55 Hundred

After living here for a full year, I am updating my review for potential residents.
Big Pros:
1. Management staff are wonderful, professional, and communicates very well to any issues.
2. There are a plenty of monthly events such as for pets, children, and wine lovers, etc.
3. Assigned parking which is located underground of the building with a secure garage door.
4. Building itself, hard-​wood floor, stainless steal appliances are very new and clean.
5. Most of residents are very respectful and friendly.
6. Pet-​friendly
7. Shuttle service operates 7 days a week for commuters to Pentagon City Metro in the morning and in the afternoon during week days. Shirlington route operates on mid-​morning hours on weekends. They update you for time changes or delays via text message.
8. Roof-​top pool for the summer, new gym being built, dental offices are downstairs.
In between Pros/​Cons
1. Location– it is located off of Columbia Pike, so you will hear a lot of noises facing the street. Annandale, Falls Church, and Shirlington are close by. Also, there are Giant, Home Goods, Starbucks, and Gym are in walking-​distance. Crime rates are higher in more densely populated city, so i would not say this area is more dangerous compared to north Arlington where rents are higher. In fact, crimes happen everywhere in Arlington according to Arlington Crime Solver’s website.
Cons:
1. Noise level– depends on which floor you live, this can be a disaster on weekends. However, management staff will send out a warning letter and they can be kicked out eventually.
2. Location– this is not a good location for walking around at night. Unlike most suburb neighborhood where you can walk your dogs at night, this is not the best place for that. However, there is a park nearby, but I would not go there by myself as a female.
I truly enjoyed living here as a resident, I felt sad to move out. However, Arlington is pricy compared to other northern VA areas. This can be an advantage for someone to explore the city of Arlington or Washington D.C. Also, it is possible to live without a car in Arlington. For example, there are ART bus routes, Metro bus, and Fairfax Connector.
Only issue was that the location was not that friendly to enjoy walking and feeling safe. This will be my only drawback. Columbia Pike is a melting pot of a variety of cultures and ethnicities. It is a great advantage to explore different cultures and people. It is constantly growing and being developed.

Don’t move here.
The management is completely amateur and sometimes hostile. If you have ANY problems whatsoever they’ll get defensive about it and tell you why it’s your fault. Here are some common things you simply can’t do here, or major points why this is the worst building I’ve ever lived in.
1) Have a doorbell. The doorbell is physically broke and the concierge and management office refuse to admit it. I mean the buttons don’t work most of the time. On top of that… if you want the doorbell to be tied to your phone number like it’s designed for, you MUST have a «local» number. If they put in any other number it just doesn’t call you. IF you confront them about this they tell you to sign up for a third party VOIP service with a local number…
2) Extra key fobs. They simply will not. So if you need a nanny, dog sitter, emergency contact in the area, family member, etc… to have access to your apartment YOU CAN’T.
3) Concierge. It’s terrible. Some of the staff are actually pretty nice. But the concierge hours are terrible. They’re scheduled to start at 9 am. But they’re almost never here on time. Most of the time they’re not in until 9:30. So if you need someone to come to your apartment, like a dog sitter, they’ll often be at the mercy of the shitty concierge that’s never there on time.
4) Billing… Have fun seeing random charges applied to your bill online with no explanation. Literally «miscellaneous fee». And no one will explain what it is. And the website is such a piece of trash you can’t even access your billing history. It’s a joke.
5) Terrible appliances. The refrigerator is nice. The dish washer and washer/​drier barely work.
6) The neighborhood is HORRIBLE. There’s 0 parking. It’s right on the edge of town and is surrounded by low income housing. You’ll never feel safe being outside when it’s dark. And there’s nothing in walking distance.
7) Parking. If you live here, it’s ok for $ 100. But i you have guests coming by you have to pay an $ 8 fee. There’s only a handful of guest spots. And they’re so aggressive with towing cars that often your car will be towed in the time it takes you to park your car and walk to the lobby to get a guest pass. It’s extortion.
Just don’t live here. The somewhat spacious floor plans, which are the only real upside to this horrible place, aren’t worth living in a building run by amateurs with extortion like practices in the worst part of town.

