Okdokey. After reading the reviews here, I have since moved into Stoneridge. Yay for me. I have to say it was the smoothest move I've ever had. My entire move took 2 hours at the new residence(really). I spent 10 minutes signing papers, getting keys, welcome pack, etc. Very fast.

Now that I've been here a bit, I can also say that the online rent payment and maintenance requests are excellent. The stuff just works. The welcome pack is quite useful with actual places you'll need to go and contact in the area. Not the corporate vomit that most apartments give you. The people here seem normal. No thefts/wierdness. It's out in the middle of nowhere so it's pretty peaceful. Oh, and they give you a complimentary roll of TP/paper towels at your new place. The thought that counts was quite useful when your stuff is in boxes stacked to the ceiling.

The staff are very attentive. Nick and Lea are great. They only tow your car if it's against the law to have on the road(like on cement blocks). And the reason why they don't always answer the phone, just to let you know, is that they are helping me. So sod off monkeyboy. If they answered the phone instead of helping people that pay them I would not stay here.

So, let's see. The walls are pretty decent, although I can hear people above me when they are playing guitar hero- or whatever braindead game kids whack to now. But that's apartment life. The apartments themselves aren't extravagant, but they look clean and nice. No marble floors, gold faucets, or chinese hookers, but what do you want. Kids are playing outside and birds are singing and it's close to work. It's good.

I'm here to save up money so I can buy a house from all of those poor folks going bankrupt for overextending themselves. Darwin always wins. Pretty soon houses will be half that of apartments on a bad day. I'm just biding my time, and this seems to be the best place to do it.

As far as the community here. There are all types of folks here of midline demographics. A few students that thank their Dad for paying the rent. You can pick them out easy because they all wear flip-flops and sweat pants in winter. Most are middle-high income working class folks(like me). Which these days means middle class due to inflation. Not a whole lot of old folks here. Not alot of pets, just because. I don't care either way. Haven't seen any pimp my ride, keepin it real dumb people here either. And some folks are here to exploit your Loudoun county tax dollars, by making 35K a year and wanting a 3 bedroom with fiber optic lines for 2 people with an attitude problem. What they don't realize just yet is that 17K per person is poor in Appalachia- not just in the most expensive area on the East coast. So , there are all kinds of people here. Some of them are leeches on society that don't realize that advancement=pain, but the vast majority of them are very nice and hard working. The club house and exercise room and center are accessible 24/7 as far as I can tell.

All in all this has been my easiest move yet. No BS. Good area. The staff actually cares about what you think because you pay them. Imagine that.

Verizon FIOS sign up is in a few days, so that's good. Comcast can packet filter my canceled cable subscription for a good time. At least Verizon has the good manners to just record your data on a backend packet sniffing NSA trunk. Gotta have etiquette on the internet you know. Anyhow.. moving on.

I'm paying half as much as where I was before and get twice the space/consideration. All in all a great place. I'm not saying it's Wonderland, but I haven't gotten any pointless grief from the staff/archstone/tenants and I haven't seen any crackheads or street walkers greeting me when I come in. And that's all I want. I'll check back in a year and give a more experienced review. Thus far, I can recommend this place above all others.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/18/2008
Nice review. Strange in parts, but good overall (lol). I found it interesting that you assume anyone appearing to be under 30 and wearing flip flops must be a student and having their Daddy pay the rent. Just a little tidbit, I am a college student graduating in May; and I have been working for the federal government for 5 years and paying my way through school. And yes, I do wear flip flops year round. Shocker!!
From: ThoreauHD	Date: 04/21/2009
As a follow up. I've been here a year now and not much has changed. Lea is still here but Nick got another gig at a sister complex of this place. It's peaceful and the rent payment system works well. I got a free carpet cleaning, and they do maintenance on filters and such routinely. The maint guys are very responsive. They hate open tickets. The rent has gone up 20 bucks for this year. Not a deal breaker obviously, Verizon FIOS is on site, but since the complex only let's them use the phone lines you're capped at 30/5. There are ethernet ports in each apartment but they are being routed to some isdn low bandwidth apartment complex internet access. Quite the waste, but the speed is good enough and the latency is 20 ms less than cable. Sorry if this bores you, but I'm a guy. Internet service and location are why I moved here. So, after a year the rating remains at 5. The staff solves my problems rather than creates them. The maintenance guys are on task riding around constantly in golf carts. Birds continue to sing, and cherry blossoms are everywhere. The rent is reasonable for this area, and we're backed up against a nature preserve/park. Housing prices are dropping in the area, but the way things are going I'm not sure I wanna stay near DC. Next stop, country livin away from a future civil war/first strike zone. Wish me luck.

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