Meghann D.
5/5
Before the Complex was sold to the current owners, I spent 11 years, give or take a year, living with my family, and everything was always kept picture perfect. Mostly because my family would not allow it to be any other way!
You see, my Uncle bought the complex shortly after it was built in 1978, shortly before the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. This all took place before I was born of course! Feel free to ask me about how My Aunt & Uncle, and the few tenants residing there, had handled that fiasco! I promise you will get a few unexpected laughs!
In 1989, My Uncle asked a favor of my Grandma - and that year she moved to Moses Lake from our home in north-central Washington in order to be the new live-in Manager of the "Regency Park Apartments." One year later, my mom and I followed right behind her.
For many years, and for almost as long as I can remember, I was always close to my Grandma. It was hard not to be, considering we lived right next door for 10 years!
A few years later, my other Aunt & Uncle moved in to the complex from a long ways north up in B.C., Canada. They moved there in order to take on the much needed role of the New Assistant Mangers (for a spell).
After a brief departure to manage another complex in another town, they returned about a year later, but instead filling in the role of Managers, allowing my Grandma to go back into retirement and enjoy her years. She lived there until she could no longer, and passed away shortly after moving away from the apartment she lived in for 21 years.
I can honestly say I have been inside all 64 units, swam in each pool numerous times, used the sauna year round. I've performed more pool chemical tests than I can count! Those bottles and strips are forever ingrained in my memory!
I can also honestly say that I remember when we would install the bubble on the north end pool to keep it open year round, and when there was a hot tub instead of a sauna (although both were very short-lived).
As you might be able to see, I know just about everything there is to know regarding the grounds of this complex just like the back of my hand; including: all maintenance, storage, and pool rooms!
I recall the winter storm that forced us to replace a stairwell on the south end, and do repair work on a north end stairwell that spring. That was also the year the carpeting was replaced.
I broke my left leg near the entrance to the double lot the summer I turned 6 years old.
I broke my arm a year later on the twirling bars in "my park", which belongs to the church and is directly across the street. Numerous times I got stuck on the Monkey Bars and needed to be rescued. That same year I met my best friend. This year is our 20 year anniversary! (We went skydiving for her 30th birthday!)
I gorged myself on apricots from the old trees that once grew next the house on the same lot (opposite St. Martin's Episcopal Church.) (Side-note: if you get a kick out dust-devils, sit on the stone bench in front of those church doors on a windy day for a big treat!)
All of the plants and flowers that grow on the property were brought & planted by my Grandma, and later by my Aunt who brought more from Canada and also our families old homestead, back in Arkansas.
In case you're wondering, there are 3 parking lots (4 if you cut the middle one in half, and it kind of is) 2 solar heated pools, a sauna, a weight room, and 2 modern on-site laundry facilities, there are a total of 16- one bedroom apartments, accounting for 2 buildings, 48-two bedrooms accounting for 4 buildings, and 2 laundry rooms that are the remaining buildings. One of the laundry rooms houses the Sauna and weight room.)
I can't say much of the complex since I moved away before 2010, and our family sold the complex to new owners within a couple years of that time.
I can say I miss my home, and the old landscaping!
