Midtown Square

I have lived a number of places throughout my adulthood and this has by far been the worst living experience I have ever had. Today (12/05/25) alone the fire alarm went off at 6:50am, and later when I went down to the garage I found that my car had been broken into. To be fully fair the new building manager, Brian, was in the garage when I arrived and seemed to be very upset this had happened, but that was about 4hrs ago and I haven't received any follow up. the FEW pros: Conveniently located - grocery stores nearby; route 2 bus goes downtown and stops directly outside building; can get to freeways easily. If you are carless and absolutely need to be centrally located and that is your sole concern then disregard the rest of this review. That being said there are 3 other buildings at this intersection that can achieve this same level of convenience. As a shared space: During the summer the courtyard is nearly always in use for events. This does mean each weekend 10s of strangers may be in the courtyard, some people love that, for me it was difficult. For me, it often meant having to strategically plan how I was going to leave the building to walk my dogs to avoid being catcalled by guests. I have been yelled at trying to pull out of my apartment during an art walk because attendants seemed to believe that no one living in the building could possibly have somewhere else to be. I did speak with the retailer who holds these events and let them know of my frustrations and was told they would work more cohesively with the building for Summer 2026. Everything else: -Management. Again, this is to ensure this review is entirely representative. The building has changed management companies as of the last few weeks so I am unsure what that will do to the building. But in the 16mos I have lived here I have seen the leasing office change personnel probably 3 or 4 times. This is the first time a whole new company has been brought in. The teams that I experienced seemed like they could care less about the building and tenants generally. While the current manager seems much more interested in making this place livable, it did take me over a month to get any sort of contact from the office regarding my intent to vacate. I had to submit my intent three separate ways, and upon receipt of December's rent charges I saw they clearly hadn't seen or acknowledged my letters because they had charged me my full rent. Additionally, in November I was called 5 days before rent was due and told by the office that the office had forgotten to charge me a $300 pet deposit and was now going to add that to my rent. I told them I do not understand how a mistake that they made over 14mos ago was now my responsibility. -As stated in other reviews, the fire alarm goes off constantly, at all hours. It was so bad at one point that I had to stay at my partners place because I couldn't leave my dogs at home while I was at work. -The building is always dirty. I live at the end of one of the buildings, where there is no elevator (a design issue to say the least) so the most convenient exit is a set of stairs. The stairs always smell like pee, human and animal sometimes. I have seen dog poop stay in there for days at a time before. -THE TRASH. It is more common that I would go into the trash room and find the chute was blocked and the room was full of trash and/or recycling, than it was to just go throw trash away. The smell from the chute also permeates the elevator corridor of building A so if you're sensitive to smell tough luck. -Security. In the time I've lived here I have made 4 reports of people sleeping in the stairs, and have consistently seen people within the building who very obviously did not live there. This is even more annoying because the building does not allow residents to have guest fobs for family members or visitors claiming the need for security. There is an emergency exit in the garage that malfunctions constantly and currently is just unlocked which I'm sure is how my car was broken into.

My partner and I enjoyed our stay here for the most part. The location is great, we've felt safe, and (at least facing 24th) it's been quiet. There's a new maintenance crew as of a week or two and they've been fast, kind, and efficient. Our only complaints have been the fire alarm going off frequently and trash management. Our designated garages that have trash are closed more often then not, so we have to use the dumpsters on the street yet the landfill ones tend to be missing. Big annoyance, but everything else has been fine.

I was a resident at Midtown Square Apartments for almost 2 years and in that timeline I was broken into twice with 10’s of thousands dollars of my items stolen, primarily expensive jewelry, area rugs, stereo & speakers, etc in addition thousands of dollars in stolen packages. Mgt. is the absolute worst stating it’s not their problem, well YES it was their fault for not having more cameras & too many maintenance personnel having fobs to everyone’s units that Seattle police are constantly investigating this property along with many ongoing car theft’s & burglary’s ie slashing tires…! It’s also very unkept, halls, especially in building B. I don’t understand any of the positive posts & ironically since the new Mgt. came in the reviews became increasingly positive for no reasons except being Fake!! Don’t EVER rent here unless you have an Attorney on speed dial & willing to lose thousands in stolen packages & get burglarized and it’s not just based on my own experiences but many others I’ve spoken to!

So I noticed they hired new security but for what, exactly? Just to sit in their vehicle and do absolutely nothing? If that’s what they were hired for, mission accomplished. Meanwhile, people are getting into the building right now there’s literally someone in the stairwell. So what’s the point of security that never leaves the car? Come on, management. If you’re going to hire security, at least hire real security, not professional seat warmers.

