excellent building and community! I recommend this building to all in downtown oaklandread more

I've been living at Atlas for about 2 years now and I have to say that things have just gotten…read moreprogressively worse. It seems that there is always a maintenance issue and that's concerning because Atlas is supposed to be a luxury apartment. The HVAC in my apartment complex did not work for 5 months. The problem occurred in August and got resolved in January. It was very hard going through the hottest time in Oakland without air conditioning and starting winter with no heat. We also have a long going issue of the temperature of the gym not being properly regulated. So it is often too hot and feels like a sauna. Also, currently we have issues with not having hot water due to a boiler isssue. Maintenance has to manually turn on the boiler which is an issue regarding timing. Atlas used to have people host events for us or they used to host events for us but that has since stopped. However, what remains consistent is the amazing concierge staff! Concierge staff such as Richard and the maintenance workers are the best and they're always so helpful and pleasent! I really appreciate them and everything they do for us. They truly make living at Atlas and all it's random mishaps bearable.

This review is specifically about the maintenance team at The Grand. I've lived here for 3 years…read morenow and the maintenance team has been top notch the entire time. When I file a request for something to be fixed or looked at, I get a response either same day or the day after. If the fix might be complicated, I receive a phone call walking me through my options and asking what I prefer. I want to give a special shout out to Amalia, who, over the years, has went above and beyond multiple times in helping me set up my apartment. - When I first moved in, she spent over an hour helping me install blackout curtains in the bedroom to make sure I wouldn't damage anything while doing so. - When I removed a bunch of artwork from my wall recently, she came by twice in one weekend to repair and paint over all of the nail holes and some cosmetic damage caused by sticky tape. My apartment walls looked good as new after. - Whenever I see her in the hallway and have random questions about home care, she takes the time to explain it to me and recommend an option. It's experiences like this that make a 5 star apartment living experience. Thanks Amalia!

Property management had the nerve to response and say my thoughts were unwarranted.. HA ! What a…read morejoke ! Reviews are the experience /opinion of the writer.. you can't debate my experience! .. Now carry on , I am thankfully retired and Blessed that I am not working with or for any unprofessional companies in this present day work force Good Day and Good Luck .. LOL .

Chante was very helpful and very professional. I was very hesitant to move to Oakland, but after…read moreviewing the property and seeing all the amenities, I was quickly convinced to make the move.

Living at Monogram has been a great Uptown Oakland experience. The residence is connected to Kissel…read moreHotel and sits above LuLulemon. Monogram offers an elevated living experience with the convenience of bars, clothing stores, and restaurants that are home to some of the cities best chefs. You are walking distance from the lake and one block away from Oakland's first Friday event! If you are looking for the best place to live in Oakland, then Monigram is the place for you!

forced to hire a mold inspector after a stain on my wall kept growing. For a year now the building…read morekept brushing it off till mold grew on the surface. lab results came in, MOLD! This is extremely dangerous for my toddler.. the solution presented was "guard for the shower"even with the lab results.. ZERO senses of urgency. all this money to be living in a unlivable unit, smh avoid this building like the plague! they don't care about their tenant safety.

After living here for two years, I couldn't recommend this place in good faith. Here's why:…read more - Awful property management: Easily one of the worst I've ever dealt with and a key reason why living here is unenjoyable. They fail to proactively communicate, email response times can take weeks or up to a month, and they've blatantly lied to me about policy changes. - Butterfly MX: This is the system used to manage the front door. It is broken constantly and down for months at a time. You will not know when it's going to be fixed, nor why it's constantly down. This will impact receiving deliveries or your guests. - Dog owners: Pet owners are allowed to simply let their pets urinate (and sometimes defecate) in common areas. The 6th floor elevator bay and dog run has a smell that only prisons in the third wold know. - Trash/Recycling: While you will be shown trash/recycling/compost chutes on your tour, it's all smoke and mirrors. Those chutes are often off and do not allow you to dispose of recycling or compost in it. Heck the building itself doesn't even compost. That means you're forced to go to the basement anytime you want to get rid of waste vs being able to use the chutes that are there for... I have no idea honestly. - Washer & Dryer: Washer and dryers are in-unit, but they are more hassle than help, specifically the dryer. You have to dry clothes generally 2-3 times just to get them to normal dryness, you have to empty a very small water tank, and it will simply turnoff if it senses the clothes are dry even if they're damp or completely wet still. - Kitchen Sink: Another design flaw, but kitchen sinks are very shallow for no apparent reason. This causes quite the splash zone when washing dishes and is just a cheap cost cutting measure. - Theft: You're told that they have a secure bike room, but that happens to not be the case. I along with many other residents had our bikes stolen from the bike room even though there are cameras, they were locked with U-locks and cables, and the door requiring key fob access. Instead of providing any support, management simply sent out an email notifying residents of what took place and offered no support (sharing camera footage, key fob badge records, etc.). Their response: "we're not an investigative agency" Don't let the rooftop pool and clubhouse fool you, there ain't no luxury in sight here. You will be treated like an inconvenience as a resident, and will quickly learn that what you saw on the tour is far from reality of what life is like living here.