DO NOT MOVE HERE! Guest parking is horrible. They only have a few spots that aren’t dental or future resident and most of the time they are all taken. Then on top of the horrible inconvenience they charge you $ 8 a day for your guest to park for a possibility that they STILL may get towed. One time I was at concierge picking up my mail and they even towed the concierges car. Nothing short of ridiculous! This place will try and charge you for any and everything possible. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

There are pros and cons.
This is month 7 for me. Layouts are very nice, the floors are great, the staff is professional. High end is comparison to many local buildings and very luxury. Rooms and fixtures are quite lovely and easy to clean. Large windows and accent walls ($ 150 per wall) give your place more allure. There’s an electronic package service, amazing concierge/​dry cleaning services for residents and the fitness center and club room are top notch. The shuttle is very fancy with wifi and leather interior and usually on time. The common areas are generally clean there are a few rough days with pet owners not picking up after their animals or light debris from someone moving in the halls. The cleaning staff are vigilant about keeping things clean so you won’t see the mess long if at all.
I cannot share others sentiment about noise, filth, damage to my car. Our neighbors make noise but it’s not unbearable nor can we hear everything in their place. I’m not a pet person and this is very pet friendly building so I just go with it. We feel safe and comfortable. The utilities are pricey if you use heat/​AC and the place is expensive to warm because of the high ceilings.
The building could offer residents services commensurate with rent. Improving parking is one of them.
However, the towing company is the real culprit. Write letters to the VA ATTORNEY GENERAL and Arlington county about the shady build was practices of Advanced Towing. The building could reimburse residents for erroneous towing as well, that’s the least they can do it develop a better rapport with the dentist office who only serves 4 – 5 clients at any given time.
I have a parking space and pay for guest spaces and even then we’ve been towed. All in all you’re going to spend an additional $ 130 every month or so because of one of the following: 1. Your guest whom you also paid the $ 8 daily rate for a pass was towed and you will need to reimburse them 2. Your car for some reason though parked in your assigned space was towed or 3. You or a guest parks on the street and gets a fine from Arlington County.
Parking is horrible but I do feel safer with covered parking and a clean, safe, and video monitored parking garage. I now know to only use my designated space and to make sure that my guests take pictures of their permits and spot with some sort of date and time insignia for protection. Sadly the easiest solution is not have guests over or to ask them to metro. Oh there’s Saturday shuttle service to Shirlington.

we moved here in August of last year and even though we were able to reserve the already empty apartment a month in advance, it still wasn’t move-​in ready when it came time. then things started breaking shortly thereafter. we thought we picked a convenient unit right next to an elevator but that was a joke because the elevator was never working; only to find out that someone kept using the move-​in key to shut it off, even when no moves were happening. there was pee in the elevator that owners were not cleaning up and many pet owners still don’t pick up after their pets in the (designated, but not owned by 55 Hundred) pet walking area. they said there is little they can do to enforce pick-​up because it’s not their property. also, even though there is a restricted breed list, there are pitbulls and German Shepards living here. it takes forever to get maintenance done but that’s probably because they are overwhelmed with requests. because moving is a hassle, we decided to try another apartment within the building. we chose a first floor unit near a door to go outside since we have a young dog who needs to go out often but there are strange noises that go on, on this side of the building that seem to be within the walls. I’ve yet to figure it out. we have no water pressure and our dishwasher quit working shortly after we moved in. we have a nice patio but if we leave the door open, we get tons of ants and with the rain the last several days, our patio has flooded because the drain (if it really is one) must be clogged. water gets precariously close to our patio door and takes about a day to drain. the apartment itself is cute but not a good solution for two people as there is inefficient use of space and lack of closets. to piggy back off what Jon D said, there was goop on my as well as my boyfriends vehicles too, that I was able to mostly get off but it took a lot of effort. My vehicle was keyed as well and I’m convinced it happened here but because they don’t have security cameras in the garage I can’t prove it. also, this «secure» building hasn’t been secure for over a month because the garage entrance has remained open due to being ‘broken’. the office staff has changed three times in less than a year and they just replaced the entire front desk staff. one of the office staff is a very young girl who doesn’t seem to have ever had a professional position before and has no idea what customer service is. the ONLY real positive is the rent is fairly inexpensive but then they charge you the same prices for parking that you’d expect to pay in a high end place like clarendon. in clarendon it makes sense because you are walking distance to everything and a car should be a luxury. there is really nothing convenient about this location so a car is necessary and therefore the garage fees are ridiculous. they also don’t mention that rent excludes water and trash until after you sign the lease, so when we moved in, we thought our only extra utilities would be electric and cable. nope. this place has potential and there is someone who works for the company that seems to genuinely care but he doesn’t live here so he doesn’t see how awful this place truly is.

