That's not "most buildings", that's one building. However, nobody I know in Santa Monica has ever mentioned apartment management as a major concern. I've never heard anything positive or negative about it; the subject just doesn't come up. I imagine the benign climate leaves management with less room to screw up. There's no snow removal; heating systems are rudimentary; air conditioning usually isn't necessary; leaky roofs are less of a problem because it rarely rains hard.

My grandmother's landlord once yelled at me when I pulled onto the garage ramps next to her apartment. Apparently long-haired hippie types had strained his patience by turning around there. I just looked at him while my grandmother came out and climbed into the VW camper. She wasn't crazy about her landlord, but he kept the place up pretty well. This was admittedly almost fifty years ago and possibly no more representative than the Yelp review.