Westchester Garden Apartments

Great place at a good price!
This place is just amazing, and I am not joking. The laundry is in the unit, wood floors, quiet neighborhood, clean yards, big spaces, and the best is the manager Dean! He actually tries to listen to all your requests pretty fast.
The only thing is that we had an ant problem when we got in the place and the laundry place is usually very dusty. Other than that I really enjoy this place and is definitely a 5 star one.

I lived in the sister apartments Kittyhawk.
I am a travel rn who needed an affordable place to stay.STAT. I called Dean like a week before I moved. I was able to do my application online and come 3000 miles to meet him on a SUNDAY and get my keys and sign the lease.
He was nice… the neighbors were nice (one being his brother and family), the maintenance man was nice (gave me his cell # to contact him quickly)
The reason it doesnt have 5 stars?
1. NO A/C…coming from georgia my first week was great. Nice sea breeze… windows open. no fear someone would crawl in. Then a heat wave came… I was miserable. I had to buy fans to keep from dying.
2. Ants. they OWNED the place… none of my pesticides worked… they came back. I must say. I would rather have them than roaches. but they were annoying!!! Dean told me I should have told him so they could spray… hell I just figured they would respond to my spray and powders that usually works. Oh well.
3. Parking… it was sometimes like a battle for parking. Esp if you came into the neighborhood after 7pm or before 9am on weekends and holidays. There was a couple times I had to park a couple blocks away! The neighborhood is safe… but still. There were these big trucks always there… motorcycles that parked horizontally from the curb instead of vertically. There are no painted lines so there would be a potential spot. yet the car in front or behind didnt park right. This was my biggest complaint. Dont get me started on the cars that NEVER moved… (one had spider webs from its tires to the street)
At the end of the day a good place to stay. Very gated… you need a key for everything. Nice management. Nice area. Even though a few blocks from the airport. rarely heard a plane. 15 mins from the nearest beach.
I would recommend this place :)

Let’s start out by saying that, for any other person this place is a 5 star rating, I mean it’s pretty dang good, if I wasn’t such a germaphobe, carpet hater, outdoorsy despise-​r and all around bug destroyer I’d give this place at least 4 stars.
First let me start by saying, management is pretty good, if you have a problem like getting locked out, either Dean, Andrea or Sal are there to get you back in. They’ll also work with you if you can’t make a payment on time or are late already. They also won’t pester you continuously which is a plus. Now, these are fully furnished apartments from 1 to 3 bedrooms (I believe), located just a mile or two from LAX, pretty close to like 3 or 4 beaches and right near OTIS and LMU. Public transportation (Metro Green Line — Aviation Station, Big Blue Bus 3, Culver City Bus 6 and Metro Bus 115, ⁴⁰⁄₄₂) all run in the area. Bottom units have complete hardwood floor and upper units have mostly carpet with hardwood in the dining area. Some units (lol mine) come with a pretty decent size LCD flat screen TV and blu-​ray player. Also all utilities and high-​speed internet (you’ll need to buy a wireless router though if you want wireless) are included, but if you’re a TV watcher we get like BELOW basic cable, like a 1 – 30 something, half of it are double channels and the majority are Spanish speaking channels (damn me for not taking more Spanish classes in high school!) and there are laundry units ($ 1 to wash, 75 cent to dry) but for a full package like that it seems like a good deal and it is if you have the cash to stay here!
If you’re a student, they’ll give you a $ 100 dollar discount, so me and my roommate are both students so in total a $ 200 dollar discount, but for kids on a budget, paying $ 950 a month, after splitting it between the two of us (so in total $ 1900), is pretty steep– more like insane and out of the question if you don’t have support from family (ME). I think the discount should have been a little better but meh, that could be just me.
Now why am I only giving it only 3 stars? Well, here’s why– these buildings were built in the 70s and they have a very old feel to them. When we (my family and I) first walked in the first thing they noticed was the ANCIENT heater, that they said should have been taken out when they had refurbished the apartments, along with the heater being ancient the stove, dishwasher and refrigerator are the same way as well. The heater doesn’t work and since we’re by multiple beaches, at night during the winter if I moved to a different spot in my bed, I would have to retreat back to my original spot because it felt like my bed was icy! But hey, since these apartments are so beach located, there’s no need for central air, just crack open a window or the back door and you’re good to go! Speaking of the beach, it might be because of the moisture in the air (I come from the really dry Inland Empire) but I’ve never stayed in a place were if you leave a damp towel out, that the moldy «wet-​towel» smell just makes a home in the towel extremely fast. Ugh, I hate mold and I have a sensitive nose when it comes to smells that bother me so it constantly bothers me when it happen to the towels and the sponges and it just freaks me out because ew, ew, ew! I’m a very cleanly type so I personally can’t deal with this, also since the fridge is so old, I’m guessing it’s not getting as cold as it should because any type of dairy product turns bad in a matter of a couple weeks, and dairy isn’t cheap y’all. Since it’s located seriously a mile or two from LAX you can see and hear all the planes landing and taking off, now I have no problem with it but the roommate does and I think most people would but don’t worry, the windows are double glass, the downfall though, if you live by the entrance leading to the back (ME) then every conversation going on between other residents and the gardening workers and whoever else are heard as if you’re standing right next to them with an amplifier, not even kidding. Also anyone with arachnophobia, STAY AWAY. First week living here back in August 2011, I killed 5 spiders, spiders dwell on this land, wolf spiders, black widows– god knows what other ones but they’re BIG. This is probably in contribution to all the foresty flora they got in the back of the apartments and they do extend into the laundry facilities, I wouldn’t recommend washing at night. And finally one of the biggest problems is that the lights/​fan in the room are remote controlled and the wiring is just, I don’t even know, you turn on your light, you just turned off your downstairs neighbor’s light and the people’s light across from you. I’ve had ongoing light battles with my neighbors unknowingly and after a point they give up– so if you happen to read this, SORRY!
So all in all, my lease is ending May and I’ll be gone and never come back, but this is a nice place, on the pricey side but a nice place. Will add more photos closer to leaving.