Seattlest: The Search for the Banyan Manor (Part 1)

reeling to this day

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:06:58 -0800

Holy Shit! I thought I was alone in knowing about this place. This guy and his wife are frickin' nuts. They pretended to be ultra religious and that we were supposed to follow all these "rules" that were only meant to trick you into believing you had broken some rule that you were going to lose your deposit over. Everyone loses their deposits. These reviews are all too nice.

recovered banyanite

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:37:49 -0800

hey I used to live in the banyan manor. that was the craziest place ever!!! one night, i woke up to a mouse beside my bed and i screamed and no one cared. then for 4 months, Sean had put those blasted sticky mouse traps in my room. the only thing that got stuck to those damn things we're my nice stuff goddamnit! all the girls were bitches and catty as hell. one refuses to talk to me because i moved out. the kitchen was nasty. there were like 400 shelves of food as if we were preparing for armageddon. Sean would walk in on my boyfriend and I, even though the door was closed shut and we told him to hold on. he wore this black witch hat with a feather atop it, black sweatshirts, and black stretch pants. EVERY DAY. i swear it was the same black stretch pants and sweatshirt. at least we had a hugeass party there with like 250 people, which was the party of the century, and prob the best thing that manor had. now that i've been out of that shithole for 6 months, its been a constant source of entertainment and laughter to this day!!! that place would be the shit if it wasn't ran by a frickin' ass weirdo.

john doe

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:51:21 -0800

Yes, yes... I was one of these 'houseboys' and it really sucked. The owner dude, Sean, was always telling lies and twisting the truth and trying to start drama between me and the girls of the house. He'd show up at odd hours, spend all day long at the house and break a bunch of stuff and make a mess and then get mad if I didn't clean it up! He'd show up in the middle of the night and come crashing around with his ~350 lbs. body. ATTENTION: Don't move in there whatever you do! The house is infested with rats and bugs and the power is liable to go out every night and it'll always be too hot or too cold. The neighborhood is ghetto creepy and some of the windows got shot out once while I was there and that's not even close to all that's happened.

Black Sheep

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:47:53 -0800

The Banyan Manor was a hellhole! The house is/was infested with bugs, and the owners ARE CRAZY! They are lying and manipulative and they only like you if you do everything they say and agree with them, ALL THE TIME! I got out of there as soon as I could and I don't recommend it for anyone!

jane doe

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:10:25 -0800

I lived at the Banyan house for 10 months. it was a great 10 months living w/the wonderful women that were there at the time but Please BEWARE, the owners are scary, really. The only reason I and many others, incidentally, left was b/c the owners did not uphold their promise to the 10 women who lived there. Also, we saw 3 "house boys" as the owners called them, come and go. Please, do not think of living here, it all sounds good, but in the end, the owners Bev, Sean, and Simon O'Eberhardt kept my security deposit and harrass me to this day over some "agreement" in which i never agreed to. Don't do it, it's the biggest scam ever.

banyan sorority girl

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:48:08 -0800

I used to live in the infamous banyan manor. its quite the place.

Ann

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:48:23 -0800

So I actually responded to the ad and checked out the place. At first I was skeptical of it all, and I actually was desperate to find someone else to go with me to check out the place. But all my friends weren't available. Anyway, I checked it out and it's actually fine. It's a big house, with room for 10 tenants to live in there. It's definitely not as fabulous as the pictures, but it is still a nice place and in a nice location. In order to protect the privacy of the girls, the website designer doesn't post pictures of them. I found out that the story that says how the manor came into being is actually true, so that's nice. Anyway I'd encourage to check it out.

Sarah

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:15:28 -0800

Where is Part 2? I've seen that ad a gazillion times and everytime I read it I get the sense I'd be signing up to live in a brothel or strange Stepford-esque cult. I'm dying to know what happened.

Anita Rowland

Wed, 11 May 2005 13:14:24 -0800

That msn.com site makes interesting reading, You just can't get good help these days!