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Congressional Towers


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msincan

Resident 2014

1/8/2014

The good things: It is 15 minutes walking to Twinbrook metro station and close to many shops on Rockville Pike. Utilities are included in rent. They have a 10% discount for NIH employees if you sign a 12 month contract. It is in the school zone of Farmland elementary school. The bad: Building is very old. Appliances are old and don't work well. Dish washer works so loud it is sometimes hard to sleep when it's working. The washing machines are shared and there are only two at each floor which is not enough for 20 apartments, especially on weekends. I had bug infestations and mouse problems in this building. The bathroom has no scolding protection and with small kids it is always a concern for us. The management also makes (~ 4-8%) annual increases to the amount of rent at renewal times. This eats up your housing budget after a couple years. They have arranged for a predatory towing company to tow cars for any small reason. There is not enough parking spaces especially at evenings. My car was towed from the parking lot because it was park on the wrong side of the lot closer to Rollins Park condos (same management and same parent company , shared parking lot with the towers). the management couldn't care less and told me that with an infant in 10 degree cold, I should have looked for a parking spot and I might have found one 400 yards away from my building. Oh before I forget, the last so called "Holiday party" felt more like a soup kitchen lunch than a celebration. No music, no entertainment, no words. Juts put low end catering food on a buffet and let the residents line up in front of the door for an hour and let them in finally to eat the food. Bad, bad, bad. I got into this apartment when I first came to the area and didn't know the area at all but I am not happy living here now and definitely moving out at the end of my contract unless things change.

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