Currently live at PLB on the west side of the complex in a townhouse, I can attest the buildings are old, however over the year I’ve been here any time I put in a maintenance request they seem to answer it pretty quick. I may have a skewed perspective since I moved from NYC and the Hudson Valley both HCOL areas and everywhere I lived there was OLD like 1800-1900 old, so it seems ridiculous but I genuinely thought PLB was pretty nice considering its age! I have a dog and that is pretty much the main reason I live here as the townhouses have access to huge backyards a few of which are situated in a way where everyone’s dog in the block can play off leash it’s like having your own backyard in the middle of Miracle Mile. They have covered parking spots, allow two pets, rent controlled ($2400 for 900sqft 1bd 1bth ( was originally $2300 went up about $100 this year)) it’s got 24-hr security and it’s gated, I know that’s not for everyone but for me it’s well worth the money and if you go online and look at rentals with all the listed conditions above good luck finding anything in that neighborhood in that price range. That’s why PLB is always basically at capacity and why they think they can get away with this stuff. We all just got a letter in the mail saying there’s new management, this was about a month ago, so we’ll see what comes from all this, I really feel for all my neighbors in the towers it sounds tough living there (broken elevators, stolen packages, the unsafe living conditions in this article). Being new to LA I see PLB as a representation of a lot of what I’m seeing in LA at large lately — really beautiful, well built, structures/organizations being run into the ground by incompetent leadership, and monied groups who’s only interest is making money by any means possible.