Summer of Love Residences

Frank at Summer of Love housing was so helpful and understanding and generous with his time and expertise. He toured my daughter around the facility and recognized her potential. He ultimately provided her with the opportunity she needed to fulfill her desire to attend colleges in the Bay area. He is a fair and big hearted human and we love him!
Nannette Palmer

A huge «thank you» goes out to Frank Ramirez for helping to make my daughter’s housing run smoothly. He answered all of my many questions and gave his personal attention to make sure everything was ready for her move-​in. He’s the full package when I think of a positive customer service experience. I also want to give a shout-​out to the rest of the staff at Summer of Love. My daughter commented that everyone has a pleasant attitude and they are nice and very helpful. Thank you!

Let me echo the positive experiences documented here! My daughter and two other students were looking for safe, affordable housing in the city; fed up by the bait-​and-​switch tactics of some of the other student housing providers, we were delighted to discover Summer of Love. Frank Ramirez did a phenomenal job managing the process — coordinating applications from three people located in different cities across the US, ensuring we got a good tour on our initial visit, and even accommodating the three young women in the same room as was our preference. Our interactions with other staff members have been warm and friendly, as well as those with other residents we have met during our visits.
We, too, are new in this relationship, but my daughter is happy, her roommates are happy, and all of the parents involved are happy. Thank you, Summer of Love!

It’s nice place to live, great community… except for the management.
They’ve bunch of rules set up for everyone, and yet they don’t follow them (i actually caught the manager frank braking one of them.)Neither does most of the community. They put their best foot forward to get you to live in here, but once you are here they treat you like a peasant. Specially frank the manager talks to you like you are at his mercy. And they run out of stuff that they said they’ll provide in the contract. One of the rule is no guest after 6pm, and if you are not white and have them over after 10pm and they find out they’ll warn you about it next day and whoever they were can no longer visit you. Now if you are white (as i’ve seen many white tenants have does so, YEP THEY ARE RESIST and you’ll find that out once you move in.) you can have guest at midnight and even later. Hack i’ve seen few of them have sleepovers and stayed here for week or two without paying rent. Tenants have gotten so mad at the management, that they bought food for everyone and that happens about once/​month.
They’ve two other people (well mostly) working at front desk to help out, the last 6 month i stayed there they went through 8 people for one position, the other one (dom) has been there and will be there as he can get to smoke weed on the job (yep i’ve caught him do that least 3 times as well) They were suppose to be there from 9am-​5 pm, but many times they don’t come till 10 or 11 (latest i’ve seen is 11:30am) and leave early many times as well (around 3−4pm) They’ll put a note be back in hour or two and than never comes back one of the in house girl who takes care of stuff takes the sign off at 5pm.
The housekeeper are slow. Closes the kitchen from 9am to 11am to clean it, that’s long time for tiny room. Once a month they’ll clean the ovens and forget using them that day till 4pm. They were suppose to come clean the room and change the bedsheets every 2 week, but if you don’t remind them they’ll come once every 5 – 6 week if you’r lucky. The management use to wash the sheets (send it to cleaners) but now they don’t do it anymore as i can see i’ve had dirty sheets twice in last month (before that they forgot to come and clean the room for month). I just use my own and wash them as needed. The housekeepers suppose to clean bathrooms everyday, but they only do it one floor/​day if it’s not busy that is. If you complain about them, the manager frank docks their pay, and there it goes, the housekeepers do worst job till their next pay.
This place has nice little hanging spot in the back, but they closes it at 11pm, which is not a big deal in weekdays, but in the weekend, you can’t really do anything else. Many tenants do hang out late as they work till late at night, specially in kitchen, and unlucky for me my room was right next to it, and they’ve windows that can’t be closed, so I’d hear them talking least 3 – 4 in the morning, you can’t tell them to shut up or go as they’ve right to cook and hang out there. I can close my window but than it’s hot as hell since it SF, specially being 4ppl in one room.
MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR DEPOSIT BACK ON TIME. I’d given them a notice ahed of time (almost a month in advance) and took me few times before I got reply from them. They did not have my deposit ready on that time. When I got reply from them, they found problem in the room and now they’r keeping the whole thing. Same happened to another person living in another room.
DO check all the rooms, not all of them are same size. Some triples are larger than some quads. some double are larger than other doubles. so before you move in ask to see all the available rooms. Unlucky for us, they stuffed 2 people in my room without any notice. after 2 month, they asked me to move to another room so they can rent it out to new tenants who wants to stay in same room (which was not a big deal tbh)
They’ll always tell you they’ve only one or two rooms available. (told me same thing) but they’ve plenty of empty rooms as i found that out once i moved in.
In my situation, i had no choice but to get a place and my bad luck that i found this one out first. But if you’ve time, look for other places there are other better places, and not even that expensive compare to this place, specially for doubles it’s $ 900 here, which you can get single on many other places nearby. just have to be lucky in finding it.

