I've lived at Scandia (now with a pretentious new name!) for over 5 years and loved it until the property was sold last Fall (nobody knows who actually bought it) but they brought in their own management crew and it's been HELL ever since! Anyone who has lived at Fountain Court apartments in Lynnwood are all too familiar with 'Linda the Liar'. I thought people were exagerating about her but, sadly, they were not. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!! Not unless you are ready to be treated as a 3rd class citizen and lied to repeatedly -really! She'll look you right in the eye and tell you one thing and then do something else and then deny her first answer! This has happened to me personally more than once. Oh, and be ready to have your rent increased often, without warning, once your initial lease is over. My rent was increased three times in less than a year (not counting the additional $30 a month for water that is no longer included), a $245 increase! (but she got a nice new office!) What was once a very peaceful and well managed place has become unbearable. The situation is so bad that there was a mob of residents picketing (with signs and everything) trying to get rid of her. Not happening tho. So unless you enjoy this sort of ongoing drama in your life, I suggest you rent Anywhere but AVIA! I am soooo out if here!

User Responses
From: mhneubauer	Date: 08/30/2009
Are you paying month-to-month? If you're on a long term lease (6 month or 12 month or anything like that) the lease agreement locks you into a specific rent rate. If the lease agreement says otherwise, you are the one who signed the lease and need to deal with the consequences... The reason why apartments offer month-to-month opportunities is so that they can increase the rates.
From: catmagic9	Date: 08/31/2009
uh..DUH! Did you even read what I said!? (that review is 3 years old) I completed my initial lease and went automatically month to month, with very little difference in the rent amount for nearly 5 years. They appreciated people who always paid the rent on time and took care of their space. It felt like home, not an apartment complex. Then the property was SOLD, the awesome onsite managers who had lived there for 12 years were replaced by Linda The Liar, whose job it was to squeeze as much money as posible out of the remaining residents that weren't forced out by a huge rent increase. The last year was hell because they remodeled the apartments and I had to put up with horrible conditions, all the time L.the L. sending out little notices about how wonderful it will be with all the new upgrades...Never intending to let us remain. Oh, and they did offer a new lease with a $245 a month increase or I could stay month to month for an additional $50 a month on top of the increase. That's just how those big management companies work. Greed. The irony is that now rents have Decreased and they are offering my old apartment for less than I was paying back then! HA Ha! kiss my ass!

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