Pool to be shutdown. Residents told to pay $75 per month for offsite gym pool
ManageMENT REFUSES MEDIATION
A tenant requested official mediation through the Los Angeles Dept of Consumer and Business Affairs.
But management said, "NO WAY!"
Well, that's why this tenants association exists -- because together, we have the power.
Management and ownership may dismissively refuse requests from individual tenants, and even from the Los Angeles County government, but collectively, we will DEMAND fair treatment and resolution of the DIRE AND UNACCEPATABLE building issues.
MANAGEMENT FAILURES
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
- Residents often want to pay by check, instead of the complicated, faulty, and ever-changing online system. When these residents visit the office to drop-off their rent check, they often find it closed! The door is shut, and nobody is there. The law requires the office to accept checks during business hours, or to install an drop-off box. But management doesn't care. They're all too happy to charge more late fees.
Property Manager Never Available
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
- Want to speak to the property manager? Good luck! He's never available for resident concerns.
Super high late fees!
Office Closed, Won't Accept Rent Checks
Super high late fees!
- Life gets busy. Things happen. If you send in your rent 5 minutes late (that is, five minutes past the deadline), and you're slapped with a $150 late fee! That fee might not even be consistent with the California laws, which require such late fees to be reasonable and proportional.
Crazy Water Bills
They Just Don't Care
Super high late fees!
- Our water bills are crazy high. They cost a fortune. How could we even use that much water? Or is there something more sinister going on? Many residents report they've never seen -- or heard of -- water bills as high as we pay at the 5550. Remember, the rent they quote you doesn't include your utilities, and they will be STEEP.
They Just Don't Care
They Just Don't Care
They Just Don't Care
- Management does not offer meaningful help with resident issues; they are dismissive and callous.
HAPPY vETERANS' dAY FROM THE TENANTS ASSN.
MANAGEMENT HIDING SNACKS AND SODAS FROM TENANTS
In an act of probable retaliation against a tenant, management has moved free snacks and sodas to a staff-only closet, from which they can distribute them only to their favored tenants.
Are you favored enough to make the cut?
Think Hiding Snacks and Sodas from Tenants is Unfair? Let Tony Gallo know.
Tony Gallo is a Vice President with Avenue5 Residential, the property managers who manage The Fifty-Five Fifty for Grubb Properties.
Let Mr. Gallo know how you feel about hiding amenities from tenants, only to distribute them to the favored few.
another day, another threat from management
Management threatens to TOW RESIDENTS CARS over BOGUS parking audit.
Happy Friday, 5550 Tenants!
Building management, meaning Avenue5 Residential, and our terrible owners, Grubb Properties (we're looking at you, Mr. Grubby Grubb) decided to wish tenants a happy early weekend, this Friday, WITH A SERIES OF THREATS!
That's right, if the crackhead sleeping in the elevator lobby wasn't enough, NOW MANAGEMENT WANTS TO THREATEN RESIDENTS with towing THEIR CARS!
And management even went OUT OF THEIR WAY to make it clear that if you're STUFF IS BROKEN OR STOLEN when they TOW YOUR CAR it's not their fault and they're not responsible!
Unbelievable!!!!
This comes after a previous, FAILED, parking audit, during which management demanded our VIN NUMBERS, LICENSE PLATES, and other weird stuff (it's a wonder they didn't ask for our blood type, too). Many residents refused to provide this invasive and unnecessary info, because the request was TOTALLY BOGUS. Well, management is BACK AT IT.
We want members of the tenants association to know that you do NOT NEED TO USE THEIR COERCEIVE ONLINE SYSTEM! YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FILL OUT THEIR BOGUS SURVEY.
Meanwhile, our GARAGE IS INVADED BY CRACKHEAD VAGRANTS, the ELEVATORS CONSTANTLY BREAK, RESIDENTS REPORT INSECT AND MOUSE INFESTATIONS, and management is... concerned with TOWING OURS CARS!?!!?!??!?!
And they KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN MANY BREAK-INS BUT REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSBILITY FOR SECURING THIS COMPLEX -- IT IS PURE NEGLIGENCE!
So listen up, Avenue5 Residential, 5550 Hollywood Management, and Grubb Properties, instead of THREATENING RESIDENTS, take SOME RESPONSBILITY, FOR ONCE, for the SAFETY AND SECURITY of this building.
Stop the threats, Avenue5!
Tell Avenue5 Residential, the managers of The Fifty-Five Fifty, to STOP threatening residents, AND FOCUS ON THE CRACKHEADS!
Resident's car towed -- vicious retaliation
On Thursday, October 30, a tenant-activist's car was towed from the building lot.
This apparent act of retaliation occurred only short hours after the tenant informed the management that he is a PROTECTED WITNESS in a criminal case, in which management is suspected of having committed a serious -- potentially deadly crime.
We're still learning more about this viscous incident, and we'll keep you apprised.
Stand-Up Against This Outrage!
Email our city council office and let them how know how you feel about tenant retaliation.