Coda at Bryant Street

Reviews

• TA

  Tami Akarakiri

  Sep 4, 2025
  1.0
  ⚠️I don’t even know where to begin with this review. I’m posting to warn other applicants to STAY AWAY from this building as its property manager Isiah Williams is a terrible person.⚠️ For context: my sister and I signed a lease on an apartment over a month ago and were slated to move in 3 weeks time. (My current lease at my current apartment also ends in 3 weeks fyi). Yesterday I receive a phone call from a leasing agent at Coda saying the tenant in the unit we’ve signed the lease for is refusing to move out and so that unit is no longer available to us. Obviously we’re now freaking out because we think we’re only going to have 3 weeks to find somewhere to live. The leasing agent assures me that they can offer us a different unit at the same price as the one we previously signed for. Okay great! So my sister and I decide to tour the very next day to see if this is something we want to proceed with. We literally waste no time cancelling all our plans and work and meetings aside so we can get this sorted asap because obviously we don’t want to be homeless in 3 weeks time. The next day we tour and everything seems perfect. We get verbal confirmation from both the leasing agent we spoke to on the phone and the building’s property manager that this new unit will be offered to us at the same rate as our previous one and that it will be held for 48hours whilst we decide. We leave to go home and I email them asking for written confirmation of everything that was discussed and that’s when all hell brakes loose. The property manager Isiah Williams emails back saying that he never offered us that unit for the same price as the previous unit and it was actually going to be $800 more. This is a huge increase and my sister and I can’t afford or budget for it so we go back to the property in person for the second time that day to speak to the property manager Isiah Williams. At first he tries to hold us off by having his staff say he would be in back to back meetings but we persist and eventually get him to see us. It is here that he becomes very argumentative, condescending and rude. He denied everything we discussed that morning and offers no empathy to the fact that through no fault of our own we would now be homeless in 3 weeks time. I understand that there is not much they can do about the tenant refusing to vacate but to offer us a glimpse of hope with a new unit only to back track, jack up the price and lie about the switch is evil work. They’ve left us scrambling with only 3 weeks to find a new place in DC which is hard enough to do even when you have more time. I am disgusted by how we have been treated by Isiah and thank God that I have written proof in the form of a lease agreement for the new unit with the original lower price that was stated to us. He must have forgotten they sent that over the day before when we first got the phone call. We will now be seeking legal counsel for how best to proceed. I just wanted to warn any prospective applicants to beware of this property manager just like other comments below have warned. It seems by switching building management to Kettler they have destroyed the reputation of this property.
• AH

  Aleta Hamilton

  Aug 10, 2022
  2.0
  It’s reasonable but somewhat pricey.

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