<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Apartment Living</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/realestate/apartmentliving?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><description>Apartment Living</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Twinning Convenience and Comfort in Silver Spring]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9351-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9351-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Residents say the Twin Towers apartment complex, in the heart of Silver Spring, is a great place to live whether you commute to work or are retired.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenants Can Be Charged for Damage Beyond 'Normal Wear and Tear']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56200-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56200-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q A friend of mine recently moved out of the apartment where she lived for three years. When she moved in, she was not required to put down a security deposit.]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Park Connecticut: Head and Shoulders Above the Rest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56195-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56195-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Park Connecticut rises six stories above Connecticut Avenue in the Van Ness neighborhood of Northwest, but it also plunges  five stories down from street level in the back, where balconies provide residents views of Rock Creek Park from their luxury apartments.]]></description><author> Susan Straight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees Provide  Quiet Backdrop At Ashton Woods]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36942-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36942-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On rent day, the residents of Ashton Woods in Howard County filter into the apartment complex's spacious clubhouse to drop off checks and chat with the staff. All is calm and serene. The pool has yet to come to life, and the residents wander in to use the business center or sit in the lounge. Some of the younger residents snag cookies, offered daily along with coffee.]]></description><author> Sarah Abruzzese</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meadows at Russett Proves Pet- and People-Friendly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18670-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18670-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Duchess Williams loves her home because it's large, with space for her to run and play.]]></description><author> Meredith Hooker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Assume All Resident Managers Are the Same]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18676-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18676-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Q   I have lived in several apartment buildings in Washington over many years. While resident managers were once older women (sometimes men) who often ran the building as if they were den mothers or fathers, some buildings now hire much younger, more professional and better-educated people. ]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building's Extras Hold Special Allure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A671-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A671-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Summer was well underway when Elizabeth Roach began apartment hunting last May. The temperature climbed to 90 degrees on the day she toured Hamilton House, a high-rise on New Hampshire Avenue and M Street NW, Washington, that bills itself as a luxury building and boasts one of summer's most coveted facilities: an outdoor pool.]]></description><author> Julia Feldmeier</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Houseguest' Overstays Terms of Lease, if Not Welcome]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47621-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47621-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q   I recently signed a sublease that includes the following: "Occupancy of the Premises shall be limited to the Sublessee.]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking the Careful Line of Tenant-Staff Friendship]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47620-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47620-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Frances Miller, 57, who has lived at the Miramont apartments in Rockville for more than seven years, routinely e-mails back and forth with Robert Powell, 47, a leasing specialist with landlord Southern Management Corp.]]></description><author> Aliya Sternstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside the District But Within Its Reach]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27591-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27591-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For many local people in their twenties, the lure of city living is strong, but not for Kelvin Bush, 22, a first-year medical student at George Washington University.]]></description><author> Aliya Sternstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selborne House Offers Homey Comfort for Seniors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7892-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7892-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you are older than 62 and have a modest income and a home that has become too much to handle, you might be thinking of downsizing.]]></description><author> Ann Cameron Siegal</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Don't Have to Be Seen as a Crank If You're Right]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7894-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7894-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q   I have a problem with my landlord's maintenance of my rental home.]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cozy Complex Has Ballston Convenience]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53869-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53869-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Few people say they found the Birchwood Apartments by driving by. Though it lies just two blocks west of Ballston Commons Mall in Arlington...]]></description><author> Susan Straight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good for Walking and Living]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35650-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35650-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even though it sits at the edge of the Fairfax County Government Center, with Interstate 66 as its northern boundary, Post Forest is a pocket of tranquility.]]></description><author> Ann Cameron Siegal</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Your Roommate's 'Guest' Never Leaves]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35652-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35652-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q   My roommate's girlfriend has been living with us for a few months now and isn't paying rent. It's not that she is staying with us occasionally; she has moved in.]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High End, High Style At the Avalon in D.C.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17360-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17360-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Avalon at Gallery Place lives up to its billing as a luxury property just east of the Gallery Place Metro station in downtown Washington.]]></description><author> Susan Straight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gramercy Puts Residents Right in the Middle of Things]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64274-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64274-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Like the rest of Columbia, the Gramercy at Town Center apartments are about location --]]></description><author> Susan Straight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Your Nose Lead You Out of the Winter Doldrums]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64276-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64276-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q   Do you know of any ways to give my apartment a little bit of life during these cold winter days?]]></description><author> Sara Gebhardt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Downtown Neighborhood Blooms At Lansburgh Residents' Doorstep]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45168-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45168-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Renee Ingram moved into an apartment at the Lansburgh in downtown Washington because the building was convenient, just across the street from her office.]]></description><author> Sarah Abruzzese</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claridge House Inspires Loyalty Among Tenants]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27012-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27012-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_realestate/apartmentliving</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There usually aren't many apartments available at the 240-unit Claridge House in Silver Spring.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item></channel></rss>