I've been doing business with this company as a renter for 9 years, and the management has been…read moreconsistently fantastic. Rent increases have been fair, and they always prioritize tenant safety and property upkeep.

If you have a rental in Seattle or the surrounding area it is worth having this company manage it…read morefor you. Tristen Mickelson is very professional at his job and I highly recommend him as your property manager.

I rented from Avenue One (AO for length) for two years and I cannot recommend them to renters who…read moreare looking for consistency or dependability in their landlord. The first clue was in month four after we reached out to our property manager about cutting the 6x6(ish) front yard. We requested AO to amend the first draft of their proposed lease agreement to exclude the yard as a tenant responsibility - they agreed and the lease we signed included no tenant responsibility for the front yard. When they finally hired someone, the third-party company blew a rock that shattered our glass door. Given the glass covered the entire door, it was an extreme safety and security hazard. We shared with AO that someone could easily kick it in and that it could also easily break w/ daily use. They came out quickly to assess and scheduled a third party shortly after. We then made time out of our professional schedules 5 times to get evaluations which AO insisted upon even after given guidance to replace by 2 separate contractors. It took us emailing the owners of AO directly to have them schedule one final evaluation, which ultimately suggested replacement anyway. It took TWO MONTHS to replace our front door, and only after requesting and negotiating were we offered compensation. The front lawn was not mowed again for the last 18+ months of our lease. This was a pattern. AO hired third parties that weren't consistent in communication or performance. Other maintenance requests were put off and ignored. In the case of a separate upstairs bathroom issue, the hired team broke an item in a bedroom and left $20 to help replace it. We received a new property manager after the door incident, and while certainly better than the first, the communication felt clumsy, incorrect, and in need of prompting rather than being proactive. I expect more from a company that chooses to rent to people, as it should be predictable and dependable in exchange for the monthly rent - and we were tenants that paid rent on time, every time. We gave 50+ days of notice before vacating. A new employee from AO who showed properties sent an email at 1pm on Friday to begin the process to list our apartment but mentioned no timeline. Less than 4 hours later, we received a curt email alerting us that an ad "was live" and that they had "3 people waiting to see when they can tour" on Monday afternoon (less than 24 business hrs). After calling and sharing our circumstances, they emailed it was within their rights to show our home w/o consent with 24 hrs notice. My roommate negotiated a few days to return from travel and to secure our valuables. Our caution only came as a result of several encounters where the AO team and their third-party contractors broke things in our house. The request we received to show our home and the striking urgency that AO created is a pattern that shows they do not respect tenants. Pressuring us to respond to them showing the apartment over a month before our lease ends with 4 hours in between emails is not reasonable. It is particularly unreasonable given we had provided our notice to vacate over 2 full weeks before that email exchange (nearly 2 full months before our two-year lease ended). This urgency to move rapidly had never once been AO's approach to maintenance for any concern we had. When the agent ultimately showed our home, they sprayed heavily scented perfumes (they admitted to this later) in our purposefully unscented home, resulting in significant allergies that caused a night of headaches. When it came to the walkthrough, we had to basically beg to be there. The timing of the walkthrough was shifted on the night before the appointment. In an email before the walkthrough, they mentioned extra charges if our unit wasn't in the same condition it was upon move-in. However, we confronted them with language from the Seattle Renters Handbook that if cleaning fees are charged as a fee before move-in, you cannot be charged for cleaning after moving out. They requested we sweep the rooftop deck that was rotting and decaying - yet another ignored maintenance request that they received months before they knew we planned to move out. We did get the full deposit back, but I have to chalk that up to our clean nature and our unrelenting focus on over-communicating and keeping written records. This level of vigilance felt exhausting, but something we had to keep up with AO because they never seemed to have our best interests in mind. Ultimately, I could not in good conscience recommend this company to any renter. AO showed time and time again what they thought of us by providing absolutely minimal service and little respect to us as renters. If you do rent from them, start keeping written records and don't hesitate to contact the Seattle Tenants Union for guidance. The only striking positive was the initial real estate agent, Barb Bender, who was incredible. She showed care, created clarity, and sold us on AO.

