Westland Industries

Westland is horrible! I was thrown out of my place without any valid reason and they kept all my deposit. Beware of this reality. These people have a known history to throw tennents out of their homes. Do NOT believe any any of these positive reviews! This landlord Allen Alevy is evil! He pays people to lie for him!

if i could give them a zero i would, there are only 2 people whom do their job at this place. The management of the buildings literally state «i don’t care.» simply put. DO NOT LIVE IN ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES UNLESS YOU WANT TO SIMPLY HATE COMING HOME EVERYDAY.

From start to finish my experience with Westland has been superb.
They gave me some leeway on my move in date, made the necessary fixes to the apt, added some nice features that I can’t mention on Unilocal, and were VERY responsive to any concerns we had.
Their rental prices were better than any of the competitors.
I would highly recommend renting with Westland.

Another good year with Westland Industries. Our charity, KidCare International, rents space from the center on Benson Avenue in Montclair. They donated warehouse space again this year for our Thanksgiving Hope Baskets. We were able to organize the event because of their kind donation.
They painted the center and keep the place in good repair. Always answer my emails and phone calls immediately. If there are any problems, they take care of them immediately.
Blessings to All!

This has got to be one of the worst management companies I’ve dealt with since living in LA. Besides the fact that the common areas aren’t all that clean, it also seems to take a while to get things fixed. I always have to call several times over the course of 2 weeks to get things fixed and they always have the same lame excuse about the maintenance department being backed up. They either need to hire more maintenance people or better maintenance people that actually work! It’s pretty sad. They need to step their game up immensely!

I do not question nor doubt what the previous reviewer wrote about Westland. However given that negative, the pros greatly outweigh the cons.
From previous 5 landlords we have experienced, we were getting used to the fact that landlords/​management companies are basically con artists, by not keeping their verbal agreements, or even contractual, breaking local health codes and doing nothing about it, and then some finding ways to stifle you out of your deposit. All this basically causing you not to have peace where you live, and sometimes with continual nuisance/​troubles/​sources for concern, and knowing the fact that the next place you move to will be basically the same, unless you rent a luxury apartment. I personally lamented this fact, and every time we looked at the apartment, even for the application i was on the defensive reading the fine print, and even having to cross things out that just seemed fishy (and this is not even the lease).
Then we ran into a Westland managed apartment. I was impressed right away (at least with this property), because we saw 2 vacant units, and they were actually in move in condition, all the work had been finished, and they looked in reasonably good condition. Almost all of the other apartments we looked at in the area still had a lot of work left to be done on them (whether it be construction, painting, or cleaning), and there just is no way to tell that once you sign the lease they will finish (if at all) the work properly, if i can help it at all, i do not want to sign a lease before work completion. Do not believe at all what the resident manager says no matter how nice he/​she seems.
So far it seemed too good to be true, so we went in to sign the lease at their main office (not necessarily the same as property location). The building façade looked quite shabby, somewhat confirming my skepticism, but still open minded.
The lease is not the standard type and is quite involved — there is a clause stating that you have to provide your own renter’s insurance and that the management is not responsible for damage of your property. Though obviously if they cause the damage the judge will use common sense in his judgement, but you will probably be compensated the minimum because of this clause. And there are other detailed clauses in there. I suggest you ask for a copy of the lease and read it before going in to sing the contract, it will take some time to read it thoroughly.
So we were given the copy of the lease to read through, and i was skeptically reading through it quickly (too little time to dwell on things), and still not exactly knowing what we were getting into. We signed with fingers crossed so to speak. The process seemed a little rushed (which added to my skepticism).
We had to go in the next day to pick up our keys, since the resident manager worked part time only. So when we went the resident manager walked us through the apt once more, making sure everything was there.
So far so good. The apartment was in good condition, nothing really to complain about so far.
Now the great test was the maintenance, with which we always had ordeals with the previous landlords/​mgt co’s dragging their feet to get the work finished. First of Westland has their own maintenance team, on staff, with a 24 hr maintenance dispatch. We had an apparent very minor gas leak, and a telephone line issue. The gas leak issue was resolved the next day, and the telephone line on monday, we called it in friday. Wow!!! It was amazing! All the maintenance staff i dealt with (Miguel, Rogelio, and Benjamin) were friendly, professional, and got the job done.
I believe that Westland provides a great service to poorer individuals, providing competitive rent prices ($ 750 and up, but also depending on location) for the area with rather good service. I admire the fact that they greatly respect and service poorer individuals in this way, instead of taking advantage of us. No this is not luxury apartment, and things are not squicky perfect, but you can have relative peace, and they do a relatively good job, which with other mgt co’s/landlords no such concept exist. I do not know if this is how they manage all their properties, but i cannot think they be overly inconsistent.
Some of my previous neighbors really put up with lots of abuse when they really do not have or need to. They are all poorer. It takes a lot of work to search and find a good landlord/​mgt co, but i think it is well worth it (given rent is no different), especially when you have children.
This time it is too good and it is true.

I don’t even want to give them one star! Worst scumbags on planet. They first flooded my unit during roofing repair when the roofer hit a water main. Not only was I not compensated for my loss, they ignored my letters asking for their insurance information as well as information on the contractor they hired. I lost everything from furniture, electronics, rugs, books and collectibles, not to mention my life time of artwork. They had the nerves to state that my mattress in the photo appears to be the cheapest one on market! It was my IKEA Forestad foam mattress I LOVED.
Right now they are refusing to be responsible for my security deposit that was «supposedly mailed «and «lost in mail». The law states that such payment must be made within 21 days of moving out. Today is day 30. They keep saying it was mailed, and in order to issue another check and for them to cancel the other check, I have to wait 30 days, which is complete lie.
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Update — only because this gets worse.
I finally received the supposed lost check in the mail, and now I know for sure that they did not send it on the day they said they sent because of the post mark.
I deposited the check.
To make long story short. They canceled the check I already deposited and now telling me that I have to come pick up the new one. To my question regarding their 30 day wait policy regarding issuing of the new check, they simply said «we made an exception».
I called both my bank and their bank and confirmed that the Westland can in fact cancel the stop payment. So I called them to contact their bank in order to do this, and the answer is that their accounting department can not handle such transaction.
Being so tired of this whole situation, I decided to just eat the $ 12 fee for depositing a canceled check, and go pick up the check. So I gave them a call to let them know that I will be in to get the check. Surprise, surprise! Now they tell me that they can not release the new check to me unless I bring in their canceled check. UNBELIEVABLE. Someone, please tell me why they would need the canceled check? They canceled it! No one can do anything with it.
I’m just utterly dumbfounded that a company can go this far in order for them to basically not do what they are supposed to do.
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Update:
I sued them, took three years because their lawyers and the roofer’s lawyers gave me the biggest run around. But needless to say I won the case. But because they gave me such run around my attorney fees mounted and my compensations was not completely satisfactory, but I am glad I did it.