Meridian at Courthouse Commons

Pros:
–building is decently clean
–kick-​ass concierge staff (especially Darla!)
–refurbished apartments are nice (I’ve been told the others are not so nice…)
–maintenance is quick to address/​fix issues
Cons:
–leasing staff has the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced. If you don’t read ALL YOUR PAPERWORK don’t expect any understanding or flexibility.
–parking garage is a joke with golf-​cart sized spaces and a towing company that will be happy to remind you not to park outside the lines (a $ 190 mistake).
–erroneous charges can magically appear, like when a maintenance guy thinks the same cat is actually multiple cats.
–did I mention the leasing staff?
Not the worst place I’ve ever lived but I’m a long way from my college days and expect to be treated with a little respect, especially considering how much money I’m paying these people every month. Based on my experience and as noted by other reviewers it’s clear they only care about the money and aren’t interested in long-​term customers. Rent at your own risk, but I would recommend looking elsewhere. Otherwise, make sure you read what you sign!

I’ll start off by saying this is not a 0 star apartment building. They have some good things going for them such as location, great front desk staff, and fast maintenance turnaround.
With that out of the way, they do have a lot of little things here and there that make living here upsetting. The biggest and most negatively impactful thing to me was that they require 60 days notice before you vacate the apartment. I barely know what I’m going to eat for dinner, let alone know where my life will be in two months. My lease ends in January but they gave me 2 – 3 weeks in October to let them them know by November 1^st whether I wanted to switch to a month to month lease, 6 month lease, or another year lease. The first option was about $ 200 more expensive and thinking that I wouldn’t have anything going on for the next year, I opted for the cheapest option. 11 days after submitting the paperwork, something came up out of the blue. Now they refuse to allow me to change the lease to anything else even though the new lease doesn’t start for another month and a half. Now I’m stuck trying to figure out what to do.
Other Cons:
— Parking is $ 100 per vehicle and the spots are super tight. Street parking is hard to find.
— If you rely on the sunroom as your bedroom, it’s very drafty. It gets really cold during the winter (even with winterizing the windows) and really hot in the summer.
— Front door and walls are really thin. You can very loudly hear people having conversations in the hallway and alarms and phones going off next door. I had 3 – 4 friends over one night and got a noise complaint (and we aren’t the loud types, I promise).
— In the year that I’ve lived here, they’ve always had construction going on. If you work at home or sleep during the day, good luck because it’ll get really loud.
— When the pool is open, they charge $ 25 per guest, but it doesn’t matter because there’s not enough room for everyone.
— Rent goes up arbitrarily. As I mentioned, the month to month lease was much more pricey while renewing a year contract still went up $ 80. Probably because they have at least 34 vacancies in the building, judging from Craigslist ads, and need to raise rent to cover those empty homes. You would think reliable renters would be something they’d incentivize by maintaining the rent prices and offering flexibility.
— The awesome rec room on the 14^th floor has so many rules that it makes it practically unusable. They lock the balcony door at night and during special events like July 4^th or New Years so it’s pointless to be up there. Plus they charge you if you have more than 4 people doing something up there at the same time.
— Last thing is that the building can get loud. This is definitely a building for kids right out of college.
Sorry for the long post but hopefully it helps give you an idea on the living situation here which is important to everyone.

I love the location, the amenities, and the newly renovated apartments. I think the rent is a little steep for a place that is technically a bedroom and a sun room, and parking is definitely overpriced. The parking spots are TINY and I always have a fear of getting towed. Maintenance has been very responsive and timely and every experience I’ve had with the staff has been extremely pleasant. The building has a lot of young people which makes it a good environment for young professionals.

I can’t speak for everyone in the leasing office but Tracy was very friendly, professional and quick to help resolve an issue for me.
Thanks!

