The View

I really love living here! Truly stellar concierge service and maintenance team and leasing. Shoutout to Frank from the concierge desk and Kyleigh at the leasing office.

We’ve lived all over the DMV, and we don’t mind paying for luxury. At the view however, you pay a luxury price without the luxury. The View is only motivated by charging you as much as possible and sometimes providing you with the minimum legal standard of a habitable apartment. Don’t expect more from this place. We were nickel and dimed on our security deposit and all our friends that moved had the same experience. They charged us more than we felt we owed, but strangely could not reach the staff at the view, and were ignored. They just want you to pay your bill and not argue here. Many of these reviews on google are written for the maintenance team, because the maintenance directly asks residents to review them on the google reviews page not directly to management. This is how the view maintains a high number of stars. They're not real reviews of the property, they're of the maintenance team. For 8 months straight, our neighbors played music or the TV from 10PM till 2 AM on and off during the week and weekend. I had concierge go and warn them to stop like 8 times and filed numerous noise complaints, which I felt were not addressed properly as the issue persisted for as long as it did. Even the band that played during the day above us was quieter and more considerate than this guy. They did not care to fix this, because our neighbor was a paying resident like us and that hurts their bottom line. It doesn't matter if you break the rules here. For every problem we had here, it felt like they just want to you live with it. Just like the roaches that infested the building for a time, or when our AC was broken for a month and our apartment reached temps as high as 90 F. They couldn’t believe the problem wasn’t fixed. This is the experience you will get here, they just want the problem (you) to go away and pay your rent in peace. Literal garbage landed onto our balcony all throughout our stay from other residents tossing their trash from the roof or their balcony. I’ve seen report cards, boxes and dental floss thrown onto my balcony. It was disgusting. The resident events went downhill in quality and effort. The community is also not really here anymore. Everyone seems angry, and people drive like maniacs in the garage. The elevators are often broken down and in need of repair, often putting residents into a constraint of 1 elevator during our time here When we told the office we’d move out and afterwards made maintenance request, it took them three days to fix it. And they only did so after we went to the leasing office to address it. It was fixed twenty minutes after speaking to the leasing office We booked our loading dock slot and were told a week later that another person reserved it (by email, not via the reservation system). We were informed that it was a glitch, but it shouldn’t take two weeks for a glitch in the system to be noticed. They prioritize at all costs, new residents. Once you’ve sent in your notice to move out, you become chopped liver. If you’re thinking of the view, go somewhere cheaper. They raise rents 5% or more every year, and don’t provide more value in return. Not to mention the apartment industry in DC is full of price collusion. Go across the street, live somewhere else. You can have a View anywhere.

Living here has been great. They have 24/7 concierge service and all staffs are friendly and the best part is how quickly the maintenance team resolves issues. They usually come in the day after I submit a maintenance request. Alex from the maintenance team has been great!

I want to take this moment to express the gratitude I feel for having Alex your amazing maintenance guy to be working at the View. We have been here for years and every maintenance member have been nice and helpful but Alex made us feel like he is family. He’s very generous to us n our kids even when he sees I’m holding heavy things he offers to help even when he’s busy. He’s very respectful and professional . He understands I have an infant and toddler and makes my life easier when I have an issue at the apartment. Please take a moment and acknowledge Alex hard work . I see him every where working and I feel he’s so dedicated. I enjoy having him fix our issues and even my kids know him by name now and get excited to see him. Thank you Alex for making our issues and living at the View easier. Thank you for your smiles.

Just moved out after 4 years…really loved the complex and our apartment! Parking is very easy and chill (no random towing out of the blue like some other buildings I’ve seen), the apartments are beautiful, and access to Ballston and Virginia Square is hard to match! The staff were always very friendly, and I couldn’t have asked for a better place to live!