First of all, we are about the best tenants you can find with impeccable rental history and great…read moreincome. This is all verifiable th This house is expensive.. so expensive I am embarrassed to say it here. It came with so many wonderful amenities.. until it turned out that it didn't. A huge modern TV in the basement! I guess that helps make the price worth it! Except the TV is from 2010, cant load any modern streaming services and is basically huge e-waste. (Don't feature it in the add for the house.. ). Its trivial, but our old 2015 TV was giving us some headaches due to its age, so seeing this in the add was like "ah! Perfect for us!" But. hilariously the huge TV doesn't work unless you hook it up to a laptop with an HDMI cable across the room. Don''t believe me? Look up Sharp Aquos Quattron. See if it hooks up to even Amazon Prime Video (spoiler alert, it doesn't). (Oh and it turns out Netflix stopped supporting this machine many years ago). The hoops we had to jump through to secure this house! Way too hard. Its almost as if they are justifying their service by putting people through the wringer.. we could have cared for this house ourselves and done just as good of a job if not better.. but they justify their enormous costs basically by making people go through SO MUCH effort. It's starting to feel like a grift/cash grab. That being said there are positives. Kathy is kind and responsive (was). The recruiter who we contacted was just wonderful. So it's not the people we deal with, it's the actual process, hoops and the rug pull we are currently feeling. We arrived after an arduous move, very long and serious to find our trash so full and heavy that the garbage men rejected it due to its weight.(400 pounds?). this is after my wife and I both pushed and pulled it up the hill to the street, injuring ourselves in the process. So now we are saddled with this super heavy trash and nowhere to take it and no where to put OUR trash.. We PAY for our trash services... so.. ? Find a house that is being rented by the owner and just do a good job caring for the home. You will save yourselves THOUSANDS of dollars, a myriad of hoops, headaches and effort. Plus they force you into a 24 month lease.. and now I know why.. because people would leave in droves. So that's some more good advice, if they force you to do a long term lease, that is a big red flag. Also, we have rented sight unseen in the past. No problem. Why? Because those owners were confident the house was fine. If they DONT allow sight unseen.. what does that tell you? Something is wrong.. or they are hiding flaws that they want you to walk by without noticing so they can sign their 80 page move in documents. More good advice, ask about sight unseen (even if you don't intend on doing that and see what the response is). They reach out 3 times to verify we set up utilities (a month after we already did that) almost as if to justify the existence of the utility manager.. but the internet, the one and only utility besides electric we need to work for our jobs.. that doesn't count, no assistance or advice there, just figure it out.. but if you pick the wrong services you are in for another headache. Just make sure you pick the same service that the house had before .. or you are in for more delays, headaches and stress. The home is quite lovely as is the yard but far from worth this cost (the cost includes pain, stress and anger) ... and there were some issues moving in, the drawers and cupboards were grimy and we had to clean it all with a scraper. Yuck. a couple bad electrical outlets (which we haven't even mentioned yet, one issues at a time, we are not trying to inundate them).. wiggly and loose thick glass shower and bathroom doors (all of which look brand new and never tested but sure do look nice. Pooling water on the floor after a shower creating a mold stain. We created tickets in the portal, but they are now showing closed and resolved! (They are NOT resolved). Its just for the money we pay, you would think the things that were part of the draw, (like the TV) would work and not just be more work for us.. heck for this money even be set up for us on our arrival! But no.. we are saddled with a big (70 inch) hunk of junk. If I owned this company I would make it right by purchasing us a TV that actually works with the modern streaming services (not some ancient xFinity Vudu nonsense). Last but not lease.. the faucet. We come home.. burnt from moving, start our first dishes and it squirts right in our faces! LOL.. its hilarious..until its not. except nobody seems interested in fixing it.. or if they are we are not in the loop. I jammed my thumb up into the faucet so now at least it sprays in other directions than directly at our bodies. Maybe waiting for parts? Maybe they should tell us that. . This post is from 2023 . but somehow just showing up now, you should hear about the MOVE OUT PROCESS. It was even worse.. AVOID THIS BUSINESS AT ALL COSTS.

Took a chance on Prime being new to the area, but not to the business. Great communication and…read moretransparency offices are centrally located! Although I'm no longer in the area I'm at ease knowing my properties are in good hands. Thanks again!

I recently purchased an investment property in WA and was planning on managing it on my own. That…read moredidn't last too long since it turned out to be more work than I had imagined . I'm so happy I found these guys. They are quick and efficient and I don't even need to think about my property anymore. I realized it's absolutely necessary to have someone local to oversee your biggest investment.

Bill Kriner, and later Sam Golla and his team have done a great job managing our rental. Got the…read moremarketing out the same day I signed the contract and had a quality tenant within about a week. Their maintenance staff is great and responsive, the tenants they have approved and rented to have been great, and paperwork and payments are timely. Would recommend.

Shina Kashino, Compliance Manager of Washington Management Co, and her staff member Tara have been…read moreconsistently early and timely with their monthly reporting and deposits. It not only has been been most impresssive, but this is exceptional for any business to accomplish.

I am a current renter and could not have asked for a better team/organization to rent from. Susan,…read moreTrudy and Tammy have been phenomenal from the start. They respond quick to any questions/concerns I have, kind, honest, personable, keeps me up to date with utility services needed for the home and are just all around a great group of individuals. Mahalo nui team Meridian!

