Northampton Place Condominium

They have a library and a pool table room, a small fm, and a swimming pool during summer time. Not too pricy. A good maintenance.
Only thing I don’t like is a noisy dog on the floor. Some people complain but they don’t do anything to fix the issue. If you don’t mind a dog barking all day long, you could live here.

Not pricy. Good enough location. Easy access to Metro. Safe walking around. Many many dogs. Super markets are just 1 mile away. One of the cheapest gas station near here!

This is a great building to live in, the people are friendly and the building staff are wonderful. We love the convenience to DC, Old Town and Shirlington. We love that the building is so new in comparison with some of the other buildings we looked at. The elevators are really smooth and fast which make it real convenient when you’re in a rush. We have a spectacular view of Arlington and DC and the layout of the condos are very luxurious in comparison to the other buildings in the area. Coming from NYC you really get a lot for you money here, so if you decide to make this your next home we hope you love as much as we do.

I have lived at Northampton Place for about a year now. I am a renter, not an owner. I don’t doubt that the other review had a bike stolen, that has happened to others since I have lived here, but the garage doors do work now. I guess to solve the bike issue put a lock around it.
I have a 600 sq. ft. studio and no extra storage in the garage. If you want a lot of extra space then I guess you will have to move out to the country somewhere. I don’t mind not having a lot of space. I have room enough for what I need.
I think the management folks are nice. Maybe they are not the same people that the other reviewer had interactions with. When we lost power in the recent storm they handled it very well.
It’s quiet for the most part, but being in a studio I do hear a lot of hallway noise. The neighbors are friendly. I haven’t noticed any of the structural issues that the other review mentioned — perhaps they have fixed them.
I think if you just get rid of excess stuff, put a lock on your bike, work to secure a second parking space if you need one, then this place is great. My only complaint is that I wish it was closer to a metro station.

Oh yeah, let me tell you all about this place in one long and tragic saga so other people don’t get traumatized in the future by the experience of living here.
We are so unfortunate as to live here and cannot wait to get the hell out. Thank God we did not buy a condo in this building or even anywhere around it.
Let me begin by saying that the first days we moved in our bike got stolen from the garage that North Hampton Place shares with neighboring Alexander building. Not a very surprising turn of events if you take into account that the garage doors were almost always OPEN kindly welcoming every intruder. And whenever we would complain about the garage doors being open (turned out they were broken and couldn’t get fixed properly), we would get an attitude from the manager.
Then we had to fight with the management about the storage bins. Storage bins are SMALL and will hardly fit two big suitcases and one computer box. We had too much stuff so obviously 1 storage bin was not enough, so we put some boxes next to our bin in the common area. Just a few months later our boxes were cut and torn and shuffled through. When we complained about that, we received another waive of attitude from the management. Eventually that led to a new no-​loose-​items-​in-​the-​common-​area rule, keep in mind that the common area is huge and the bins occupy only half of it, while there are people like us who don’t have room for their stuff. So you would think a clever management would try to somehow tend to the residents’ needs. But not here! In fact, one of the managers has a very effective way of dealing with the residents needs: you don’t even finish your sentence when she starts shaking her head «no», and believe me, she does it EVERY time you ask for something without even giving you a chance to finish your thought.
One great example of my earlier point was when we realized that our door wouldn’t lock anymore. After $ 400 in locksmith fees and a long blood-​thirsty war with the same nice and always ready-​to-​help management always shaking their head «no», we finally got the condo association to admit that this was a door frame issue. Why didn’t they want to admit that was a door frae issue? Because door frame issues fall under the responsibility of the condo association and are paid by the condo association. Then after speaking with the engineers, it turned out that this 3-​year-​old building has major issues with settling and it affects the door frames. This led us to realize that the builder just did the bare minimum work on this so-​called «luxury» apartment complex. The builder we later came to find out keeps two lobbyists on his staff so they could lobby the crappy builder’s interests, get the lamest laws passed, construct crappy buildings like this, label them as «luxury» and fool consumers with the label.
By the way, our relationship with the two managers of this building (or should I call them «Komissars»?), is just SPECIAL. Let me start by saying that these managers are not residents of this building so they could care less for the local residents. We came to find out that they are employees of a 3^rd-​party management company and they are paid by the condo association. Oh, no wonder there is this corporate «I don’t give a damn about you as long as I get my money» attitude! These so-​called managers are employees of a certain Cardinal Management Group, Inc.
Another issue was the hot water. It had been 2 years that we did not have REAL hot water, just recently they fixed it and finally we know what real hot water feels like. Plus, every time they do some work with the water pipes, they shut off the water starting at 8:00AM or 9:00AM on a work day, while most people leave for work around that time. So this means you need to wake up around 6AM to complete all your water-​related business. Again, they could care less for the residents’ needs.
Parking is another saga in itself in this building. If you have two cars and have a 1-​bedroom place, then most of your time will be spent on parking space hunting. The closest parking space you might get is in the neighboring building for $ 90 a month. Yes, $ 90, in Virginia, NOT even DC!