This is just a little out of my neighborhood, but I was out there today and this place looked so awesome that I had to put it up here. Adare Manor has a one-bedroom available for just $740. According to their website, the "hardwood floors create golden warmth," which is about the cheesiest thing I've heard since the property management gods required us all to use the word "sparkling" to describe everything from light fixtures to toilet handles. But this place looks totally sweet. It's two blocks from Noble Rot and the rest of restaurant row. 971-533-9151
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Hi Martin. I love your blog because it's everything I'm interested in, all in one easy place. Thank you! Like everyone else, I'm moving to PDX at the end of July. And like you, I share a love of the southeast and distaste for post-60s buildings. Is it too early to contact buildings for end of July/August? If you have time, can you maybe email me? I appreciate everything you're doing! Thank you!
A lot of buildings (mine included) keep waiting lists. When I get a 30-day notice, I call everyone on the waiting list in order. Usually, everyone has found a place by then, but sometimes waiting lists are great because I don't even have to advertise the apartment. If it were me, I'd call all the cool buildings and ask to be put on the waiting list. Either that, or start calling each of them 30 days before you want to move in--because sometimes we've lost the waiting list. That's happened to me a few times.
I lived there for a couple of years 2003-2005. One bedroom. Great location, pretty building (except for the awful amateur stucco job on the interior walls that look like play-doh smeared on by a 2 year-old).
The apartments are nice old units, but sadly Bristol Equities, the property management company who operates the Adare, doesn't keep them up well. When a tenant moves out, the units get only the cheapest repairs and a slobbery coat of garish white paint. The plumbing is awful - they had to replace my bathroom and kitchen sink valves every two months or so after they became destroyed by the chronic rust that their building's plumbing is encrusted with. Because of this, don't expect to get consistent water temperature in this building... you'll get a repeating loop of scalding-freezing every 10 seconds.
And the thermostat on the steam heating can't be adjusted - when it gets too hot in the winter from the hissing red-hot radiators (as it always does), the only thing you can do is open all the windows. Fun times in the typical PDX drizzle. They always said they were going to convert to electric, but never happened in the 2 years I was there.
Complaints to the management about all the above fall on deaf ears. That's probably why there was so much turnover when I was there. And why - despite the nice layout and basic vibe of the place - I don't miss it.
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