Manfield & Associates

If I could give them a 0 stars I would. The hallway at 2486 Venice Blvd has been swept ONCE, during the 2 years I have lived here. The day I looked at the apt. I mentioned the dirty hallway and the female associate assured me it would be cleaned BEFORE I moved in.
3) Several months back I talked to David (landlord) on the phone and was told there «wasn’t anyone available» to clean up this hallway. It was ONLY after I sent him video and pictures did he reply back and say he would send someone. It NEVER happened. I send them texts/​emails every month and still no one cleans it up. If you don’t mind being embarrassed because they don’t maintain their building— this is the place for you! Did I mention the mice?

If I could give them 0 stars I would. They do not care about their tenants. Rooms always filled with gnats, spiders, mice, roaches and flys. They even refuse to fix the leaky roof because it would «cost too much.»
The woman above me has flooded her bathroom 2 times in 1 year! So badly it also floods my bathroom with water. When I complained to get her kicked out they replied «she pays rent so she stays.» Oh and their repairs to my bathroom didn’t consist of cleaning out the mold and water from the walls and ceiling or anything. Just a quick patch job and it’s good to go!
Don’t rent from them, they won’t do anything to help you.

I’ve had a wonderful experience with this company. And now that I’m reading the older reviews from last year I have to wonder if the roommates in the bad reviews are the same women who moved out of my little house. I missed renting this house because they beat me to it and it was clean and tidy then. The second go around it looked like a single alcoholic mother and her fourteen kids had lived there for many years. And that was only four months later. The women who ended their lease early (yeah for me!) were pigs or at least appeared to be raised in a foreign landfill! Perhaps taking the trash out is man’s work in some households. And hitting the trash can is a matter of skill only basketball players have. (in some households) Perhaps these two roommates really needed a man around. Sorry I digress.
I’ve never had problems. Beach cities with old houses tend to have either roaches or silverfish. But this property management company had the place sprayed when I saw a silverfish. Which they didn’t have to do because I just got out a house fogger and managed it myself.
I had another stay at a different property they owned or just managed (not sure) several years prior and I came back to them when I returned from the East coast just because they were so accommodating and easy to work with. I’m not a slob and I usually fix any little leak if I ever have one and I’m very good at taking care of the appliances in the places I rent so landlords rarely treat me poorly. I like these guys. And as I bounce around the world I always come back to see if they have something for me.

Dealt with these guys when I was looking for a place to get closer to work, helped me a ton, been here for over 2 years and just moved to another building of theirs with a new lease, they stay on top of their buildings and no nonsense kind of people

I have rented from Manfield & Associates on several occasions and have always had a positive experience. They have always addressed any concerns I have and responded immediately.

Got 2 different apartments with them. They stay on top of all the maintenance. Shadi is a very professional & straight forward guy. David was helpful. The unit was really clean & they gave my deposit back when I left.

I wish I would have done my research on these people BEFORE I rented from them. What everyone is saying is 100% true. Unfortunately I am still a tenant, it’s 4:30 in the morning, and I have just been woken up by bed bugs bites. This isn’t the first time, or the second, or third. My unit was sprayed for bed bugs AND roaches about 2 ½ months ago and I thought they were gone, until tonight.
These people don’t give a shit about the fact that their buildings are INFESTED with bed bugs and roaches. Even the people that work for them will tell you. They already have previous complaints on file with the health department. They are complete slum lords. I can’t wait to move and after reading what others had to say about the deposit return ordeal, I have a feeling I’m going to be fighting my way out of this. Please save yourselves the trouble and listen to us. Good luck.

I used to live in the Adalai house on Monmouth Avenue managed by Manfield. Previously we mostly contacted in-​house manager, and everything goes well. However after Manfield «kicked» the preivous in-​house manager out (they want to sell the property). We began to contact Dave (David Villanueva) from Manfield, it became nightmare. I would like to present two incidents related to Dave.
First, Dave were supposed to return a check to me, which I wrote for another tenant, who moved out. He claimed he sent the check out, but I never received it. Either he was stupid who cannot send a letter from Culver City to Downtown LA, or he was unethical and lying about that he sent the check.
Second, after the above tenant moved out, Manfield never return the deposit ($ 500.00). When the tenant tried to contact them, they don’t answer calls, don’t reply emails.
Anyway, the house is sold and we are no longer dealing with people from Manfield. I wrote this review for others who may need to do business with them. Be careful.

