First of all, I'd like to emphasize the fact that the customer service to the tenants residing in this complex has been second to none, compared to all of the other apartment complexes I've lived in in nearly 6 years of renting. The office and maintenance staff are truly dedicated to your needs and respond promptly and effectively if something is out of order, and I've never seen such dedication elsewhere.

With that said, the actual apartments in this development (specifically, the "Phase One" units) are of such poor quality that they'd barely be passable as inner-city projects in the ghetto of Liberty City/Allapattah/Edison, Miami, from whence I came. Specifically, the lower- and mid-level units have sagging ceilings and floors that appear to be caused by a foundation weakened by years of meteorological and seismic damage. Aside from the obvious flaws, what really creates a reason for one to be worried is that the baseboard, drywall, sliding door tracks, appliances and other fixtures seem to be engineered AROUND an obviously compromised structure; whoever turned the unit over in past years did not even bother to address these problems at all.

Lastly, and most importantly, is that you WILL hear a variety of noises at a variety of hours.

The design of the buildings is such that you'll hear something similar to wooden beams cracking loudly, like pencils snapping, as the neighbor above you shifts his weight from one foot to another. You'll also, quite obviously, hear a cacophony when your neighbor (who most certainly weighs more than 100 pounds) walks across the room with a normal gait, pees standing up, answers the phone using a polite indoor voice, plays a video game or (god forbid) has sex with his significant other. You will most definitely hear these normal day-to-day noises amplified and spread out throughout your unit across an uninsulated 3/4" subfloor, and you will hope that he conducts these activities at hours other than those of your slumber.

If you absolutely need to rent in the Tukwila area, I highly suggest you do the legwork to find those seldomly advertised one-of-a-kind units in other parts (read: the EAST side) of the North Hill neighborhood.

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