Need 3BR apt Half Way b/tw Shady Grove and College Park. HELP! (Silver Spring: apartment complexes)

[hn0010]

My family is relocating to Montgomery Co the end of August. We would like to rent an apartment first to get an idea of the area before renting a house/townhouse long term. My husband will be working near the Shady Grove Metro, kids will be attending school in College Park. So something in the middle would be ideal.

Any idea about apartment complexes? It MUST be 3BR at least (we have four young children). I've read reviews of many online, and it looks like everywhere is awful -- this can't be true, can it???

Price around $2500 -- up to $3k MAX.

Thanks,
Heather

[coquinegra]

I've jsut finished an exhaustive search of apartments in the area and I would suggest 2 to you, both in Wheaton
Encore Wheaton
Archstone Wheaton

Encore is being renovated and their 3BR are very reasonable, the complex is in surburban area full of SFHs and is walking distance to transportation to UMCP and a mall and movie theater

Archtone Wheaton is on top of a Metro station practically. Metropoint is directly on top of the Whaton Metro station, is nice too, but doesn't allow pets.

[scrapper105]

I would suggest Silver Spring near the intersection of 16th Street or Colesville and East-West Highway. Your husband can go north on Georgia to the ICC and then over to Shady Grove. I assume your children at in private school in CP, (guessing HR, Friends, or Al-Huda) so you can take the Beltway to Route 1 (for HR or Al-Huda) or to Kenilworth for Friends.

Summit Hills and Falkland Chase are large complexes and are at the corner of 16th Street and East-West Highway.

[JosephineBeth]

Originally Posted by scrapper105

I would suggest Silver Spring near the intersection of 16th Street or Colesville and East-West Highway. Your husband can go north on Georgia to the ICC and then over to Shady Grove. I assume your children at in private school in CP, (guessing HR, Friends, or Al-Huda) so you can take the Beltway to Route 1 (for HR or Al-Huda) or to Kenilworth for Friends.

Summit Hills and Falkland Chase are large complexes and are at the corner of 16th Street and East-West Highway.

Just chiming in to say of the two (Falkland Chase or Summit Hills) I'd strongly prefer Summit Hills. Fairly good reviews overall. Falkland has mixed reviews with some pretty terrible ones. Having gone to both I would have chosen the Summit Hills complex.

I chose Greenbelt (Old Greenbelt) and not Silver Spring but that is not the area you need.

[coquinegra]

Well, what area did you eventually decide on?
I wound up not picking anything in Wheaton due to price.