Park 19 Apartments

Great location! Nicely situated between the pearl and NW 21^st/​23^rd and everything is very accessible. Office and maintenance staff very friendly and helpful — great place to live!

Even though I only got to stay here for less than a week, I like the place. First off, the location is great, you’re only a few minutes from 21^st, which I found out is where the bars and restaurants are at.
You’re also minutes away from a MAX stop, there is a bus stop just downstairs, and within walking distance of the soccer stadium. It does get a bit noisy from the drunkards getting home from the bar, but it’s very secure and clean.

Beware of NOISE of other tenants. Lived there in 2009 — early 2010. Way overpriced in general. Biggest complaint was the typical living noise in apt above me. For a building that was originally built to sell as condos, was shocking the poor construction to hear everything.
Lost significant money from AC/​Heat unit that was not set properly in the summer and had to hound to get fixed. They have different mgt now, but although the location is superb, the view of Couch park was beautiful as was
the building common areas, I moved out after the initial 6 mos deal was up as did several other tenants due to price.

We lived at Park 19 for two years and really enjoyed our experience there. It’s a super location – near 21^st, 23^rd and downtown and right across the street from Couch Park. The office staff, Hope, Brad & Alfredo, were nothing but great– seriously always very friendly and helpful. The building is very dog-​friendly & it was nice being so close to Couch Park to take out our pup. A great building to live in!

I fell in love with the view, and then the neighborhood. Brad, one of the very helpful property managers showed me 6 units of varying sizes. When we hit the sixth floor, I knew where I wanted to live. On a clear fall Portland day (rare), both Mt. Hood, and Mt. St. Helen’s are visible. Spectacular.
Then there’s the ‘hood’. No car needed. You can eat at a different restaurant a day for 6 months without going to the same place twice, all within a 10 block radius.
I laughed I cried, it became a part of me.

Despite being one of the most expensive buildings to live in in Northwest Portland (Portland’s most «spendy», in Portland-​speak, neighborhood for those new to the city), this building is one of the worst constructed and managed I’ve ever inhabited.
My problems with Park 19 began the day I moved in. The building was newly constructed — I was the first tenant in my apartment — but the day I moved in there were substantial pieces of incomplete work left to do: holes in the wall, missing handles on cabinets, missing shades on windows, etc. all of which took weeks to correct, with no recompense offered.
My biggest complaint is that in the 8 months I have lived here so far, my apartment has been entered for maintenance more than once every single month. Repairs have included (and bear in mind this is a *new* building): HVAC breakdowns, washer/​dryer problems, and most notably a complete removal and reinstallation of every window in the apartment. This resulted in multiple occasions on which I had to move every piece of furniture in the apartment and allow full on construction crews into the apartment to do substantial and messy construction work, sometimes for days in a row. I lived through less disruption when gutting and remodeling my own condominium.
Adding insult to injury, the management company is incredibly unresponsive to tenant concerns. Emails take weeks (not days, weeks) to receive responses that are at best unhelpful, at worst offensive.
One of the most telling examples of just how big a disaster this building is: the original management company in place when I moved in has already been fired and replaced by the building’s owner… sadly, this did nothing to improve the situation since the new management company simply rehired the same on-​site personnel.
I could go on, but I think you get the gist…