Arch Drive Apartments

Do not believe this guy he is a lier !! He made my fiancé and I believe we were moving into an apartment located in Burbank he sent us pictures and all. Total asshole !!!

I am thankful for these reviews… I was lead to believe the nice pictures on
listed at 2125 Stewart St, Santa Monica, CA 90 404 was the apartment I was enquiring about. Then I get a broken english email:
Hello
Thank you for your interest in my apartment. Name is My Rick Conner, I am the owner of the apartment you are inquiring. I resided in the apartment with my family, my wife Patty and our only daughter and presently we’ve moved to Boston on a new job placement with Naver Corps and presently the unit is available for rent for $ 800 per month unfurnished including the utilities (Heat, Washer & dryer, electricity, Garbage). With a dedicated parking space. So this is not a sublet nor guestroom.
We are looking for someone responsible that would take care of our apartment like theirs. Short and Long lease are welcomed, because we’ll be here for a long time. I’m sorry you may not be able to see the inside of the unit right now, but attached to this email is the current pictures of the place, You may go by the apartment to have a look of the neighborhood and environment. If you’ll like to take things further do get back to me with your email address so I can email you the rental application form and then we can proceed further. will be honest with you I, the best way for communication through text and email it for me because am always working. You can text 617−449−8549
See attached pictures Please
BEDROOM: 1
BATHROOM: 1
RENTAL AMOUNT … $ 800 /​per month
SECURITY DEPOSIT … $ 600
ADDRESS … … 4187 Arch Dr, Studio City, CA 91 604
STATUS:. AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE MOVE IN
PETS ALLOWED. (WELL BEHAVED)
LAST MONTH WITH SECURITY DEPOSIT AND TO FIRST BE PAID TO MOVE IN.
Once again thank you for your interest. To hear from you again Hope.
Regards,
Rick Conner
Notice anything different. Yes. The address is the Arch Drive Apartments which are apparently unavailable to look at. But I’m supposed to apply with my social security number on these applications?
HA. Nice try Ben.
…I mean Mr. Conner.

Ben the owner, has been sued yet again by a former tenant. This time I was not the process server. I am in the process of getting a restraining order against him for stalking! OMG — what a d**khead.
DO NOT MOVE TO THIS PROPERTY. It is still poorly maintained, trash overflowing, and a tenement.

My husband and I lived here for six months. We, like other reviewers, had to hire someone to find him and serve him and take him to court. He’s an incompetent man. I won’t go through all the details– as we are now thankfully far beyond this point and have moved into a nice, safe, and clean complex– but read all of these reviews with much warning and do not move here. Do not move here. It doesn’t deserve stars at all.

I have been out of this dump for almost a year and I am still trying to get my deposit back. I won in court, but this Slumlord still refuses to refund my money. Landlord wants to vacate the judgement, of course. He is going to delay paying me as long as he can. No wonder people like him get away with keeping other people’s money… it is a real hassle to fight this. Save yourself a world of trouble and move somewhere, ANYWHERE, else. Don’t think it will be different for you. He has been keeping deposits for over 20 years. He goes into the lease with the intention of keeping the deposit. How he is still able to operate a business is beyond me. I guess there are just too many like him to stop them all… but I am going to keep trying.

If only I could give negative stars…
I could write a novel about how horrible the management is at this place, but I don’t really want to talk about it. The dude’s history speaks for itself. He doesn’t give back deposits, unless sue him for it, which many many tenants have. IF you can get him to make repairs, they’re shoddy as f*ck. He’s a liar and can’t be trusted. Seriously, if you move in here, you’ll be sorry. Guaranteed. I love the area and the street is cute, apart from the eyesore of this property… so much is close by, but IT IS NOT worth it!

So within the past 2 weeks, Ben has been sued again for not giving back deposits and lost again! From what I was told, the judge yelled at him for this being his 8^th time in court for the same thing. I’ve learned that some tenants have to pay their rent to the sheriff because of Ben’s judgements. He is so hated that someone (a well-​intentioned enemy as he has many) cut the gas line to the water heat about a week and a half ago in the laundry room, and Ben called a tenant and accused him of vandalizing his building. Now the laundry room doors have padlocks on them so there’s again no more accessible laundry facilities.
Today the housing inspector came out to make sure my repairs were made and actually yelled at the «maintenance» guy for the horrible work that he does and that he should be ashamed. Poor Jose-he’s told to do the bear minimum with the least spending as possible and he busts his butt working often 7 days a week so Ben can stay barely afloat from the law.

I concur whole heartedly with all of the negative reviews posted. I live there now and it sucks royally. I gave it one star only because there are no other options. I would like to give it –5 NEGATIVE stars.
The land lord is in fact a slum lord. Every other complex on the street is well cared for while ours is falling apart.
From the time we moved in in November of 12, he has promised to fix numerous things, from a window which doesn’t close, a lifted carpet, to a bad celing fan, to poor water pressure in the sink and shower plus the hot water is barely above body temperature. We have an ongoing roach problem that we had to solve ourselves with Borax because Ben the SLUM LORD won’t take care of this or anything else. He tries to make YOU the tenant responsible for things that any respectable complex would consider normal wear and tear, not to mention that he gives you the place in terrible condition to begin with. He tried to make us responsible for our sink disposal unit and took forever to finally come and fix it. In fact he only did so once we complained to the city and the housing department. He tried to make our neighbor responsible for a broken toilet. He still has yet to give us a copy of our lease. This man is the worst land lord I have ever dealt with and he’s a disrespectful mean old man. He has gotten into shouting matches with my girlfriend because she won’t take his crap. He is notorious for not giving back deposits and he is currently being sued by the previous tenant in our unit. The bushes have grown over the walkway so that walking through it requires pushing your way through a forest of unkempt greenery. Recently a huge branch fell from a tree just outside our unit… recently as in at least two weeks ago… the decompising branch is still lying almost exactly where it fell. The garbage dumpster out back is ALWAYS over flowing. For some reason (my guess is that he doesn’t pay for removal) all of the other neighboring complexes do not have this problem. There is a homeless woman who has taken up residence in the laundry room and Ben has been promising to put a pad lock on the door for months now. Many of the light fixtures outside are broken and Ben has promised to fix these as well, it has been months on this promise as well… nothing. This place is the worst and it’s a shame too because it could be a decent place and the location is really the only thing that has kept us there this long. We have every intention of leaving the minute our lease is up.
In a nutshell, GREAT location but not worth dealing with the nasty and unscrupulous slum lord. Ben is a pig and I look forward to the day when I can tell him to his face and rest assured I will. This is not a maybe. And so help me, if he ever yells at my girl in my presence this will get ugly. I do not wish this guy upon my worst enemy… come to think of it, I thinkhe is my worst enemy. I apologize for the rant styled review but when I think about all we’ve had to deal with from this prick I can;t help but go on an angry tangent. This is what you can expect if you should move in here.