Paradise Garden Apartment
Absolutely disgusting! Maintenance is absolutely horrible!

I lived in this place for 2 months. Let me repeat myself, 2 months, I moved out as fast as I could.

They advertise this apartment community with these words, "Paradise Garden Apts. Is a luxury apartment community with a full array of resident amenities. We offer our residents the finest value in apartment living..."

THERE IS NOTHING LUXURIOUS ABOUT THESE APARTMENTS! There is no such thing as the finest value! The front of the apartments has green grass and trees, looks pretty! But when you walk inside and see the center part of the complex, it is like you just walked out of Paradise and tripped straight into hell!

I rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $1550 per month. Very spacious, and I liked the fact the bedrooms were large, but that is the ONLY really good thing. It has alot of good sq. Ft. For the price.

But this is NOT the place you want to live with your CHILDREN!

1.in the back of the apartment, where I was located, when i walked to exit to the driveway to get to my car, you can see over the fence the TRAILER TRASH GHETTO PARK. It is amazing how those people live in the trailer homes, they are way below poverty. Look across the wall and fence and it is REALLY like you are looking at people living in a 3rd world country.

2. When i moved in, I filled out the checklist of things wrong with the apartment, and found 23 things wrong and I MEAN i looked very closely at every crack and corner, kitchen and bathrooms. I was NOT being picky, these were real problems with things broke, because i was not going to be responsible for broken things in the apartment that were pre-existing conditions. It was so bad when i locked the front door, i would think the door is locked, and it was not.

The door locks were not lining up with the slots, so the whole time anyone could just push the door open. I requested to have this fixed on the first day, and i ended up having to get the maintenance people come 2 more times to fix it right. All 14 cabinets in the kitchen would not close right in the slots, all cabinets were open slightly because they would not open. The STUPID and INCOMPETANT maintenance people decided to replace all 28 metal hinges on all doors and when they were done, guess what, the cabinet doors still would not close in the slots properly. They needed to sand the slots down so they could all fit and close perfectly. Never completed right.

The dishwasher did not work and had to be replaced. The fans in both bathrooms made loud noise and had to be fixed. One bathroom the shower would not turn off at all when we turned it on. The toilet would not flush at all.in all, I had the maintenance people come out 5 times total in 2 months because they kept leaving without fixing the problems. They would turn in work orders as completed, and i would have to finally yell at the apartment manager to pull her head out of her A*!

WHEN THIS WAS ALL SAID AND DONE, AND BECAUSE OF MY REFUSAL TO ALLOW THEM TO BE SATISFIED WITH NOT FIXING THE APARTMENT, OR DOING A HALF-A*ED JOB, I ACTUALLY LEFT THE APARTMENT 2 MONTHS LATER THAT WAS 300% BETTER THAN THE CONDITION I MOVED IN. But the Manager does deserve credit for fixing the problems, it just took the maintenance 5-6 try's and 2 months to fix things that should have taken 2 days or less

3. Every weekend the trash rooms are overflowing and left like that for the entire weekend. It was so bad people threw garbage in the floors and hallways because it was overflowing, making the hallways smell like crap. Very disgusting!

4. The first month we were there someone was shot and killed across the street.

5. The apartment is right across the street from Jordan High School.

6. If you do research online for CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTORS AND RAPISTS, and search the locations, you will see there are SEVERAL living in this apartment community.

7. PARKING = Forget it, there is no parking. There are way too many residents in the apartment complex for what little parking is available. After 7pm, you will never find a parking spot.

8. Grounds and Landscaping - Their is NO grass, all dirt, very little trees, trees and shrubs are dying, the grounds are never being watered.

9. Basketball Court - The basketball backboards are broken, the nets were torn and hanging, and there was major 2 inch cracks on the floor that is a major safety hazard.

10. The elevetaors are almost never working

11. The washers and dryers are almost never working.

12. You will sometimes smell people smoking pot

13. Back in there was a major fire in this complex.

Seriously, the owners of this complex need to invest $5 million to replace everything, put new landscaping in, and fix everything like new.

I would definately NOT recommend this GHETTO dump to anyone at all.

Company: Paradise Garden Apartment
Country: USA
State: California
City: Long Beach
Address: 6479 Atlantic Ave
Phone: 5624281243

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