Communication‼. Gentleman handling the apartment rentals was very gracious, thorough, helpful,…read morepro-active & patient too!

Lived here for a few months - LOVE these apartments!…read more HERE'S WHY: ------------------- 1.) Month-to-month rent terms! 2.) Smaller than most security deposit + reasonable pet deposit (they allow dogs here, too)! 3.) Many apt sizes including quaint studios! 4.) Beautiful grounds (see pic of center fountain in courtyard)! 5.) All bills paid! Woohoo! And free cable! 6.) Under 2 blocks away from Crab Cove, the SF BAY, the beach, and a huge park! 7.) Only a few miles from a BART station! 8.) TONS of parking (half covered) in a private, free parking lot. 9.) Near tons of restaurants & shopping. 10.) Built 1925 & used to be a Neptune Beach resort!! (An Alameda historical building!) ***THAT'S JUST TO NAME A FEW REASONS!*** .. So yeah. Great apt homes.. I recommend checking 'em out!!!

The Emery is an amazing community! I absolutely love living here. The leasing office staff and…read moreManager Dartise are very welcoming, and always helpful with any questions I may have. Beautiful views, and the amenities are awesome! Shoutout to The Emery Leasing Office Team, Maintenance staff and janitorial team. You all are awesome!

I am absolutely appalled by the experience I had during my self guided tour at The Emery today…read more This community is a complete disaster and frankly a joke considering the price point they are asking for these units. I am coming from Vespr in Oakland and the drop in quality is staggering. This place does not even come close to matching that standard of living. The entire property is dirty and cramped, and the unit entry door frames are all beat up and missing paint which gives a terrible first impression. The elevators are ancient, painfully slow, and way too small with hideous tile that looks like it hasnt been updated in years. I was shocked to see residents actually posting flyers in the elevators soliciting their own businesses like it is a cheap motel and not a luxury apartment complex. The tour process itself was a nightmare. The app is completely useless and I could not even get into the three bedroom apartment on the top floor that I specifically came to see. While wandering around I noticed that packages are just left out and not secured at all which is a massive red flag for anyone paying this kind of rent. To top it all off I was told I could park in the future resident parking for free but when I tried to leave the machine forced me to pay four dollars. I called the office multiple times while I was on the property to get help with the app and the parking but nobody bothered to answer the phone. I want a response from management immediately because this was an insulting waste of my time and a total embarrassment compared to other buildings in the area.

Let's review: The…read moregood reviews are from before Premium Properties took over. There's a reason for that. Here's what the property manager told me on tour vs reality: "We're getting a bike room fall of 2024." No bike room. "Landlord pays water and garbage, tenants pay PG&E." Nope, tenants pay ALL utilities. "I don't think there's an extra fee for dogs." It's an extra $150 per month. "We're going to replace these crappy windows with weird opaque speckles." Nope. "We are a secure building with 16 security cameras." Doesn't matter if people are getting in and stealing shit anyway. Here's what Premium Properties told me before/at move-in, vs what I found out later on: Lease: "Tenant acknowledges building is master-metered for water, sewer, gas, and Electric." Natalie at Premium: "Yes, all utilities are flat rate." Selena at Premium: "Yes, all your utilities are flat rate." Later, Selena: "Your utilities are all set up and will be billed through the client portal! NO NEED TO CALL PG&E!" Reality: PG&E turned my power off 8 months in because no one had set up an account for me. They told me if I wanted power I'd have to set up my own account and pay a back balance, then sent me a bill for $470. Premium gave me the excuse the lease had a typo and some mistakes were made and oh well not their problem. (Odd. Turns out this happened to multiple other neighbors, and they were given a different excuse.) One day I caught a shady guy wandering the complex looking into people's windows. He wouldn't leave. I went to the manager. Manager said, "oh yeah I told him to leave." Oh really, well he's still here, so maybe do something about that?? I told them I'm moving out and I am getting like 2 notices a week that they plan to enter my unit to show and then nothing happens. They harass you 120 before your lease expires to tell them you'll renew or move. The emails are ended with the sentence: "Thank you for your anticipated cooperation." LOL.

