The Jefferson House Condominium

Amazing location. Literally 2 min walk to the metro, whole foods, etc. Very well managed. Everything you could want in an apartment.

My first apartment in DC. Fairly good sized studio. I was a grad student at GW so the proximity to school was awesome. The metro is about 1.5 blocks away. Georgetown a quick 10 — 15 minute walk and Dupont wasn’t too far off either.
I had a studio facing the pool so I didn’t hear the sirens of the hospital.
Great proximity and yes, as some other Unilocalers pointed out, if you’re not a GW student (particularly undergrad) it can get a bit rowdy/​noisy outside the building. When i was there, it was predominantly med students, some grad students, young professionals and old-​timers.

Let me preface this by saying I’ve lived here for 10.5 months now.
During that time, I had to live through MAJOR renovations at this building. In the end, the lobby looked great, but the carpet in the hallways were too funky a design for me (it’s one of those designs where it’s so busy-​looking, you wouldn’t be able to tell if it’s dirty). I’ll just list the pros and cons of this place:
Pros:
— location, location, location. The Foggy Bottom metro stop is literally a 1.5 minute walk away. If you’re a GW student, the campus is right there. There’s a 7 – 11 next door (granted, it closes at 11 p. m…yes, believe it or not, it’s not 24 hours).
— building is located right between a Trader Joe’s to the north and a Safeway to the south.
— no mice/​bug problems, as far as I know. One day I saw dead roaches near the laundry room on the ground floor, but they were gone when I went back down there a few days later. Don’t really know what that was all about.
— yay for receptionists/​doormen who hold your packages.
— overall a safe neighborhood, and Georgetown is in your backyard.
— a lot of students live in this building, I believe more graduate than undergraduate. But out of the time I’ve lived here, I think I’ve only heard really loud parties twice in my hallway, which is good. I’m assuming prospective tenants don’t want to feel like they’re living in a dorm.
Cons:
— super thin walls. Sometimes when I’m lying in bed trying to fall asleep, I hear my neighbor make some really freaky Tasmanian Devil-​type noise. No joke. And when all that renovation went on months ago, it was just plain miserable. I sleep like a deaf bear — I don’t wake up even if someone elbows me in the face (true story), but all the construction at 7 a.m. was unfortunately able to wake me up.
— I live in a unit that faces the GW hospital across the street, so of course, that equals a LOT of sirens. Try to get a unit that faces the back.
— too many college students in the area. I’m sorry, I’ve only been out of college several years, but I just find college students to be annoying, especially the ones who flaunt their parents’ wealth. You know who you are.
— I have AT&T, and my cell phone reception SUCKS. I don’t know if it’s my phone or plain old reception issues, but either way, I get at least 4 dropped calls a day. Super irritating.
— I don’t find the area to be that entertaining, and the majority of the restaurants in Foggy Bottom are just average.
— for some reason, our water gets shut off often. I never had this problem in any apartments I lived in in other cities… maybe it’s a DC thing? I don’t know, but it’s not cool to go to work wearing a baseball cap b/​c you couldn’t shower that morning due to no hot water.