I have lived here for two years. I removed my positive review and am replacing it because the new management company is a nightmare. I was unable to access my mail for a full month after moving in and they stated that it was USPS fault, which was a lie. I have a disability and am in the MFTA program now. I was treated well when I paid full price. I didn't have a problem here for a full year before they took over. They didn’t clean the bathroom before I moved in. It was so disgusting and they were not sorry. When I complained about this and other issues, I was put on the naughty list and now I’m afraid to leave my home because they harass me and my puppy when they see me. Building B is nice but building A smells like dog urine most of the time and is the ghetto building. Also in Building A you have to pass management to get to your home as there is no alternate way and they are hateful. I have explained to Brian the manager that I have PTSD and just want to get my packages or mail without being drawn into conversation with staff. There are literally no stairs into the building and no way to hide from staff when entering the building. Because of the horrible experience I have had there is nothing they can do to make up for it and their aggressive customer service recovery is traumatizing. Since asking him this deeply personal request regarding my mental health, to please just say good morning and get on with it, they have become more aggressive. I requested more then once and specifically to the manager that they let me pick up my mail without being traumatized but they have zero empathy or willingness to stop and I'm afraid to leave my home during business hours but unfortunately I literally have to. Every freaking time there's some freak out in my face that I didn't ask for. Please leave me the heck alone! you're going to give me a heart attack! I'm too old for this stuff! There's no where I can hide from you! This is domestic abuse! I have videos of your crazy behavior and will continue to record your harassment. Even being harassed after notifying and receiving consent to record, very brazen. You already traumatized my emotional support dog please leave her alone with your toxic positivity and then being cruel to my puppy and then again with more fake positivity so you can get close and hurt my puppy again. creepy weirdos, please stop. mental health is obviously a challenge and a game to the staff here. I'm trying to recover from being assaulted and there's nothing I can say to get their sympathy or cooperation. They say dehumanizing things to me in front of my dog when they think nobody else is listening. I'm practically begging them to stop trying to instigate drama. what do i have to do to make myself clear. this is not ok. I didn't ask for you to give me my apartment like a filthy pig stye with broken blinds and drawers and doors off hinges, this is the opposite of luxury, its an insult to any human being's self respect. you can count on staff to be as petty and toxic as possible with every single encounter. I've left phone calls but they say they don't listen to them and its better to come down in person so I can be traumatized in person. how many times do i have to ask staff to stop chasing me across the building when they see me, i don't want to talk to you. Please give everyone the memo because I've already told them individually and they take it as a challenge or a personal insult. i've left phone calls you tell me straight up you didn't listen to. so now i'll post my review and i hope it gets your attention. I'm tired of enemies and drama when I didn't do anything but make a bad choice to continue to live here. If you really wanted to be nice you would say hello and move on with your lives like i asked, or not say hello. i don't care which. Also using oven at 500 to bake sourdough sets off fire alarm in this "luxury" building so if you like to bake bread watch your dreams deflate like dough in a lukewarm oven or prepare to share with fire department

My fiancé and I have been living here for a few years. It's had its ups and Downs. Fellow neighbors leave trash around and don't pick up their dog poop. But the groundskeeper Devin does a pretty good job cleaning the building and trash rooms. The area is also nice it has restaurants and a salon and if you have pets, there's a pet store!

I honestly would not recommend anyone. We did the tour and the home was not ready. We have to get (still not done 2 weeks later) window fixed, transition on the top stair fixed because we do not want to trip and fall into a concrete floor. (We’re in the townhouse) the townhouse was not properly turned and we had to ask them to have the cleaners come back. The cleaning service is a tenant in the building so not a professional service. We also had to get all the toilet seats replaced because they looked like they were washed and dyed in bleach. Window shade cover is missing and the maintenance guy was matter a fact about it, asked if we want a replacement, and were like we’re about to pay over 3k a month Ofcourse we want the house to look the way it’s supposed to look and have everything it comes with. The response was “well it’ll take 3 weeks” I’m like we will be here for 12 months lol we can wait 3 weeks. Also we signed the lease 2 weeks before so they had more than enough time to fix all of this. Experience so far living here after 2 weeks first official weekend here and the buildings alarm woke us up on Saturday morning at 8am (11/15/2025) and went on for 15minutes, stopped and then went on for another 10minutes. Be prepared for amazon drivers to also mess up your deliveries. Also the building kind of has an odor andthe garage smells like a sewer. Yeah (doo doo)! “Management from what I hear is changing” and the people the last couple of days seem to be here just for the day. Lol this might sound exaggerated but it’s not. As I’m listing it out I’m like this is a lot! Also the ice machine they recommended in the building because the refrigerator doesn’t have an ice machine feeder or whatever is disguising I’ll post a picture. I’ll post all the pics. Other than ALL OF THAT. The neighborhood is pretty lively and the food options don’t seem to be bad if you don’t cook at home. Also PCC is right across the street. They wanted an honest feedback about the move in, this is about 80% of it.

