My son has lived at Lark for 2 years. It is conveniently located next to grocery stores and near the Western Washington campus. There is a shuttle available, but it was unexpectedly operating on a limited schedule for half the year. If you want to talk to someone from the office, prepare to deal with "Liam," their virtual assistant, for an obnoxious amount of time before getting to talk to an actual person. This includes e-mail communications. Safe location. Nice residents. Emergency maintenance issue was quickly handled. Like others have mentioned, you are pressured to renew your lease shortly after moving in to avoid rent increases. DO NOT DO THIS. You have time. read more

It's incredible how incompetent management is here. if you order a package here there is a solid 50% chance you will not actually receive it. The WiFi is terrible and parking is a nightmare as well. The shuttle,amenities and location is nice but even considering that I would never want to live here again. read more

Do not move to The Lark Bellingham. This place constantly has broken, damaged, or out-of-service equipment and amenities. Garbage piled up repeatedly over the past year, and it took far too long for management to resolve it. The shuttle breaks down frequently, and residents aren't notified until it's too late--causing you to miss class or pay for parking out of pocket. Rent and utility costs have consistently increased, all for a subpar living experience. When you finally move out, you're likely to be hit with vague and confusing "damage charges" that cannot be disputed unless you want to pursue legal action. I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone. The management is negligent and unresponsive. While most of the staff are kind and do their best, there's only so much they can do under such poor leadership. read more

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The apartment was leaking water through the ceiling, and maintenance did nothing about it. Outdoor lights were always broken/flashing, and management was completely unhelpful at every step read more

Living here for my undergrad @ WWU, not sure about the bad reviews. Apartments are clean, parking could use an upgrade but thats a hard question to answer with limited space. Garbage has been an issue but not horrible, just make sure you tie your bags off and do your part. Fully gated, one gate is usually broken but the crime levels around are next to none and great location to everything. read more

PARENTS! if you're looking for an option for student housing for your kid, LOOK ELSEWHERE!!! yes this complex has good amenities, but this complex is ran by horrible people. the leasing office staff is incredibly friendly but their corporate management are complete grifters. I moved into my apartment in September 2024, by October 2024 they sent all residents an email to renew their lease for the next year before rates go up- so know that they WILL raise your rates if you move in. I had no plans to move out, so I signed my lease renewal to avoid the raised rent, fast forward to August 2025 and I had to abruptly move out due to a medical emergency within my family. I expressed my situation to the leasing office and how I could not live at the complex and had to quit my job due to my father being in the hospital. they responded with "your contract is a legally binding document" and told me I couldn't cancel my lease. I have tried to get a sublet for my apartment but have had zero luck. then in September 2025 my father passes away. he was my co-signer, I tell the lark staff and send them a death certificate, they then go and review my personal situation and move forward with lease termination process finally. and now most recently they told me in order to cancel my lease I must pay just shy of $2000 for my lease termination to help "mitigate their loss of $8k". so if you love your kid, and are their support through college, just know even if you die this place will still charge your kid thousands of dollars to remotely escape their financial burden. this company makes way too much money to be doing this to their renters. i was pressured into extending my lease and am now having to pay $2000 even though I wouldn't remotely be eligible to rent in the first place without a cosigner. my biggest regret is signing a contract with this horrible company. read more

!!DO NOT LIVE HERE!! I was a resident here for two years, I just moved out last week. Nobody has been responding, and been attentive to my emails via the move out charges and just in general over the last couple years. Kyle and Rebecca, are terrible managers who do not care about their residents. There is a false front happening with the outside appearance, but once you move in you start to see the disappointing performance from the leasing office. When packages were being stolen, Kyle, did absolutely nothing. He was sending copy/paste emails to every resident who complained about it to him. Mind you- the office was broken into 3-4 times. And did they do anything? Nope. Oh I'm sorry, they have a "security guard" who btw I've seen just sitting in their car/truck every night I came home from work, etc. I am so grateful I have a different address to send mail to, but unfortunately other residents don't have that advantage. Communication is very rare to have between the front office and residents. Like others have mentioned, they do NOT CARE. The switch of electricity companies, was very inconvenient, and I am still waiting for a refund check, as we were charged double when the switch was happening. This is absolutely unacceptable. If you are a parent or student looking to live here, I suggest looking somewhere ELSE! Parking is terrible, they don't care about the residents, they allow people to steal packages, homeless people sneak in and dig through the trash, they allow the garbages to overflow everyday, I could go on and on forever. Do better Lark and Scion Group. You see all these reviews? Do something about it read more

Be extremely cautious when trying to rent a unit from them! I'm currently locked into a contract with them even though they refuse to allow me to rent due to a past missed payment on an old electric bill from years ago, which has already been paid for. I told them, after months of trying to move past that issue and trying to find alternative routes to rent the room (their only other options were to get another person to guarantor me or guarantor with a sketchy 3rd party, neither of which were an option for me), that I was no longer interested in renting with them if they were going to make things so needlessly complicated. Their response was that I needed to find a new person to take over my lease (I have NEVER in my life ever heard of this practice when renting from an apartment before.) From what I've been told by my partner, who I was going to room with, was that spot has already been taken over by a new person, and they were able to do it relatively quick too. If you guys can fill a room yourselves no problem, then why do you make the potential renters take on the responsibility once they sign a lease and can't move in? It doesn't make any sense. Now, I'm getting past due rent reminders every so often, stating that I owe thousands of dollars worth of rent for an apartment that I was never even able to get in the first place. It's complete madness. This was even after I got a hold of management and tried to sort out the rent due issues. It's been nothing but phone tag, being forgotten about, and being ignored by them countless times. Besides that headache, every time I've gone to visit my partner at this place last summer, there seems to be problems. He can almost never find a decent parking spot during certain hours and has to resort to parking at Fred Meyer (which they eventually wrote a letter to their tenants saying that they were no longer allowed to park there, leaving many to park outside the gates sometimes), there are sometimes MOUNTAINS of trash piled up outside the waste bins, other tenants are loud and party during the odd hours of the night and there's animal waste everywhere. If they treat potential renters this unfairly, I can only imagine what people who have lived here long term must experience. Maybe just look elsewhere. read more

