$4,500/month

The scene is set: It’s cozy season in Del Ray, and you’ve just curled up next to the fire after your Saturday morning walk to St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub and the Del Ray Farmers Market. You can’t help relishing the moment, because this. is. home. Maybe it’s the wood-burning fireplace, or the extra windows only an end unit gets. Maybe it’s the 2020 renovation, the solid hardwood floors, crown molding, and 9-foot ceilings that drive it home. Eventually you wander into the eat-in kitchen, unpack your farmers market haul, and settle in for a slow brunch (the box from Just Fine Donuts is begging to be opened). The afternoon is yours. With four bedrooms and three and a half baths across three levels, there’s room to spread out. The entry-level bedroom is ready to be the home office, guest room, or gym you’ve been wanting. A load goes into the washer and dryer on the lower level, and the summer clothes get tucked into the cedar closets until next year. When the sun breaks through, you take a second coffee out to the private patio, framed by stone retaining walls, with the yard work handled by the HOA. By evening, Mount Vernon Avenue is calling again, with dinner a short walk away. Come Monday, Braddock Road and Potomac Yard Metro, Reagan National, and the George Washington Parkway put the Pentagon, National Landing, and downtown DC within easy reach of this end-unit townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia. Best of all, you don’t have to give it up next summer. The lease runs two years, extendable to three. Parking is one assigned space in the community’s covered garage, plus additional storage. Pets are considered case by case. And it’s available right now! Fireplace season is here, and your home is waiting. Start packing.