DO NOT LIVE HERE! Meridian at Courthouse does NOTHING right. The management (or lack thereof) is appalling, and they are completely ambivalent to the comfort and satisfaction of their residents. Seriously, pay attention to these reviews before you move in. Meridian tends to be a last-​minute housing option for recent college grads who are moving to the area and need to sign a lease quickly — but trust me, you can do much better.
Meridian contacted my friends 2 days before their move-​in date, to say that they did not have all of the pre-​move in paperwork they needed… despite having assured my friends multiple times that everything was in order and complete. You can imagine how much this (classic) Meridian screw-​up complicated my friends’ move-​in plans and logistics.
The pool is completely in the shade after 1pm, because the sun is blocked by the Meridian buildings themselves — a CLASSIC Meridian oversight. Seriously, I’m curious who designed this building. But it’s not like you’ll even get a spot by the pool, because it’s always packed on weekends. This is because Meridian built a space for about 40 people, when they have about 2,000 residents. Also, you have to pay $ 25 to bring a guest to the pool. Yep.
There is vomit in the elevator at least once a month, and the stench lasts for days because they do not clean it up in a timely fashion. The same goes for blood on the floor in the building’s entranceway. The air conditioning was broken in the summer, and it took Meridian days to fix.
The walls are SO THIN.
As another reviewer mentioned, the majority of the front desk staff are either on a power trip, or are completely apathetic and unhelpful. There are a few exceptions to this statement, but unfortunately I can’t remember their names in order to give them credit. I can tell you that Demitri is awful, rude, and unhelpful. He is the kind of person who will instinctively tell you «no, it can’t be done» instead of actually trying to find a solution or provide you with a satisfying experience.
If you need to move something in the freight elevator — good luck. Meridian will decide arbitrarily to close the freight elevator on some days, despite it only being a matter of flipping a switch. It almost seems like the workers get paid by management to deny basic services to their residents, because Meridian seems to only care about gouging their residents for money.
We cannot wait to get out of here. There are literally dozens of other comparably-​priced apartment buildings in Courthouse and Clarendon, and they will all treat you better (I assume, since no one can treat you worse than Meridian does).

I lived here for a year in 2014. While the apartments are okay and have open floor plans, the Prime next door added a balcony space between the two buildings and doesnt regulate its use. Therefore, people party out there until all hours of the night and our windows are NOT sound proof. I spent lots of nights yelling down for people to quiet down to no avail. The mgmt also never did anything so it was a pain to never get any sleep if you’re on that side of the building. And if you’re in the second building, prepare to be the red headed step child — the concierge isn’t open as long as the main building so you spend a lot of time having to go down to building 1 for anything.

Pros:
1. Very affordable rent if you split a 2-​bedroom plus sunroom among three people and get a move-​in special. This is extremely common. The sunroom was carpeted, etc., the same as the other rooms EXCEPT it did not have heating and cooling vents. It does get hot in the summer and cold in the winter, but not unbearably so and it’s fine if you’re willing to leave the (sliding glass) doors wide open.
2. Washer/​dryer in-​unit.
3. Close to the Metro and buses.
4. Apartments are fairly nice. Nothing spectacular but they are maintained well, zero bug problems, appliances all full size and haven’t had any issues. I like the carpet but I know the renovated units have hardwood floors.
5. Amenities are also fairly nice. There’s a gym, basketball court, pool, rooftop, etc.
6. Everyone’s in their early 20s.
Cons:
1. Rowdy on the weekends. Yesterday we were in the lobby and a ridiculously drunk guy had taken off his shirt and was slurring his words so bad it was hard to understand what he was saying but I think he was asking everyone for cigarettes. This wasn’t atypical.
2. The concierge is only there sometimes (not 24 hours). At least in Phase II, it seems like they’re away a lot, and some of them just don’t care. It does not seem secure at all, some of the concierges don’t even look up when someone walks into the building. However Greg is fantastic!
3. Maintenance requests aren’t handled all that well. They do have a technician come to the apartment quickly (usually within a day), but it can take several calls and/​or getting in touch with the leasing office to get them actually taken care of. There’s also no warning if one of your utilities is extremely high (i.e. something’s broken), you just have to handle the bill when it comes in even if there was no external sign of an issue.
4. Everyone’s in their early 20s.
Lisa N. is GREAT and easily added two stars to this review. She is professional, efficient, organized, and most importantly she actually listens. After a horrible experience with someone else in the leasing office who was extremely rude and unhelpful, I will actually call ahead to check that Lisa is there before I go in. Besides that I had a good experience with the person who showed me the apartment, Lizzie.
Utilities run $ 60 – 100 per person for us in a normal month.
I personally didn’t really have problems with noise because my unit was at the end of a hall. I definitely believe other people had noise issues though, this place can get to be like a dorm on the weekends. People occasionally mark up the walls and leave beer cans out… classy.
This place is mostly good and I think it deserves a better overall rating. Look for a unit at the end of the hall if you want to avoid noise issues, and try to work with Lisa N.