I lived here for my entire undergraduate degree, from 2019 to 2024. I would not recommend these apartments to anyone, and I don't really know where to start. The pros, while there aren't many, mainly have to do with the location. It is right next to Fred Meyer, Whole Foods, I-5, and very close to WWU. At least when I lived there, utilities (except electricity) were included in the rent, which was convenient. Most of the front office staff were kind and respectful. Maintenance was usually prompt and responsive, which was appreciated. The gym is also reasonably clean and nice to have. The cons: 1. Parking is atrocious. The only way to get a guaranteed spot is to buy a reserved pass which is paid for monthly. However, as I worked nights, I would oftentimes come home at 2AM to find another resident or a guest parked in my spot, leaving me with no other option other than to ask for that car to be towed away or to park illegally in a fire lane or a handicap spot. I did successfully report this to the BBB and I was compensated for several months of paying for a reserved pass, which the Lark had refused to do beforehand. The Lark sort of addressed this by assigning each resident a space, which they should've done since the beginning--though they still do not enforce the rules and peoples' spots are still taken by unauthorized vehicles. 2. Not only is there not enough parking for all the residents, but there is not enough garbage capacity either. It was oftentimes overflowing, with mountains of garbage bags carelessly tossed in the general vicinity of the full (and oftentimes broken-down) compactor, with an unlucky staff member having to clean it up by hand. The recycling situation is a joke, mostly due to the ignorance of the other residents. For a long time, we had no recycling as the city took it away because people kept throwing trash in the recycling. I understand that this isn't directly Lark's fault, but it shows that they do not enforce the rules posted on the signage in the recycling area. 3. The apartment itself is made of brittle, cheap materials. The vinyl flooring scratches easily, and the walls are paper thin. I could effortlessly hear my roommate having conversations, watching TV, listening to music, etc., in the living room through the wall with the door closed, and that was quite bothersome. Echoes from the stairwell and those above you (like loud footsteps) also tended to bleed through the floor, which is awful for light sleepers. The insulation is poor, and the cold really penetrates the apartment. The apartment can get very hot in the summer too, so I would highly recommend an internal, standalone air conditioner. Additionally, I found that the water tank and refrigerator/freezer are on the smaller side. I can't imagine how it must be for the 3 unit apartments as the appliances are simply not large enough. 4. When I moved in, my unit was reasonably clean. However, the common space (living room, kitchen, laundry, etc.) was an absolute disaster, as the other unit in my apartment was occupied by someone quite unsanitary. During COVID, that person returned to their home country, and I was left to clean the common area by myself. I mopped the floor and afterwards the water was a murky brown color. When his lease eventually ended, they did come to empty out his room, however, they didn't touch the kitchen, which had a good amount of stains, or the common area. If your roommate happens to be very dirty and disorganized, the onus is on you to fix that; the Lark will not attempt to remedy the situation at all. 5. Finally, regarding security, vagrants do roam through the premises quite often. The gates are stuck open a lot, and there's a gaping hole in the fence facing Fred Meyer. The "security" does their rounds and absentmindedly sits in their car for the rest of their shift on their phone. Car and apartment prowls have happened on-site and there's no video surveillance that covers the majority of the parking lots and stairways, etc. The few cameras that do exist are in the main office building. There was a shooting in my time living there, and the Lark's response was lackluster at best. Their excuse was that the person who pulled the trigger was not a resident of the Lark, but that's just deflecting from the reality that they do not enforce the rules on large, boisterous parties that oftentimes violate stated quiet hours. The mail room was also broken into multiple times, and the Lark's response was equally disappointing. Rather than upgrading security, changing locks, installing cameras, etc., they decided to do nothing other than send out a copy/paste email template. I thankfully didn't lose anything, but to my knowledge they did not compensate anyone for lost property. I only elected to stay as long as I did because I was the only occupant in my unit for the majority of the time I was there. The last two years were the worst, which is when my last roommate moved in. Don't live here! read more

I lived here for multiple years in undergrad. Parking was always ABYSMAL, multiple times the "secure" package room was broken into (a friend of mine lost multiple hundreds of dollars worth of contents and was not reimbursed), and having a kind staff member interaction is a rare occurrence. There are so few reason to live in these hospital room looking apartments that were NOT clean when you move in that I struggle to identify a positive reason to live here unless the ONLY alternative is the sidewalk outside (then I would have to think on it) Renting from this place is setting yourself up for failure, I can honestly say that paying a hundred more dollars for ANYWHERE else is more than worth it to save yourself from such a horrendous and predatory tenet experience. read more

