Camden Fairfax Corner Apartments

My original review was over 5,300 characters, but there's a 2,500 character limit, apparently.

I've lived at Camden Fairfax Corner for over a year. Specifically, I live at 11885 Grand Commons Avenue (there are three or four buildings in the Camden complex). This review is based on my experience in this building, but I have some knowledge of the others.

Fairfax Corner is nice. It's a well-kept town center; it has a decent number of amenities in walking distance; and it's in a great location... within Northern Virginia--anywhere worth going is no more than 30 minutes away. The Camden apartment complex and its management is solidly average in almost every way.

If you choose to live here, please, for your own sanity, at least follow this one piece of advice: do not live in building 11885.

If you live on the side facing the restaurants, you'll be subject to a lot of people noise until 11:30 PM (when the restaurants close). The gym on the ground floor plays bass music so loud it will shake your walls. The patrons of the cigar shop post up and smoke cigars below your windows all evening.

If you live on the side facing the alley and parking garage, you'll be subject to guys with extremely loud wannabe race cars driving up and down the five-story garage all hours of the day and night. You'll hear construction, truck loading/unloading, or the valet trash guys/shop employees dumping the trash. To top it off, you'll hear the convoy of trash trucks that come at 6 AM sharp and several more times every single day (except Sunday) to empty the four to six dumpsters I've seen out there. This all happens immediately below or across from your balcony and windows.

Unless you're from New York and absolutely need to hear the sounds of the city to feel alive, DO NOT live in 11885. Everything echoes in the alley and I cannot express just how loud and distruptive the noise is.

No matter where you live in 11885 (and probably to a slightly lesser extent the other buildings) you are going to hear the music the town center puts on every weekend. Live bands play in the plaza at the center of the town center or at restaurants in it most Fridays and Saturdays. Usually it's unpleasantly loud, like they've forgotten people live here.

Just don't live in 11885. Probably don't live in 4231, either. Don't live on any side of any building that faces the actual active town center. Live somewhere quiet in 4241/4104. Everything else about this apartment complex is average. Read More

I lived in Camden Fairfax Corner for just over two years. Here I am a month later and I still feel obligated to mention a few of the highlights while living there:
1. The maintenance team was absolutely top notch. Always responsive and courteous. Constantly maintaining the property.
2. The apartment was beautiful. Not a single day went by that I wasn't proud of where I lived.
3. The location. Close to 66/metro. Surrounded by some of the nicest restaurants this area has to offer.
And last but not... least,
4. Abdul. I've lived in a lot of different places in my life and never have I ever had a property manager like Abdul. I could write reason after reason as to why Abdul helped make Camden a great place to live, but I'm going to sum it up by saying, "Abdul made me feel that he actually cared. Not only by the things he said, but by his actions and follow though. Thank you again, for everything." Read More

I lived at Camden for a year, but moved out recently to be closer to family. For the most part, I really enjoyed living there. It was a really nice studio apartment for the price. I definitely felt like I got my monies worth, especially since garage parking is free and the cable/wifi are packaged with the rent. Best deal in the DMV area. It's also located in a shopping center with lots of restaurants which really came in handy during the pandemic.

I never had any maintenance issues while... staying there. However, the biggest issue for me was the noise. The walls are paper thin and my neighbors were pretty obnoxious when it came to noise. Despite being in a pandemic, they often like to have loud social events in the evenings, continuing way into the early morning.

The 11885 building is definitely the nicest building since it's indoors, but beware if you're moving into an apartment next to the garage. You will constantly hear vehicles revving up their loud engines every day and be disturbed by the dump trucks every morning and afternoon.

Lastly, the lack of a mail room in 11885 is still a bit of issue. The delivery persons are supposed to deliver packages to your door, but depending on the person, they may leave it at the front entrance where anyone on the street can easily take it. Fortunately, I never had any issues with missing packages but lots of people have complained about missing packages or packages being delivered to the wrong door/building.

Other than that, the staff is usually happy to help how they can and quick to respond. Read More

I have loved living at Fairfax Corner it has exceeded all my expectations. Everyone is so polite and helpful especially Allen. Allen I want to Thank you for all that you do for our community and making my living experience at Camden’s so wonderful!

I would highly recommend living anywhere other than this apartment building. The location is amazing but you will pay for that these apartments are overpriced for the quality of service you receive. The apartment which I rented has flooded six times. The reasons include poor maintenance on the outside of the property which caused water to run into the walls and flood first floor apartments. Other reasons include problems with plumbing from other apartments. The apartment complex has responded to... this problem and other problems poorly. There have been other maintenance issues which is apartment complex has hired unqualified third-party companies causing massive problems. The office staff and the owners do not take responsibility for issues on this property. If you do move in here I wish you luck.The office staff and the owners do not take responsibility for issues on this property. If you do move in here I wish you luck. Read More