Washington Intern Housing Network

Originally ran into some issues, but the management team worked with me to resolve them.

I was very pleased with my room accommodations. It was just as i saw in the pictures on their website. I heard from past interns they stayed at the WISH and heard alot of bad things. Im glad CSUF chose this company.
Management was very nice and quick to respond to any problems we had in the apartment.
They also set up get togethers to meet the other interns staying at the WIHN which was great.
Not much I can say about anything bad other than the deposit refund going through paypal taking $ 7.00 for processing fee.
Melanie was super awesome. Great location next to Union Station and Kaiser Permanante down the street and a super market (Giant) across the street.
EDIT * 11÷3÷15 — just wanted to let the WIHN staff and Melanie know I received your very thoughtful card. You guys didnt have to do that but I really appreciate the thought and gesture. You guys are awesome !

I can’t say enough about my apartment. I met the two nicest roommates when moving into the WIHN apartments and we’ve talked about moving back in together somewhere near the same location once college is over and we try to find jobs. Currently, I go to the University of Texas and I’m about to graduate in May — I recently just spent three months in DC for an internship on Capitol Hill and just finished two weeks ago.
I’m not sure if other people had a problem with management as listed below, but Brooke in the front office was really nice to us, responded to all of our maintenance requests in a timely manner, and there were no problems for any of us when we moved out.

If I could have left no stars, I would have. We moved my son into the Greystone House for one semester of his internship in Washington DC. Though the website made the property sound wonderful we were sadly disappointed. My son referred to his room as «the cell». It was a tiny room in the basement with bars on the windows. There was a tiny single bed and not even a desk in it. It was dark and gloomy and damp. The neighborhood was sketchy. My sons girlfriend sent him a goody box that was promptly stolen. We paid $ 6700.00 for a single room that was a dump. Try another one of the housing services. This one was awful.

I lived in the Senate Square apartments near Union Station. While the apartments and facilities were really great, the WIHN management was terrible. I lived in a quad which had 2 wooden sets of bunk beds, while my other two roommates shared a double in a room with no windows and no ventilation. The ads and website are deceiving – while the WIHN does not babysit or check up on you, they take forever to get back to you when you do have an issue. The correspondence was unprofessional, unreliable, and they took a large chunk out of my deposit after I moved out for no reason. They also did not inspect our apartment after the prior tenants moved in, so I could have been paying for the previous tenants’ damages. They are friendly and helpful at first – once you move in and pay in full, they stop caring.
You also run the risk of living with people you won’t get along with. I’ve never had a bad roommate experience until living in the WIHN. I was greeted with roommates who never did the dishes, never cleaned, and would not turn down the TV (even when asked) when others were trying to sleep. Luckily I got along really well with two of my roommates, and I met a few other awesome interns (two of whom I am living with now), but all 3 of us agree that the WIHN is ridiculously overpriced, overrated, and I would recommend interns find housing on Craigslist before investing in the WIHN.
Sketch is the best word I can use to describe the WIHN and its policies. I also assumed that the WIHN would put on some sort of gathering for the interns so we could all get to know each other — this won’t happen, and unless you know other interns in the program, you will not meet the other WIHN tenants.
Save yourself the money, the sanity, and the sleep (you won’t get any if you have a quad and share it with loud, disrespectful roommates like I did), and search on Craigslist for housing. I’ve also heard from other interns that the WISH program worked out well for them, although they weren’t provided with as nice of facilities as we were.