Pay attention to the low rating before you rent here.
The leasing office doesn’t really care about you once you sign a lease. Since your locked into paying, they have your interest at the bottom of your priority list. Your rent WILL go up if you renew your lease.
Some of the front desk staff is awesome (night lady, I don’t know her name!) but then some are complete jerks who get off on power tripping on sitting behind the desk and telling you what to do like you’re in middle school.
Also, my roommate’s mail has gotten misplaced multiple times and then magically appeared.
I just graduated, but I prefer to not find vomit in elevators, thanks.

Congrats for finding the bottom of the barrel for «Luxury Apartment» Living in the area. This building is a bunch of post-​college grads making up for the experience they wish they had in college. On top of that while I was a tennant a concierge was busted for breaking into apartments while people were sleeping. The leasing staff are kind but clueless beyond accepting your rent. Your walls are paper thin, grills have a 10+ min wait any decent weather day (and for some reason are off limits after 9pm), the pool is packed within an hour after it opens at 10am and barely gets any sun to begin with, and there are beer cans in every bush. Since I have to give a lone star i’d say it goes to the maintenance staff. They do get the job done within 24 hours. The only reason this building has tennants is because the sunrooms are normally converted to an extra bedroom as a cheap alternative to live in the area. My advice would be to live here as a last resort if you love the area. Otherwise pay an extra $ 100/​mo to live in any other building.

I was having an OK year living at Meridian Courthouse until recently. We chose to move here because I work from home and needed space for a quiet home office. The sun room was a perfect option for that without a big uptake on rent.
Cons:
As many other reviewers have stated, it’s a glorified dorm. I can live with that because I’m recently graduated from college so I have a pretty good noise tolerance. But that also means you live with immature people. Beers cans (not even good beer, I’m talking Natty Light) litter the stairways & elevators. Sometimes there will be vomit or urine in the hallways. Maintenance is great & really responsive here though so I just file a report when that happens and they do their best to clean it up quickly.
We had a welcome mat out in front of our door before. I thought it’d be a nice way to show a little personality in a stark hallway. But after our neighbors stole it, moved it around (to the stairway, other peoples’ doorways, etc). on a weekly basis for OVER 6 MONTHS I decided that we live with too many immature people to have a welcome mat.
As others have said, the hot water is never hot. I’m not a high maintenance person but the fact that you can’t have a hot shower for the ENTIRE winter sucks big time.
The leasing office is pretty disorganized. Rarely do they give you proper notice for anything. Oh, maintenance is coming into your apartment to replace sprinkler heads? You’re lucky if you get a note stuffed under your door 24 hours before.
Construction (room renovations) going on right now between 9 – 5 in the building. I mentioned before that I work from home. So construction is going on for the entirety of my work hours. We asked the leasing office: «when will the construction be done?» Their response: «when it’s done.» That’s some winning customer service right there… I’m glad we drop over $ 2,000 on rent a month to be surrounded by drilling, hammering, & sawing for 8 hours a day that the own leasing office doesn’t have an end date for or even an estimated end date.
The rooftop patios they really enjoy showing off on your first tour here close super early (9pm I believe). You can’t even relax with a drink up there. They send an employee up to check on you like you’re in kindergarten. If you have a beer or a drink, you have to get rid of it.
The pool pass system is ridiculous. I didn’t even bother asking guests over to the pool because it is so restrictive. What does that say, when you can’t truly enjoy the «amenities» your building supposedly provides?
You HAVE to use Comcast for internet/​cable if you live here. If you’ve ever had Comcast, you know how much that sucks. Meridian’s Comcast rep, Joe, is hard to work with and hard to understand. We had the worst experience just trying to get internet set-​up the first week we moved in. I wouldn’t want to do that ever again.
There are a *few* pros:
— The phase II concierge is excellent. He knows me by name & apt number, always has my packages waiting for me, and is a nice, welcoming guy.
— The location is pretty good. You’re close to the metro, bike trails, and plenty to do.
— The courtyard is a nice view from the sun room if you happen to get a room facing that way.
— Maintenance is responsive & friendly.
It’s a good starter apartment if you’re young and don’t mind these things. But I’m only 23 and pretty ready to get out of here.

If I could give this place 1 star I would. Living in the Meridian has been the worst experience. Please take my advice and look elsewhere! I wish I had taken the reviews I read more seriously before moving in to this poorly run apartment.
I can honestly say I have never had one positive experience with the leasing office. Every time I talk to someone it is a different person than the time before. Each person tells you a different thing and nobody knows what they are talking about. They are so poorly run and extremely unprofessional. Most are 20 somethings who are arrogant, rude, unhelpful and frankly dumb. They don’t care at all about their residents, only the money and I have filed a formal complaint with Paradigm management for the way the leasing office has treated me the last year. If you live here get ready to sign the same paperwork over and over because they misplace paperwork frequently. Each time you go there to talk to someone it is someone new telling you a new thing you need to do. The leasing office has truly made my experience at the meridian awful.
The gym is small for the number of people living in the two buildings and always packed. The pool is one large frat party on weekends.
Overall, the Meridian is not somewhere I would ever recommend living. There are so many other apartments in the Courthouse area… go with one of those!

