The Dakota Apartments

This place is lovely and getting a lot better each year

Clean, quiet apartments. I actually enjoyed living there until it was time to leave and I found out they had totally screwed us over. I have emails saying I could do a 7 month lease but on moving day, after a 16 hour drive from California I apparently signed a 12 month lease without knowing. Now we are moving out end of July AS PLANNED and have to pay like $ 1300 to break the lease that should have ended now anyways plus all the extra cleaning fees and crap. The front office staff, who have been totally sweet and helpful our whole stay, is all of a sudden unable to do anything to fix their mistake. Partially my fault for signing a lease that was wrong, but you would think they would honor their word from the emails since it was their screw up. Anyways, great place to live but as all the other reviews state, extremely pricey to move out of.

Horrible place to live. NO parking at all. We were told to park at Safeway across the street. Dogs parking at all hours of the day. All of the of the amenities they use to draw you in are only open during office hours which is of no use if you work. When we moved out the apartment was immaculate I even cleaned the walls and the window tracks and was still charged $ 800 on top of my deposit for painting, cleaning, and having to replace the counters. When asked why they had to replace the counters I was told it was because of years of use (we lived there for one year). Do not rent here!

This is the first apartment me and my husband live and we’ve been here for 2 years on January and yes its a nice apartment. We liked it here during our first year but now it’s getting ghetto. We could hear neighbors yelling and fighting. Cars just blast their music and speeding around the complex. Plus our neighbors upstairs vacuum at night and at dawn. I prefer to put notes on their door rather than telling the office because for sure they won’t do anything about it. The staff are not doing anything. We called the management one time for help in our bathroom but no help came so I did it myself. You can hear people having sex during the summer cuz their windows are open. The floors are too thin you can hear footsteps and neighbor’s conversations. It was too late when I read the reviews about the management ripping people off when they move out so I’m praying and hoping it won’t happen to us when we move out. It’s basically the reason why we couldn’t move out because of those reviews and we don’t have that much money saved up to pay for stupid stuff they tell us in the future.

Great place if you like having your car towed or being told to park at the Safeway across the street. Also great if you are rarely home and keep a clean house, they love to charge you not returning your full deposit. Their other apartments in west Olympia are operated the same way. Not a good company.

DO NOT LIVE HERE. no parking after 5pm. If you do make sure you save up to move out because they charge you for everything even if the place looks the same as you got it. Like a painting fee of 200 $ cleaning fees of 300 $ that is if the place is very clean already blind cleaning fees. people get charge about 500 $ plus on top of deposit. i have alot of patients when it comes to places f***ing you over. I normally dont post things but the dakota apartments really take a new level of taking money.

I moved in approximately 2yrs ago. This place is very convient to shopping, movies, restaurants and parks. In the summers you can use the pool and jacuzzi and while the office is opened there’s pool room and all you can drink coffee, chocolate for the kid’s. They are very consistant with rewarding the residence with a complimentary continental breakfast on Saturdays to show their appreciation and I do admire that.
The employees have been very hospitable and it’s great that they greet residence on the side-​walks or a simple wave accross the p. lot while they are conducting their walk-​throughs or just showing future resident’s the property.
Parking here can be very hectic but is not too bad. You do have some Military (Single /​Family) personnel living here and it’s awesome but when friends come to hang out most of the time the unassigned parking spots are taken — but it always works out and I have not heard of any loud, or annoying neighbors.
The apartments are spacious and very comfortable. I love it here. The maintenance people are always very friendly and there was one evening I had to call the after hours telephone number and I felt bad but the on call maintenance guy did not hesitate to come over and fix the issue. So I thank him for taking that time away from his family to accommodate and make my stay as comfortable as can be.
I’m very impressed with the office staff — they are always on top of returning calls, smiling, greeting you and taking care of business to ensure my stay here is as memorable as can be. The office management are extremely knowledgable and I can never stop thanking them for making my transition and departure from the Dakota Apartments — Lacey a smooth one.
I definately give a 5 star experience in the 2 years here and I will definately recommend anyone who is interested in moving here to do so.
Dakota apartments had set high standards and I hope that when I find a new apartment that they’ll hold high standards too.

This is the first place that myself and husband lived and we were super excited! We only had two problems the whole time we lived there which was a little longer than the year. The first problem was the neighbors that lived downstairs to the right of us. Teenage to young adults constantly coming and going through all hours of the night and blaring their music and yelling. Super frustrating. We complained about it twice and i would say about a month later either they left or management did something about it. The second problem was parking! My husband had a bad injury in the army that makes it hard for him to walk and i was also pregnant upon moving in. It was so hard to walk far plus climb up 3 flights of stairs to get to our home. Plus add grocery shopping and then the new baby and it made it a nightmare! When someone moves out they should try to move you closer to where you aftually live. Plus there is no parking for visitors or a second car. Oh… Also something frustrating is the gate! It needs to have a code for people to get in who do not live there. Having someone visiting or even ordering pizza gets to be frustrating because you have to go let them in. We didnt have any problems upon moving out. We even got money back after all damages and fees were paid. Managemet is always friendly… I think we liked April the best. All in all it was a good experience, there are just some things for management to consider or fix. :)

I failed to mention. If you have children do not move here. The first month, neighbors door stairs had active drug dealing. People coming & going though out the night, meetings at cars then returned to the apartment. You pay deposits then after signing a lease. Never show you the location of your apartment. Also add $ 400 deposit 2 weeks after moving in. When there are drug dealers below you! The cameras on the property do not work. December 8^th my car in my assigned spot got backed into. My deductible is $ 500. When I was my assigned spot on the property. Thank God, Larry King a retired judge of Thurston county is a family friend. Legal activities, property damage & not safe

If I could give negative stars, I would. The office staff appears to not be able to do much. They constantly have no solutions or can’t answer simple questions. Tasks such as putting info into a computer appear to be daunting. They rip you off and blame things on you upon move out that you didn’t do. They claim things need to be replaced when they don’t. They will nickel and dime you until you’re broke but apologize that you’re unhappy. The apartment is nice but that doesn’t at all make it worth it. There’s no parking. Traffic is heard all hours of the day. People drive through the complex with music blaring. The cops were there a few times during our year there. I too will be on base and getting legal assistance. I am hopeful people do not rent from this disgraceful company. Maybe they’ll get the hint. (Probably not)

DO NOT MOVE HERE!!! I agree with the previous review. They will try and take you for your money. I don’t understand it as we are working people trying to make it like them and everyone else. We are not rich and to see the reviews that this is common is sad. I will fight this because its ridiculous to do this to people. When my husband did the walk threw with them they refused to give him a copy and next thing you know we have $ 1500 charges, they eventualy revised it bc we complained it came back with $ 900 minus our deposit with what I feel like is some made up charges. They charged $ 70 to replace one blind that had no damage. Who charges $ 70 for a blind? We never hung up pics n our walls were clean yet they said they had to paint the walls and it took 6 hrs which is BS, and the list goes on. I am letting JBLM know to assist with getting them back listed and working to get a lawyer. If the charges were truthful I wouldn’t be doing this. I refuse to be ripped off with my hard earned money.

Don’t be fooled by Balloons and Pretty signs. This complex is full of problems. Management is unstable, and their practices are unlawful. Don’t be tricked into thinking this is an upscale and reputable operation. They will steal, cheat, and take every opportunity to squeeze the residents and community for every dime the greedy bastards can get their hands on.