I had a couple of issues from the moment I moved in that should have been red-flags. A few of the counters had expanded aroud the lip, blocking drawers. Some had chips from where the previous residents had forced the drawers open. When I notified management and asked them to fix it when / before I moved in, they promised to deal with it, but actually did nothing. After asking them a second time (once I was moved in) they replaced the one badly chipped counter with the exact same counter (it'll have the same problem in a few years), and moved the drawer rails down a touch to deal with the other ones. They even acknknowledged that this was a common problem. The bathroom counter had the same issue. Yet they're putting in the same counters as replacements.

There was also a small crack in the linoleum. On closer inspection it turned out that in a fairly small bathroom, they had used two pieces of linoleum, and it was peeling up at the seam. They pushed it down once, but of course a few weeks later it was peeling up again.

My biggest annoyance was when their electronic rent payment messed up. It didn't auto-deduct from my account, and somehow lost my auto-deduction setup. Management sent me a very rudely worded pay or vacate notice, rather than trying to find out why my rent, which had been paid on time every prior month, wasn't there. A simple phone call would've sufficed. All they need to do is to go online and check (which I had seen them doing it once). The reason they gave me was because of the new staff. I wrote a letter to the corporate as well but I got no response from them. Very frustrating!!!

Also, as other people mentioned, the elevators are slow. I usually take the stairs.

To their credit, there have been a few redeeming qualities... there was a kicthen fire in one of the units, and the building was very well designed to deal with it. The fire did minimal damage to just 2 units, and everyone was back in the building within an hour or so.

All in all, its not worth the money.

User Responses
From: lilcarpetcleaner	Date: 06/18/2007
I agree with everything in your review other than the time it took to get back into the apartment after the fire, it was 3.5 hours.
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/02/2009
I was one of the people affected by the fire. First of all, ---- Avalon Bellevue and their worthless management. I complained about that drunk idiot woman neighbor who caused the fire for months to no avail. This is a cheaply built stick frame POS building which has the veneer of luxury, but actually it's junk - you can hear everyone walking down the halls if you're not on the top floor. Secondly, was there any consideration for the many weeks where I was missing part of a wall (among other things) and had to deal with contractors in and out of my place constantly? Of course not - their final shot is to make sure to charge you a whole boatload of move out fees which your "deposit" won't cover - oh yeah, that money you pay upfront? It's not a deposit... read your leasing papers closely. Have fun getting bent over!

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