Covington Place Senior Apartments

I'm a resident of Covington Place Senior Apartments. I've been here for 12 years now. I have decided to stay here because the location is perfect for me despite the fact this place has the worst management you've ever seen. The management is like crazy, but they've got a new person in here and we hope she can straighten things out. The location is perfect. This is marvelous. I've had some problems. They don't like me. I think it's because I'm in a wheelchair. They told me I needed to be in an assisted living or something. I don't want to go to assisted living. I'm going to stay here. I do OK. Yes, I'm in a wheelchair, but I can deal with it. My room is small, but it's big enough for me. I have a kitchen, a living room, and a single bedroom, so it's a perfect size for me because it's just me. I interact with the staff as little as possible. What I like is the location. I'm four blocks from my doctor, I'm a couple of blocks from Fred Meyer, and on the way to the doctor's, there's Walmart, Costco is up on the hill, and I can get to all these places in my wheelchair. The location is what I like. There is no food. They don't have food. I have to do my own food, which is OK because Safeway is just across the street from Fred Meyer. I don't participate in the activities here, but they have bingo on Tuesday nights, and they have some things that I don't deal with. On the fifth floor, there is a patio. It's a nice patio. I like to go up there and have my dinner set up there and eat dinner outside. It's nice. Maintenance and upkeep are getting better. It was really bad for a while, but it's getting a lot better. I had a problem with the ceiling light in my entryway that was kept shorting out, and they just kept replacing the bulbs. They replaced the bulbs and two days later, they were short again. They got a new maintenance man who replaced it and said that the socket was casuing the problem, so he put in a new socket. I could no longer get rid of my garbage on the first floor, which is where I live, I have to take my garbage up to the second floor to get rid of my garbage, and that annoys me. As far as the upkeep of the common areas, they're fine. They vacuum the carpets and do that kind of stuff there. As far as my apartment goes, it's me taking care of what's here, so they don't have anything to do with my maintenance in my apartment. Value for money is about average.

Covington Place was really nice, but it was too far away. It was in a nice, quiet area. The staff was very helpful and energetic. The rooms were fine. They did have a group cooking night and group get-togethers.

I am very pleased with the apartment that I am in at Covington Place Senior Apartments. It has a good size. The people are very nice and friendly. The managers are very involved, and they know everybody. I feel safe here.

Covington place was for people 55 and older. The rooms were nice. The manager was pleasant, and she showed us around. It was somewhat newer, nice, and maintained well. The people that lived there were friendly. I was hoping to find something that had air-conditioning, and there were two floors on the front side that had air-conditioning. Those apartments were sought after, and it was a little bit harder to get one. That was my only drawback because the summer here was getting warmer. The other one was that it was not a place that provided meals. I asked them if they had anyone there over the weekend, and they do not keep anyone over the weekend. They didn't even say that the maintenance person was there on site over the weekend, which I thought was not the best arrangement for some of the seniors that I saw walking around in their walkers and wheel chairs. One of the advantages was that it was right on the main street in Covington, and it was very easy to get to the department stores. They were all there -- and some of them were right within walking distance -- and there were restaurants. It was right off the freeway that goes through there. So, it had its pluses.