Latrobe Apartments

I moved into La Trobe a few weeks ago and I’m really enjoying it. I wish I had found the place sooner. The best part is how quiet the building is. I never hear my neighbors! That could be because I’m on the top floor or because when I have met them in the hall, both neighbors on either side of me said, «isn’t it quiet here?» So, maybe I’m lucky to have found neighbors that appreciate peace, too.
The apartment itself is cozy, clean and updated. I love the heat lamp in my bathroom and the penthouse view. The gym is functional with modern equipment. The staff was helpful and responsive when I moved in and made the process smooth and easy. Both Cintia and Dominique went the extra mile to help me and I really appreciate it. Honestly, every employee I have interacted with is friendly, kind and willing to help.
I also like that you can pay rent and submit service requests online.
Aside from that, the neighborhood is great. I enjoy being able to walk to everything –groceries, yoga, fitness, dining, metro and more.
All in all, I’m very pleased to call La Trobe home and I love my new place!

It can’t get better than this. Awesome location, the staff is very kind and maintance is always ready to help at any problem and they are very effective.
I am very happy with my decision of living here after seeing many options.

The location is just around the corner from Whole Foods, restaurants, bars and shops. The services and amenities — cleaning, maintenance, front desk, lounge, roof deck, gym, parking garage — are really great and enhance the quality of life in this city. It is a pleasure to live here.

I’ve been living here for about year and this is an excellent apartment building. It is clean, quiet and well kept and packages/​mail are promptly delivered. Thank you Latrobe for an excellent experience! :)

We’ve been living here for a few months now, the apartments are great, the staff is super nice — especially the concierges. The maintenance is SUPER, its online and they take care of everything immediately and clean up afterwards as if nothing happened. The location is perfect. The only small annoyance is the parking garage (people sometimes don’t park where they are suppose to) but its more on the tenants and the management is actively working to resolve this.
All in all I would definitely recommend living here!

This is easily the nicest apartment I’ve ever had, in one of the nicest buildings, and certainly the best location I’ve ever lived. The staff are friendly whether you’re leaving in the morning for work or returning from a long day. Services are handled competently, any maintenance requests are processed quickly and in a friendly manner, the free coffee perk is nice, the gym is handy and rarely crowded, the rooftop is gorgeous, etc. Unlike some of these other reviewers, we’ve had no issues with widespread flooding or inattentive maintenance.
I just don’t have enough good things to say!

Have been living in this complex for 9 months and loving it. Great location, great service, nice people!

Great apartment community in a great location! It’s extremely close to whole foods, trader joes, 14^th st restaurants and bars. The rooftop is amazing when the weather is nice! The staff and maintenance services have also been great! So far I’ve had a great experience at Latrobe and would highly recommend it to anyone.

Great apartment building in a GREAT location!

I lived here for three years, and had a generally positive experience. If you do move into this building, though, you need to avoid the lower floors at all costs due to the plumbing problems that are ongoing now and have persisted for years.
Right now, probably due to the plumbing problems and the reviews on this site, the building appears to be cutting the rent it is asking for by a lot. I moved out more than a month ago and it appears my apartment is still vacant, even though they are asking for several hundred dollars less than I paid. Could be a good value to get yourself into this neighborhood at a reasonable price. But avoid the lower floors.
Positives
The location is fantastic, the fixtures in the more recently remodeled apartments are nice, and the gym is pretty good, and not overused. Having a doorman to accept your packages is a big plus in this city. I lived on one of the upper floors and never had any direct flooding in my apartment, although I was affected by the periodic water shutoffs.
Negatives
The plumbing problems that other reviews on this website have noted are ongoing and they are real. Every month or so, water will be shut off in the building for several hours. Sometimes there are notification/​update emails and sometimes there are not. Your water will just be off and your (polite) emails will go unanswered. In January 2015 there were major flooding problems on the first floor. This continues a pattern of plumbing problems in the building for years, so I would expect them to continue.
The website says that the apartments come with a «washer» and a «dryer». It lists them separately, which is deceptive. What you get in your apartment is actually a very small washer/​dryer combo machine. It is an acceptable (but tiny) washer and an absolutely awful dryer. Plan to line dry or to use the communal laundry room on your floor.
Oh, and they pump Top 40 music into all the communal spaces of the building. Hallways, lobby, gym, roof deck. It will own your soul. Hope you like Maroon 5!

Latrobe is a great apartment community in an outstanding location. The staff has been so helpful during my move, everything taken care of to my full satisfaction. Building is quiet, gym is nice and not crowded. Love the charm of my apartment with ample storage and modern, pretty kitchen. Friendly, great service makes this a great place to live.

