Amenities great but property manager can be very rude. I'm shocked at the way the apartment is managed.

I was visiting a friend that lives at The Standard, and I was greatly impressed with the hospitality I was given. Even as a guest, Gabby went out of her way to make me feel welcome and goes to show how much she cares about the residents and guests alike. read more

Deducted over 2k on deposit for no reason. No pest control. Gate was broken for the entire year until they had to attract new tenants. Homeless can go inside as long as they want and staff won't do anything. Disgusting apartment with incredibly high rent. read more

Adds random fees we didn't discuss when signing the lease, didn't clean it before we moved in AT ALL and then charged us for damage that was already there. Besides all that the housing is overpriced and you can follow other people into the gym anyways. read more

Overcharged us for a small chip on the microwave. Stopped responding to our emails when we asked them about it.

Brian was extremely helpful. Very prompt in solving problems with housing facilities.

First impression was that the location is great and facility was very nice but then that's the only good things we can say. Long list of huge negatives: - Shoddy construction. Constantly something is broken, and warnings about water leaks - Horrendous maintenance. You can tell after 1 wk the management is trying very hard to cut maintenance costs. Maintenance requests goes unanswered, trash strewn the hallway smelling rotten, trash uncollected - the trash room with trash chute pilling high and extremely smelly - Dirty common bathrooms on 1st floor - The most concerning of all is management's utter indifference to the safety of residents. The outer door is the most important security issue. You are supposed to have a key card to gain entry but it has been broken for almost a year. There was a break in and firearm discharged on September 30th and management still refuse to fix the door. This is major lawsuit territory now!! Try to find a different place if you have this much to spend. If not for anything else for your (sons & daughter's) safety. read more

We pay $4000/month for a one-bedroom unit for our daughter. Water has been shut down twice this month for multiple days at a time. Water has currently been out for nearly 36 hours. This is by far and away the biggest persistent issue with the complex. However, in addition to these problems: * For the first 3 months, there was no mail delivery * For the first 24 hours, there were no locks on the doors. * For weeks after August 2021 move-in, there was no garbage pick-up. Garbage still backs up in the garbage rooms and garage and pests are sometimes visible. * There is still no consistent process for mail delivery (ie, packages are often dropped unlocked in hallway). * Recently, there was water dripping from the ceiling into my kid's bathroom for several days before repaired. It was later determined to be toilet water from a toilet leak upstairs. With all of these problems, by far and away the lack of water is an issue and one to which the management is unresponsive. read more

There are so many problems they have to address rather than spending time and money for the apartment decorations and advertising. I think this apartment is okay but I don't want other people to sign the contract without knowing what it's really like to live here! First of all, there have been three or more cases of car break-ins. Even though our apartment has safety cameras, the office hasn't reported the cases or compensated the victims' repair costs. We sometimes have to open the garage manually, too. Also, since many considerate Cal bears live here and open doors for other people, literally anyone can get into the apartment. A lot of residents have seen homeless people inside of the apartment complex, too, which is really scary. I wish they had janitors or securities too. There are people partying in the study lounge at midnight and it is annoying that there are no staff members on site we can ask for help. Oh, rats live here too, which scared the hell out of me. Additionally, the majority of tenants who live here all experienced maintenance issues which takes a minimum of two weeks to respond to. Basic appliances like microwaves work inconsistently and when maintenance was here to address them, they claimed that "everyone experiences that and there's nothing they can do about it". Ultimately, this apartment looks pretty on the outside, but know that while it offers its tenants a basic place to live, the staff could not care less about delivering the "standard of living" experience they promised us when we signed the lease. read more

The Standard at Berkeley - Housing Cooperatives Near Me - Berkeley, California

Update again: We'll I have dome everything possible to get this place to stop screwing us over. But they don't quit. I can't even. Move out of here until they remove the fraudulent rent charges and utilities from my rent ledger. Which now says I owe over $15,000. Because I'm on section 8 I cantquit the lease unless they agree and REMOVE THOSE FALSE CHARGES. They did have the national head of maintenance and building safety come inspect. He said that I was correct in all my requests and needs since the beginning. No they shouldn't have discriminated. No i didn't cause the "damages". Yes we should've been immediately moved out when sewage began flooding everywhere. No we should not have to live in conditions this bad. Then he left. That was two weeks ago. Since then nothing has changed. Oh wait yes something has changed. Downstairs by the pool tables there's a big hole in the ceiling with water leaking out of it. Another apartment flooded causing those tenants to leave. It's now failed code enforcement at least 5 or 6 times. It's never going to end is it? read more

