Daylight Properties

As a tenant in the Herald Building (owned by Daylight), I have been nothing but pleased with Daylight and their people. They prepared our space beautifully before move in, have worked tirelessly to fix any issues after move in, and their staff is great, from the maintenance crew to the cleaning crew, to Jena in the main office. They are great people who want the best for their tenants.

As a small business owner, I would of never been able to open my doors without the awesome staff and crew that make up Daylight.

As my company grew, Daylight properties was right along side me. I grew and shrank with the economy and they offered me any help I needed.

Be very careful dealing with this company. My experience: the management is irresponsible, and unresponsive when called upon to take care of simple routine safety concerns. When I asked to speak to upper management I was surprised to be met with a volatile person who was not interested in solving problems but only deflecting issues and becoming unnecessarily litigious.



The company appears as if it is well-wedged in the community, but in fact, later I found out has a very bad reputation to people who live here.



The locations are downtown, but the value is not good. The company, I feel is doing a disservice to the community by representing historic buildings (most of which seem vacant) and by renting to low-income individuals who's health and safety is put at risk by ill maintained conditions. This does not help their quality of life and as a result, does not help our community's economy.

While I am sure that this property management company sticks to the letter of the law, my experience with them has been that they are very hard to deal with, and that they are specifically looking for inexperienced renters so they can extract as much money as possible from their clients. Look at their "forms" page to see what I mean. All of their agreements are HEAVILY slanted in favor of the company and are very punitive for renters. (Heads I win tails you loose is the name of this game.)



The apartments are in adequate condition, and are downtown, so that is a plus for many people, but if you don't happen to have a lawyer on retainer this might turn out to be substantially more expensive housing than you expect.



Parents who are co-signing for minors, please use extreme caution.

I do. I moved into the Windsor building #301 on North State Street in Bellingham. It was September and there was a vacant space below us. It was great. And then The Plan B Saloon opened on New Year's Eve and my room mate and I haven't been able to sleep before they close since. It's now July. We tried working with the bar for months and got no where in spite of the owners telling us they were stopping all DJs and live shows - which didn't happen. The first time I spoke to Kerri Maxwell about the issue she ignored me and kept saying "write it down, I'll throw it in the pile" when I mentioned it was impossible to sleep and we were concerned about hearing loss considering our unit had been measured at 85db+ consistently. That was in April. This is still very much a problem. Our lease isn't up until the end of August. Rent from Daylight Properties at your own risk. Oh, I'd forgotten about the repair request we'd submitted. Yeah, to the best of our knowledge no one ever showed up for it. It's still broken. If you want your property manager to be rude to you, ignore your repair requests and leave you to live in a hellish sleep deprived limbo they're just what you're looking for.