Epicenter Apartments

We’ve lived in Epicenter for 6 months now and love it. Lisa, Sam and Anthony are amazing! So helpful and friendly.
The only complaints I have revolve around living above a supermarket. The noise of living above a supermarket is fine when you think of the convenience.
I can hear loud footsteps above us occasionally and people in the hall but never neighbours talking etc which is soooo important!
Maintenance requests are fixed promptly.

If Epi were in another neighborhood than Fremont, I’d stay forever. Hillary is amazing. She is helpful, supportive and a true dog lover. This is a great community to have a dog. All sizes allowed. Lots of fun community events, too! It’s a little spendy, but I’d say that it’s because it’s in Fremont. Very good location, in terms of bars and restaurants, right above the PCC, which is expensive but also great.
They are always willing to work with your schedule on apartment checks, as well. Very good company.
I’m in a studio, which is super spacious for a studio.
If you like Fremont, this is the best apartment complex ever.

This is my first apartment ever, so I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how apartment living can be so nice. So much to do and walk to in Fremont. Love hopping downstairs to PCC when I’m too lazy to cook. I have a south facing unit with lots of light. Not sure how it is in the back units. There can be noise from the upstairs tenants, and maybe that is common for apartment living. But I have learned to adjust to it. It is mostly just heavy footsteps at times, nothing more. Otherwise, I never hear other tenants at all. Epi allows for pets, and I am surprised that I never hear a dog barking. I looked at many apartments before Epi and decided to go with them despite being more expensive because of the area, the secure building, the secure parking, and the on-​site staff (Mike and Lydia have been fantastic and always available for me). So worth the extra money. The only reason I put 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the excessive outside noise experienced it the morning (PCC delivery trucks, etc.). But if you are an early riser (6 or 6:30 am) it will not be an issue for you. Otherwise, I love, love, love this place.

If you really want to live in Fremont then this is probably a decent place for you but I wanted to detail my experience living here through out 2009.
I’d like to start off by saying that the office staff was pretty awesome most of the time. Work orders were submitted and taken care of quickly and they were generally friendly. That being said for how much this place cost to live in they should be awesome.
I’d say the first six months I lived here I didn’t really have any issues. Some people were occasionally loud in the hallway but nothing to worry about. Towards the end of my lease though these weird sounds started to come from above my bed room. Dragging, rolling, thumping sounds at totally random hours. I’ve slept through the worst Texas thunderstorms and these noises woke me up, usually at 1 or 5 am sometimes multiple times a night. Ear plugs helped but it is a bit ridiculous to have to wear ear plugs every night. I complained to the office for about a month and they said they looked into it and couldn’t figure it out and in the end were generally not very helpful except for saying sorry and that I could pay a lot of money to break my lease if I wanted to move out and get some sleep. This was of course unacceptable for me and I just started looking for a new place to live once my lease was up. I was also told that none of my neighbors heard the noise and after about a month I just gave up complaining about it. Eventually I did start to ask my neighbors who all confirmed hearing similar sounds but not loud enough to wake them up. All my neighbors seemed alright except the one at the end of the hall who wouldn’t open her door to talk to me.
The building is safe, never had any random people dropping stuff off. In fact it is so safe it is a bit annoying. Not only do you need a key fob to get in the building (understandable) you need one to operate the elevators. There is no ability to use the stairs except to get the ground floor so I felt like a lazy bum the whole time I lived here taking the elevator to the 2^nd floor because it was impossible to open the staircase doors except to leave the building.
I lived on the second floor with the big community patio and there was a big pressure washer parked outside my window one day when I got home. I asked the office to get it moved and after 3 requests and 3 days it was finally removed. It just isn’t the kind of thing you want to having staring back at your through your window when you get home at night.
At the end of my lease I got my renewal letter. While it was nice of them to offer to not raise my rent I got a lower rent on a newer and nicer place. Then I came to found out a buddy of mine girlfriend moved into my building as I was moving out. She got a 2 bedroom apartment for $ 100 more then what I paid for my small and poorly laid out 1 bedroom apartment. I am not sure how this is justifiable and I’ve never figured out how complexes think it is ok to make it to my advantage to move out due to cost. Maybe they didn’t offer me a lower rent because they figured I was going to move out because of the noise but I knew a lot of people who had there rent lowered in 2009 and I saw no shortage of people moving out of this building towards the end of the year when there were a lot better deals on rent everywhere in Seattle.
My last complaint which after talking to people is a Seattle thing which I am not use to from Texas was getting charged for a bunch of cleaning despite the fact that during the move out walk through I got signed off as everything being ok. Frankly this is unacceptable, if you have standard cleaning fees you charge no matter what you should just build them into the rent and not out of my deposit. If I had known this was going to happen I wouldn’t have spent all those hours making sure the place was clean.
If you don’t mind the high rent and can handle the noise this place is probably fine for you. Personally I would never live here again even though the staff was one of the better ones I have experienced.

I definitely recommend Epi if you are looking for a safe, clean, well-​maintained apartment.
The staff is very helpful. The maintenance guys are always available when you need something fixed. We just got new management and now there are cookies and coffee in the lobby which is a nice treat. All the staff is friendly and respectful too.
Living at Epi you really get what you pay for — a spectacular location, superior staff and a clean, safe building.

Good, can be expensive, some can be noisey but great location. I had a great location on the 5^th floor. That is high up enough not to be bothered by the awful busker who tries to sing and play guitar all day every day. Also you don’t want to be facing the red door it’s noisy loud music and especially during summer and when all the drunk frat boys are walking home at 2am. On the whole this is great place to live if you have a south facing apartment. PCC on the ground floor. Covered parking and secure building. New appliances and no trouble with maintenance getting thing fixed. The office people are friendly and professional. Always helpful. Costs a little extra then most places but well worth it. Does not have a games or entertainment room in the building. has a great roof deck. No gym. On the whole a great place to live.