My husband and I had a 7 month lease at Rock Creek Commons. We didn't have any issues throughout that time until the end. Even though we were on the middle floor, we didn't think it was too loud. We heard cats running at times, but a fan at night drowned out any noise. The appliances worked as they should. The only annoying this was no having drawers. You make due with what you have, but something to consider.
Unfortunately, we left the place with very negative feelings. We were given a Lease
...Renewal offer a month before our least was up on April 30th. On the sheet, the management highlighted the costs of our different options along with the date that we had to let them know our decision by. (April 15th) What they chose not to highlight in the fine print was that if we were going to end our lease, we had to give them a 20 day notice. Which would be April 10th for us, not the 15th. We were in the process of purchasing a home, but we wanted to make sure that nothing came up with that before we said we weren't going to renew the lease for one more month if necessary. So on April 14th, we notified them that we were not going to continue our lease. They then informed us that we were supposed to let them know on the 10th. I'm sure you can understand that we were super frustrated with how misleading they were. To make it worse, they said that this had happened numerous times in the past, but because we were the third tenant that DAY that had done the exact same thing, they were doing us a "courtesy" by only charging us a pro-rated rent for 5 extra days. Which ended up being $168 and we still had to be out on April 30th.
So, obviously, that left us with a bad taste and THEN we got our bill from them. Apparently in 7 months of living there, we put enough damage on their walls that they needed to touch up $70 worth of paint even though we had marked that the walls needed touching up before we moved in. Then they told us that because it was dirty BEHIND the fridge, that was another $70. It was like because we had left the place too clean, they were searching high and low for things to charge us for. In the end, we ended up owing them $30 and got nothing of our $400 deposit back.
If you're looking for a nice place with a good location, this is a good option. But don't expect to walk away with any good feelings about the place after dealing with the management.
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