This is what I wrote on 1/31/04:

Years at this apartment: 2002-2004
Because this website requires users to agree to indemnify them in the event they are sued by a 3rd party, I am reluctant to post every negative thing I am capable of saying about our rather powerful landlord.
I can tell you that our landlord is facing 2 major tenant association lawsuits in Superior Court, as well as several individual lawsuits, and scores and scores and scores of actions and counter-actions in Landlord-Tenant Court.
I can also tell you that this apartment is undergoing substantial rehab with tenants in place, and without a substantial rehab permit from DCRA.
I can also tell you
that DCRA will not enforce the housing code in our building because it is a construction site.
I can also tell you that D.C. Housing Finance Agency engineered this entire boondoggle, and will probably also be sued before 2004 is over.
I have a THOUSAND other things to say about our landlord, and about living here--ALL NEGATIVE. Please contact me directly if you would like my opinion. I am a planner and attorney and have plenty to say!

NOW IT'S APRIL 2005. I moved out in February, and my life is returning to normal. It was HORRIBLE living there, and the rent went up 12% every year anyway.

If you want to see more reviews, refer to "Capitol Park Tower" reviews, because those were almost all written about 201 I Street SW. (At that time, apartmentratings.com had not separated the buildings into two categories.)

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/09/2007
Every "NO" review I read, is absolutely true. I moved her in September 2003 and this did not start until the end of 2004 when Sharon Holland and Pat Rooks came. The Tenant Associations and Southwest action teams have tried their best to get rid of Edgewood, because they are known slumlords. Rooks have been caught six times in tenant’s apartments stealing. One time a lady stayed home from work sick. She heard someone rambling through her belongings in the living room. She got up and caught Rooks. When asked what she was doing, Rooks replied she thought she smelled smoke coming from the apartment Four times in disabled senior citizens apartment. She brought this up at a campaign meeting for Tommy Wells Counselor for this District. Both Sharon Holland and Pats Rooks were there. She went to the police station to ask if they would come to her apartment to take finger prints off of drawers and tote boxes where stuff was missing. They told her someone would have to have seen her coming out with the items she was missing. The first time she said she missed 180 20mg tablets and a Sunkist orange soda; someone did see her coming out of the apartment with the soda. She went back and took another prescription after the lady had it refilled. One tenant had packed up to move. Rooks went into her apartment and opened her boxes. Contractors came in the apartment while Rooks was searching through her boxes. Rooks left before repacking the boxes. When the lady came home and found her boxes unpacked and looked at the contractors for an explanation. They told her that Rooks, the assistant manager was in those boxes when they came in. The lady moved one Thursday evening and her mover had to go to a regular job. The lady told Rooks she would be back the next morning to get her televisions, lamps and an armchair. When she showed up the next morning the apartment was empty. The lady then checked with the maintenance crew to see who moved her furniture. They had not been up to her apartment and did not know she had moved. Rooks would watch tenant’s furniture as they were being evicted. She paid junkies hanging around outside to go and bring her peoples furniture after they were set out on the street. Some of the fires that occurred were due to faulty wiring in the walls. Rooks is aware because the fire marshal told her on two occasions, and Holland covered it up, puting people's life in danger. The Department of Regulatory Affairs will not come out to inspect the wiring.

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