Apartment Review for Avalon Del Rey - Los Angeles, CA

We have lived in this building for a year and a half. Now I am wondering why we signed the lease for the 2nd year. While the place costs less than comparable places in West LA, the drawbacks are not worth it. Last year, the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night about 5 times in the month of December, not to mention a bunch of times in the day. The management sent out fliers saying that it was vandalism, but it turned out it was a faulty alarm system. I wish they could have figured that out sooner, since I had to come in to work late several times, after I was kept up all night by this. It was ridiculous. Last night, a year later, same story, 3 in the morning, we got to meet our neighbors as the fire alarm went off about 10 times in the course of a few minutes, and had us all in our robes waiting for the fire department to tell us again that it was nothing (they told us it was some kids playing with the extinuisher.) One neighbor put it well, when he said "I didn't realize I moved in to a college dorm." On the plus side, the ladies in the front office are seet and respond to calls and complaints better than the people in management. On top of all this, there have been multiple break ins. There certainly needs to be better security in a building this large.