Manfield is such an unprofessional company; especially the people working there (Shadi/​Dave/​Mark). I am ashamed for them. My roommate and I had to move out due to unlivable conditions (flea bites, maggots everywhere, dead animal stench, dead horse flies etc.) We even had to report to LA County Public Health Department and they even came to verify the conditions were unlivable. On top of that, we tried to voice out to the management (Shadi) many times, and he basically threatened me over the phone stating if we try to leave the unlivable conditions, he would try to «RUIN» me FOREVER! Furthermore, they kept $ 374 dollars of our pro-​rated rent money even though the manager (Dave) told us we were not accountable for that week before the new tenants moved in. When we got charged, he denied any promises. We even had 4 witnesses there, and he still denied everything. Btw, I still haven’t received my check; its been over 4 weeks. This company is complete bogus, and I feel like their only source of income is cheating money out of honest people.
PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING FROM THESE GUYS. I’VE NEVER DEALT WITH ANYONE LIKE THIS. THE BIGGEST REGRET OF MY LIFE WAS RENTING FROM THEM!!!

These are shady, unethical, unprofessional sons of betches. Even if you are desperate, do not engage in any renting unit they are offering. There are tons of options out there – keep searching.
My roommate and I were trapped by this cute, charming house they had for rent. The middleman, Dave/​David was eager to help us at first. It’s not really his fault, he’s only the game bit in the bigger picture, but you find out quickly that after moving in and paying rent, Dave/​David becomes unresponsive and unreliable. I would call, send emails and recurring texts and either not receive word back, or not until days, even weeks, later. Plus, don’t put stock in what he says. He ultimately doesn’t have power and the owners are his bosses, so he can only do what they stipulate.
My roommate and I faced the disastrous issue of having a swarm of bug problems with the house. There were fleas – we had no pets originally, so there was absolutely no explanation for the fleas. There were termite-​infested regions of the house, there was a terrible stench in the bathroom, and a cyclical passage of the birthing of maggots and subsequent infestation of flies in our house. Finally, we got fed up since the situation was not being fixed in a timely manner. It took a week or two to get a response and then another week or two to have the problem taken seriously. Who can live under such disgusting and inhospitable conditions? We threatened to move-​out and that’s when things got ugly.
After Dave comes the big guns – Shadi and Mark. Mark never makes an appearance and from the sound of things, is the «nice» guy who treats his tenants to a party every once in a while. Yeah, cause he has his muscle-​man Shadi doing all the dirty work.
Shadi claimed our problems were because we kept a dirty house – he «didn’t know about us, but he likes to keep his house clean.» WTF. When my roommate said that if things couldn’t be resolved amicably, we may be forced to take it to small claims, he threatened to «ruin us, ruin our credit and make sure we could never rent or buy anything ever again.» You want to rent from management like that?
Now that we’ve finally absolved ourselves from this management who doesn’t give two sh*ts about their tenants and only cares about the $$ that comes in, we’ve hit another brick wall. They refused to refund us our total rent for our last month, in which we only stayed 10 days.
They pick on the little guys. They target tenants who are low-​income and complacent because they coerce and bully you into doing what they want. They are unreasonable, uneducated, and worse yet, two-​faced money grubbers who you think you can trust.
If you absolutely have to sign a contract with them – NEVER take their word for anything. Have everything that comes out of their mouth down in writing, so nothing can be debated later, when the sayer flip flops on what he said.
Save yourself the hassle, the money, and the peace of mind by finding management and/​or a landlord that doesn’t just see you as a piggy bank, but a person.
Manfield & Associates would take candy from a baby and be sad they couldn’t get more.

BEWARE!!! Very unprofessional! I resided in one of the buildings located on West 28^th st. and the neighborhood was insanely dangerous. They over charge for the apartments in that neighborhood. They will try to take every cent of your deposit back. They charge $ 150.00 for a «cleaning fee» and seperately a $ 80.00 fee to clean the carpet. By the way, these charges were applied for a bachelor apartment. No bedroom, just restroom and kitchen. So it is obvious that they are just ripping people off and taking all they can. They also took 2 ½ months to return the deposit. The check had misspellings so I am hoping that it will go through. The Manager does not agree with what the company does but he can’t do anything about it. Usually, the people who reside there are low — income individual who do not have enough money to fight for their legal rights which is why they do what they do. David is one of the representatives you want to deal with. He does not reply to your messages in a timely manner. Anyway, I had to go on Unilocal and warn people.