This is my take based on a 1-​year lease for a studio + den. I was initially really excited to live here despite the higher rent because of the amenities and sense of «luxury». I don’t expect the moon and the stars from a rental but the management here has definitely made it clear that once you sign the lease that binds you to a year of living in this second rate dorm, nothing else matters. The «amenities» that drew me in all come at a cost and utilities are not included in the $ 1900+ rent each month. Steer clear of this place and live in one of the 4 BRAND NEW buildings that are within a 3 block of the metro!!! It’s not worth it for the money, even in courthouse.
Pros:
— The den/​sunroom is big enough to qualify as a bedroom so technically my «studio» could be a junior 1 bedroom
— The community room is on the top floor with amazing views of DC and free wifi
— Close proximity to metro
Cons:
— The kitchen appliances are extremely old. I had better appliances when I lived in Courtland towers, a building across the st that was built back in 1990.
— Like the reviewers before me, be prepared for loud partying and yelling every thurs-​sat night (sometimes on sundays if you’re lucky!). I’ve had «neighbors» screaming «TURNT UP/​YOLO!!» through the hallways at 2am or banging on my door on several occasions. Oh, also can’t forget the mention the smell of weed that permeates the hallways every thursday night without fail and the occasional puke puddle in the elevators
— Many of the amenities come at a cost. Want to use the community room for a gathering of more than 5 ppl? It’ll be $ 150/​hr! Want to use the pool? Be prepared to fill out a separate application, wait 48 hrs to receive the actual pass, and pay $ 20 for 5 guest passes. On the occasion you want to branch out and have more than two friends over, sorry you are out of luck! Only 2 paid guests allowed.
— The gym is a joke and packed between 5 p.m. — 9 p.m. There are 4 treadmills and one weight rack for BOTH buildings
— The hot water never gets hot enough — not an issue in the summer but be prepared to jump out of the shower after 10 minutes in the winter. Especially great if you like lukewarm/​cold baths.
— If you are using your den as your bedroom, be prepared for extreme temperatures (tundra cold in the winter, hot as hell in the summer) and constant noises from the water heater in the utility closet that makes it tough to sleep through
In case it’s not clear, this building is NOT WORTH THE MONEY. I’ve had much better experiences at Courthouse Place and Courtland Towers for ²⁄₃ of the rent.

This place is a shithole. They make it sound great but it is awful. My apartment has flooded twice, washer has broken three times while my clothes were in it, the disposal has broken multiple times, and the staff does not seem to care. Especially after hours. They are rude, unhelpful, and completely incompetent. The rent is way too high for what you get here. Most people make it manageable by having someone live in the sunroom, but be warned — there is no climate control and no sound proofing in these rooms.

My 1 year lease in a 1BR 1BA + Den:
Overpriced for 4 reasons: 1. I could hear every party my neighbors threw so much for «luxury», 2. in a 1BR costing 2.3k+ a month I expect a free parking spot but I paid $ 100/​mo extra, 3. When the power went out, all residents were locked out of their homes until 3am because its an electronic swipe entry system with apparently no back up and no staff willing to come in and help us at night (WTF), and 4. the leasing office was great but the after hours customer service is not up to standard for a «luxury apartment complex».
Oh and 5. My laundry machine broke and flooded my closet.
Oh wait and 6. our thermostat broke and took a week to get fixed, hello 86 degree apartment. #luxury amiright?
And can’t forget 7. Shower didn’t produce hot water for the first week of our lease. Come ON!
I don’t expect things to improve, it really felt like their attitude was «I’m making lots of money, sorry you don’t like it, leave and someone will gladly take your spot.» I loved the location, but honestly celebrated when my lease ended.

