I stayed at The Stax last year as a freshman at UW. I paid over $80 a month just for utilities for a studio, on top of rent. You also get charged for “amenities,” which were basically the two rooftop chairs that were never clean. Laundry was another $10 per load. It has been two months since I moved out, and I still have not received my $1,000 security deposit back because of the “high volume” of move-outs. The area was constantly noisy with construction and fire trucks day and night. When I first moved in, my window got sunlight, but by the time I moved out, there was a wall three feet away blocking it. It is not worth the money. It might say $1,400 on the website, but you will end up paying over $1,600 a month once everything is added. If you are a freshman, please think twice before signing here.

If you have laundry needs, please know that laundry here is $3 a load. Drying is $3 for 60 minutes, and unless you have very few clothes, it's at least $10+ to wash and dry them (I paid $9 for clothes that were still dripping). The soundproofing is terrible, unless you live on the top floor you can hear people walking upstairs, but it gets hot in the summer. You can hear cars and fire trucks whizzing by at night, and even though the windows are closed, you can still occasionally hear the lunatic at the next intersection yelling all night. The doorknob on the front door has been broken for about a month now and still hasn't been fixed.

READ IF YOU’RE A STUDENT LOOKING FOR HOUSING‼️ I have never seen this type of unprofessionalism ever in any property management team. I was notified that my unit (which I still reside in until a month and a half later as my lease states) was going to receive a showing the next day from 3pm-4pm for a prospective renter. I was shocked because my belongings were all still here but I guess this is a legal thing to do, so I just went with it. I did not feel comfortable with them being alone in my unit, so I stayed in my unit until 4:05pm (which is past the time frame they gave me) to make sure I’m in the unit when they tour because I don’t want my belongings stolen or touched. No one showed up in the span of the time frame they gave me, so I left the apartment, but not before putting stuff next to the door to see if anyone will enter after I leave. When I came back 2 hours later, my stuff all moved, meaning someone came into my unit after the specified time frame of 3pm-4pm. It’s one thing to have people touring a tenants apartment while they still reside there with all their belongings, but it’s another thing to enter after your specified time slot. I obviously was not there to watch my unit being toured, and am extremely frustrated and uncomfortable with the idea of random people in my unit without my supervision and even angrier at them not following their time slot that they STATED ON PAPER. This is genuinely unbelievable and completely unprofessional on Tripalink’s end. Not to mention other property related issues happening here (elevator was broken for a while, door handle of the entrance broke off for a month and has not been fixed so residents have to pry the door open, coffee shop we share the building with using the same trash room as us & leaving coffee ground tracks all the way from the main door to the trash room, etc). I could say so much more, but feel as though it will never end if I do. If you are a college student (or just anyone in general who is looking for an apartment in the Seattle area), please do not stay at any Tripalink apartments for the sake of your sanity.

don’t trust other reviews, tripalink has events where they give people $5 gift cards for five star reviews!!! apartments are more expensive than competitors for a disgusting trash room that spills into the hall, an elevator that they shut down without announcement, and construction on the roof causing them to close it for months with no prior notice and no communication when the construction was actually finished! getting in touch with anyone from the office is impossible, they don’t even give you an email to reach out to since they’re so shady that they don’t want tenants to have written document of their predatory policies that don’t honor leases and break the law. apartments sit at 80+ degrees and you’re paying almost $6 per square foot for 0 amenities. no wired connections, AC ports don’t work, and it costs $6 __per__ small load of laundry (and they increase the prices yearly!). you can pay $30 a month for their only internet service and have it cut out once an hour. maintenance has slow turn around and doesn’t solve problems when they actually do come out. management doesn’t want people to tour apartments because they don’t want people to know how small and poorly maintained they are before signing leases. avoid by any means necessary!! finding apartments in seattle is tough but you should never settle for the stax, in __any__ cirucmstance

Tripalink is the main service to blame here, so I will continue from my previous review about this place. Maintenance is shotty at best, elevators are always broken, the front door had issues with unlocking for a bit, garbage room still has issues with exiting from the inside. Direct deposit disposition fees are shady, for example, it cost 2hrs of cleaning for a nearly clean and intact unit?? Unbelievable, will attach pictures below. They are extremely predatory with pricing, so better take thorough pictures of the unit before moving out, better yet, avoid renting with any Tripalink properties. They will never respond to you. Living here is also a nightmare, with the temperature being unreasonably hot throughout the units, except for the hallway for some reason. I have to keep my windows open in exchange for cooler temperatures. As a tradeoff, I have to deal with hearing tweakers, assaults, construction, and the firehouse down the street interrupting my sleep every 30 minutes.