This is how Millbrook's advertising SHOULD read: "Pay yuppie rates to live with low lives, druggies, or any other moron that has complete disdain for neighbors and can sign their name to a lease!"
I've lived in a lot of different apartments over the years, but I've never paid so much and had such bad neighbors. The walls are so thin that every time our neighbor has a fight or sex with his girlfriend--which always happens between 2 and 3 a.m.--each of the apartments around him gets the joy of waking up to something out of COPS. The noise is loud, violent, disturbing, inconvenient, and worst of all, very frequent. The content rules of this site prevent me from doing justice to the drugs, sex, noise, and dementia we have to deal with.
Our recourse to action is limited. We've lost count of the number of times we have called the cops, which you will have to do if you live here, because there is no courtesy patrol. (This is the ONLY complex where I've lived that didn't have this!) The cops come, the cops go, and then our neighbor's REALLY upset.
Despite the perpetually non-functioning gates, the community is extremely dangerous also. Last night a friend of theirs (apparently the girlfriend had kicked him in the face...) made death threats to them as he tried to break their back and front doors down for 45 minutes. He was high and in a complete rage as he cursed, yelled racial slurs, and elaborated on what he was going to do to them: kick in their teeth, get his "people" to "take care of them," go back and get his gun, etc. He pushed over a motorcycle that began to leak gas.
This disturbed the entire side of our building. Everyone was awake but afraid to even turn on their lights.
Does this sound like "resort-style living?" Does this sound like Club Med?
Management's response? After getting one busy signal after another, and then waiting while the phone range for 10 more minutes, the girl told me the property manager was not in (I have asked to speak to this manager ten different times when something like this has happened. He has always either been "in a meeting" or "out of the office." Apparently angry, homicidal druggies at large on the property aren't worthy of his attention...) and that I should "put it in writing."
We?ve been through this before. You write it up and they give the offenders this vague threat: they have either 21 days to shape up, or 30 days to ship out. No one can explain to me who decides this: the management or the party that made the complaint. Do they even keep these on file? How many must be filed before they finally take action? In the end, it's all a snow job to give the illusion that they care when they don't, that the wheels are in motion when they aren't, and that you're more than just a monthly check, which you're not.
This place used to be great. Its scores on this site used to be great. Then these neighbors moved in. Then the management changed hands. Now it's the worst living experience I've had in more than a decade of renting. Don't move here. Don't let your friends move here. Even if you think what I've described is an isolated incident, which it very well might be, doesn't the lack of conscience on the part of the management of Millbrook indicate that they will bring that same commitment to mediocrity to every aspect of their management?
I easily count moving into Millbrook as one of the worst decisions I've ever made. If you don't mind loud neighbors, then save your money and move to someplace in Anacostia. If you want somewhere quiet where the management respects its renters, go anywhere else.