We have been leaving in this building for 2 years. My husband and I are very tired of their new management office, their customer service is the most awful, they don’t care about their tenants. RATS IN THEIR UNITS, we have been stucking in the garage for over an hour, false fire alarm during the middle of the night several times, my car paint is damaged for a licking in the garage and the last one is we just recently had a flooding in hour apartment from the kitchen pipeline and it damage our complete apartment, it smells so bad! Why I am very upset and disapointed is that they don’t even face their problems with their tenants. Seems like they don’t care! THIS IS DEFINATELY NOT A LUXURY BUILDING TO LIVE!!! DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

I must first say I have been a resident for over two years, and I will have to say the property has really gone down. I would post pictures, however it looks like that’s not allowed. To start, if you park your car in the garage you run the risk of damage. This morning I woke up to see a acid based liquid dropping down from the ceiling above my car. Please note, this is the second time this has happened and that time it was my Mercedes, so they are aware of the issue but fail to fix the problem. Parking is a problem which has been said many times, however when you have a Dentist who takes up all of the visitor parking spots for his business and sets hours when you can park there, now that’s a problem.
Visitors:
If you happen to have a visitor to your apartment they will need to pay $ 8.00 to park. If not they run the risk of there car getting towed away, now this is common knowledge.
Swimming Pool:
This past summer tried to take the children to the pool, and was turned away because they said there was a limit to the amount of people you can have in the pool. That is understandable;however, not being able to even sit in the chairs until the pool is less crowed is an total insult to my intelligence. I called Arlington County city government, and they said there is a limit based upon size of the pool of how many people you can have in the actual pool, however there was no regulation regarding being on the grounds or around the pool, they actually said they did not understand that.
The only way I can see this property to improve would be to change current management, and focus on customer service. If 55 Hundred had a high level of professionalism, and sense of urgency to provide outstanding service and support that would really make a huge difference in the moral of the residence.

Very nice finishes that are easy to clean — ok some of it is actually plastic but it all balances out. Granite throughout. I loved the dark floors. Small but beautiful rooftop pool with a comfortable lounge area. The staff is among the best part — very personable and helpful always. It truly felt like a higher-​end oasis, just smack in a low-​end neighborhood. Great conference room space, although no parking for my visitors to be able to use it. Parking will forever be a frustration for visitors. Very close to route 7, otherwise I found the location really inconvenient for me and my guests.
Tenants letting their dogs do their smelly business in the lobby/​halls, and leaving it for the staff to clean. Tenants allowed to have thumping acoustical systems that you feel even if you are deaf mute — for more than 12 hours at a time even on weeknights. Tenants flicking lit cigarettes off the balconies onto the patio court so you fear most days that the plants or your outdoor furniture will be consumed in flames any day. Tenants parking their car on the garage pathway (in front of the loading dock) completely blocking every exiting/​entering tenant for hours at a time, when they could have simply parked temporarily on a nearby street. Creates instant traffic jam, on top of the already 5 minutes time to traverse out of the garage from the lowest floor to only find yourself trapped before exiting for the street with a long light. From closing the door behind to getting onto the street — it always took me at least 10 mins.
German Shepherds are a breed restriction, therefore they aren’t allowed.
The building wasn’t built to handle the amount of trash that the tenants generate so the chute overflows most of the week. It gets pretty smelly because you have to sit your trash on the trash room floor. Makes it slow because its becomes a big extra job for the staff.
A big warning of very large lease break penalties that will not be specified in the lease you sign. Charged me more than 3 months of rent to exit my lease — was supposed to be 2 months’ rent. The extra was a «notice fulfillment charge» — pretty sure that’s on the edge of being illegal with that label.
I lived in many of the newer apartment communities, and although I liked the place overall, with the myriad of rental choices right now, I would choose elsewhere.

This place should really get a 3.5 rating. Here are the pros and cons.
Pros:
Very nice, spacious apartments
Affordable considering the area
Good amenities (shuttle runs Monday-​Saturday to Pentagon)
Varies stores located in the proximity (about .5 mile walk to the Giant, TJ MAXX and more)
Staff is friendly
Four mile run park is around the corner
Cons:
The parking for visitors is really bad since it is shared with the dentist office located in the building
Noisy neighbors
Common areas are not always kept cleaned
Overall this was a good place to live.

Wonderful Apartment Homes. Great Floor plans, convenient and secure parking. Good amenities, monthly events, and outstanding concierge service. The staff and maintenance are outstanding and it is a very friendly building. Kept very clean and always looks brand new. Wood floors throughout, updated stainless steel appliances, good lighting and secure.
I would highly recommend these apartment homes for your next home.

The building is nice, the apartments are nice, the staff is friendly. My only complaint is that the tenants are kind of loud on the weekends if they’re outside on their balcony or when the dogs are barking. Other than that, I like living here.