Campus Apartments

Prehistoric! Avoid at all costs. From: boingo Date posted: 10/24/2004 Years at this apartment: 1998 - 2000   The 'Don Kennedy' real estate company owns several apartments in the University district of Seattle. I strongly suggest avoiding living in ANY of their units. The rents are VERY HIGH, and lack most amenities commonly found in apartments, such as safe stairways, fire exits, water pressure, and on and on. Good features such as existing ELEVATORS were ripped out and converted into non-functional laundry rooms or storage. Gas and Steam heat systems removed only partially, leaving ugly rusted heaters and radiators, and replaced with wall-board heaters that are extremely inefficient. I don't know what it is with landlords who have no concern for the quality of their property, but the Don Kennedy landlord is a textbook slumlord. Campus Apartments is blaringly loud all year around with constant sirens running up and down the street, ricers racing around the corner, and parades staged on the street in front of it for the University which closes down all traffic about fifteen times a year. It has NO PARKING WHATSOEVER, which is typical of all Don Kennedy apartment buildings with either zero or sparse parking spaces that are reserved for management and friends. The stairs, such as they are, are so narrow that you can't get a twin bed up them, and they graciously removed the elevator. Laundry facilities are laughable and broken. Internet and phone companies will NEVER be able to get you hooked up because nobody can find the connection box. That's because they 'finished' the basement to rent it out, and the power and phone boxes for the entire building are IN SOMEONE'S APARTMENT! Black Mold, the kind that can kill you, is everywhere on every surface. The windows actually OOZE ICHOR in the winter even though I cleaned them every month with bleach and dried them off ever week with a bleached towel. I'm talking SLIME, the kind exactly like that you'd see in Ghostbusters. It's putrid. There is NO ventilation whatsoever. The windows are painted shut, and if you do get them open the safety screens are gone. No fans, air conditioning, or circulation of any means is to be found in most Don Kennedy buildings. You will NOT get your mail. The boxes are all decrepit and the mail people hate to service them, plus the management can take up to three months to bother to add your name to the listing. RUN VERY FAR AWAY. This rat hole isn't worth the 950.00 a month that they want for a two bedroom, which is really nothing more than a ONE bedroom where the walk-in closet has been "converted" into another bedroom by adding a light and heater! Seattle isn't known for its nice landlords, in fact it rivals WATTS California in slumlord quality, and Don Kennedy is one of the biggest offenders. I've seen both, and I think I'd rather live in Watts. At least it had parking.

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