Chateau La Fayette Apartments

This place smells like people smoke Crack or some harsh chemical like substances all night. I visited a friend and was to be in LA for 6 months and stayed there. Every night you smell cigarettes and some chemical like smell. Everyone says that the chemical smell is Crack.
The stairwells smell like urine and the laundry machines don’t work. Had to relocate after 3 weeks because the smell kept us awake

I cannot say enough negative things about living in this horrible, expensive building. I moved in in February 2020, so it's safe to say I spent more time there than I would have liked or imagined.
Management companies switched all the time, each with worse communication than the last, so I never knew who to contact or how about things like maintenance requests. Furthermore, when those requests were finally made, it consistently took weeks (if ever) for them to respond. The current property... manager is one of the most incompetent people I have ever had to deal with to an infuriating degree. He was rarely in the office and consistently did not respond to any correspondence, including my 30 day notice, which he claimed he never received, and proceeded to take $1600 out of my deposit for a month of rent AFTER I had fully vacated, cleaned the apartment, returned my keys and garage opener, and had a long conversation with his colleague while returning them.
On top of the poor management, it is not a nice community to live in. I was woken up on multiple occasions before 5am to my neighbor loudly arguing on the phone with her windows open, and her loud conversations wouldn't end until after midnight. I work weird hours. I understand people can be loud at weird times, but this was incessant. Many of the apartments look onto a very small courtyard so you can hear everything, and you have very little privacy.
It is the quintessential, overpriced, gentrified building. Yes, there was a fresh coat of paint, but it was common for door handles to be missing, elevators to be out of service, cigarette butts to be littered on indoor stairwells, and to do three cycles on the dryer only to still end up with wet clothes. There's not much in walking distance. There are a few stores and a BOMB taco tent down the street, but for the most part it is a very residential area devoid of green space where you need a car to do most anything.
The final straw for this apartment was when maintenance left me without wifi for almost three weeks when I was working from home during a pandemic. I had three different AT&T technicians come out who all confirmed it was in fact a building problem (also AT&T is your only option since not all the units are cable ready). The first thing I did when it was finally fixed was search for new apartments. I'm now in a bigger, nicer, and cheaper apartment with all the same amenities. There are so many apartments in LA, run far away from this one.
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washing machine's been broken for months, and nothing was done. not even a note to tell people not to put coins in for nothing.