Lark Bellingham is one of the worst possible places you could choose to live. It is a gilded, faux posh crap show that would be just as happy to cover you in a thin coating of cheap paint to hide the issues. Let's get the big one out of the way, parking. You have def heard it before but I'm gonna lay it for you again because it's just that bad. If you don't have a reserved spot, (which are $60 a month mind you for a total of $720 a term, nearly an entire month of rent somewhere else), you are completely screwed. They don't have anywhere near enough spots and don't limit how many people they give the basic pass so you will be constantly fighting for parking and if you try and get help from them they will basic tell you to f-off, yeah this is what I'm paying over $1k a month for. You will get a little burst if anxiety every single time you come back and thats no way to live. You should be able to feel most secure with your car at your apartment not the least. However that's not all, the place itself also is awful. Everything's cheap and will break, the appliances, the blinds, the lights. You will need to make several maintenance requests a year just to ensure when you move out you don't lose your security deposit because of lark cheap corner cut. Which is once again surprising considering just how expensive it is. The community is also awful, from late night and very loud parties on weekdays, to the constant aroma of drugs that persists everywhere you know it's not a nice establishment. On occasion residents will actually pretend to be staff to try and bully you out of a parking spot. The staff aren't any better they range from generally unhelpful to outright antagonistic, especially when you are just trying to find a fricking parking spot. The mailroom is broken into constantly and people aren't reimbursed for stolen mail. The shuttle they are oh so proud of is constantly taking unscheduled breaks or just outright breaking down. And there will likely be a bot that shows up under this review to get me to send an email that no one will ever read. End all be all, I made a massive mistake that I am still needing to deal by moving in to lark, please be better than me and find literally anywhere else to live. You will likely have a better experience! read more

DO NOT RENT from this company!! Do not sign a contract because even if you do not qualify to rent from them, they will charge you for an entire year of rent even though you NEVER move in. They offer a sketchy 3rd party guarantor that is how they get you. I turned them in to consumer fraud through the state and working with the BBB. Please beware. I don't want other families to go through what our daughter has gone through. read more

Edit: I - like my husband - do not answer to my legal name and thus do not have my legal name listed through my account. I have emailed Scion to clear this up. Haven't heard back from them at all. My roommate has also been trying to pay for damages and get some disputes resolved for a month now and has yet to have them resolved, which has prevented us from finding a new place to live. I lived here for two years. During that time, the office staff was transphobic, incompetent, and rude. They often misgendered my husband and called him by the wrong name, even after multiple attempts to correct them. One of the staff there, Selena, was particularly malicious and seemed to make it her personal mission to make our living experience there terrible. Throughout our every experience with her, she never once showed my husband any ounce of respect in his gender identity. Keep in mind, he goes by his middle name. It is LEGALLY his name. There is no excuse for their dismissiveness on our request that he be called by the correct name. Once, he ordered something online and though he knew it was there, office staff insisted it wasn't. He had ordered same sized products from the same company before. They were always only delivered to the office. The staff, moments later, SHOVED into our open mailbox for us to collect. The printer in the computer room was known for not working very often. The computers sometimes didn't work either. We were once accused of not picking up after our dog, the official story being that someone tried calling after my husband to get him to clean up, but that my husband ignored them. Not only did nobody ever talk to him about his dog, but it wasn't even our dog. He was our roommate's dog, so they should have contacted her. Not him. The outdoor amenities weren't what we expected. The hammocks were sometimes broken or missing. We found a few times that the grills were left on at night leaking propane. At one point, the fire pits wouldn't even turn on and I have no idea if that ever got fixed. Dog trash cans were frequently overflowing and empty of any bags, sometimes left that way for weeks. The dumpsters tended to overflow too, piles of trash and recycling so high you couldn't even get through. The quarterly inspections were often unorganized and sometimes rescheduled to the day after they were supposed to have been done, which was incredibly inconvenient for us. During one of the inspections, they had trouble opening my bedroom door. I told them of they just lift the handle up instead of pushing it down, it opens just fine. A few days later, unbeknownst to us, maintenance came by because they were scheduled to fix it. After the inconvenience of the late inspection, the unwanted and spontaneous presence of maintenance was especially frustrating. Another inspection happened on Halloween. I had to cancel my plans. My pets don't deal well with strangers coming into our home and I didn't like the idea of them entering unsupervised. So, with my plans canceled, we waited around for hours. I kept calling throughout the day, getting a different estimated time of when they would be getting to my building. No one seemed to be certain or even know what building they were currently working on. By the end of the day, NO ONE EVEN SHOWED UP. I called the manager and left an angry voicemail. The next day, I get a call back with the manager saying that they simply ran out of time, something I already knew because that was blatantly obvious. The worst part of it was that I didn't get an apology. The call was just a condescending excuse for them not doing their job correctly and having little consideration for their tenants. When we worked late, there was often no parking at all. We frequently had to park at the Fred Meyer parking lot. They advertise "free parking" but don't have enough parking spaces for everyone, so that's completely misleading. Even people who pay for RESERVED parking can't find spots at the end of the night! There was a hole in the fence that led out to the Fred Meyer parking lot. It was continuously broken open again whenever it was repaired. The smart thing to do would be to put a gate there. (But it's Lark. They aren't exactly smart.) It's the least they can do for the people who aren't able to actually PARK in the Lark parking lot and have to walk around the fence in the middle of the night just to get home. But whatever. Keep wasting money replacing it, I guess. They call themselves "luxury apartments," but don't bother to even put backsplash in the kitchen or proper insulation in their walls. You can hear everything your neighbor does and the entire apartment is freezing during the winter. This is by far the worst, most poorly managed place I've ever lived. Do not live here. Believe me, you'll regret it. read more

