Colina Square Apartments

Moved into Colina Square in August 2013, have been here close to 2 years now through summer 2015, and definitely plan on staying for the next few years given the very positive experience we’ve had here.
First and foremost the location is outstanding and second to none around this local area. Colina is right across the road to convenient grocery stores, gas stations, banks, starbucks, subway, several restaurants (pizza, Chinese, sushi, Mexican, pub), a dry cleaners and a post office. Just up the road is Sammamish downtown with more shops and stores if needed, and a short drive (5 – 10 mins) across the plateau you have the Issaquah Highlands, the same drive down the hill and you are in Issaquah downtown with Front Street. A few minutes walk is the Pine Lake Park and Skyline High School for the outdoors or tennis courts/​soccer fields. Again, cannot ask for any more in terms of the location.
Secondly, the apartments themselves are a great fit for our needs with spacious and open floor plans throughout the living, dining and kitchen areas, with a terrific back patio running off this. There are storage areas throughout the unit as you enter the apartment, next to and off the bedrooms, as well as on the back deck with a small storage closet. Bedrooms are nice and spacious and feature good light throughout, with adjacent bathrooms for both. Before moving in we walked through the apartment with the management and evaluated the whole place, we were granted every request for a clean carpet, new fridge, cleaned bathrooms etc, and made to feel very at home immediately.
Third, the management do a great job of communicating throughout the year on all things good and bad, things they are actively trying to improve and take care of. We are able to provide maintenance requests and pay rent easily and efficiently online, with any communication responded to quickly and professionally. A recent survey is showing that management cares about improving the experience for all Colina residents, and we love the fact that it is a non smoking residence.
Certainly 100% staying at Colina due to our positive experience and would highly recommend it to anyone looking in and around the Sammamish/​Issaquah area.

We moved in to this place almost 2 years ago now. It has been a great experience and we absolutely loved our stay here.
About the apartments: They are as good as it can get. One of the most functional floor plans we have seen during our search for rent place, helping our friends for rent place or even when we went around shopping for a house. No condo, ever came close to the functional plan of this place. Very spacious and full of light. We were at a point seriously thinking, how much better it would have been if we could just buy our rented apartment itself :)
About the community: We found it to be a small, cozy community. We never found the lack of a club, or those tiny gyms that you find at other places a con. We wouldn’t have used it anyway.
Location: This is probably the best part about the community (obviously along with the apartments itself). We loved the fact that we could literally walk to groceries, banks, restaurants, gym, park & ride and pine lake!
Management: In our experience management has been very prompt and eager to help. I don’t recall a single maintenance request that took more than a week to be picked up and fixed. They have been very reasonable. In the last one year, we saw al lot many proactive steps that management took on their own to better the community. That counts very high in our opinion, that they were on the lookout.
Can it get better: Of course, which place can’t? We believe you are always in midst of a trade off no matter which place you rent. One thing that comes to mind can get better is more of a social community — social events is what comes to my mind. But then not everyone likes to mingle with everyone, so that’s quite subjective.
We highly recommend this place and would do it again (rent is what I mean) if we ever need to.

Went ahead and placed my application online and I would assume that they would get ahold of me the next day right … NO so the second day I called nobody picked up the phone called the manager left a message and waited Thursday called again same thing, but called the assistant and she acted like she did not know anything plus sound like she was too busy with her child and not professional at all in her job.
Beware the 25 application it’s a criminal background check they only take ppl who have clean records. I guess to justified to reject you for a 8 year old minor infraction? Waste of time not mad at them mad at the unprofessionalism that shown to me.