About the Building
Corinth Condominiums is a genuine for-sale condominium of 1977, and the Los Angeles County Assessor carries twenty-two separately assessed homes at 1914 Corinth Avenue under assessment numbers 4261030021 through 4261030042. Each parcel takes the legal description Tract 37755, Condominium Unit, followed by a number. Every one of them is coded 010E, the county's classification for a condominium created by conversion rather than one built as a condominium from the outset. In the mid and late 1970s Los Angeles converted a great deal of recent apartment stock, and this building sits squarely in that wave.
The distinction is practical rather than academic. A conversion means the structure was designed, permitted and occupied as an apartment house first, and the ownership form was cut into it afterwards by a recorded map and plan. Party walls, waste stacks, electrical service, parking layout and the acoustic separation between floors were set by 1970s apartment practice. That is why sound transmission, shared plumbing and the location of the boundary between unit and common area are the first questions to ask here, and why buyers who assume purpose-built detailing are the ones who get surprised.
The unit schedule on the roll describes a simple, efficient building. Eleven homes occupy each of two residential levels: 101 through 111, then 201 through 211. Recorded areas run from 700 square feet at unit 110 to 1,229 square feet at unit 209, and the bedroom counts move with them. Seven homes carry one bedroom, thirteen carry two and two carry three, those being units 201 at 1,159 square feet and 202 at 1,126 square feet. Bathroom counts on the roll are one or two. It is a mixed building rather than a repeating stack, which makes in-building comparables less interchangeable than the unit count suggests.
A condominium directory publishes a size range of 726 to 1,229 square feet and describes one, two and three bedroom plans, which matches the county at the top and misses the bottom: the roll shows unit 110 at 700 square feet and unit 210 at 764. The association does not publish a schedule here, and the directory and aggregator numbers that circulate are unconfirmed and go out of date quietly, so this site does not carry one. The current figure for a specific home appears on the listing and in the statutory disclosure package. A brokerage page puts the building at three floors with secured tandem parking, in-complex laundry and bicycle storage. None of that is published by the association, so treat the amenity list as a starting point for questions rather than as an inventory.
Vintage is the reason this page spends time on seismic exposure. A 1977 wood-frame building with parking beneath is precisely the profile Los Angeles Ordinance 183893 was written for, since the mandatory soft-storey programme reaches wood-frame buildings permitted before 1978. Several other addresses on Corinth Avenue appear in the city's published record of soft-storey retrofit permits. This one does not appear in that dataset, which may mean the building was never placed on the list, or that the record is incomplete, or that work remains outstanding. It is the single most important question to put to the association.
Amenities & Services
The Residences
The roll shows units 101 to 111 and 201 to 211, an identical count on each residential level. That is the classic double-loaded corridor plan of the period: a central circulation spine with homes to either side, parking below. It gives efficient construction and a predictable structure, and it means roughly half the homes face one direction and half the other. Ask which elevation a home faces before anything else, because in a building of this depth the difference between a bright southern aspect and a shaded northern one is substantial.
Seven homes on the roll carry a single bedroom: units 103 and 104 at 726 square feet, 110 at 700, 111 at 767, 203 and 204 at 904, 210 at 764 and 211 at 902. The smallest of these are genuinely compact, and they are the entry point to ownership in a neighbourhood where the entry point keeps rising. The larger one-bedroom plans at around nine hundred square feet are a different proposition, with room for a study or a dining area, and they should not be priced against the seven-hundred-foot homes.
Thirteen homes carry two bedrooms, running from 933 square feet at units 207 and 208 up to 1,229 at unit 209, with 944, 955, 974, 978 and 1,039 square foot variants between. This is the heart of the building and the part of the schedule that trades most often. Two reported sales sit inside it: unit 106 at 625,000 dollars for 944 square feet and unit 101 at 632,026 dollars for 1,039 square feet. Both areas match the county record precisely. Both figures line up with the county roll, which is a good sign for the quality of the data behind them.
Units 201 and 202 are the only three-bedroom plans in the building, recorded at 1,159 and 1,126 square feet. Three bedrooms in eleven hundred square feet means compact rooms, and buyers should read them as two bedrooms with a study rather than as family houses. Unit 201 is reported sold at 600,000 dollars, the lowest of the three published prices despite being the largest home in the sample, which is a reminder that condition and floor plan efficiency matter more here than raw area. Ask what the third bedroom actually measures before paying for it.
