AVA Hollywood at La Pietra Place Apartments

I just moved into Avalon West Hollywood. Moving here was such a great experience. Jurixcy, the Leasing Agent made the move so easy. She's helpful, punctual, and extremely responsive. She made moving into the Avalon West so great. She helped me with everything I needed, answered all of my questions and assisted in making the whole process stress free. I am so glad I met with her, she's so nice and professional.
I'm so happy that I moved to this nice building, the pool is amazing!

The complex is not safe with people stealing packages and intruders sneaking into the building and parking garage. The reviews online are horrible. My Tesla got broken into twice in less than 6 months. Lost so many Amazon packages

I HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND AVA HOLLYWOOD. To start, I lived in a townhome maybe 4 months before a homeless person broke into the property, broke into my residence burned my place down and destroyed all of my belongings. Another 6 months go by when another homeless person breaks into the garage broke into my vehicle ripping wires making it not driveable. The Ava’s excuse was we don’t have security in the parking structure make a police report (nothing was resolved other than me coming out of... pocket)! Dealing with staff is the most irritating and time consuming thing. First you half to call for a appointment and that’s if someone ever reaches out. I highly recommend if ever speaking to staff to have EVERYTHING in writing or they will lie to you and say they didn’t say what was promised. Highly over priced, poorly built, can literally hear any type of movements if you live below someone. You would think as big of a company they are the infrastructure would be much more professional. One of my worst living experiences I have ever had to deal with. 13 months of hell. Read More

First thing's first, this is a MASSIVE complex. It's 5 buildings and each building could easily have it's own staff to support the tenants, but there is no where near that staffing. So, it's really easy to get in the door, get your lease signed, and get moved in. Once you're here, good luck getting any help from anyone in the lobby about any concerns you have. The maintenance team and custodial crews are great, and take good care of requests you make, but anything that rises beyond a basic... fix or clean up and you'll be waiting weeks to get it fixed, if at all. Also, sound insulation is terrible here, you hear everything from every direction including the hallways.

All that said, there are some positives. The gym is great and rarely busy. Squat racks, heavy dumbbells, plenty of weight lifting machines and an entire level of just cardio equipment. There are a lot of amenities like multiple rooftops lounges, a decent pool (although not large enough for the community), pool table, and they try with events like regular food trucks, comedy nights, and events like that.

The neighborhood is not that great, it's central Hollywood, but it's the media district, so lots of studios, but not tons to do. If you walk about 20 minutes in any direction you're in centers with lots of great food and bars, but immediately in the area there isn't anything.

Also, the fire alarms. I've never lives somewhere with even 2% of the disturbances created by fire alarms here. There's regular "testing" where they sound the alarms throughout the entire complex, and once every few weeks you can count on the alarms being triggered at 3 AM without explanation.

Overall, just keep in mind that this place isn't "luxury" as it would lead you to believe, that being said the price point isn't outrageous, it can be convenient if you need to travel to the valley. You could do worse than this spot, but if you're a light sleeper or are annoyed by noise, then you'd do better to spend a little more and find a nicer place. Read More

I am a current tenant under the Avalon Bay Communities portfolio. I am only writing this review to forewarn any potential consumers of the dangers of working with this community of apartments. Their leasing/sales teams are encouraged to lie to get you to sign a lease. Their property managers are also encouraged to provide a terrible living experience to incentivize you to break your lease early. This generates revenues for them in early termination fees and allows them to raise the rates in a... shorter window of time, every 6 months instead of 12 or 18. You will find that most every favorable review across all channels are from someone new to the communities. They haven't lived there long enough to realize just how awful this parent company is. 6 months in, they are guaranteed to change up and hate it.

Bad Management Bad Property Management Dangerous Danger Safety Unsafe Noisy Noise Loud Liars Cheats Poor Service Unreliable Poor Reliability Awful Sad Angry Unclean Alarms Sirens Read More