A hidden gem in the middle of the heart of San Francisco. I have stayed at the Summer of Love twice now and have had a pleasurable experience both times. The first time I stayed there, the residences had just opened and as with any new establishment there was still some construction that needed to be finished. O.K., go with it. The second time, I stayed in a charming 3 bunk bed suite, newly decorated with brand new appliances, stainless steel side by side fridge, and granite counter tops. Very clean and safe. These apts. were added last fall. I especially liked the gated security of the building and walkway that led to the quaint back patio. It had a European feel and was very relaxing in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the city. If you need to live in the City to work, or go to school, and can’t afford outrageous high priced
, then The Summer of Love residences would be a great alternative for any college age person. Space is always going to be limited in SF, but the location, meeting people from all walks of life, and the experience of living in the City, has no limits and is worth checking out.

Great location, You meet people from all over the world and different backgrounds, 5 blocks from union square and cheap. Everything cheap, the way situations are handled, cheap. The talk is cheap. Prices pretty cheap but who knows how long that’s going to last cause the person running things is cheap. I thought I had it bad when construction was going on and I was walked in on as I was getting dressed 3 times of me living here. But it gets worse when I brought to their attention that they raised my rent by $ 105 but kept another tenants the same rate when they renewed their lease, All I got was back talk, rudeness, get told to look for another place, and a no true explanation when I addressed the inequality and unfairness. You’d be surprised that someone that lacks social skills would have a job like this to manage a residence. The sense of entitlement is sickening, They treat you as if this is the ritz and they’re letting you stay for free. How it’s promoted online, just smh, only bring one suitcase if you plan on living with 2 or 3 other people cause space is… It’s pretty stuffy.

I’ve been a resident at the Summer of Love Residences hostel. It has its ups and downs and good and bad. One of the greatest thing about staying there is the location. IT’S close to everything!!! Plus all the people from all over the world stay so its a great cultural experience.
On the other hand, there are a few problems and I’ll name a few that I’ve encountered
1). Mice! I’m very afraid of mice and when I told management about the problem I was given 2 glue traps to put in my room
2). Flood in our room! A pipe busted in the closet over the weekend and no staff was available. a lot clothing and personal items were damaged and moved to a nearby property storage area where we had to find our own transportation to get our things out of the storage when they found us another room to move into.
3). Bedbugs! I was bitten by bedbugs in the new room I was transferred into and was told I can’t be put into another room for fear it would spread. They sent housekeeping to change the bedding only!!! I drywashed my thing as well as my roommate clothing and bought bedbugs spray and bombs and never was reimbursed
4). The worst is Property Manager Frank!!! Don’t get me wrong Frank has made a lot of great changes to the property that other property didn’t do for instance, the website, everyone pays rent on the 1^st, if management needs to get into your room or someone is moving in you get a 24 hour notice! But he’s not a very approachable person and don’t know how to communicate well! For instance, I’ve been trying to get my mail out of the office for 3 days this week making several attempts a day but no one has been in the office. I don’t know where they could have been maybe giving a tour, checking on something, helping someone else out, or lunch! They don’t put up signs to say stepped away and will return at X time. I seen that Frank was in his office which I hesitated to ask because 1 time before I stood outside his office for 20 minutes and never was acknowledge. I left without waiting any longer. But this time I NEED my mail so as soon as I thought he was off the phone I ask… Can you get my mail? Not knowing that he took it as I was being disrespectful in the way I ASK because I didn’t say please. Tell you the truth I thought he was being playful when he said are you going to say please. so I did stay please. so he goes into the office to get my mailand start complaining about how I ask… so I get offended and tell him I came down 3 time just today for my mail and he responded do it look like I count how many times you came down and now I’m not giving you anything walks out the office locks the door and say wait on the guy I don’t know his name to return from lunch! I shock and disbelief at how he handled this situation so I decided to call and make a complaint to his boss because everyone has someone they report to… I called the number on the SL website its was Frank who answered I politely asked can I please get the number of the agency or person you report to because I didn’t like the way things were handled… he tells me before hanging up in my face that he is the property manager of all the buildings and dont report to anyone!!!
I don’t deserve to be treated that way!!! I have never paid my rent late and all I wanted was my mail!!! I will be trying my best to find out whos his boss because he was wrong… I will write to every single owner of the building if I have to!!!