Thank you for your replies, definitely helps a lot. If it is not too much to ask, can you name some apartments, which you have had good experiences with personally or have heard good things about? I have to commute to DC time to time, so being able to be close to the metro would be great.

As I look for apartments online, I am primarily going off google ratings. These ratings are completely off base, because the same apartment that has a great rating on google, might have a really bad review on apartmentfinder.com or padmapper.com etc.

Any insights would be much appreciated. Thanks.

- Infoseeker