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Where do I even begin--Lark seems nice at first glance, just like how any place that calls themselves "luxurious" should look like. They draw you in with fancy amenities, spacious rooms, their location being close to the WWU campus, etc. That's all a façade for how horrible this company is at managing a so-called student living complex. Let me start off that when I moved in, I put in a roommate application saying I would prefer to live with someone who is female and generally keeps themselves and their living environment clean. What did Lark match me with? The exact opposite. They assigned me a male roommate, when I explicitly said that I only wanted to live with females and living with a male would make me uncomfortable. My male roommate was also extremely unhygienic and incompetent, since he didn't seem to know how to pick up a broom and sweep the floor. When I first moved in, he was already living there for a year prior. The place stunk with a foul stench, the kitchen was horrendously dirty, and the floors were unable to walk on barefoot due to how much grime was covering the floor. When I arrived at my bedroom space, the toilet was covered in dried up urine, the carpets weren't vacuumed and I didn't even have a screen installed to my window. I thought to myself, this is what I'm paying close to $900 for each month? In this kind of living condition? And Lark didn't even do anything about it. Also they invade your space every week or so, emailing you that they'll be doing some sort of "maintenance" that involves trespassing into your apartment. Also, if no one is home, they'll just barge in anyways. Isn't that illegal or something for landlords to enter into your place without your permission? Whatever. Good luck trying to break your lease if you don't want to pay upwards of $2,500 to mitigate the loss on their end. For a place that calls themselves student living, they're not very accommodating to their own residents, whom they know are college aged and have issues pertaining to life circumstances, ESPECIALLY during COVID-19 where students would rather live with their families instead of their disgusting roommates. My roommate left me with a giant mess to clean up on my own. The absolute worst experience with a roommate I've ever had--and that's on Lark for assigning him to me. I didn't have an issue with parking spaces as I always had a spot close to my building, but that's probably due to not enough people living inside the units. I've walked past several ground floor units where the bedrooms are not occupied, which tells me they're struggling to find gullible students to fill in the spots. Lark is so desperate for new residents that they've contacted people on instagram via direct messages that have "WWU" in their bio and ask if they're interested in signing a lease with them. They've also emailed residents and offered free items, food and accommodations to those who leave good reviews on google. How disingenuous and pathetic. Don't forget the absolute ridiculous astounding charges they slap you with after you move out--either pay those soon or they'll send you to collections! I left my apartment cleaner than when I moved in and they still charged me over a whopping $250 for a "deep clean of the kitchen & living room" even though I cleaned that place spotless before I moved out. They also charged me well over $150 to "repaint" all the holes from tacks in the walls even though I had hung up one poster and the rest of it was already there from the previous tenant. All Lark does is charge their residents for maintenance, cleaning, and repairs and then don't actually repair or clean the place at all. They just pocket the money. The only good thing about Lark is the student-led staff in their main office--they're somewhat kind and accommodating to your questions and concerns, but the other managers are a nightmare. DO NOT live here--even if it's your last choice. Just like everyone else who left a nasty review, this place deserves ZERO stars. Avoid this place like the plague, or reap the consequences. read more

As a resident, I only am staying cause I have a lease and can't break it. They don't care if you're with a bad roommate or that they have a homeless dude living on the couch every night cause they just claim them as a guest. They will charge you for everything and anything they can. I would never in my right mind advise anyone to live here read more

I wrote a review on here a year ago and took it down because I wanted to give them a chance to turn things around for my second year of leasing since there was a major staff change. I'm not surprised at all that very little has changed. Let me just start by saying Lark Bellingham totally takes advantage of college students. The marketing is aggressive, they prey on you through social media (AND I was even told that they use social media to match roommates together - which is completely unethical). The system of renting through individual leases is just one of the many loopholes this place uses to abuse tenant's rights and unfortunately, many college students are just trying to get their first place on their own so we fall victim to it. My first year here parking was a nightmare. I would get home late from work and have to park at Fred Meyer when it was very dark outside and walk over because there wasn't a single spot available. This is how they get you to pay the extra $40 a month for a Reserved spot. I witnessed so many college students get towed for parking at their own apartment complex. This year, I gave in on paying for a spot only to have nothing enforced and lots of parking available since there were so many vacancies during the pandemic. I could have saved thousands of dollars on this pass. The "security" does not exist. Wait... let me correct myself. They do exist, but they sleep on the job and can't actually respond to calls about safety. Yes, I witnessed a security guard sleeping in their car last year after cars were broken into. There was a good month and a half where my packages would continually "go missing" since they are delivered to the office and not straight to our door. The old manager here tried to convince me I was lying and then 2 weeks later my package magically reappeared. When it came to having roommates on this individual-lease system, I got completely screwed over. My old roommate worked for the complex and told me many times that she would be the one picking my roommates for this year, told us that she memorized our phone numbers, and would speak poorly of other staff members and residents while in our unit. I ended up being alone this year after I raised concerns about my safety given that my privacy was violated, but now only 4 weeks from me finally moving out of this place, I received 6 days notice that I would be getting a roommate and only 17 hours notice that someone would be entering my apartment the following day. The staff was nice enough to follow the law and wait until 24 hours+ to enter after I raised my concerns, but did nothing about giving me very little time to make arrangements for the person moving in with me. The new staff members are very kind and try their best to be helpful, but it seems like they don't really have the right training to provide guidance to residents. I feel bad for them because it really isn't their fault, but it's also difficult to be paying $800+ to live here and not have great resources when it comes to the leases and issues with the space. Also, be aware if you move here that the power seems to go out more than anywhere else I've ever lived. So stock up with flashlights and portable chargers. Oh, and they bribed residents with pizza if they left a good review for them on Google. I will also add that all the responses from Scion seem to just be trying to delegitimize the negative experiences shared by other residents. read more

