When Shaina Coogan and her boyfriend, Jai Broome, learned they’d both be interning in D.C. for the summer, they followed a growing trend among young, urban couples: They loo...

You’ve heard the story: Guy and girl meet, fall in love, move in together and … get a roommate? Sabrina Jess, David Johnson and Joshua Hylton have been living in this unus...

Judith Barrow knows green. Barrow, 33, is writing the Washington Sierra Club’s guide for sustainable living, which offers tips for saving energy and reducing your home’s c...

Clarendon: $2,250 1BR W/ DEN: 2400 Clarendon Blvd., Apt. 603, ArlingtonThis 760-square-foot one-bedroom with den has granite countertops and a washer/dryer in the unit, a gym ...

Scott Powell, 28, has a love/hate relationship with driving in D.C. Loves: the cargo room, the drop-of-a-hat convenience and the air conditioning. Hates: traffic, vandalism an...

It took a fire in a nearby apartment building to convince Cecilia Garza that she needed renters insurance. “I realized that I could lose everything,” she says. That was ab...

When Bob Rogerson went hunting for an apartment close to the Shakespeare Theatre Company where he would be attending a one-year graduate program, a rental agent showed him a p...

Adams Morgan: $549,000 Condo: 2363 Champlain St. NW, #2 This 1,200-square-foot listing is a claustrophobe’s dream. The open, spacious layout and beige decor give an airy fee...

If you walked into Alex Infingardi and Miguel Martins’ condo, your first reaction might be, “Whoa.” Rather than stepping into the kind of Victorian foyer you’d expect ...

When Elizabeth Bolton searched for her first apartment, she had a strategy — and a spreadsheet. She compiled a list of must-haves for her perfect apartment, as well as a lis...

Trinidad: $900 1BR: 1245 Raum St. NE, Apt. 4 The building is no-frills, but this 750-square-foot space is freshly renovated and roomy with hardwood floors. A narrow kitchen of...

Daniela Aramayo, 25, recalls sitting, tribunal style, around a dinner table with five strangers, interviewing for a spot in a seven-bedroom group house in Mt. Pleasant where s...

The kitchen in my childhood home has sported the same awful wallpaper for more than 30 years: ducklings in togas carrying sprigs of ivy in-mouth and on the way, I’d always i...

Eric Sonnenberg, 34, has never really lived alone. For the past 10 years, he’s has shared a five-bedroom group house in Mt. Vernon Square with friends and strangers. Sonnenb...

After the birth of her second child, Sara Kirner’s family had outgrown their two-bedroom Bethesda condo. She and her husband, Kevin, bought a house in Silver Spring but deci...