There seem to be a lot of negative reviews on here and the building recently got some bad press due to some break-​ins, so I wanted to write to share my thoughts and defend a mostly great place to live. I have lived here for just under a year and have been overall very happy. The building, grounds, pool, and fitness center are all very nice. I have had a few minor maintenance complaints and have generally been satisfied with how they have been handled.
I love my apartment — a studio plus a nice 100ish sq ft sunroom. I wouldn’t personally recommend using the sunroom as a bedroom because it does get very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer and the AC/​heat in the rest of the apt can’t quite keep up to maintain the temperature in this vent-​less room (on extremely hot or cold days, it’s 10+ degrees hotter/​colder than the rest of the apt). It’s bearable as a living room/​den but I can’t imagine trying to sleep in the extremes (maybe people who don’t think it’s a problem are willing to crank the AC or heat and pay crazy $ in utilities?).
I have had minimal experience with the concierges in Building 1, but those in Building 2 are lovely. The office staff has been absolutely nothing less than wonderful to deal with.
The pool, rooftop, and grills are great in the summer. There are tons of bunnies in the courtyard!
The hallways can be loud at night, usually on the weekends. This took some getting used to. I think it varies by floor some too. I swear, some apartment on the first floor is blaring techno every time I check my mail down there… Not sure I could stand being their neighbor, but my floor isn’t too bad (fingers crossed that doesn’t change). It can feel college-​y due to random drunken yelling in hallways late at night and occasional beer cans on the elevator on Sat or Sun mornings.
We did have some frightening break-​ins earlier this fall. I called the office concerned and looking for more information, and they immediately offered to install a hotel lock in my apartment and did it that day. I really appreciated their response, and have otherwise always felt very safe here.
I did a lot of looking before I moved in here last year and truly believe it’s a great value in this area. I’ll probably be here til that changes!

A man accused in a bizarre string of crimes is on the loose. Arlington police say he broke into three apartments.
In two cases, women awoke to him standing in their bedroom. In another, the suspect rubbed a sleeping woman’s arm.
All three happened in an apartment building in the 1400 block of North Taft Street in the Courthouse neighborhood.
One of the victims in this disturbing string of crimes is speaking out… so no other woman will have to go through what she went through.
Authorities say three times in the last two weeks the same suspect has broken into apartments at the Meridian complex.
On September 15, between 4 and 5 a.m., a man fitting the same description somehow got into two locked units, watched women as they slept and fled after they awoke.
«And I had a weird feeling that someone was looking at me. I opened my eyes and there was a man standing at the edge of my bed just about a foot away from me,» says Heather, who requested ABC7 not use her last name.
Heather says she screamed for 30 seconds, but the intruder just stared and didn’t say a thing.
«It was terrifying. I felt like I was trapped in my bed because he was blocking my bedroom door so I couldn’t move.»
He eventually backed up and left. She’s deeply troubled because all the doors in this complex lock when closed, including hers.
«It seems like this person has a master key. He might live in the building. He might work at the building. It’s just terrifying to think that he has complete access,» Heather says.
Several days later police say the same suspect entered another unit, but this time stroked a woman’s arm while she slept. She woke up and he got away.
The description of the suspect is vague, white male, 5 – 10, 20 – 25 years old.
Arlington County police are actively investigating these cases and are calling on residents to dead bolt their doors.
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I loved living at Meridian! I lived there for a little over a year in a two bedroom plus sunroom, using the sunroom as a third bedroom. Living in DC is expensive and this is a great way to cut down the cost. I had my apartment facing north so I wouldn’t boil in the sunroom; it was never too hot or too cold. The staff was always pleasant to deal with. The grill area was wonderful and I made sure to take full advantage of it. Cornhole in the courtyard? Yes, please! While my kitchen wasn’t brand new like some other buildings in the neighborhood, everything else stayed up to date, including the machines in the gym. Sidenote: squash! Overall, best place I’ve ever lived.