The county records one or two bathrooms across the twenty-two homes, and one-bathroom plans persist even in some larger units. That is characteristic of 1977 apartment design, where a second bathroom was an upgrade rather than an expectation. It has a direct effect on resale: two-bathroom homes in this building command attention that one-bathroom homes do not, whatever the floor area. Adding a bathroom in a converted building means new waste connections into shared stacks, which is an association matter as much as a construction one. Ask whether any home in the building has already done it, and how.
A brokerage page describes secured two-space tandem parking with gated entry, in-complex laundry and bicycle storage. Tandem parking is the norm for a building of this footprint and age, and in-complex rather than in-home laundry tells you the original apartment plans had no space for machines. Whether a particular home can accommodate a stacked washer and dryer, and whether the association permits the alteration, is a question worth asking early if that matters to you. Ask whether the tandem pair is deeded to the home or assigned by the board, whether the gate has been replaced recently, and what the laundry room charges, since in a small association those are real running costs rather than trivia.
Due Diligence
This is the first question. Los Angeles Ordinance 183893 reaches wood-frame soft-storey buildings permitted before 1978, and a 1977 building with parking beneath fits the profile. The city's published record of soft-storey retrofit permits contains several other Corinth Avenue addresses but not this one. Ask the association for any order to comply, engineering report, permit or exemption letter, and treat a vague answer as a finding. Silence on this point is not the same as an exemption.
The 010E code means the ownership form was recorded over an existing apartment house. Ask for the recorded condominium plan and declaration, and read where the unit boundary sits: in many conversions of this period the boundary is the unfinished surface of walls, floor and ceiling, which puts more of the fabric into common area than buyers expect. That allocation determines who pays for windows, balconies and the interior face of exterior walls, which in a 1977 building is not a small question.
Shared waste stacks and 1970s floor assemblies are the two recurring costs in buildings of this type. Ask whether the association has scoped or lined the stacks, whether any home has had a repipe, and what the rules require for hard flooring. Acoustic underlay requirements are common and are enforced at resale as often as at installation. Ask as well what the building's electrical service is per home, since 1977 apartment panels were not sized for modern kitchens, air conditioning and vehicle charging together.
Dues are not published here: the current figure for a specific home comes from the listing and from the statutory disclosure package. In a building of this size dues would normally cover water, trash, common-area maintenance, the common laundry and master insurance. Ask for the current budget, the reserve study, two years of financials and the record of any special assessment in the past decade. Ask also what the association pays for insurance now against three years ago, because that single line has moved faster than any other in small California associations.
California Civil Code section 5550 requires a reserve study at least every three years with a visual inspection. In an association this small, a single large item such as a roof, a repipe or a retrofit is spread across twenty-two owners rather than two hundred, so per-home exposure is high. Read the reserve funding percentage, not just the balance. Ask what the board's plan is for the next large item, and whether it intends to fund it from reserves, an assessment or a loan.
Master policy cost has risen sharply for older wood-frame buildings in California, and small associations feel it disproportionately. Ask for the current declarations page, the deductible, whether earthquake cover is carried, and how the premium has moved over three years. An uninsured or under-insured association is a financing problem as well as a risk problem. Ask too whether the association has ever been declined cover or non-renewed, and whether any claim has been made in the past five years, since either will follow the building into its next renewal.
No cap is published. Under California Civil Code section 4741 an association cannot set a rental cap below twenty-five per cent of units and may prohibit tenancies shorter than thirty days. Ask how many of the twenty-two homes are tenanted, because lender questionnaires in small associations weigh owner-occupancy heavily. Ask as well whether the association has updated its governing documents since section 4741 took effect, because rules written in the 1970s or 1980s frequently contain caps and restrictions that are no longer enforceable and can create disputes at resale.
Three reported sales at 600,000, 625,000 and 632,026 dollars sit in a narrow band despite covering 944 to 1,159 square feet, so price per square foot is a poor guide here. Compare by plan type, bathroom count, floor level and standard of renovation instead, and ask for every closed sale in the building over the past twenty-four months. Ask in particular which homes have two bathrooms rather than one, because that distinction moves price here more reliably than floor area does.
Everything above is drawn from public records, city permit data and published sources. The association’s statutory disclosure package is the only authoritative answer on dues, rules, reserves, insurance and litigation — Ben will request it and read it with you before you remove contingencies.
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