Meridian Place Apartment Homes - Northridge, California

Michael K.

The building is somewhat new but it's not secure. The management refuses to implement the buzzer system, so they just leave the side door open so that delivery can access the lockers. This also means that any rando can enter the building. My last var was stolen out of the parking garage. Management does not facilitate the needs of the residents. If you call it's extremely rare that someone will answer the phone. If you have a problem you are expected to create a work order online. You are lucky if someone shows up randomly 3 weeks to a month later. Elevators will go down frequently and sometimes they will be down for a month. I have a one bedroom apartment it costs 2300 a month and I have to say it's not worth it. I would recommend that you don't move into this building until management can get it together

Bruna D.

My experience living here has been the worst. The first DAY living there, a random woman knocked on my door and asked if she could sleep there. I felt unsafe and contacted management, and they did absolutely nothing about it.

We had loud neighbors who would put their tv on maximum volume and called security multiple times, yet NOTHING happened.

The neighbor’s dog always walked around unleashed and, while we were waiting for the elevator, the dog bit my dog in the face. We showed management photos of the accident. Yet, NOTHING happened.

The fire alarm in this building keeps going off which caused my dog to develop major panic attacks and anxiety. We tried to contact management multiple times. NOTHING.

We often encountered trash, dirty floors, unclean surfaces all over the common areas. Elevators are ALWAYS out of service.

Now that we moved out, they want to charge us $800 for damages and cleaning, which sounds ABSURD as we left the apartment cleaner than when we arrived with absolutely no damages. Management is extremely rude, disrespectful, and we will be pursuing legal action against them. Do not move there.

UPDATE: MAGGIE FROM MG PROPERTIES SAYS WE CAN CONTACT HER TO RESOLVE ISSUES, BUT NO ONE ACTUALLY PICKS UP THE PHONE OR REPLIES BACK TO EMAILS.

Pilar B.

Good experience at first, liked the apartment itself and maintenance did their best. Things became terrible with turnovers of management. It was difficult to get in touch with front office staff, fights in the parking area, urine stench and stains in the stairs area, mine and others’ cars broken into and stolen items without any help to resolve, fire alarms constantly going off, constant noise from upstairs neighbor and elevator kept breaking down for weeks at a time and once, another tenant and I got stuck inside for 5 minutes - no one came to help. I was traumatized after that and couldn’t ride the elevators anymore, and the stench of stairways along with my shoulder injury preventing me from carrying items -I had to move out and break my lease and they charged me $5400 regardless of their lack of professionalism and for problems with their property. The management couldn’t care less about my reasons for moving out and I didnt get any response when asking for their higher management to voice my complaints. There should be recourse for these types of situations. Disappointed.

Gev

Never seen a more incompetent building management in my life. How does a staff of 3 people need more reserved spots than the actual people who live here.

Elevators are constantly broken. Never seen three elevators need more maintenance in my life. Use the stair master at your gym. You will need it.

Clarissa C.

Save your $ let me warn you if you make the mistake of moving here you will regret it first of all the staff is so rude, lazy and disrespectful! You would think they were the ones paying over $3,000 a month for a one bedroom with all the attitude they have it's crazy! They are never in the office when you need them, I can't understand why they are so busy with the one tour a day they give? Not to mention the elevators are constantly out of service and they can't even bother to put up an out of order sign so you stand there like an idiot waiting until you finally figure it must be down again!! In addition the trash cans are overflowing every weekend it's disgusting and embarrassing and they work in the office Saturdays so maybe they should add that to their task list. The Most important thing I can say is be sure to take lots and lots of pictures before you move in and after, I just received a $22,000 bill!! No joke for post move out when the unit was well maintained other then the thin cheap carpet that my shampooer sucked up because it was so thin there is no possible justification for more then $20, 000 in "Damages " you would think I moved out of the Playboy Mansion or something and I was throwing ragers every weekend crazy! I was barely ever home because I had to work so much to pay the exorbitant rent! And of course I can't get a response I've been trying to request an itemized list of the damages ever since I received the bill with no luck! So save yourself the headache when I moved in about 2 years ago the only good thing was it was pretty clean and no roaches even that has changed now it's so disgusting the hallways and elevators stink and I guarantee as clean as you keep your kitchen now they have roaches and those things never go away! So stay away!

Michael B.

This building has gone to hell, there are homeless people and squatters living in the building the leasing office has done nothing about it. Long wait times for maintenance to come fix issues, there are a lot of plumbing issues, broken appliances that take months to get replaced. The elevators are always broken or are having issues, there has been flooding. Parts of the parking structure ceiling have collapsed in parking spots. I would recommend not moving into this building one bedrooms are $2800 a month not worth it. The hallway’s smell like there is a gas leak. Worst leasing office staff.

Nora S.

The management does absolutely nothing no matter how much you call/email them. Most of the time I just have to leave a voicemail and they don’t get back to me. If I do actually talk to someone, they say they will do something but then they don’t.

I’ve been complaining about the gym on the ground floor (Camp LA) playing loud music/bass for two months now. They turn on their music as early as 4am if a trainer wants to come in that early. It starts at about 5:30am at the latest every weekday. The bass from their speaker is so loud it shakes my apartment floor and walls. This isn’t something I can block out with earplugs or white noise. It’s disrupting my sleep and making my life difficult. It seems like a relatively simple fix to have the gym turn off the bass on their speakers, but nobody has done anything. When I try to talk directly to the gym they brush me off.

The management has done nothing about this situation no matter how many times I call. This is a violation of the community noise agreement for the building as well as the LA County noise ordinance. For an expensive (overpriced) apartment, I am very disappointed in how they’ve been handling things. I would not recommend living here.

Roman M.

The elevator has been out of order for over two months, and the stairs are accompanied by the smell of urine and dog feces. The garbage bins are almost always overflowing, and no one intends to clean them. Our bathroom exhaust fan broke, and we have been waiting for over two weeks for someone to fix it. If you call the office , no one answers. If you go there, it's closed. It seems to me that the price and the quality of service are moving in diametrically opposite directions.