I just moved out a few days ago and I would NEVER live here again.These are stories that my Boyfriend and I experienced as well as other residents living there- First there are 2 main charges- Rent that is due on the 1st. If you are late its 35$ and then 5$ everyday you are late (isn't this geared to help college students...) second is now electric which is not even posted at the same time. They will bill you later and if you don't check it till rent is due then you have a late fee. They are now installing that each person to pay for water and sewage- Lark was the only place that didn't do this. So that is three different charges. ESA animals are free which is kind but my boyfriend registered his cat as an ESA with letters sent over and they were still charging him and made him reapply. Parking sucks which says every review so you have to pay for a reserved parking which is almost 50$ a month. You HAVE to pay online they have always told students you can't pay at the office. So there is a processing FEE on top of that. Perks of a computer lab BUT unless they have it closed all year for remodeling.They do lawn work everyday which is way we now have a waterbill. WHy do we need lawn care especially when everyone is moving out. OH WAIT THEY HAVE TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD FOR THE PARENTS. Even when it's raining the sprinkler is one. WHat a waste. They don't care about their residents just if their complex fills up. The managers never stop to get to know their residents. My room mate was having issues 2 years ago with payment and tried emailing Rebecca since she's assistant manager - NO RESPONSE WAS EVER GIVEN, and I've heard students complain about how there is no respect. They say to email live@lark but yet that goes straight to the front office- yes the managers can read it but do they ever reach out- NO. The only thing good about this place is the Bus drivers( which have also changed throughout the years. and Maintenace guys(Nico is so friendly) They are so amazing and get to know each resident..they run the complex. The front desk people really don't know what's going on. They never have a clear answer and honestly can be quite rude. As a past resident and still having friends that live here- you can find better and for cheaper as well. AS a parent- READ THE REVIEWS Just my thoughts- you can decide for yourself Cynthia B. read more

My roommate and I will be going on our second year living here and the only reason we renewed our lease is because we were told if we did (very early and months in advance) that our rate would stay the same as we had a discounted rate for applying when we did. Our rent was increased by 30$ with no notice or explanation. When you move in lark says a cleaning company comes into the unit and cleans it, this is either the worst cleaning company ever or a bald faced lie. there was dust everywhere, the bathroom was disgusting and the floors. THE FLOORS. I had to get on my hands and knees and scrub them for hours. After going over them maybe 3 times the water kept coming back disgusting. Due to the color of them you can't see the dirt but trust me it's there. My bathroom door is missing a latch strike plate (I think thats what it is) also the rubber that separates my carpet from the living room constantly comes off and isn't attached. The apartment two floors below me consistently has EXTREMELY loud parties at 2-6 am and when I've emailed and submitted noise complaints I have gotten absolutely ZERO response. Anytime I try to contact them they are extremely unresponsive and don't actually help with anything. Someone literally got shot amongst other things/ injuries that happened at a raging party and they literally did nothing. Some of our friends literally had people begging to come through their window because they were running from the party. They sent out a crappy letter that addressed nothing and then they got the cops called on them AGAIN at another party and all lark did was take away our gate code which just caused a million more problems and inconveniences than it solved. I think they did end up moving out but they should have been evicted immediately after the first incident. The parking is an absolute nightmare. You pay 45$ a month for a "reserved pass" to park in the reserved spots and so you're "guaranteed a spot" and yet when people with the resident passes park there they do NOTHING. AND if you get home after like 8pm good luck finding a spot anywhere near your building if at all. If I had known parking was just a free for all I wouldn't have paid the 45$ and just parked wherever I wanted because apparently that's ok. Apparently we are getting assigned spots for reserved people. Excited to see if I get a spot anywhere near my unit. We were having problems with our circuits and our breaker would flip up to 8 or 9 times in a night and we requested maintenance many times and he was the most unhelpful unknowledgeable man ever. It took like 3 months for them to finally get someone who was able to help us identify and fix the problem. (We also weren't the only people with breaker issues) Not to mention the washer and dryer included in the unit are absolute trash. My clothes have been pilling so badly and it's really ruining the quality of them. The dishwasher isn't great either. Yes it's nice to have them included but I just thought for how much we are paying my clothes wouldn't be getting ruined and my dishes would be clean. I also had to unclog my own sink and fix my garbage disposal with my dad on the phone. gross. When we moved in we had issues with our wifi and lark was no help, they just told us to go to xfinity and figure it out ourselves. When we finally got it figured out and got a new modem a couple weeks later lark had these incredibly large and inconvenient boxes put into all the units to replace the nice small one we had before and the wifi is worse than it was before. Also getting a device put onto the wifi is now a bigger annoying process that you have to go through the website to do. Unfortunately the apartment below us caught on fire a couple months ago and luckily everyone was ok. The only issue is the fact that there are people doing construction from 6 or 7am until literally 11pm. Frequently. And its been happening for a while I'm not sure how they aren't done yet. The garbage is also an issue. It's like they don't know how many people they have living here and how to accommodate correctly. The garbage spills out of the compactor a lot into a big pile and once I was taking my garbage down and since the thing was full there was a huge pile so I put my garbage on the pile as it was the only place to put it and someone on a golf cart came around and told me "we don't leave our garbage on the ground here" um sir where else should I put it. I'm not going to just leave it in my apartment until you decide to take care of it. They are pet friendly but in the pet contract it says you have to declaw your cats which is not only incredibly inhumane but just messed up. I obviously did not declaw my fur babies and I'll gladly pay for a new, sh*tty couch, if need be. One of my friends worked for them for a while and said they've already been reported to the better business bureau multiple times. Speaks for itself. So yea, I don't recommend living here. read more

Lark was the most horrible experience I have ever had. Please go somewhere else!! Amount many other things, the management was deceptive, the manger promised one unit during tour and confirmed with email. But when moving in, a totally different unit was given. read more

Probably the worst experience I've ever had. 2 shootings in the span of a few months. Staff is rude. No parking. Homeless constantly prowling and breaking into cars. Maintenance has come into my apartment and room Multiple times without announcing themselves. I love how the trauma I have from SWAT walking outside my window with guns drawn and pointing them into my apartment because of a shooting wasn't taken seriously. Nora constantly lies and makes things up because they're either ignorant or think because they're the GM, they can say whatever, This place is money hungry. I havnt seen green grass since last august, and now suddenly the grass is green again for move in and tours? Save yourself the headache. read more

The worst place to live! They towed my car, charged me $1,600 on my account and didnt explain the charges, threatened to have animal control take my cat even though they are pet friendly, and they will NOT terminate a lease under any circumstances. They are dealing with several lawsuits right now and they claim they are "student apartments" when they are not affiliated with the college AT ALL. read more

