Stateside, bellingham-wa

Our son stayed here for three years while at WWU. Had we known how the place is run, he would never have leased an apartment there. Elevators often breaking down causing delays waiting for the other functioning elevator or having to walk up and down the stairs, bike room getting broken into, washers and dryers unreliable, charging a $1.95 "convenience fee" for paying rent via direct deposit and the worst of all only offering a $100 credit when the hot water was out for TEN days! If you lease a place here, make sure to take plenty of photographs of your unit before you move in and after you have moved out. Management may argue that your vacated the unit in an unfit condition, despite a satisfactory move out report and may charge you either a cleaning fee or a repainting fee.We cannot recommend Stateside Apartments at all.

The tour that I had was great. The building is well taken care of. The gym was nice, a little small but a great variety of workout machines and it wasn’t crowded. The building also felt very safe and secure. The kitchen with the mini market was very nice also very clean. The views were also great. The sky lounge and roof deck were my favorite part. The rooms are good sizes. Also the building has bike storage. The laundry room was a little messy but it was a busy laundry day. I liked that there were a lot of washers and dryers. Everyone there was also very nice.

There a quite a few other reviews already mentioning the fact that there was no hot water service for 8 consecutive days to the main building recently. This was indeed a massive inconvenience for which tenants were not adequately compensated. During the same time, one of only two elevators for the building was out of order for 4 days, the last of which both elevators were actually out of order. The cash-grabbing habits of this ownership are pretty prolific: rent and parking are both far too expensive, and be aware that they will find any bit of splatter on the tile to charge you $200 in cleaning fees for. There was also roughly a week-long period where half the dryers in the laundry room in the main building were not functioning. This company puts on a pretty good facade with their tours and simply FABULOUS lobby amenities, but in my experience, little of the money they squeeze out of you actually goes to important upkeep.

I have lived at Stateside for going on 3 years and I immensely regret renewing my lease this year. Although the location is great and the units themselves are pretty nice, there is too many issues to give anything more than a 1 star review or recommend it to anyone. Some of the annoying things about living here residents are aware of when moving in like no ac or in unit laundry. But keep in mind the washer/dryers don’t get cleaned or replaced and you will have to wait for one to use everytime you want to do laundry if you can even find one that works. We also didn’t have hot water for well over a week this year, due to negligence from the management, and only received $100 rent credit after residents had to contact the city. The only accommodation offered was use of an occupied units shower! Manager said it was only a ‘slight inconvenience’ for residents when in reality it makes a unit unlivable. Recently I transferred to a different unit in the building and my dishwasher was entirely full of black mold, food debris and rust, the entire unit also looked like it had not been professionally cleaned. After submitting a work order, Freja the property manager, explained if I wanted a new one I would have to pay for it and she assured me that it had been cleaned and was in working order, before sending maintenance to even look at it! It is completely unsanitary to give a resident an appliance filled with mold but she seems to think that’s fine for someone to move in to. Immediately after my dishwasher issues, my previous unit was inspected and I was charged a ridiculous amount for painting and cleaning when I left the entire place spotless. The whole company is known for predatory move out charges and I felt mine were a retaliation for voicing my issues with the dishwasher. A 4 bedroom apartment needing to be painted should never result in over a $1000 in charges between roommates. Not a single photo or note was provided on the move out inspection and management insisted they didn’t need any documentation to charge us. Do better Stateside that’s illegal. I already know the owner is going to reply and try to tell me to contact the leasing office but I have tried. Freja is so passive aggressive, petty and unprofessional there is no working with her on anything. I could go on and on about the issues i’ve had but i’ll just leave it at that. Stay away from Stateside, everything will just get worse as the building gets older.

It's unclean and management will leave bodily fluids like vomit in common areas for days. Elevators, hot water, and basic hygiene are not a priority here. However, they charge prices as if their services are toptier. The laundry machines are covered in hair and muck. People leave trash in the halls. It smells like a gas leak in the stairways. If you can live anywhere else, please do.