Stateside

don’t live here unless your parents pay all your bills for you. seriously. I literally never write reviews on anything, but I felt the need to share my experience at Stateside. The staff have been very frustrating to deal with. stateside simply became outside of my budget, so after a year of living there I participated in a lease takeover. I made sure to completely clear out my room on as well as of all of the space i took up in the community areas (kitchen, living room. bathroom). i should add that out of the 4 people (myself included) who occupied my unit, 2 are renewing their leases for another year , therefore, their personal belongings are still in the space (OBVIOUSLY). despite my cleaning and clear-out efforts, stateside is now attempting to charge me almost $300 in clean up fees. this is because they are assuming my former-roommate’s belongings are MINE that i left behind. so now, not only am I being charged for a situation I had no contribution towards, but now the two women still living in that unit are at risk of having their personal belongings be thrown away. truly, all stateside had to do was communicate with the 4 of us, especially the 2 women still living there, to determine what belongs to them and what was mine (nothing was mine), but for some unknown reason, they failed to do so. as I said at the beginning of this review, if you are someone who is financially supported by someone else or is making a solid living themselves, stateside is okay. The amenities are all very nice, but the staff there is less than ideal.

PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE. I am getting charged for “$360” for damage fees after moved out for bed stain and wall damages THAT WERE FROM PREVIOUS TENANT. But because I signed “AS IF” agreement before I moved it so they said it is “my responsibility” to pay for those fees. As they said it’s not “stateside” responsibility to reach out to the old tenant about the damages they made. AND I sent them an email about the damages on walls and others before I moved out, they said they will make notes on that and will negotiate about the damage fees. I have all the proof that I showed them that these damages were from the previous tenant but regardless they said it does not matter because of the “as if” form. Do if you plan to sign on it, please make sure to ask them for pictures of the room youre moving in to see if there are any damages that they will charge you in the future when you move out. This place makes too much money to be charging students to pay $360 and find whatever reasons to make you pay. The employees are so hard to talk with. I don’t even want to give a star to this review.

Did a lease takeover for only the month of August. They have the highest application fees I have ever dealt with being in Bellingham 7 years not to mention a ridiculous subleasing fee. Got charged 360 dollars to replace a chair that had a tiny stain on it. It’s crazy how greedy these large rental companies are. They will charge you with so many fees regardless if you are a good tenant or not. I do not recommend anyone to rent here unless you like giving away your money. Here’s the stain that cost me 360 dollars

Avoid Stateside Apartments at all costs. Living here has been an absolute nightmare, and I would strongly advise anyone considering it to look elsewhere. First off, there is no air conditioning in the rooms. That’s right no AC during the peak of summer. If you value basic comfort, this place is not for you. The laundry room is a disaster. Machines are constantly broken, and it can take weeks for anything to be fixed. Sometimes it feels like they’re never coming back online. Maintenance is equally pathetic. Any request you submit whether it’s minor or critical gets ignored, delayed for months, or “fixed” in the laziest, most half-assed way possible. Worse yet are their predatory lease agreements. Once you’re locked in, there is no way to break your lease, no matter the circumstances. They’ll lie and tell you they’ll help find a replacement, but their staff is either incompetent or just flat-out unwilling to lift a finger to assist. Save yourself the frustration, stress, and wasted money. This place might look decent on the surface, but the management is unprofessional, the living conditions are subpar, and they clearly don’t care about their residents.

Lots of random fees and they really love bothering people. I would never stay here again or recommend this place. Even if you have someone to help you with all the fees and paying rent lots of better places in Bellingham.

Living here was pretty good at first, until you realize your room is gonna sit at a unpleasant 79-80 degrees consistently during the spring into summer, even when it’s only mid to high sixty’s outside. Very frustrating. Laundry room is pretty bad, clothes come out soaking wet, laundry machines are consistently broken and just don’t get the job done well. Be prepared to rack up parking tickets if you don’t pay the extra $200+ to park in the parking garage.

Its convenient but too expensive. DO NOT LIVE HERE IN THE SUMMER WITHOUT A/C. It will routinely be 5-10 degrees f hotter than outside, and you are unable to cool off due to the window design. That said, maintenence crew are super chill and its nice to have a gym. Provides peace of mind and convenience, but super cramped and suboptimal in a lot of ways

Freight train runs every hour 6pm to dawn Very noisy disturbs sleep No AC so summer is a nightmare Visited granddaughter and spent one sleepless night Checked into hotel next day! Not mentioned in blurbs Also parking near the apartments is a nightmare Got a ticket Tuesday for parking in front 6 to 11 am

Amazing apartments, centrally located in downtown with great amenities. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The property is well maintained and pretty much brand new. Most all tenants are respectful, young and there is a real community feel. When compared to other apartments in the area, this is an amazing place to live and they really go above and beyond to provide a good place to be. All of the negative reviews I see here are either with issues that can be applied to literally any rental in Bellingham, or are personal problems not to be taken seriously. Would absolutely recommend Stateside to anyone hoping to tour!

