Avia Apartments in Henrico, VA: Rent, Move-In Cost, and the Review Record

Henrico County, Not Richmond

Avia’s own marketing and most listing sites give the mailing address as Richmond, VA. Redfin’s listing confirms the property physically sits in unincorporated Henrico County. Much of unincorporated Henrico uses a Richmond postal city for USPS routing, so the ZIP (23233) and the school district are both Henrico’s, even though letters addressed there say “Richmond.”

Is Avia actually in Richmond or Henrico County?The physical address is Henrico County, VA 23233. “Richmond” on the listing is a USPS mailing convention – it matters for county services, taxes, and school zoning, all of which are Henrico’s.

Current Rent and Floor Plans

The freshest snapshot found, timestamped “verified 3 hours ago” by Apartment List, lists 16 available units from $1,852 to $2,635. A CoStar-verified snapshot from ApartmentHomeLiving a few weeks earlier shows a wider range up to $2,892 for the same 1 to 3 bedroom, 796 to 1,726 sq ft mix. Pricing comes from a live leasing feed and moves weekly with occupancy and promotions, so confirm any figure here at the leasing office before treating it as fixed.

Why do different sites show different rent ranges for the same property?Aggregators pull from the same live leasing feed at different refresh times. A range quoted a week apart can differ by several hundred dollars without anything about the property changing.

The Real Cost of Moving In

No listing site totals what a renter actually owes before move-in. The itemized fee table below appears almost identically on Redfin and Apartments.com, meaning both are republishing the same landlord-supplied schedule rather than verifying it independently – a matching schedule from two sources is still stronger evidence than one alone.

For the cheapest currently listed unit at $1,852, one-time charges before the first month’s rent add to $467: $50 plus $400 plus $17. That’s on top of a security deposit whose amount isn’t published and depends on the applicant’s screening result. Electric, water/sewer, and stormwater are usage-based and billed separately.

Avia previously operated under a different company entirely: Yelp still shows a closed listing for “Avia Apartments by Drucker and Falk” at the same address, before Greystar took over leasing and management. Older reviews and photos referencing Drucker and Falk predate the current operator.

What 319 Resident Reviews Report

ApartmentRatings shows Avia at 4.5 out of 5 across 319 votes. The property’s own RentCafe page summarizes resident sentiment as uniformly positive: quiet grounds, responsive staff, fast maintenance. The wider ApartmentRatings review set tells a more mixed story. Recurring praise for staff friendliness and the location next to Wegmans and Short Pump Town Center sits alongside a recurring complaint thread about appliances failing and needing repeat repairs, maintenance entering apartments outside the property’s stated 48-hour notice window, and breezeways left dirty for extended periods. One reviewer described a community security gate broken for at least two weeks.

None of this is universal; plenty of five-star reviews describe the opposite experience in the same building. A landlord-authored sentiment summary that omits the complaint thread entirely is telling only part of the record.

Are the negative reviews about older buildings or the whole complex?Public review platforms don’t segment feedback by building or unit age within the 320-unit community, so it isn’t possible to tell from the public record whether complaints cluster in specific sections.

Pets, Breed Restrictions, and What They Cost

Cats and dogs are both allowed up to a 75 lb weight limit, per Zillow’s building listing, with a $350 one-time fee and $25 monthly fee per pet. A specific breed exclusion list applies, including Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Terriers, Rottweilers, Doberman Pinschers, Chows, Presa Canarios, Akitas, Alaskan Malamutes, and wolf-hybrids. This list isn’t mentioned in the property’s marketing copy about its pet spa and dog park, so it’s worth checking before touring if you own one of these breeds.

Lease Terms and What Happens If You Leave Early

No public source publishes Avia’s specific early-termination dollar figure or percentage; that schedule appears only inside the signed lease, and asking for it before applying is reasonable. What is documented: Virginia landlord-tenant law obligates a landlord to mitigate damages by actively re-renting a vacated unit instead of collecting rent for the full remaining term regardless of vacancy, a principle explained in detail by the Fair Housing Project in the context of the Fair Housing Act’s accommodation provisions. Industry-wide, a flat early-termination fee equal to one to two months’ rent is a common structure, per LeaseRunner’s overview of termination-fee norms, though Avia’s actual figure could sit above or below that.

What happens financially if I need to break my lease early at Avia?Avia doesn’t publish this figure publicly – get the exact early-termination clause in writing before signing. Virginia law requires the landlord to attempt to re-rent the unit rather than collect rent for the full unused term.

Schools and Commute

Avia is zoned to Colonial Trail Elementary, Short Pump Middle, and Deep Run High, all Henrico County Public Schools, per Zillow’s school assignment data. Colonial Trail Elementary’s GreatSchools rating shows as 6/10 in one cached snapshot and 7/10 in a more recent one from ApartmentHomeLiving – ratings update periodically, so check GreatSchools.org directly for the current figure. Middle and high school ratings weren’t published in either snapshot checked.