Lexington, VA Rental Reviews: What W&L Students Say

Lexington is a small rental market — a town of roughly 7,000 with Washington and Lee at its center — and the reviews on Rate My Rental reflect that. Thirty-three renters have written comments about Lexington addresses, spread across 29 properties. It is a smaller sample than our Athens or Madison coverage, and it skews heavily toward students. Read it as a snapshot of W&L off-campus and residence hall life, not a survey of the whole town. Within that limit, a few patterns repeat clearly enough to be worth writing down. The party house trade-off is made openly The most-reviewed address in Lexington is 45 Winding Way, with fifteen reviews. What stands out is not that residents complain about the noise — it's that they describe it as the defining feature of the house and rate it well anyway. "It is a party house. Landlords do what they can to help keep it in shape but overall low privacy due to W&L students use of the neighborhood and the amount of parties hosted in house" "Has everything you need, just a party house so gets dirty and not much privacy but overall a solid house." "It's a party house but it's as good as a party house will get." Those three reviews rate the house 3, 4, and 4 out of 5. The noise and the mess get named plainly and then set aside — they read as accepted terms rather than grievances. Across all fifteen reviews the house averages 3.93, and the category scores show where the goodwill comes from: landlord management 4.28 and location 4.21, against …