Vintage at Sequim

Sue

Vintage at Sequim was very clean, and it was very nice to walk down the halls there. It's very pleasant and quiet. The paint was nice. Everything's finished. The apartments are all redone pretty much when somebody moves out, so you get probably a new carpet and fresh paint if it's needed. They just go over everything and make sure everything works. The maintenance crew seems to be pretty good, from what I could tell, just walking through. They have some lovely rooms and a lovely dining area, which is for the family to use. If you want your loved ones to eat with you and you don't have room in your apartment, then that's a good way to go. I just was impressed with the building, and the apartments were very nice. I have requested that I get an apartment on the quiet side. It's just a two-sided building. There are apartments down a hallway on either side and one of the streets, Washington Street, is quite busy. Every apartment does have an outdoor space whether it be a patio or a balcony. You can get a washer and dryer and pay a little extra a month for it in your unit. If you don't care to do that, then there are laundry rooms on each floor. I like the fact that the kitchen's a full kitchen. It had a full-size stove and range, a built-in microwave, and a dishwasher. It's a very, very nice kitchen with a little more space than I have right now, which is ideal. There are more two-bedrooms than one- bedrooms. One-bedrooms are very, very hard to come by, so I am going to probably select a two-bedroom when I am able to move in if I end up there. It's very nice and Sequim is a nice town. There are a lot of retired folks there. If you're into duplicate bridge, there is a duplicate bridge game going on at least once a week there. You're kind of in-between Port Angeles and Port Townsend. Port Townsend is a lovely touristy town and Port Angeles is a good town because if you want to take the ferry across to Victoria, that's where you go to do that. It's a decent town, too. There's a lot less rain in Sequim than there is in Seattle, that's why it's popular with retired folks retiring there. It's lovely. The outdoors and the property itself are well-maintained, and there's a code to get in so people just can't walk in off the street. It just seems like a nice place to live. I haven't met any of the residents, but I like the manager quite well. She seems to do a very good job. It's a tough job with 118 units for one person to manage, but she does it. I've been there a couple of times and I've toured the apartments and some of the other amenities there. There's a pool room, a library, and a movie room, and it looked like they were comfortable seats. There are a lot of things that the residents themselves put together because this is an independent living and not a community where they offer activities or any of that stuff. I think that a lot of the residents get together for cards or mahjong or whatever. I've only interacted with the manager and I've seen the maintenance crew. The only problem with the layout is that there's a single elevator and there are three floors. Because it's 118 units, some of those units are a long way from the elevator and it is senior residents. It seems to me they should have probably added another elevator somewhere so that people don't have to walk far to get to the elevator.