Stateside

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.

Living at Stateside has been a great experience for me, so much so that I have decided to renew my lease for next year! In particular I have had great experiences with Mallory in the office and she is always very helpful whenever I have questions that I need answered. Overall I have had a great experience with Stateside as a whole, and would definitely recommend this complex to any student looking to get out of the dorms that’s seeking a more adult lifestyle.

As a student I have loved living here! Amazing location with the trail to the water, and 5 min walk downtown. Friendly staff, new apartment!

Good building upkeep and maintenance is done well. Nice convenient location. Having lived here two years now, only downsides are higher price, and no table in living room or "dining room table" for having people over (except the island counter in the kitchen), at least in the 4-bed layout. This is because the kitchen is very large and nice so it takes up more space, so it is a tradeoff.

2-3 stars - Good location, but expensive. Upside is it’s fully furnished, so don’t have to buy big furniture. Do have to buy kitchen and bathroom stuff though. Washers and dryers always broken. Even after getting “fixed” they break again constantly, sometimes even mid wash/dry. It happened to my friend and I in the same day. Parking garage is expensive and street parking is limited. Bus is a 10-15 min walk, or Western campus is a 15-30 min walk uphill depending on how you are with hiking. Internet is dodgy, suggest ethernet or getting your own if that’s important to you. False fire alarms frequent-ish, but that comes with living in a building with others i guess.

Wanted to leave a review about my first year living here, I have always liked the building and location, love the amenities it provides. But I especially like how kind the staff is and makes it feel like a community every time I visit the events and am around the building. The past few times Ive gone into the leasing office, Mallory has been super reliable and consistently helps me with questions I have and any inquiries so wanted to shout her out!! :)

I don’t currently live at Stateside but have signed a lease to live there next year. Everything thing I’ve heard about Stateside has been amazing! The apartments are super nice and the kitchens are a good size which I love. Mallory gave me a tour and was super informative about the amenities at Stateside! My experience with the leasing office was very positive, there was easy communication at each step of the leasing process. Overall the only downsides in my opinion is that there isn’t a bus that stops at Stateside and goes by Western, unless you go to Downtown first. Also the parking in the parking garage is quite pricy, but it is protected by a fob garage door which is nice. Im excited to live at Stateside next year!

Best apartments in downtown! The amenities are unmatched and the staff truly cares. Would recommend to anyone looking for a great place to live in Bellingham!

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.