TLDR uncontrolled pets pissing/pooping everywhere. I stayed here from July 2022-July 2023. At first the apartment was fine. It took a month to get my dishwasher fixed but whatever. Soon, pets started terrorizing the apartment. Poop in the garage, poop in the elevators, pee in the stairway carpets and the smell doesn't go away no matter how many times they clean. The poop also doesn't go away until some unsuspecting resident drives over it with their car and smears the smell into the pavement. The worst part was my upstairs neighbor who literally let their dog pee all over their balcony. For months, I had pee dripping down my screen door, crystallizing on the glass, and the smell was rancid. It was 80F+ in my apartment and I couldn't open windows/doors bc the smell would permeate everything. I emailed management several times, and I'm sure I wasn't the only neighbor complaining. When I finally got them to address the issue and clean my balcony, they left a pee rag on my rug and my door unlocked (I was on vacation for a week, and reading other reviews about break-ins, I'm glad nothing happened). I had to follow up in person bc they didn't respond to my emails and they assured me the problem was resolved and would not go into detail. I trusted them, but of course the pee came back like a week later. Overall, there are some employees in the leasing office that are trying their best and actually get things done, but most of the staff is incompetent, annoyed when you ask them to do their job, and make fake promises so you stop bothering them. Hopefully they have fixed things since I moved out. 🐕‍🦺💩

I moved in over the weekend and the staff made it such a smooth process!! DeeDee, Brianna and Maekla were literally the best!

Midtown square has glitzy shared spaces and is in a great part of town, but my experience their was quite negative. I decided to move out after multiple fire alarm incideints, including one that went off multiple times throughout the night and forced me and mt kids to leave at 3am to get some sleep. The corporate speak lack of apology about the fire alarms was off putting, as was the lack of any compensation. I have an 8 year old daughter who already struggles with anxiety, these blaring, middle of the night fire alarms happening multiple times was no small matter. My bike was also stolen from the bike room, which actually upset me less than the fact that no one cleaned up the broken locks for over a month. The bike room looks trashy and depressing, with constant reminders that it is unsecure and unimportant. It would be one thing if that was a free amenity, but it is one tenants are expected to pay for. Reimbursing me the cost of bike storage seemed insufficient for having my bike stolen. Lastly, not only was my final month not prorated as dictated by the lease, I was charged for the month after I moved out. The check is supposedly in the mail, but once again, midtown square did not lead with an apology or promise to make sure that such things never happen to other tenants. Don't make the mistake I did, avoid renting at midtown square!

Living here has been a nightmare. The constant noise from loud events in the central square, people singing, the blaring garbage truck, and the endless parties in the social spaces make it impossible to rest or sleep properly. This place has caused me so much anxiety, and the management clearly has no regard for the peace and tranquility of its residents. They've shown complete disregard for anyone looking for a quiet and livable space. Don't come to live here, this is hell.

This company actually falsified a write up and demanded I sign it or I'm fired. So that's basically what happened because I didn't sign it. Rid of my MHA application, purposely put me on employee housing so when I got fired they hiked my rent back up to market rent and said if I can't pay then get out and kept my commissions and they split it among each other! STRAIGHT TRASH!

Don't move here unless you want to be woken from your sleep at least once a month to false fire alarms. After 2 yrs nothing has changed. Literally counting down the days until I can move out of here! DONT MOVE HERE!!!!!!!! Constant false fire alarms, homeless people sleeping in the stair wells, secured doors broken for almost 2 years (still not fixed), feces in the parking garage (that cost over $200 a month), office staff is a revolving door

This team is amazing. Never have I ever seen such a excellent example of a group of people working so hard for the benefit of my little family! When Lifelong dropped the ball and our housing was at risk, this team (so many were involved it's impossible to point out only one or two employees!) jumped into action. I can honestly say that without their kindness and effort my little family would have gone homeless. You simply can't go wrong when everyone here is working for your good. I've just moved in and I am impressed % Give yourself the opportunity to tour this beautiful apartment complex! Everything is here! Fitness center, multiple elevators, package system, outstanding security, tenant events and more. What are you waiting for?!?! Come check them out!

Scheduled a tour for a studio and when I showed up for the tour, there was no answer to the leasing office to let me in. I used the callbox to call the leasing office four times with no answer. I called the phone number I received in the email when scheduling the tour, and the leasing manager walks to the front door to let me in. She was very obviously ignoring the calls from the callbox. Why let people schedule tours if you don't want to answer the door at the time of the appointment? Bad management vibes immediately, definitely not a place I would trust to live.