10 years ago, I was living in West Los Angeles in a poorly maintained apartment. The management company was PBM, and every month I wrote rent checks to “Frederick Pardee.” I’ve always assumed that the same guy is behind Pardee homes. Does anyone know?

PBM owns multiple (maybe 30+) apartment buildings in West LA, just west of the 405 and south of Brentwood. I would guess that most of the buildings have 8-12 apartments and were probably built in the 1960s era. By “poorly maintained” I mean that when I asked for something to be fixed, the maintenance guy (1 guy for several hundred units) just went to his beat-up appearing blue van (which looked like it belonged to a hoarder), got a used-appearing part, and half-heartedly glued whatever it was back in place. And one day, the the ceiling in the common laundry room just collapsed. They kinda swept up the plaster, etc, but it never looked like it got properly fixed.