Beacon Crest Apartments

If you want to live cheap in Beacon Hill, keep looking. You can do better.
I rented from here for one month longer than my six month lease (we’ll get to that later).
Pros: Good location close to light rail and Red Apple Market. Free parking space. Gave most of my deposit back. Low rent (but that changed). Clean apartments. Allows cats. Has a loose policy on occupancy if you want to move your family of 3 – 5 into a 1 bedroom.
Cons: Sharing two sets of lanudry machines with 20ish other apartments, many that housed large families, totally unresponsive and rude staff, not enough trash/​recycle receptacles, crazy high rent for what you’re getting, so many more things.
The on site manager is a nice enough dude and very hard working but extremely tough to get a hold of and has a very loose definition of time. Even when I was trying to give him my deposits, he would say he’ll be back in the evening and I’d wait til around 7pm then have to leave. Took three tries to do this. I’m trying to give you money, bro.
The day I moved in, I got a notice from Seattle City Light that I owed ~$ 300 or they’d turn my power off. I called the property manager who said they’d talk to the utility company and get back to me. Never got back to me, so I called Seattle City Light who said to work it out with your propery manager. I ended up paying Seattle City Light and spoke with the property manager several times who scolded me for paying (they were gonna turn my power off, it’s not up to me to know the intricacies of how deliquent utility bills work) and kept waffling on paying me back or discounting my rent. I eventually just gave up.
My lease was up in October 2014. I texted the onsite manager asking if I needed to renew in late September and he didn’t get back to me until October 13^th in the form of seeing me pull up in the parking lot at around 10pm. He then told me my new rent would be a whopping $ 1,100 plus a flat «utility fee» of $ 95. This was a 38% increase from my previous rent. City law states you must give 60 days notice of an increase above 10%. I again called the property manager who made me feel like an idiot and told me I need to give 30 days notice to move out. I would have done that had I known they increasing my rent that much. I decided to just get out of a bad situation instead of lawyering up, etc. Moved out at the beginning of November into a way better place in Beacon Hill with cheaper rent.
Living here was fine as I am a low maintenance tennant, but any time I had to interact with staff it was a negative experience. Glad to be done with it and in a better place.