I don't wanna make a long review so here's a bullet list somewhat in order of worst to least worst parts of my experience here: - SO HOT. no ac with floor to ceiling windows. ac in the hallways tho??? - parking is SO expensive. for what? i thought this was student housing - bad experiences w/ the ppl I have talked to on the phone - terribly built - random gaps in the cupboards where cats heads can get stuck. also, random paint splatters all over the floor. not that big of a deal but so annoying - i lived in a 4 bedroom, and one of them is wayyyyy bigger than the other three (almost 3x) and this was not advertised when we toured/signed lease. the person doesn't pay more rent - i lived in the smaller building, at least one washer/dryer was out of order almost always - stove and microwave suckkkkk don't get me wrong, this place is beautiful and i was super grateful to be able to live there, but these are the things that gave me difficulties and think that stateside could improve! i would rather my expensive rent go to ac so my pets and I aren't roasting, rather than activities that I can't even attend due to my school or work schedule

evil place. you will only like your apartment if you get the bay view otherwise you will be looking at a parking garage. management hires only personality hires that are bad at managing basic apartment building issues. it's a great location if you can afford a premium price for mid apartment that has the bare minimum to call it an apartment, it's a glorified dorm room with a shared living room and kitchen. they will try to make you pay for anything. they tried charged us 170$ per shitty chair that we were never given. the last year has been a little better, still not happy with this place.

The employees were very friendly and the common areas were well-maintained. The bedrooms are very small, but there is a lot of storage space throughout the apartments. The windows only open about 6 inches from the bottom and there is no ventilation. It was unlivable in the summer and I had to couch surf because it was consistently at 95 degrees inside. There was also horrible chemical smells from high-VOC building materials. The offsite parking is far away, expensive, and dangerous. I was put in quite a few bad situations while parking there, and my car was vandalized...twice. Upon moving out I spent days cleaning and left the apartment spotless. Days later they sent everyone I know who was moving out a threatening email demanding at least $200. They managed to swindle over $1000 for carpet cleaning and a little repainting from me and my roommates. However, carpet cleaning is a move-in fee!

I (tried) living here but quickly found it to be 80% a total money scheme directed at pet owners and students / 20% an actual space to rent equitably. This place is largely geared towards a demographic of people who haven't rented before and simply do not know any better in terms of how the process gives and takes; it's an exchange between tenant and landlord. In the case with Stateside, the narrative handed down from day 1 is that "we are your dystopian overlords until your lease is up." I moved there because it was the only dog friendly, affordable option in Bellingham, sight unseen from NY because I wanted to start a new life there. Everything seemed nice and the staff seemed willing to help and communicate well throughout the whole process...so long as the concerns didn't in any way actually translate to addressing a real issue. That's because the people running the show here are under qualified, underpaid, and overworked, in conjunction with a business model that slightly resembles a pyramid scheme. Things seemed fine until a sprinkler system busted in the neighboring apartment, flooding the whole hallway at 3am and evacuating the building. According to a press release emailed to the residents, it was because a student had placed lights near the sprinkler head but upon asked my neighbor about it who lived in the same apartment, I was informed that there were actually no lights present on her ceiling and that she was receiving some form of compensation for keeping it on the hush. IE THEY CHEAPED OUT ON THE FIRE SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION AND THEN BLAMED A STUDENT SCAPEGOAT WHEN IT FAILED I come home from work the next day, no communication, no warning that my apartment was going to be entered, to 150 decibel air fans and dehumidifiers strewn throughout the place (6 total) and took them out. You can't sign the lease without them having the explicit right to relocate you at any time, and for me, after I took the fans out, they threatened me with just that if I didn't just be a good little boy and capitulate to terrible landlord practices that make the idea of having a piece of mind obsolete in this scenario. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT LANDLORDS, THEY ARE DYSTOPIAN ALGORITHMS TRYING TO VACUUM YOUR MONEY. I left 6 months ago because I couldn't get a response to replace my door handle that my dog had figured out how to open when I was at work, making the apartment no long feasible since my roommates were uninterested in allowing him to roam the common area or properly storing trash so he can't get to it. The apartment was no longer feasibly dog friendly at that point. A few days ago I got a bill from a collections agency for the rest of the sum of rent for AFTER they wouldn't address my dog's concerns! 7k This was after PLEADING with the manager to let me out of my lease because it was completely shady. I urge anybody considering this place as a living option to keep looking in your search and to try to find the least built up organization possible to rent from. Unscrupulous, predatory, business model.

