I recently moved out of Villas of Pasadena and I DO NOT recommend living there. Yes its a great area but the management company is god awful. When I first moved in, I was told to park in parking spot A and another tenant was parking there so they told me to park in parking spot B. When I came back there was someone parked in parking spot B so I had them towed. I got a phone call from Lucas, the property manager at the time and told me that I had to pay the tow fee cause apparently it wasn't my spot. The tow fee was $300 and villas of Pasadena would not do anything to help. If I refused to pay the tow fee, the car I had towed was going to take me to small collections. I paid the fee and then I was moved to parking spot C and when I moved out in March, they still showed me parking in parking spot A! The lack of communication and organization is beyond me. (this all happened within a month of living there and you'd think that they would want to start the tenant & landlord relationship on the right foot.) In addition to the parking issues that they wouldn't help with, I had numerous issues with our Apartment. When we would turn on the A/C, a raw sewage smell would come out of the vents and they kept saying to run the garbage disposal and that didn't resolve the issue (this might be due to the pipes in the garage constantly breaking and leaking sewage on vehicles.) We also had trouble with our fridge (tenants use the fridges provided by the complex.) After numerous times of telling them that the fridge doesn't keep anything cold, they said to make sure the freezer vents aren't covered. We made sure that they weren't covered after the first time and it still didn't work (our food would go bad after a day of buying it.) After several complaints, they finally replaced our fridge with a new used fridge just to find out that the original fridge was the outdated model used in the complex. We had numerous problems with the oven and stove heating, to the point that it wouldn't warm up. After moving out, we had to put a 60 days notice (lease expired March 2nd but we didn't file the vacate letter till January 12th, so we got charged for the 10 days that we weren't living there.. understandable). 60 days notice is a little absurd since you don't know if you'll be staying or leaving. If you decide to stay and someone puts the deposit on your apartment, you still have to move out, leaving you hanging to dry. But what they don't tell you is that the last months payment is the prorated rent and the January utilities. We aren't getting our security deposit back because they applied it to the February and March utilities along with the cleaning fee/painting. To me, it doesn't make sense why they charge you for a month of utilities two months later. You'd think they would charge you all payments due prior to moving out but instead they throw you a curve ball and jip you out of your security deposit. Due to the lack of communication/organization both internally and with the tenants, I'd take your money elsewhere. The complex will spend thousands of dollars making the entry way look nice, but wont replace the appliances in your apartment. All they care about is your money and when you need them the most, they turn there shoulder. P.S. If you live on the 2nd or 3rd floors, you are allowed to have hanging planter boxes but they wont allow first floor tenants to do the same cause it will "damage" the wood. Be prepared to hate your life for the next year if you decide to live there after reading this.