I love living at the Latrobe! I’ve lived here for over a year now. It’s a great location, lots of fun things in the area. Great amenities and a beautiful rooftop! The staff here is great too, very friendly and would bend over backwards to help with anything you need! Highly recommend living here!

You really cannot beat the service, location and safety all associated with living here. Whenever I need anything fixed in the apartment, they fix it immediately. You’re definitely paying for a great building and location! Plus, you get a discounted rate at Vida for living there, which is only a block away.

I love living here. Is a good mix of adults. Little gym is nice, rooftop is super relaxing, and Bianca is the best at customer service… everything is so nearby too… Whole Foods, 24hr CVS, food places, and Logan Circle… you can’t beat this area, especially the location of this building.

I have so enjoyed living here. The management is amazing – Bianca is probably one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. The few times I have had a maintenance issue, they fixed the problem within the day. It is the perfect location and has access to everything I’ve needed. I’m kind of shocked to see a bad review since my experience has been so different… it is really an ideal living situation.

Words cannot describe how bad this place is. Recurring problems with heat and plumbing that take an inordinately long time to fix. Ventilation is noisy, and smells from other apartments (like cooking of fish or frying of garlic) percolate and linger in your bedroom. Service managers can only offer meaningless explanations and apologies.

I lived here for 3 years in a one bedroom apartment (converted to a 2-​bedroom). We thought living with the leasing agents in the building would be helpful but we found out it was NOT. The apartment charges utilities on everything, including water, waste management, electricity, internet, etc. They also raise rent $ 200 each year you renew the lease. My roommate moved out and when we attempted to change the lease to my new roommate’s name they never did it, even though they charged us $ 300 each to resign. Finally, they have a very strict move-​out policy. The staff the entire time was friendly to our faces but in the end didn’t help us out whenever we needed them. They are also really hard to get a hold of via phone and email. If I could give no stars, I would but Unilocal won’t let me. Would suggest not renting from an Aimco property.

I lived here for two years. Management is terrible and not helpful. They charged me a 1500 fee after signing a written contract stating that I did not have to pay that. Location is great, apartments are nice, but management, again, is absurd.

I rented at this apartment complex for almost 2 years before resorting to legal action to break out of our lease. Why?
Water was flowing from our ceiling in 7 or 8 locations and damaged some of our important personal property
The staff is 100.0% incompetent and are all liers. They promised to fix everything and fixed absolutely nothing.
Our hot water heater broke several times leaving us with cold showers and noone fixed it for a long time if ever (it’s currently broken as we are moving out in 2 weeks)
During many months water is turned off every week for a full day at least for emergency repairs to peoples’ apartments that flooded due to the horrible infrastructure behind the walls that this building clearly has
Maintenance staff is unavailable and never do what they say and it draggs on for months before any attempted resolutions are made
The staff is this incompetent: I asked them to fix a window which would not open, and they broke the other 2 and left it that way with no resolution for a long time until i tracked them down again and again
I could go on and on with serious issues. This is a place to avoid at any cost. My college dorm was infinitely more reliable and safe to store goods and live in, and I lived in a bee hive type building. Going back sounds better than ever.

There are already a TON of negative reviews about the Latrobe. I read some of them when looking to move in to the building and thought to myself «Well the only people who actually write those have skewed opinions because something really bad happened…» etc. Well let me tell you this was a huge mistake. Renting at the Latrobe was awful.
As many of the other reviews have said, the rents are ridiculous. I know Logan Circle is a great area but that doesn’t justify charging about $ 2200 for a 600 square foot 1 bedroom apartment, that doesn’t have a walk in closet, had a not so huge living room, and had a mini-​dishwasher that barely worked. On top of that, as others have said the washer/​dryer in the rooms barely work and definitely won’t dry your clothes for at least 4 – 5 hours, and there are only 2 washer and dryers in the hall that only take quarters.
In addition, the management is incompetent. The water is shut off almost every week, showers barely get hot, and my rent was screwed up at least 3 or 4 of the 12 months I lived there (one month they charged me twice). In addition, during my «move out inspection» there was a tiny stain on the carpet and they charged about $ 150 for it. Unheard of. They have fees for everything and have zero customer service.
I can tell you this because I just moved into a new apartment building where the management is friendly, even emailing the week after I moved in to check in and make sure everything was ok. When I moved into the building they give all residents paper products and essentials to start you out with and welcome you. This is the kind of customer service that Latrobe doesn’t have. In addition, my new apartment is a 2 bedroom, 2 bath that’s double the size of my Latrobe apartment and only costs about $ 200 more a month. The new place is also a block from the red line metro, and has much more amenities like a balcony and a pool whereas the Latrobe had none of this and was at best a 10 minute walk from the metro, which is not fun when it’s raining, snowing, or really hot/​cold out.
Clearly you are not getting your money’s worth at Latrobe. DO NOT RENT HERE.