Stateside overcharges college students. parking went from less than $100/mo for the first year of leases to $350/month for the upcoming year. I live in a 4 bedroom and the rent will increase to $1000/mo after I leave. Absolute trash. The furniture is cheap, the online rent pay has a $20 charge (which is why i use cashier's checks). The most frustrating of all is Stateside does raffles, giveaways, "workshops" and events for residents that NOBODY ASKED FOR. This is why they charge so much in rent, to give a handful of residents a smoothie or a plant every single month. I'm one of the many residents who would rather be charged less in rent and just live in my own space and not get bothered by stupid raffles every month. No, I don't give two shits about a "pool party" for dogs or a coffee bar where the machine craps out every week. Stop spending our rent money that way you unprofessional greedy idiots !

Loved the maintenance crew, but every day there's a new issue with how they're gonna try and get your money from you, with the overpriced rent, pet rent, the overpriced onsite and offsite parking, etc. The only thing cheap is the build quality.

Construction has been going on right below my unit for MONTHS. It is so loud we often have to leave our apartment. Other residents have complained and nothing has been done. Losing sleep almost daily now becasue the walls here are so thin it sounds like we are in a battle field as early as 7am. The managers have done nothing about this issue and said it would only last weeks. It's been months, DO NOT MOVE HERE.

Beware of off-site parking! My daughter (Junior at WWU) signed a lease in May, 2021 for the 2021-2022 school year. At that time, the apartment building was not yet completely built and there were very few specifics available from Stateside (didn't know who roommates would be, etc.). She added an off-site parking space to her lease not knowing anything about it - but assuming it would be a reasonable distance away within a couple of blocks and it would be easier than having to constantly find street parking. They did not provide complete information about the parking space (or cancellation policy) until move-in weekend in September. At that time she was told it was in an underground parking garage downtown (.6 miles away - and in the complete opposite direction of campus) and that she would have to move her car every 3 days. She does not feel safe in the parking garage when she's by herself - especially in the dark. She immediately asked to cancel the space - and Stateside would not let her unless she can find another apartment resident to take the space over. None of this information was spelled out in the lease at all, and once they had specific information they did not give her the option to opt out of that part of the contract. Very deceptive and very poor service especially for students who are likely signing a lease for the first time. Most other aspects of the apartment have gone well, but this is not unacceptible.

Nothing but good things to say about Stateside. Super close to WWU and downtown. Wonderful, accommodating staff + maintenance team. It has been a joy to live here- highly recommend.

Stateside apartments has been extremely frustrating. Not really sure where to start. First of all, they have been terrible as far as the process of renewing goes. They have repeatedly threatened that our room isn't going to be available for the next leasing cycle (which is 6 months away) if we don't renew ASAP. Many of us are unsure about whether to renew, and these threats over email about taking our room away from us a half a year from the next lease don't help. They have been extremely shady overall about this stuff, claiming that they told us that our rent would go up, and then in turn raising our rent for the next leasing cycle over $100 a month, even though they never told us specifically that this rate would increase, and never contacted our guarantor about it. I am expected to pay $200 more than my roommate, for a smaller room in the same apartment, just because stateside feels like raising our rate because I haven't renewed yet, when again, the next lease isn't for MONTHS, and we had been planning on renewing. Stateside has also been awful about maintenance. They have now postponed their maintenance scheduled dates 3 or 4 times, on late notice, so we've been waiting around for them to do their inspections for weeks now, with little communication on when it'll actually happen. Stateside has also sent other threatening emails about fining their tenants for silly things that are not included in the leasing agreement. They have said that noise, not wearing masks, skateboarding inside and other small things will warrant a $100 fine from them, which is ridiculous. Overall a very vague, shady group that doesn't care about their tenants needs or opinions. If you're going to rent at stateside, keep all of the above in mind, and expect it to happen to you.

would rate lower if i could. they had issues clearing my check (they kept saying my bank couldn't find my account). i went to my bank twice in one day because i wanted to get it in writing that personal checks printed there are always linked to an account. couldn't get anything in writing because that branch couldn't speak for the entirety of chase, but they helped me try to cancel checks already written. stateside wouldn't give me back my check that didn't go through and charged me $90 for it not going through and for it being "late". i put my check well before the 1st of the month and they didn't try clearing it until then and then didn't notify me that it didn't go through on the day it was considered late. the next day, they tried depositing my check again. they will not give it back and kept saying the person who deals with checks is out sick. i'm reporting them to the better business bureau and the irs.