Predatory apartment complex. They appeal to younger individuals who may not know what should be expected of them. I signed a lease thinking I wouldn't need to move out, which all college students believe. However life happens and Lark allows no flexibility when it comes to moving out. Staff will do their very best to avoid you if you need to move out. I got married in the middle of the school year and decided to transfer to an online school since my husband is in the military. I planned on moving in with him in SC. While I understand I signed a lease, no one in the office wanted to help start me with the move out process and there was zero communication. I sent emails, called the office and showed up yet it took weeks to hear back from them. I genuinely only think I was able to move out because of luck, and because my parents called and yelled at staff. There was also a point I was sent a refund, and they shorted me. I had to remind them how much I was supposed to get, THEN they sent me the proper amount back. Doesn't matter if you're 18-19, they will treat you like a child and avoid communication. Since moving out I have lived in 4 different apartment complexes around the US, and Lark will always be my worst experience. read more

this place has terrible management that just wants to take advantage of students and their parents. First coming to Lark I was told via email contract and phone call that I would receive $200 off my rent for the time period of one lease. they only gave me one month and claimed it was an error. they also force tenants to have a guarantor and if they don't have one they will offer a terrible third party company. They told my partner this after her lease was signed and she was given a move in date. they denied her the apartment and later asked for the whole years worth of rent. even after they immediately filled the space. terrible here. don't give them any of your money. read more

Please do not rent from here. They advertise as off campus housing. They claim to be pet friendly. They aim for an aesthetic that isn't true. They also pressure you into signing another lease less than 3 months after move in. They provide all these "community" activities during "move in month." After that month is over, they reduce activities and ask for residents to help contribute to resident activities and morale via providing their own games and etc. Also, there is bunny poop everywhere. The grounds are only green during the tour and move in month. They sprinkle pesticides around plants that aren't pet friendly. They allow pets to be off leash. They allow trash to be left everywhere. Another issue is that there are drugs being sold here. Cops constantly being called... Please do not make the same mistake I did! Edit: you do not host 5 events a month and last time I tried to communicate my issues, Nora attacked me personally and acted like a psycho. Kellie, you don't even work at this location. You're just the community outreach for a lot of their apartments in multiple locations. No ty! read more

I have been living at Lark since September 2020. Just because I still live at Lark does not mean Lark is perfect by any means. Now I am only leaving this review because Lark has continuously sent emails to their residents asking the residents to leave reviews, if they want the bad review then I'll give them it. I will start with the positives. Lark is pet friendly, ideal space for a cat, but a little too small for a dog. I do enjoy the private bathrooms, very convenient if you have guest over. Here are some of the negatives. 1. If you ever have a Wi-Fi problem it will be the residents responsibility to call xfinity to resolve the issue, Lark will not assist, even though Lark offers Wi-Fi to their residents. This gets very frustrating because since I am not the owner of the Wi-Fi most xfinity workers have no idea how to help so I'm stuck on hold for three or more hours just to get anywhere. 2. During December of 2021, Lark has stopped trash service, they did not inform the residents of this! Now there is a giant trash pile near the compactor and making its way into the parking lot. This is a health hazard and not sanitary! They make time and put in effort to post about their workers on social media and yet don't put the effort into cleaning up the trash pile. The picture was taken January 2nd 2022 to show the size of weeks with no trash service. There is no excuse for this. Look at the pictures of the Yelp pictures for Lark, the trash pile is this picture. 3. You will be charged with every little thing, even during "inspections" where they go into your apartment and look for damages. They tried to charge me with slight damages to the couch and yet didn't replace the batteries in my fire alarm, so if there was a fire, I wouldn't know. 4. Good luck keeping your place warm with the breeze that comes in through the windows constantly. If it is windy, the wind is coming through the sides of the closed windows, making you pay more for heating. 5. If someone moves out, Lark will keep that vacant room's window open! so there will be a draft coming in through under the door, making it where you need to spend more on heating to heat up the living room to make up for that draft. Then they try to refuse paying us back for the amount of money we spend trying to fight off that draft, very frustrating. 6. Lark employees are not conscious of your pets!!! Make sure you are home whenever a Lark employee enters your unit, they will leave your front door open! Even after informing them of any pets. Plus they always stomp and scare the pets but that is not as bad as leaving the front door open. Overall, if Lark is going to spend time making their social medias look good, then they can spend more time making the apartments cleaner and making residents happier. read more

Lark Bellingham - Just because it is winter break for most people Lark decided that trash service was no longer needed. - University Housing Near Me - Bellingham, Washington

I lived here for approximately a year and a few months. I can honestly say this is one of, if not the worst places I've ever lived. I have waited a full year before writing this review so that my anger could subside and I could be concise, but this is still a lot. The prices are insane, and they are very aggressive in forcing you to sign and resign your lease. Our lease started in September and by October they were already egging us on to signing another year. So, we did, because we didn't want the prices to go up...what a mistake that was. We all ended up moving out early because of the pandemic. But before that, we witnessed so many things that made none of us want to return. The people who lived above us would constantly have parties late into the night, sometimes as late as 4 or 5am on a weekday. Blaring music and the sounds of moving tables, beer pong, and fireworks were just some of the noises. We would call security and nobody would pick up, or nothing would happen. Parking was also a nightmare, we bought reserved spots but even then if you came home after 5pm it was nearly impossible to find a spot (this was before the pandemic). The shuttle is an absolute joke- you would not only have to wait in line (most of the time in the rain because it's Washington) but there were hardly ever enough seats. It also would be shut down randomly so you'd have to find another form of transportation to get on campus, which normally is fine, except for the fact that the shuttle is advertised as a main selling point for the complex. The dumpsters were always overflowing and never seemed to be emptied. All of the amenities were a sham. The other thing that was always incredibly frustrating was the front desk. I get it, college students need jobs; but they were never trained well and could never answer any questions you would have as a tenant- they were trained to get people to sign leases. That's it. All in all, I urge you, do not get stuck in the trap that is this place. Their leases prey on innocent young students just trying to find a place to live. read more

