The Binford Lofts

I was soooo excited to live in the actual building where «The New Girl» is filmed! And I always wanted my very own real artist’s loft. My loft in the Binford is a bomb ass industrial space turned «live/​work» with lots of concrete, high ceilings, and big windows. I was also looking forward to living in LA’s coolest up and coming neighborhood, the «Arts District». This hood is totally a-​MAZE-​balls!!! I thought all my dreams had come true when I moved in.
But unfortunately, living in this cool building totally sucks. :(
Why? Where do I begin?
There is a major construction project that recently started up on the top floor making all the tenant’s lives here miserable. There is constant and horrendously loud noise all day long! I can’t get any work done. I can’t even hear myself think! And now I just found out this is going to go on for a year!!!
Some tenants have a demolition chute right in front of their windows! The noise is unbearable and dust is blanketing their places and the management company, Cannon Management (which not surprisingly has HORRIBLE reviews on Unilocal) refuses to offer any discounts on rent even though they are basically forcing their tenants to live in a construction zone. They didn’t even give us tenants any advanced warning about the construction!
I’m paying thousands of dollars in rent and you start a year long construction project right over my head without mentioning it?
I’ve complained and Cannon Management won’t even return my calls or emails.
There is also construction surrounding almost every side of the building, so there is very little peace and quiet, even if the upstairs construction wasn’t happening. The huge construction project behind the building is supposed to go on for three years!
Then I found out there are BED BUGS all over the building! Gross! I just learned Cannon Management has known about it for months and hasn’t done anything to get rid of them. They also tried to keep it secret. WTF?
On top of all that, the building has terrible security.
Homeless people easily get into the building and use the laundry room. Crackheads get in and steal laundry from the laundry room! My new $ 200 jeans were stolen from the laundry room last month. Other tenant’s lofts have been robbed.
My loft needs basic work and maintenance since I moved in and Cannon Management won’t take care of it.
The hot water goes out on a regular basis, often for up to 12 hours.
I’ve been talking to other tenants and I’m not the only one being fu**ed over by this awful management company. Every tenant I talk to has some story about how Cannon Management sucks.
So if you want to live in The New Girl building with crazy loud construction, BED BUGS!, crack heads, and terrible or non-​existent management, move on in! You’ll feel like you’re living in the ghetto in the middle of this «gentrified» hood.
It’s really too bad, this building could be great. But I can’t wait to get out of my lease and find a loft in a clean, quiet, pest free building that is managed by professionals, not the hacks at Cannon Management.