The Westmont Apartments

DO NOT LIVE HERE. Don’t let the no fee/​no security deposit get you — its a bait and switch.
The maintenance is very friendly, but as another person commented the management is HORRIBLE. They raised our rent 15% (and even more on 2 of our neighbors) and would not budge saying it is what their pricing model tells them. I personally know 6 others in the building who also had increases of 15% or higher pushed to them (needless to say there is a lot of vacancy there now).
They also charged us a cleaning fee when we moved out even though we had the apartment professionally cleaned. It was unbelievable.
There are many other places nearby that are bigger and less expensive. DONT LIVE HERE!

People working in the building are super nice. However, the management company is horrible and unprofessional. Watch out for your rent increases. When I tried to address the situation with the management company, they simply dismissed my concern and treated me unprofessionally and rudely. I was their tenant for 5 year. Horrible!

I’ve lived here for three years and have been very happy with it. The staff is great and very helpful. When you submit a service request, the maintenance staff comes within a day and almost always fixes it immediately (a new dishwasher took three days). The roof deck is fantastic, and the gym is pretty good too.
My complaints are few, but I’ll point them out. The windows in my apartment are awful, and I’ve heard similar complaints from others. They insulate neither cold nor sound effectively. I live in an unrenovated apartment, so maybe this is better in the renovated ones. Also, everybody’s biggest complaint in the building is that there aren’t enough elevators, so sometimes there is quite a wait, especially if one elevator is shut down for service or a move-​in. I’ve waited 5 minutes or more on a few occasions. (Anyone who says 10 minutes is exaggerating, though.)
Yeah, they’ll try to raise the rents on you. That’s their job. My roommates and I have successfully negotiated with them a few times (and unsuccessfully negotiated other times).
I don’t mean to dwell on the negatives, though. I’ve really been very pleased with this building, and even went out of my way to look at a different Archstone building when it was time to move out. (I didn’t end up at another Archstone, but I considered it.)

People call it the «Jew dorms», but this building happens to be quite a nice place. Friendly doormen (Cisco is my fave), rooftop deck, and will even add walls to the apartments to make them somewhat affordable! Very Jewish building cuz there’s a big temple around the corner, which attracts all the Sabbath-​observing Jews who cant ride on Saturday, making Friday night the best night to do laundry (but dont broadcast you do laundry on Friday nights because you should REALLY be out and about on town). Gentiles needed in building to be Shabbos Goys.