Ft Lewis Ladies...

Fulbri05 · August 2010

My husband will be getting his orders for Lewis in a week or two, so we've been looking at the housing website. We've never lived on post before and will have a 4 month old little one by the time we get there. Any tips about housing? With his rank we apparently have the option of Beachwood (new and old) and Madigan, and I guess we have to preference which one when we sign up for the waitlist? I just didn't know if there are little known facts about these developments that you wouldn't know until you got there. Any tips would be appreciated as we are completely clueless as to how this process works, other than the info you can find online. Thank you!

bitsnbobs · August 2010

My husband has orders for a PCS to Fort Lewis at the beginning of the year, so we have no experience with the installation yet, but we have some friends that are already there (we would be in Madigan or Beachwood, too, if we were going to live on post). They've told us the new housing is very nice, but there isn't much of it. They've been on the waitlist for new housing in Beachwood for over a year now, and they're still halfway up the list. The older Beachwood and Madigcan housing, according to them, is awful and very small. They're building more new housing, but again... Long waitlists. Like I said, we're not there, yet, ourselves, so this is all second-hand. But I hope it helps!

Fulbri05 · August 2010

Thank you, that does help because the website makes it sound like there is little to no wait

I guess I'll just have to wait and see if we can get anything. Good luck with your PCS, looks like you're going from one end of the country to the other too.

FraggleChic · August 2010

Hi ladies,

I'm stationed at Fort Lewis but I don't live on post. I wanted to give you the link to a message board where you can ask questions about specific housing areas. I have heard both good and (very) bad things about living on post.

https://www.lewisunderground.com

Fulbri05 · August 2010

FraggleChic:

Hi ladies,

I'm stationed at Fort Lewis but I don't live on post. I wanted to give you the link to a message board where you can ask questions about specific housing areas. I have heard both good and (very) bad things about living on post.

https://www.lewisunderground.com

Thanks, I'll go check this out now!

proudarmywife08 · August 2010

Hey!! We are stationed at Lewis. We're actually moving on post tomorrow into the renovated Beachwood housing. The waitlist for the new Beachwood housing is REALLY REALLY long (like up to a year) and the houses are larger at Beachwood than Madigan. They won't let you see the inside of a house though so be prepared for that. They will show you a floor plan that *may* be something like your house but maybe not. Beachwood is nicest b/c its right on the lake. From our house on post we can walk to the beach and to a couple playgrounds. The renovations on the Beachwood houses seem nice, I'll report tomorrow after we do our move in and get keys. We've never seen the inside of the house! I'm kinda nervous. PM me if you're interested in more info

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