Oasis Apartments

First of all the picture of the pool and big Palm Trees is false advertising! I’ll post pictures of what it looks like now and you’ll see they stopped giving a shi* and started going with the lowest bidder. Pool area is now surrounded by weeds and crappy cheap mini palms. They’ll tell you they needed to take the big palms out because of water leaking in the garage but that’s BS. It was the Jacuzzi leaking the entire time and even after they RE-​DID the pool area. The building is cool and most of the tenants are awesome! But the upper Management (Scott Properties) doesn’t give a shi* about this place or it’s best tenants. I’ve been a very good tenant and they still refuse to fix /​replace my dishwasher. My dishwasher can’t even clean itself let alone dishes. Between this and the mouse /​rat problem around the pool I’m disgusted. (Yes, I’ll post pictures.)

Far from the greatest apartment. Management has enough nerve to try n tow residents cars out of spaces they pay for. Not to mention the 500 notes they stick around the apartment with warnings of what not to do. Plumbing is terrible. The pipes Are pouring water into the garage daily which leads to them shutting the water off once a week. My roommates car paint was damaged due to management lagging in fixing a leak that was pouring directly on to his car. Maintenance always has their cars double parked in guest parking or blocking exits which is a fire hazard. Management does not see a problem and says it is their building. Maintenance is however quite great and fixes things extremely fast

Been living at the Oasis for 6 years. It’s much like any other apartment, it has it’s good points and bad points. It can be very noisy on the Sepulveda side. The building was skewed a bit in the ’94 earthquake, so doors are a bit off kilter and there are always water pipe problems. That said, I have found that they generally do fix things when they break down. Manager Frank has always quickly dealt with any problems I have had.
It has a decent pool and hot tub. Lots of hot water in the showers. Yes, there are a few shady tenants as noted by Cindy A., but there are usually some dodgy tenants in each building. I know two tenants were arrested at 3 am one night, ostensibly for drug dealing out of the apartment. However, something was done about it.
As for pot smoking, get in the 21^st century, this is commonplace. If you don’t like it, move to a non-​smoking building. That’s like complaining that your neighbor is smoking cigs.
Disagree with Eric B. — I have never noted a problem with kids running and screaming down the halls. I only know of one child and she lives two doors down from me. Never hear a peep. I do hear the dogs barking (next to me and below me), but big deal. You are living in a shared building. I also have never seen a drunken fight at the complex either. I do know they were having problems last summer with large pool parties with a lot of non-​tenant guests invited, but they nipped that in the bud by limiting the number of guests and prohibiting guests from using the pool without a tenant present. I also haven’t seen people ‘destroying the gym’. The gym ain’t much, but at least they have the basics.
I have never had any significant problem in my 6 years here.

Oasis Apartments has it’s pros and cons. I lived here for 9 months and my experience was, well, generally cons.
The pros:
Gated, underground parking.
Gated, underground guest parking (limited, but very helpful!)
Intercom access/​entry.
Large pool.
Large spa.
Decent gym, with 2 TVs running DirecTV.
Great hot water in apartments.
Great AC during the hot summer months.
The cons:
The Tenants.
Half the people living there are shady. I’ve encountered blatant pot users, people staring from the balconies while I was using the pool, others having loud parties on weekends in the patio (lots of alcohol), and possible drug dealers. On multiple occasions I’ve seen 2 men leaving something to wedge the emergency exits open so someone else can enter without a key or without going through the lobby. The other half are people who have jobs, have younger kids, and are just living their lives.
The Apartments.
You can hear everything. People fighting, people laughing, TVs blasting, music playing, babies crying, doors slamming, dogs barking, you name it. If it makes a peep, you can hear it. Also, don’t ever live anywhere near Sepulveda (west side of the complex)! Fire trucks, ambulances, and police sirens abound! As do morning and evening helicopters reporting traffic on the 405. If you’re a heavy sleeper, or slightly deaf, then by all means, try your luck at a good night’s rest.
The Management.
Frank and Letty are the two on-​site managers while I was living at Oasis. They are both very friendly people, who will smile and say, «Hi.» They are also not the hardest working people I’ve met. On one occasion, the power went out and several cars were stuck in the garage (myself included) and many more we stuck outside because the gate was inoperable. Obviously, several tenants contacted the managers and both eventually appeared. Frank was very upset about having to hand crank the garage gate open, saying he was late for a gig (he’s a musician on the side) and shouldn’t have to deal with this sh*t. The entrance to the garage has 2 sides, one to enter and one to exit. He only cranked it far enough to open the entry side, and then took off. Letty then appeared and just watched traffic. As I was waiting to leave, I noticed the car in front of me said something to Letty. As I approached, I said that it was dangerous to only have half of the gate open, and she rolled her eyes and started yelling, «You’re fine!» then looked back at the cars waiting to enter the garage and continued yelling, «You’re all fine ok! I’m here! You’re fine! Just go! It’s fine!»
On another occasion, my boyfriend was in the guest parking waiting for me. When I arrived he was in a state and said that Letty gave him a lecture about not being allowed to wash cars in the garage. I asked him, «Well were you washing your car?» and he said, «Of course not! I was wiping a bug off the windshield! But she ran out here and yelled ‘No washing cars! No washing cars! Stop right there! You can’t wash your car here!’ «
On several other occasions, I’ve heard both managers talking badly about other tenants amongst themselves, as well as badmouthing tenant TO other tenants! Not professional, at all. Both are generally in good moods when they are in the air conditioned office surfing the internet, but as soon as they actually have to do something, their smile disappears.
There are several rules in place and most go unenforced (expect the car washing one, apparently). Oasis Apartments has a No Pet policy, but there are several cats on the complex that like to hang out near the BBQs when someone is grilling, and I’ve walked by several cats sitting in neighbors’ window sills. Also, there are several small dogs on the complex. I tried using the gym ONCE early in the morning around 7:00AM and there was a woman in there doing yoga on her iPad with her small dog in the gym. It had a harness on but it wasn’t on a leash, it was just roaming around the gym. I like animals, but not in the gym.
Overall, would I recommend someone live here? Probably not.

Looks nice on the surface, but living here will drive you nuts. Thin walls, stomping people above, kids running and screaming up and down the halls, drunken fights every weekend, and people destroying the gym. I’ll be putting in my 30 day notice the day my lease is up.

I’ve been living here for 6 months and so far, so good. I’m just concerned they may be charging me too much rent. I’ll go into more detail later.