I couldn't decide if I should rate this place as a 1 or 2 star since there are a couple nice things about the property. The property looks beautiful and the location is perfect but it's all down hill after that. I lived there for two plus years and recently moved. I moved because I am in the military and got orders but I would have moved anyways. I have lived all over the DMV area and I never paid soo much in rent. But I though I was going to get what I paid for, a very nice place with lots of nice things.. Pool.. Clubhouse and so on. You do not get what you pay for here.
On Bozzuto's website and all through the apartments club house are quotes like this one "It's simple. We put our residents first. We work hard each and every day to ensure our residents' complete satisfaction and to make sure our communities are places people are proud to call home. That genuine concern for people who choose to live in a Bozzuto community is a cornerstone of our company." But they do not follow through with this statement and if you move there, you will quickly learn that too.
We had so may problems here and so many lies told to us. My building I lived in had a roach problem but the manager told me that nobody else ever complained of any so it was just us. I later found this to be false when I started talking to other people who lived there that had roach problems and was told the same thing from management. Even the exterminator who only got paid to spray a couple spots told us our building had a huge problem but management wouldn't do nothing about it. My last 6months living there we had to live out of plastic containers and ziplock bags because the roaches were so bad. I even called buzzoto and they did nothing about it. Before we ever saw any in our apartment, we saw them in the hallways outside, when i told the manager (I will be nice and not say her name, I will just call her Manager R) and she told me, "oh, those are not the roaches you are thinking of, they are just wood roaches" I responded with, "a roach is a roach and I dont want any of them in my apartment!' but they still did nothing. Crime had sky rocketed since we first moved in. For the $ we spend in rent, they could pay to have a night security guard or security cameras. Even fake cameras with signs stating there is video cameras around the property would help and I even suggested this to buzzoto, what did they do? They sent an email out saying there are two local cops that livein the apartment complex and that will have a beeper so if something happens, they will get to us quicker, "if they are around". That's not going to help stop Crime? Its not! Last year management told everyone about a guy that pretended to work for them and nocked on a ladies door, she let him in and he robbed her. Thats all that was said. What they didnt say was he rubbed her at gun point, pistol whipped her. They didnt even post the sketch drawing of the person that was made accessable by the police. They completely down played it. People are jumping the first floor balconies and stealing things, taking knives to chairs and cutting them up, one lady had her motorized wheelchair cut up. People are spray painting walls and steeling cars and tires, especially in the parking garage. The type of people they rent to has also changed. It use to be a fairly quite place to live and raise a family, now there are always loud parties, loud music, domestics and so forth going one. The trash dumpsters are always over flowing and smelling. It's such an eye sore and it brings the wild life from the woods into the property.. Foxes, raccoons and more. the two young ladies that work at the office are very friendly and nice, so are the maintenance guys but the manager lady that starts with an R is always very rude, you can tell that even alot of the staff do not like her. The second time my rent went up, I was told the wrong new price so I was off by 2 or 3 dollars my first months rent. The manager with an R, called me and left me a rude message saying I was late on 2-3 dollars and was going to have to pay a late fee and if I didn't pay by the end of the week, by law she would have to take me to court. Then a year later when my rent went up again, little did I know I was paying alot OVER what I should of been, but this time manager R never ever said anything... Months later when I got a puppy and went to pay my $300 pet deposit, she tells me, oh.. I've been meaning to tell you, you are paying too much in rent so you have a $400 plus credit. So when I owed $2 it was a big deal but when they had $400 of MY money, it was no rush to tell me. If you decide to go look at this place to rent, it will look nice from the outside (they repaint everything and plant new flowers almost every month even in the winter) but trust me it is not. Even if they cut rent in half, I would never move back there and I will never rent from a buzzoto owned apartment complex ever again. read more