I've lived here for 3 years and so my review covers the period when the building was managed by Mr…read moreMing (up to 2022 - when you will see quotes from all the reviews), and the period since while it has been managed by a company called Premium Properties. During the Ming Dynasty, this was a pretty sweet place to live. He kept the place really nicely and was pretty helpful. When my e-bike got stolen from the inner courtyard after the thieves broke in the side entrance, he willingly showed me the video of the theft using one of the 16 security cameras that used to work while he was here. Then Premium took over. And the service since then has not been premium. - Packages are routinely stolen because whereas Mr Ming used to put them in the amazon lockers, now they lay about. - The amazing security cameras go on and off like it's some sort of modern art installation. They were off for about 6 months but seem recently to have come back on. Of course that might not matter because since Mr Ming we've had two building managers and the first one couldn't access any of the recordings. Not sure if the current one can. - Of course, Premium couldn't do anything about the paper thin walls, floors and ceilings. As long as you're ok listening to your neighbor's music and sex life it's not a problem. - They did rewire the whole place since apparently the previous wiring was a death trap, but using the cheapest contractors has its drawbacks when they turn out to have wired multiple apartments wrong, including my own. That only took a few weeks to sort out. Their conscientious attitude to key checks - three in the course of 2 weeks recently where they had to come in to each apartment to make sure their master keys still worked - made up for that though - and I guess that's how they discovered one of the tenants had died in his ground floor apartment and not been found for some weeks. - The courtyard floor was painted to waterproof it at the start of the year - right when the torrential rain started. The rain washed off a lot of the light grey paint they'd used (on the terracotta colored floor) and then the run off from the frankly situation-saving-plants and trees turned what was left a streaky brown. But some tenants think the Jackson Pollock effect adds to the building's charm. Premium promised to sort out the painting in the Spring. It's now September so one assumes there's a really great reason why it hasn't happened yet. - The plants and trees are the main reason why I keep living here. They really are lovely. - Bicycle theft and/or damage remains an issue so Premium started talking about introducing a bike room about 9 months ago. Newer tenants were told it would be open in June. Again, it's September. Tenants continue to lug bikes up and down the stairs because leaving them in the garage is asking for them to be stolen. - When things do go wrong, like a broken dishwasher or shower, Premium have this great system where you submit a ticket online which they will respond to in 5 working days. Not "within" 5 working days. They will wait it out. Mr Ming used to pop round with a screwdriver and have it done in 5 minutes. Now it's after 5 days that they contact a contractor. It then depends how soon the contractor can visit. And then we get to the laundry room. - When the building was rewired the ventilation system in there conked out and so for some months it also served as an onsite sauna. We took to permanently propping the door open to stop everything in there going moldy. This meant that when the tumble dryers broke down for the 7th time this year the sound (like a cement mixer mixing stolen catalytic converters) was able to echo around the whole building. The washing machines break down with such regularity that it would make sense to offer an employee of the contractor who manages them a discount on an apartment. There is currently one of three machines working for a building with 30+ apartments. The machines regularly take money without turning on and the refund link in the app doesn't work. And finally we get to the ants. - This is an old building so of course there are cracks. And ants get in during the summer because that is what ants do. Mr Ming kept a supply of ant baits and would hand you a couple at the first sign of them. Now, we submit a support ticket and wait, meanwhile exchanging grandmother's tales of how to stop the cunning little things in the building's whatsapp group - a place where new tenants are regularly updated on which parts of the lease agreement are known to be illegal by the tenants who have already been through two rounds of "but if everything's broken shouldn't we ask them to reduce the rent". I have now duck taped a significant part of the edge of my living room window since the cracks have now reached such an extent that ants can casually stroll through them on a whim to see what I might have to offer in the way of cat food.

I've lived here about 2.5 years and have enjoyed it very much!…read more Today, Rommel came to fix an issue in my apartment and ended up helping with another issue I was having. He's very sweet, helpful, and quick! He came within hours of me submitting a maintenance request. Thank you for your help Rommel!

Rommel is great at his job and was very helpful…read more Thanks so much for helping with my apartment

This place is amazing! Central location, close to bart, close to the lake and insane views…read more Absolutely love the security, the vibes and the lifestyle being offered.

The maintenance staff are truly stars here at the Lark -- especially David. He and the team are…read morealways so quick to respond to requests, are attentive, communicative, and always so helpful! They get things done.

I cannot say enough good things about Janae! She is extremely detail oriented, thorough, and most…read moreof a joy to talk to. She made my Hanover tour experience so easy and was such a pleasure. Would recommend her to anyone interested in learning more about Hanover!

It has bad reviews for a reason. It served my purpose of location location location…read more I lived here for over 2 years and it clearly went way down hill. Most of my friendly nice neighbors moved out and people who wanted to have yelling matches and throw things in the hall and at each other moved in. On my floor I think I saw 4 or 5 eviction notices in my time living there. I think the office staff was pretty good. And the cleaning people are very nice and very good. It's just hard to keep up with people who don't care. I've seen discarded chicken bones, pizza slices I mean you name it. Food waste just thrown in the hallways like it's the responsibility of the staff to clean up after you. Regularly the stairwell smelled of cigarette smoke. Someone was using it as a smoke break area almost daily. IMO super gross. Regularly my bathroom reeked of weed because I shared a wall with someone who apparently smoked a lot on the opposite side. On more than one occasion somehow a homeless person got into the building and onto our floor. Had his dog and shopping cart with him. The advertised rent is not the real rent they play a game to include any discounts so whatever you see on the website is likely 300-400 less than what you will actually be paying. I think at some point they disabled the fire alarms because weekly we would have 2/3 weekly, when we first moved in. And it wasn't hard to know which apartments smelled heavily of weed when walking by. The alarm/ siren in that place should be criminal. It's so loud it hurts. And it would go on for hours! Fire department would show up, there would be no fire. We would all go back inside.....then 30 minutes later it's going off again. Complete joke. If you really want to be at a Hanover Property, Hanover Northgate is significantly nicer. A lot of options in the area. Cheaper and more expensive.