Pullington Apartments

I absolutely love my apartment and the location!!! I have been here for over ten years now. Cheap lower than market rents the property manager and maintenance people are wonderful people and very fair, very easy to work with, very prompt and proactive on any maintenance repairs. Always painting, keeping the grounds clean and looking out for my best interest.
The Pullington Apartments are really the best bargain for your dollar in the city of Seattle. I can not find such spacious inexpensive rent in the city right now. Easy busy access to anywhere in the City of Seattle and lots of restaurants, banks, salons, dry cleaners, library, grocery stores within a two to four block radius.
From what I have seen most all the units have been completely remodeled from kitchen to bathroom including mine which rent for $ 825.00 per month a remodel and paint on the outside coming soon.
I hope they will be here for a long time to come because they are a rare find!

I really, really loved my apartment when I first moved in. Sure, it was a bit broken-​down and looked a bit rotten and dirty, but I had it all to myself and it was a huge apartment. The cost per square footage ratio is fantastic, and the building is in a great area, but that’s about where the bonuses end.
I’d give the apartment itself a solid 3 stars, but over the course of the couple years that I lived there, the building and grounds deteriorated considerably (from an already dilapidated state). The 513 apartments are fairly adequate living spaces, but one of my neighbors says that the 509 apartments are «even below [his] low standards of living». But, none of this really matters when one considers the tragically lethargic and dubious management, and location and price mean absolutely nothing if something breaks or goes wrong in the complex (because good luck getting it fixed promptly, if at all).
The «Investment Management Holding Company» and the less-​suspiciously titled «Noble Homes LLC» is a pathetic attempt at a management company. They are clearly losing money on this place, and they have no qualms about taking it out on their tenants. They manipulated me into a higher monthly rent than I should have been paying (I didn’t mind at the time, I was just glad to get the apartment), and then raised the rent after a few months, without making any additional repairs or the painting/​cleaning they promised to do. The Company has absolutely no incentive to maintain the buildings and grounds, and has been desperately trying to sell the place for over a year.
Crap piles up between the dumpsters and is rarely removed (a sofa sat there for over 6 months, it may still be there). The most important thing to note about this company (and its primary agent, Julianna) is that they/​she consider the tenants «high maintenance» for requesting necessary repairs, including a request I made to repair a slow drain in my bathroom sink, and the brown, sediment filled water that poured out of the tap – the drain wasn’t fixed for almost 2 months (I couldn’t use it for 2 months!), and as far as I know the brown water situation was never sufficiently resolved (try taking the filter off, it’s disgusting!). They will not make repairs unless they are given notice in writing and even then are reluctant to do so, and still do not make repairs within the legal timeframe. I was told that they had only one repair person for the building, and he was on leave, so repairs had to wait until he was done (that’s what contractors are for!).
The management company is completely lethargic, manipulative and dubious; they have a generic title with no physical address and no office. The only contact is via their property agent (or whatever she is), and she doesn’t answer her phone more than half the time. Most importantly, she screens her calls and she won’t answer her phone after 1 PM or on weekends, so good luck with those emergency situations (especially when their repair person is out!).
Additionally, the laundry room looks like a rape room, and is lit accordingly. It is dark (the lightbulbs are never replaced or likely even checked) and is never serviced or cleaned. I only used it a couple times, and then decided to find a different place since it was too ominous and dirty.
The plumbing is abhorrent. The lower levels of one building have toilets that back-​up and gurgle (I’ve heard the other building is worse). The plumbing in my former unit has slow drains (yes, I used draino, and I don’t even use much water at all!), so it is impossible to run the sink without it backing up. And anyway, the water coming out of the tap is brown so I wouldn’t recommend drinking from it.
This is just a largely mundane irritation, but I’ll include it: the parking situation is frustrating at best. There is no organization and parking is not enforced, so cars from the other side of the complex, visitors or residents using multiple spots take up the all the parking.
2 stars for the building itself, but only because it is so close to Greenwood, minus 5 for the Management. In their real estate ads for the property, they call it «the worst building in the best area», who would know better than them?