------ mentioned during her sales pitch that she studied acting in college so beware her entire pitch is just that -- acting. Bragged a little bit that she lived there herself and that the apartments were really cheap to heat which I found completely untrue. Both thermostats in my apartment were broken. They were completely insensitive to temperature and could only be turned on or off. This cost me a fortune. I filed several requests for maintenance and nothing ever happened. I learned way late in the relationship not to trust the people up front at all. If you need maintenance ask to speak directly to the guy in charge of maintenance. Things will get done a lot quicker. No I take that back -- things will get done. They won't get done if you talk to anybody else.

The place was very quiet at first. A few months into my lease I learned the guy above me was out of town most of the time due to his job. As soon as the next person moved in the sound was terrible. I frequently heard music, what sounded like a dog stomping around, and a washing machine which was frequently operated during the designated quiet hours.

I had a reserved spot but parking was bad. From time to time people would take my spot or park directly across from it in front of the dumpster which made it next to impossible for me to get in or out of the spot. It always seemed to happen after the office was closed. I was afraid to have them towed for fear my car would be keyed next week.

After my first year's lease I went to a 3-month lease so I could buy a condo but the deal went sour and I wanted to renew for a 7-month term after the 3-month term and try again later to buy a condo. Forget that I always paid my rent on time. Microsoft moved a bunch of jobs to Issaquah and the complex was running full so I ended up paying dearly when it came to renew for that 7-months.

In the last couple of months I lived there I went out of town the weekend before Thanksgiving. I returned to find my back door pried open and $3500 of equipment missing including my 42" plasma tv, ps3, and xbox 360. No neighbors had seen anything or thought it was odd that my back door was wide open in the middle of the night in November. The police detective hypothesized that one of my neighbors did it since there hadn't been a rash of burgularies in Issaquah for a while.

Better news may be on the horizon though when I went to the office to get my back door fixed I learned that the management rolled over and the new people seemed much more interested in actually working rather than talking about working.

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