The Asher Apartments

I am sitting here writing this review while the fire alarm is going off in our building. In the last hour it has gone off at least ten times.

It has gotten to the point where, *checks out the window*, yes, no one is evacuating on these repeat alarms anymore. So that's completely unsafe on it's own.

The fire alarms have been a nuisance to the residents here for the last couple of years. The local fire department is probably very familiar with responding to our building by now.

Building management or maintenance has been unable to curtail this problem and it has only seemed to increase with frequency over time.

By the time I have finished the last two paragraphs the alarm had went on and off 2x.

It's a shame because the Asher is otherwise a 5 star apartment complex. If the complex can make improvements to their fire system, I will gladly adjust my review.

Edit. As promised, It's been a month and fire alarm has not been an issue so I increased review by one star. Let's see how we do the rest of the year.

EDIT 2/16/23: I really hate to bring my review down but the false fire alarms are really annoying. They happen constantly in the middle of the night and are super disruptive to our work week. For some reason, the building can never figure out how to prevent the system from absolutely melting down. It leads to dangerous situations as a lot of residents don’t bother evacuating, thinking they’re just false alarms. Please fix the system!

The best apartment community in Old Town by far. We just renewed our lease for another year since the price increase was nowhere near as high as we were dreading. The management and staff here really
take care of residents and plan the best community events every season. The apartments themselves are spacious, clean and inviting, and the amenities very thoughtful from the multiple rooftop terraces, the gym, and rentable guest suite for out-of-town visitors. Also very easy to commute to work in DC since the metro is literally steps away.