Diamond Head Apartments

I lived at Diamond Head Apartments for two years during the academic year of 2003 – 2005. Out of all fairness there are positive and negative sides of living in this apartment complex and about Emily:
Postives:
1.) When Emily is showing an apartment very nice and respectful and will try to get you the place that your interested in.
2.) If you pay your rent on time and need to postpone a payment due to financial aid money not coming in or parents haven’t sent the money in yet etc. Emily will let you slide and let you pay for it later.
3.) I received about $ 600 of my $ 900 of my deposit back after moving out of the apartment complex. Which was fine since they do have to clean the carpet and paint which is standard at any apartment complex unless explicitly stated in the lease. This was probably due to not leaving anything in my apartment, cleaning every nook and crany in order to restore it to showable standards. Most people in that apartment complex leave crap inside the apartment or don’t clean up so they see a decrease in the return of their deposit.
4.) Very quiet apartment complex. Not A LOT of parties etc. So if you need to study it would be the best place to live.
5.) Unlikely to raise the rent after a year. Usually Emily doesn’t raise the rent on «good tenants.» Which I do like especially be a student and don’t like to move every year. ‘Good tenant” means you pay your rent on time and never late with payments.
Negative:
1.) If you need something fixed Emily is VERY SLOW of getting it fixed. It took 3 – 6 months to get stuff fixed with constant reminders for her to fix it.
2.) She will try to blame some problems experienced in the unit. For instance, for the first time ever I had roaches in my apartment. Emily tried to blame me for bringing them (which was weird since no place that I had EVER had roaches) but called the extermenator with no charge to me. The whole experience was gross e. g seeing all the roaches that came coming out from the kitchen area after the exterminator sprayed the repellent and having to remove all the dead carcusses off the kitchen floor. ABSOLUTELY GROSS!!! I found out later that a friend of mine that lived on the third floor was epxerienced a similar problem the same time I did. So don’t let her do that to you its not your fault!!!
3.) The soiled carpets leading to the trash shoot. So gross I wish they would remove that nasty carpet.
All in all looking back I would probably rent from Diamond Head Apartments again due to it being walking distance from UCLA campus. But just remember that with any landlord you have to keep complaining in order to get things fixed.