Needed help renting my house, Susan was great, very helpful and patient with me as I worked things…read moreout. They came out to my house and did a site visit prior to listing it. 2 thumbs up for service and professionalism

I should have read the reviews…read more The property showed as available but no less than 15 minutes after I submitted my application. I get an email stating that it had been rented out already. Seems pretty fishy to me. I'm not worried about the $50 application fee but it's more so the integrity. If I could give them zero stars as an option. I would.

I cannot express how horrible communication is with this property management company. Do not work…read morewith these people. I honestly feel like I'm being scammed for money. I moved into a unit they manage and for some reason, utilities are separate for my one unit from everyone else in the building. Because of this, they forgot to bill me for my utilities for months after moving in. All of a sudden I have a charge for an extra $700 worth of utilities with no communication at all. Obviously I reached out, and they explained that they messed up and weren't billing me for electricity and gas for a couple months and that now I needed to pay it. After discussion, they told me I would have time to pay it back in small payments over a period of time. I was told "don't stress about it". Then the next month rolls along and its included in my portal with rent. So it messed with my ability to pay rent properly. I asked for those charges to be separated, and I was told by Jeanette that she can't edit the portal. Isn't that your job?? Then, they said they pushed back payment one month which was time enough to pay an unexpected charge of $700 apparently? Pushing it back one month after they messed up isn't a courtesy in my opinion. Now they are refusing to work with me on this and are saying they need the money now and it will not be separated from by rent. In response, I keep trying to talk with Peter on the phone because he is the one who said I would have time to pay it back because it was their mistake, but after days of reaching out, I'm only getting texts back from Jeanette saying they are refusing to discuss anything further. I wish communication on how the bills would work was settled before I moved in. I wish a huge fee I wasn't expecting wasn't added to my bill months into living there, with very little accommodation with time and understanding to pay it back, as it was their mistake in the first place. I wish they had communicated to me that they were adding this charge beforehand. I wish someone would actually call me on the phone and talk to me about it, rather than just sending texts demanding it be paid now, after they messed it up. I really don't think the way they are treating me is fair or understanding at all. I would not recommend working with this company to anyone. I like the unit but unfortunately they are terrible to work with so I'll probably be looking for a new place to live soon.

I viewed a home, and have emailed and called the number associated and got no responces. Phone…read morenumber rings once and goes to an automated message & no way to leave a message or speak to real person. Emails are still going unanswered. First time looking for a house and haven't got the best experiences from the leasers.

As an adult who has lived in rental properties my entire adult life, this property management…read morecompany is the least responsive I've ever had to work with. You better hope you don't need to place a work order to have something fixed, because only once has that worked out well for us. When we moved in, the agent who showed us the house took over 200 pics documenting everything, so we felt pretty good. We'd noticed the porch light didn't work, but we said it wasn't a priority and it was honestly months until we put in a work order for it. The glass part of the light fixture that goes over the bulb was cracked and broken, but with a google image search I was able to identify the fixture was a basic porch light from Home Depot, which is less than a mile from our home. We just didn't own a ladder at the time to replace it ourselves, so when the bulb went out we thought it'd be easier to put in a work order and have them replace the broken glass fixture and the bulb at the same time by a handy person who would also have a ladder. No, after a week someone came out and removed the broken light fixture, and replaced the bulb, but they never installed a new light fixture. On top of that, they followed up with an accusatory email to us asking us how WE broke it? It was always broken...we can't even reach the damn thing. Same kind of story with the stove. We noticed when baking the oven will flash an F2 code. We looked it up and it seems to be an issue with a temperature sensor. Given this is a gas stove, we're not sure how serious that could be. We put in a work order on 9/22/25 and still have yet to receive so much as an acknowledgment of the service request. They want us to sign a lease renewal and pay more money in rent. For what? The service from this company is abismal. They're not even pretending to care - they just want our money. For inspections, they just email it all to you with a deadline despite the fact that it's literally their job. So you get to go do your job all day and then come home and run around your house taking pics of every space and documenting everything for them so they continue to get paid for doing nothing. It's literally their job - not yours! This is the laziest property management I've ever known.

Kassie has been my go for help with taking care of our rental property. She has replied to all my…read morequestions in an appropriate timely manner. She has been very friendly and hardworking. Informs me if there are any needed work or issues that our tenant has and helps solve them right away. I am very fortunate to be dealing with a very professional management. Venus R.

FME has done an amazing job for me over the last 15 years plus of managing my property. I had one…read moreissue with them in the past, but they immediately corrected it and I appreciate it very much.