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Please be careful when signing a lease at this property. Even in the processing of the lease, the rate can (and likely will) change. EVEN when you spend three days trying to work through technical issues with the Standard's IT systems that are affecting signing of the lease.. they won't honor the original lease price as it wasn't finished prior to the rate being raised WITHOUT notice. So be warned, they will delay you "with technical problems" only to charge you MORE rent when THEY finally work through system problems. BE WARNED! read more

So far, the team has been relatively responsive to our maintenance requests. There is a 2-3 day turnover (often) but that makes sense given there's so many tenants here. They have been helpful with dealing with bothersome neighbors. Most importantly, the apartment has the best location and floor plans for the price -- it is close to campus and also offers single occupancy bedrooms. There is ample room to put in a desk for studying. The lounge is well kept and is a great place to have friends over. read more

Dominic and Agapito are extremely helpful in answering questions. Overall great experience.

Great student housing choice！Fully furnished utilities that doesn't need to worry about purchasing and installing any furniture. The person at the leasing office (Cesar) is also super nice and helpful. read more

This is very bad. You can't contact them when the apartment has problems. Terrible place to rent

The beginning of the school year started off with no cleaning crew, broken trash chutes, locked patios, clogged common bathrooms, mail left out for everyone to take, and one maintenance guy having to do everyone's job. We initially had two security guards, but they disappeared during the first few months with management giving no explanation, despite several break ins both in the building and in peoples cars. One of the first times it rained, water leaked straight onto my bed. Our unit's kitchen sink broke and it took weeks for them to fully repair it, during which someone from management told us that if we needed to use a kitchen sink to just go downstairs and use the common bathroom's sink for cooking (?) The office is open 10-6 but good luck actually finding someone in there. Trash chutes are still usually broken and instead of fixing them, They sent out a warning stating that if we don't put trash through the chutes (which we can't open) that we will be fined. They initiated a fancy recycling service, but often forget to pick up your recycling. One of the elevators has been broken since the beginning of the semester and sometimes the second one breaks too, so you have 8 floors of people with no elevator. The front doors close so slowly that random people regularly walk in. And sometimes they stay open. The mail room is often left unlocked and when we find our packages open or stolen, management blames it on the Amazon. Your only points of contact are a phone number that routes you to an offsite agent who refuses to connect you to management, and only takes a message, and an email address - you can imagine how helpful that is in cases of emergencies. They always say they'll call you back or follow up, and rarely do. Instead of fixing problems, they offer fancy placations - no elevator, but there's now a coffee machine downstairs! (Without the supplies needed to make coffee, however). We've had more than 10 fire alarms go off, and some of these are due to the fact that not a single window opens in any of our units. If you try to complain about something, they either find a way to blame it on you or tell you you have to be patient because they're still working out contracts, or they hired new management - things that should've been figured out before the building opened for business and started collecting our money. They're more than happy taking our money each month without upholding their end of the contract. Well, new management has been in power for several months and as of now, our trash chutes still don't open, both elevators are broken, and the water for the ENTIRE building has been shut off for 5 consecutive days. read more

Literally don't live here. There was a leak in the bathroom and they refused to fix it. The ax doesn't work in my apartment and the windows are all sealed shut. They changed the keys to my apartment due to a technical problem and locked me out the building. They are never responsive and never in the office. Literally spend ur money somewhere else. It's gross inside, and the elevator has been broken for months. If you want a peaceful organized living place then this isn't it. read more

We moved in when the building was first completed. The room and facilities are great and the location is unbeatable. However, the management has been terrible and not as responsive as you would expect. I saw someone posted the pictures of the piles of garbage, which is definitely one of the big issues. It seems that management did not do a good job in coordinating with the garbage collection company to pick up garbage on time. However, I have to point out that since Angel Savage joined the management team, things have been improved a lot because finally there is a person who can respond to tenants' requests or questions and take actions. Many times our issues got resolved after Angel got involved, such as fixing the apartment door that would not lock. Earlier this year when the pipes broke and stopped the water supply, Angel also took action to put tenants in hotel rooms. We hope the management team can keep working on improving the quality of services like this and keep the tenants satisfied as we all pay a premium to rent from this building. read more