If I could give no stars I would. I have lived here for 2 years and have had nothing but trouble. The office is ran by college students who are little to no help. It is way too expensive for the quality. The gate is a joke. It is open all day allowing anybody to come in which is why so many people have had things stolen. There is never any parking except during this global pandemic. Quiet hours are a joke that they tell you to deal with yourself. The maintenance people don't know anything about what they are doing and end up incorrectly fixing it so it breaks a week later. I have attached a few pictures of inside my apartment damage. There are lots of other damages as well I have a whole Google drive of damages because they try and price gouge you at any turning point at move out unless you call them out. I have also attached a photo of damage to the side of building 807. Absolutely the worst place I have ever lived. read more

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Loved here for 4 years the the staff are amazing. The place comes with a gym, study space, free coffee, and with your own room/bathroom! Recommend living here!!! read more

Apparently my review was deleted. Would give 0 stars if possible. Lived here for 2 years and management turned into a joke a month after move in. Parking is a nightmare. And they tow residents cars. Apartments and furnishings are so cheaply built. Have electrical issues, as the breaker constantly flips. Trash is everywhere Amenities are always closed (even 1 1/2 years without the shuttle) Not ESA friendly (which isn't legal). Way too much money for what you get. They tried to charge me at move out for a bunch of things until I sent them back the lease agreement and correspondence about damage from original roommate. Everyone in Bellingham knows the gate code, not that they'd need it to get in the gate (which frequently was stuck open) read more

When my former roommate moved out, Lark assigned me a new roommate. Online, I informed them that I cannot live with a smoker, but the new roommate smokes, which leaves an odor in the living room. Even though the smell makes me sick, Lark refused to do anything about it because the roommate doesn't smoke inside. They would not waive the $200 fee to move units or the professional cleaning fee to remove the smell, despite ignoring my health needs. At least they were polite about it. In addition, the furniture they provide is cheap and the floors of my unit are warped. Management is awful. Flooding in an electrical room damaged my friends' unit, and all they did was plug in fans... using the tenant's electricity, which the tenants had to pay for. A lot of the units have a mold problem in the vents, too. They enter units for inspection without notice beforehand. The upsides of Lark is that the units are furnished, there's a bus stop right outside, and a shuttle service to campus for students... and that's about it. Look elsewhere for housing! read more

This is a brand new construction behind Fred Meyers. This place boasts of all the luxury amenities for a price of about $785 a month for a room in a two-bedroom apartment. Electricity is not included. Internet and water are included. I moved into this place a day ago and for the most part, it has been good. There were some issues such as no internet modem in my apartment and no shuttle for the first week. However, the front desk have been courteous and helpful. One thing that I do want to warn future residents is that the kitchen and bathroom sink are quite small. There is one sink and the space around that sink is not that large. There are also small bathtubs in the units. Parking can be notoriously hard to find at night (all of the designated $30/month spots have been sold out). Other than that, this place is great if you want to pay the high price tag. read more

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If I could give 0 starts I would. I had such a horrible experience here. It started out nice when the good managers were there but the 2nd year was the start of the downward spiral. I lived here from August 2016 when the opened to February 2018. Let's start with a few positive before I get to the real tea. The apartments are nice. It looks quaint with IKEA furniture and with a decent amount of storage place. Each bedroom is huge and comes with a desk, full size extra long bed with mattress and storage under the bed, a bathroom with a tub and a walk in closet. The roommate match is hit or miss it honestly just seems like a just placing people randomly. Now let's start spilling: There's trash (a Fred Meyer cart on the 3rd floor) and dog shit everywhere (including in the sand of the volleyball court), there's only 1/3 free parking spaces and 2/3 paid but there are always empty paid parking spots but supposedly they can't sell the exact number of parking passes for the exact number of spots. I would get home at 11 and they would call me in the morning saying if I didn't move they would tow me and I kept asking for a parking pass but they said we sold the max. One night they decided to tow people parked in the paid spots at 3 am without notice. They wouldn't give notice to enter the apartment, and would just come in. My unit had shitty insulation and we could feel the cold air coming through the outlets and windows so our heating bill in the winter would be like $100-130 a person in a 3 bedroom. We had a roommate who stole prescription medication from my other roommate and I but they wouldn't help us and they wouldn't kick him out. People who didn't live here would be in and out at all hours through the gates because the access codes were posted online so you never know who would be in the GATED community. People would either be throwing parties or be ridiculously loud at all hours with no one doing anything about noise complaints. When I first moved there people were throwing fireworks into random apartments as a prank. My boyfriend's bike got stolen there (it was locked and everything) and management would not help us out at all. Let's not even get started with the 60 page airtight lease where it even says that you're not allowed to give negative feedback online while you live there. They are a greedy and selfish company. I was asked to vacate but here's the fucked up part, they made me still pay rent for the rest of my lease even though someone had moved into my room but since it wasn't a new lease and because no one would take my lease I had to pay 650 a month for 7 month ( which was the cheap because i locked in my price in January 2016) They never really had any events like they promised (they promised every month but it was like once every 4 months). The printers a lot of the time were either out of paper or out of ink. To everyone thinking about moving here, it seems nice online and on paper but it's run by the worse property management company ever being operated by the bitchest managers who would never be helpful. Honestly if you're gonna do something like this try Elevate Bellingham ( I never lived there but I had friends who did) which is clean, has even bigger spaces and a lot nice amenities for about the same price and owned by a different company. read more

Lark is a lovely place. Although problems occur, they handle them effectively and efficiently. The staff is very friendly.

