell that a big corporation put no thought into designing these places and used cheap materials. For example, the laundry doors are held together BY TAPE. The doors just randomly fell one day and could have caused severe injury to me or killed my pets. Even the maintenance people who came to fix it were shocked at this.
5. Construction/ maintenance at all times that is loud, inconvenient, and dangerous—especially in the parking lot because they make you use the same ramp to enter and exit sometimes without anyone overseeing the ramp. Because the ramps are narrow you have limited vision and can’t really see if a car is coming from the other way. This made me feel extremely anxious and frustrated and there are several days I stayed home or changed my plans to avoid having to deal with the parking lot situation.
6. They can fine you, however much they want, at their discretion. Don’t forget to read this in your contract 😀. Sometimes fines are justified but when there are several issues you’ve been quietly dealing with, it feels like a slap in the face to get fined a heavy amount for a mistake. Where was all this energy and attention when I asked for the water damage in my bathroom to be fixed?
7. The price. Honestly despite these issues the location is nice (even despite the nightclub next door) and I would have rated the apartment higher if the rent wasn’t exorbitant for the quality of life and the sq ft of the apartment. The only reason I am writing this review is to warn people who are thinking, oh it’s a nice place so the price is justified. No it isn’t. My previous apartment was also expensive but I never felt upset about it because I felt like my day to day there was justified and there were never consistent issues. Especially not issues that I felt like really crossed the line like the ones here at Josefa. One time the water just went out with no warning and the management gave absolutely no explanation as to why, and one of the neighbors was even showering when the water turned off. Is this really what happens at an apartment where the rent is ~40,000+? And don’t expect the rent to stay the same either, they will increase the prices stating inflation and demand, which again, would be understandable if this was an apartment that is valued at a justified rate.

The one star is for the some of the day to day staff who were always super welcoming and friendly and as the other reviews say, do not represent management

Review by Christina L., posted on Google Maps and collected by this site. It is the personal opinion and experience of whoever wrote it; this site is not affiliated with Urbanista or with the building's management.