2121 Columbia Pike Apartments

Rude rude rude!
We walked in and asked the receptionist that we were here for the leasing office. She knocked on the table as she said «how may I help you?» I asked are you the leasing office staff? She said again with an attitude all the whilst knocking on the table «how may I help you» with a glare. If that’s the first impression im getting from a «leasing office staff» but really a receptionist, then no thank you. I’ll take my money somewhere else.

Wow. I have never been treated so horribly by mid– and upper level management. STEER CLEAR of this mess. Mila, the property manager, has the biggest attitude going and has no sense of customer service.
I lived in this building and moved out due to her mishandlings. She doesn’t know how to talk to residents, she doesn’t know what she is talking about half the time, she is above it all rude, and doesn’t return phonecalls. And BM Smith is even worse. It is like they had some vendetta against me with the way they spoke to me. I was like «Um didn’t realize I offended you in another life?» Mila talked to me like I was the wicked step child.
They are also liars. They enforce the rules harshly for some and look the other way when it comes to others. The «construction» they had going on for what it seemed like two years would wake you up on Sat and Sun mornings and even before 8am on weekdays (don’t look forward to a day off). AND they won’t turn the AC on until a certain date even if DC was experiencing an unusual hot week. I talked to neighbors who were elderly that had to go somewhere else for the night because they could not sleep. But did Mila or as I’d like to call her «Russian psycho b*tch/please learn English» care? NOPE.
How about how they talk about being a 24 hr concierge? Um that’s a lie. Those people leave before 7pm. If you get locked out after 7pm, you better call another building and plan on waiting.
Just don’t stay here. It is cheap for a reason. Pay more for better management. It will help you in the long run.
I now live in a great building with way better amentities and better access to things. I pay more, but it is worth it to live somewhere I didn’t dread going home to.

I shall not recommend this apartment to anyone. The Apartments are nice and clean but the management sucks. They are the rudest people on earth. The property manager Mila should be fired for she doesn’t have even slightest human courtesy. I am just waiting for the lease to get over. This is the worst apartment I have lived ever. They enter your apartment for different reasons behind your back and check every damn thing; feels like living in a jail. At one point I talked to my lawyers to sue them for Privacy matters but somehow got convinced not to get into all that hassle. But I shall really love if someday someone screws them. They might look cheaper at first but now after living here, I know why they are cheaper — it’s simple; they have the worst reputation among people in this region and you can easily hear from them how everyone lived here hate them for their rudeness. Strictly AVOID IT if you want peace of mind.

My fiancé and I tried to get an apartment in this building and it was a nightmare! I cannot remember the name of the manager in this building — Myrna, Mina,? Whatever the heck, she certainly was MEANa.
First, my fiancé went to apply and brought a check with him for the application fee. They accepted that. They also told him they could run the application but he HAD TO give them some kind of a security deposit AT THE TIME in order for them to guarantee that the apartment would go to him if he passed the application (which we knew he would).
So the next day he left work early to stop by and give them a check for the deposit. You know what? They don’t take checks. That’s what they told him. So he ran over to the Post Office (literally ran — it was going to close in 15 min.) and got a money order — which he paid extra for. The smart cookie that he is, he asked 2121, before leaving for the PO if he was going to need a money order for any other payments so he could just get one money order on his trip but they told him, «No» and that after the down payment and application, they would take his checks.
So on the third day they ran the application, it was approved and we were called to be informed that the apartment was ours. YAY! So we went that night with a check to pay for the first month’s rent … they tell us they don’t take checks. At this, my Lover becomes furious. My temper at that point was waning. The woman at the front desk called the manager and the manager says, «We don’t take checks.» I calmly get on the phone to explain to this woman that her staff conveniently took our check on the first day and has been giving us a run around of yes (es) and no (s) regarding checks for two more consecutive days. I told her that the apartment was technically ours and that I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t accept the check since we’d be paying rent. At this, Ms. Crazy (Russian I think) Psycho biyatch says to me, «Excuse me. But I am almost at work and I want to see you to your face so I can tell you again we don’t take your checks.» This really pissed me off. I insisted that we leave the building IMMEDIATELY so that I did not get into an altercation with some woman who I’m sure would have really pushed my buttons. My Man knows me, so we left. Afterwards, we talked about it and I said I could NOT live in the bldg. with such management. My Mr. Awesome agreed and to that we went back and said that we weren’t dropping of a signed lease and we wanted our money back for the deposit.
To put the icing on the cake, MEANa (or whatever her name was), calls us back to let us know that she’s keeping our $ as damages for breaking the lease.
1. You can’t break a lease you never signed
2. It was approximately $ 200
At this, the both of us became furious again, but after 4 days of the most stress we had had, we decided not to pursue any legal battles with the complex because in the interim we found another AMAZING apartment (with awesome management) and we determined that THIS apartment would need our $ 200 after we went around telling everyone how bad they were and that they shouldn’t move into the bldg. I despise this bldg. so much that I have SERIOUSLY considered picketing the corner on weekends cautioning community members to seek better housing.