The worst community, the worst management of all time! Run away as fast as you can when they sugarcoate everything to make you sign a lease.

Haven't even moved in yet and I'm already encountering problems. Before signing my lease I spoke to the marketing manager Lani, and asked her specifically if animals in aquariums/vivariums would be allowed as I collect exotic animals. She told me that yes the pet addendum would show that they were fine and I would have no problems. Fast forward a few months, it's getting closer to move in and I've already signed my lease, they email me a copy of the pet addendum and what do you know, exotic animals of any kind are prohibited. Pretty sleezy if you ask me. Had I known they weren't allowed I would not have signed a lease with them. read more

Honestly, I would say avoid living here at all costs. Lark's management is entirely for profit, at the expense of your own well being, and I had several red flag issues while living there. 1. Lark will bankrupt you if that what it takes to extract profit. The move out process is not friendly to the resident. During the winter 2020 peak of the COVID-19 pandemic I was unemployed and needed to move out. When I notified Lark of my financial hardship they did not respond with sympathy, they instead replied saying I owed the full balance of my lease, and they threatened that they would pursue debt collection if I couldn't pay. Additionally, Lark is unwilling to take reasonable efforts to mitigate damages and re-lease your unit, which is a fragrant dismissal of state property law. When I explained to the leasing office management that I would be moving to Seattle for law school and if they didn't allow me to exit the lease I'd be paying double rent, the manager looked me in the eyes and said she was sorry that I would be forced into starvation but there's nothing she could due about the remaining balance on my lease, including moving the unit into someone else's name. Fast forward to me being here in law school--I've paid off my debt to Lark and I am left $128 dollars to my name! Did I mention I'm in school and cannot work? Yeah, it's really nice that my credit score is still intact since I did not go into debt collection, but I am one utility bill away from total bankruptcy and starvation! I hope the Lark staff is having fun using my blood sweat and tears to redecorate the lobby every 6 weeks. 2. Living at Lark is not safe for a young woman. I have had several near misses of sexual assault with Lark. There have been several occasions where I am in my individual room, with the door locked, showering or naked or in my underwear, and a maintenance employee has tried to gain entry. I remember once I had just gotten out of the shower, heard maintenance unlocking my room door, and had only seconds to grab a towel and throw my body against the door to stop the man from entering. I literally had to push against the door and scream as he was opening it so that he wouldn't see me naked. Another time, in August 2020 an unidentified man entered my apartment and tried to gain entry to my roommate's room. This incident occurred during the turnaround time where Lark deep cleans units for new residents. Lark employs an off-site cleaning service, and they will be in your unit with the door open and unlocked for several hours at a time. A man who was not associated with the cleaning crew came into our house, walked past the workers, and tried to enter my roommates room. He hung around the unit, inside and outside, and waited for one of us to come out because I saw him watching my door when I went to the kitchen and when he saw me he just left. I was very alarmed and went to text my roommate, but as soon as I saw my phone I saw frantic messages from her asking if I was the one knocking and shaking her door handle. It took both my roommate and I expressing fear of our safety multiple times for Lark to do the bare minimum and notify us when maintenance would be arriving at our unit. I still deal with trauma from these occasions and the constant fear that I am not safe inside my own apartment, even if the door is locked. 3. Lark's lackadaisical, contemptuous and profit motivated approach to property management is disgusting, and it will be a lifelong regret of mine that I allowed myself to fork over thousands of dollars to a company that doesn't care whether I live or die. read more

the few consistent amenities were nice. other than that, living here was a nightmare. most of the staff were unhelpful and clueless (apart from Rita and maybe one person that worked the desk occasionally), parking sucked even though site advertises free parking. they don't even have enough spots for the amount of leases they do. overall, horrible. i hated living here. EDIT (because i don't know if i'm able to respond to comments): i understand reserved parking vs resident parking. i lived there for two years. the problem is that the website advertises free parking. therefore implying that there is enough parking for residents to park freely without paying for the reserved spots. but there was not enough parking for the amount of tenants. i would have loved to have discussed all of this with the business themselves but upon completing my move out survey, i selected that i wanted to be contacted by the lark "dream team" to discuss my dissatisfaction and was never contacted after. i don't appreciate the unprofessional responses that i receive from lark whenever i try to speak to them about things that end up just questioning my intelligence and comprehension rather than actually trying to solve problems. read more

OMG!!! I'm the parent and my son and his friend had nothing but great experiences here at NXNW Student Housing for Western up in Bellingham, WA. We moved him in today and this place is amazing!!! Fully furnished two bedroom with private bathrooms and walk in closest, all utilities except electricity, shuttle service to campus all day long, complimentary coffee bar, tons of parking, close to stores, etc etc. And the management has been amazing and helpful all summer long with all of our questions and concerns. And all this for $799. What a great deal!!! As a parent, I feel very thankful and appreciative that our young adults will have an amazing college experience. I'm jealous. Nothing like this existed in my time. read more

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Awful apartment complex, horrible management. Predatory toward young college kids; convince them to sign year long leases with promises of great amenities, most of which don't even work (i.e. the shuttle). They charged me for my mattress when I moved out and wouldn't give me any reason why other than there was damage and when I asked for pictures they wouldn't provide. They just threatened to take it to collections if I didn't pay. So I had to pay $200 for a mattress I did nothing wrong to. Should have just taken the damn thing lol read more

The apartment itself is nice but everything else is crap maintenance will walk in unannounced. I was laying in bed asleep and a male maintenance person walked into my locked bedroom. There is no parking. Ever. And if you can't find parking the want you to park at Fred meyers and walk. They continue to give out parking passes when they don't have enough spots. Do not recommend living here. read more