Avalon Courthouse Place

Avalon Courthouse is great! Front desk staff are very friendly and maintenance comes to fix any service problems very quickly. Moving in was a breeze with the loading dock and freight elevator. There’s a café/​convenient store on the first floor that is a little pricy and not affiliated with Avalon but it’s convenient if you need something last minute and don’t want to walk/​drive to the store. Also love that it’s a pet-​friendly community since I have a dog.

I’ve never lived in a high-​rise apartment building with amenities so I don’t really have anything to compare it to… BUT I will say that as a resident of Avalon since September 2015, I am very impressed with how smoothly our transition has been, both to the apartment as well as to Arlington. To begin, we were looking for a place that is close to the Metro. And believe me, Avalon is close — I’d say a 1.5 minute walk — to the Courthouse Metro Station. Second, the amenities such as the gym and the fact that there is a (fairly expensive) convenience store and dry cleaning store on site makes life here easier. We haven’t really had a chance to hang out by the pool but we expect to enjoy it come summertime — it looks fairly maintained and clean. In addition, what sold us to living here besides Avalon itself is that there are plenty of retail outlets and restaurants nearby. There are also a ton of green spaces and parks in this area. The Avalon staff are as attentive and friendly as one could expect. We’ve only ever had to call maintenance on two separate occasions and both times, we received timely and friendly service.
I have a small dog so I love the fact that Avalon is very pet-​friendly (there are always dog and cat treats out in the lobby, in addition to stocked pet waste stations throughout the exterior pathways).
Our apartment is a 1 BD/​1 BA and roughly 720 sq. ft. Yeah, it’s small but it fits us perfectly (myself, my husband and my 8-​lb. dog). We have a balcony and a gas fireplace. So far, the appliances work great. I really have nothing to complain about the apartment besides the fact that you can tell from the kitchen and bathroom tile as well as from the appliances that this is an older apartment. But in our minds, we can and have made this place look great and fit our needs. There are cement walls and cement floors which I actually prefer because you can hear a lot less from noisy neighbors, although sometimes on a weekend night, you can vaguely here rowdy parties with loud music. Another downside to this place is that because Avalon is centrally-​located, you tend to hear a lot of construction and dump trucks nearby, but that’s usually during the day and at no other obnoxious times.
All in all, I am really happy to be living here. It is well worth the money. So if you are on the fence because of the relatively high cost (as we were 5 months ago), I’d recommend you go for it and I hope you’ll be as happy about the choice as we were.

Great place to live in :) We’ve been here for five months now and everything runs smoothly —
# The front desk staff are always nice and tend to your every request,
# Maintenance issues are taken care of immediately by professional staff members,
# The Building is very taken care of and all the amenities are always in top shape,
# Proactive works are always going on to improve the facility,
# The pool and common areas are always clean and welcoming.
In a nutshell — I would definitely recommend :)

Great place to live. Attentive staff, very clean and the amenities in the building are wonderful. Doing some grocery shopping, getting a fresh sandwich made and picking up my dry cleaning all in my slippers? Hard to beat.

Awesome luxurious high-​rise. Can’t get closer to the metro.
Maintenance is super quick and wonderful.
Very classy place to live. Only complaint is the residents here are not too friendly.

This is the most disappointing and poorly managed apartment I have ever lived in. The leasing office is terrible, in competency, responsiveness, quality of service, customer care. The number of examples I can give of their absolutely atrocious service are too many to list, and quite frankly having broken my lease to get out of there, I want to forget the whole experience.