I’ve lived here for 6 months, and I could do without being here another day. Overall, I think that giving this place a 1 is doing it a favor.
To start with, I wasn’t always unhappy with the Meridian. When I first moved in, it seemed like a really nice place with good views and amenities for an apartment so close to DC. Some of the obvious benefits are a workout room, a nice lobby, and close walking distance to the Court House Metro station.
That’s about where the good parts end. The walls of the apartment seem like they are paper thin. Every day, I feel almost like I’m in the apartment next door because you can hear almost everything going on in rooms around you. As I’m walking down the hallway to take out the trash, you can hear almost every conversation going on in each apartment along the way. To me, that isn’t the sound of solid worksmanship in whoever built the place. Aside from that, there is always an issue with the apartment. The water is never the same temperature. Even when you turn the shower on all the way, hot one day is different than hot the next. The disposal broke 3 times in the time that I’ve been here. And that’s with only using it once a week. The towel bars have broken off of the walls in the bathroom so many times that maintenance gave up on putting it back up. I would have thought that being on the top floor would make a difference in things, but there has been construction that starts at 630am every day since I’ve lived here. Possibly if you didn’t have the construction right outside of the window every morning, it would make the whole experience a little better.
In addition, although there is one member of the staff that is a pretty good guy, everyone else is pretty rude. There is one person that works at night that is especially inconsiderate. When questioned about anything, she files a complaint and it gets slid under your door within a few days. The last time that she was questioned, I told her that I was going to file formal complaint with management later in the week when I had time. The next day, I not only had a complaint stuffed under my door, it took away things that I PAY FOR! I could understand if they would request that things not be done. That is totally fine. If someone trashes the lobby at night (which I have seen several times), I could understand a complaint being filed. But for questioning a staff member? That’s appalling! I pay quite a bit of money every month to live here. I could even buy a pretty decent house for what I’m spending on an apartment here, so to have things taken away that are included in rent are absolutely absurd.
Unfortunately, this place is much too expensive for what you actually get. I understand that everyone has good and bad experiences everywhere, but this is one of the places that I felt so strongly about that I needed to write a review. I can’t remember the last time that I wrote a review about a place, no matter where it was. Take my opinion or leave it, but it is important that when someone is selecting an apartment, that they know all of the good and the bad about the place. And seriously, if I could move out of here tomorrow without penalty, I definitely would.

I think somewhere in between most of these reviews is the right way to go.
I’ve lived in the Meridian for two years now, and if I had to summarize it quickly I would simply say that it’s affordable, adequate, close to the metro, and a little too close to college life.
For what you pay it’s fairly roomy and has plenty of windows/​light, however the kitchens and bathrooms are sorely outdated which makes it a stretch to call «home». All of the amenities are great; nice enough workout room, pool, easy parking, and a convenience store/​laundry in front of the building for any emergencies.
However the one thing that is ultimately going to drive us away is the noise. I understand that when you’re a senior or directly out of college you aren’t busy enough at work to really need sleep/​quiet, but as me and my roommates get more involved in our careers, getting woken up every Friday and Saturday night due to 21 year olds screaming in the courtyard about how awesome and drunk they are is getting rather tiresome.
If you are new to DC and fresh out of college the Meridian would probably be a great fit; it’s well known, easy to find, and there are always people around to hang out with. However if you’re more into hitting a happy hour and then heading home to relax after a long day/​week at work, this might not be the place for you.

I’m perplexed by the low ratings on some of these reviews. After doing a pretty exhaustive search mainly of DC apartments in the Dupont/​downtown/​Georgetown areas, I extended my search to the Rosslyn/​Courthouse area in hopes of finding a larger studio with more accommodations than I was finding in the city itself (and the ~3% tax break of living in VA isn’t so bad either). Here’s the good and bad that I’ve experienced in my two years here:
Likes:
— Great natural light and city view through very large windows
— The sunroom setup is great for segmenting the space so that I effectively have a one bedroom instead of a studio, at the price of a studio
— The gym, gas grills, rooftop patio, pool, club rooms, and landscaped courtyard are all amenities that are really nice to have and are well maintained
— Having a washer/​dryer, ceiling fan, dish washer, ample counter space in the kitchen, and walk in closet are all great conveniences to have
— Management has been friendly and responsive when it comes to replaces lights or fixing a broken disposal; on a couple occasions when I’ve been locked out they’ve helped promptly with the lockout at no charge
— close to the metro, and Red Top cabs get to the building generally within 5 minutes of calling
— packages are dropped off in your apartment, avoiding theft concerns if left in the hallway
Dislikes:
— The downside of the largely glass-​enclosed sun room space is that in the summer it can get hot and in the winter it can be a bit cold. This has only really been annoying though on really hot summer days
— The disposal breaks frequently if you cook a lot
— It can be difficult for visiting friends to find street parking (it would be nice if they had a visitor’s lot for 2 hour parking or something)
— Each year rent has increased $ 90−100/month. I would say that this has accompanied investments in the building (nicer looking carpeting and painted walls in the hallways, gas grills), but the annual increase in rent is nevertheless a little frustrating.
In general, the appliances are nothing fancy but they have more appliances in each apartment than you typically find elsewhere. You get more amenities and larger square footage for the amount you pay than other options too. The similar surrounding buildings in Courthouse that I looked into are notably more expensive with marginal extra perks to merit the higher price. Hope this helps!