I'm an ------- American female, I use to live in channel square, and compared to where I live now (Avery Park Apartments in Silver Spring), this place was much better.

The problems I had with channel square where mininal and could have been delt with but the problem is not the management, its the nasty ghetto people and my car being broken into, which again is the result of ghetto people.

They had roaches when I was there, but mine were controlled because I didn't live triflin, and if I had a few it was due to nasty neighbors near my place.

This is the thing, why fix anything in an apartment complex when you have triflin people live there'

I use to complain about it until I finally saw the real reason why the place was never fixed.

The tenants complained about the elevators never being fixed, but what is the point when kids urinate on the elevators, use cigarettes to burn the bottons so you couldn't read the floor numbers and wrote on the walls'

One woman there, complained about a child who was acting unruley and the child broke into and urinated in her mailbox.

The kids run rampid around the complex with no supervision, they urinate in the stair cases.

The doors leading to the stairs are always slamming (especially on the fifth floor) because the kids run in a out of them and the doors have no "swings" on it to prevent them from being slammed.

It's a shame to say, but "slums get what slums deserve"

The rent has gone up tremendously since I left. I was paying $987 for a three bedroom but in order to get out the trash, they had to up the rent. Its sad how we can't act like civilized people, but then complain if we can't live in luxury.

Its an old building but because of it being old, the walls are very thick (unlike my current apartment). They replace the carpets each time a tenant moves out, which I like a lot.

I miss it but its way to expensive now.

I'm recommend for the simple fact that I know it will get better after they get the unruley people out

User Responses
From: who_me	Date: 06/09/2005
I agree. There are some people living in channel square who are not acostumed to living someplace nice. I have been living in channel square for all of my adult life, and the transformation is astonishing. I remember when you would never see "The Square" dirty, with roaches or the doors and elevators broken. But that was many years ago. It is unfortunate that the building has gone down the way it has because that is prime real estate.
From: goodten	Date: 07/05/2005
It's a shame you had to leave. I live in a townhouse at Channel Square. I do feel, however, you made the right decision to leave the Channel Square Apartments. Everytime I go over there to the rental office for anything, I can see where the people who live in that building do not care about its upkeep. If more people in there were like you it would be a much better building to live in, and it is due in large part to the parents who let their kids run wild like animals that have allowed that building to unravel. Sorry, you had to go. Wish you could have moved into one of the townhouses. They are much better, as long as you live in a townhouse that is ON 3rd Street or ON 4th Street. The townhouses that face and sit directly on the Channel Square tenant parking lot are questionable.
From: shevi	Date: 09/30/2005
Ghetto people or not, management should do their job and make sure that everything is in working order and conditions are decent/tolerable. I kinda see what you mean, but they are getting paid to take care of the problems, not overlook them because of the disposition of some of the tenants..even if its the majority. Im not a tenant there, never lived in DC, but i wouldnt be satisfied with the thought "what can you do if ghetto people live there..ofcourse you wont want to fix it" Thats Crazy. You shouldnt even had put your race,etc, thats irrelevant. And you dont seem to be a compassionate,intelligent,reasonable person. I know i wouldnt be satisfied living with Roaches. And by the way, people dont have to be Ghetto to be unruly and act crazy. I wouldnt want to live in a "ghetto" environment or a loud one (whether it be due to children or city noises), but i sure wouldnt place all the blame on the tenants and hold the apartment management unaccountable for the conditions of their compex...when they Should have experience dealing with such situations and voluntarily took on that responsibility once they decided to go into business.
From: kiwi72	Date: 07/11/2007
Shevi you can think what you want, but the place is slum due to the people that live in it. I had no problems with management and no problems with my personal apartment but its time to stop giving excuses to people who are unruley. Every time the management tried to fix something there, the unrulely people would mess it up. What are they suppose to do? Provide expensive luxurious atmosphere just to have it torn down. Give me a break, let's say you owned a house and rented it out to people, and they tore it up, urintated everywhere, punched holes into the walls, had wild parties, and every time they messed up something they complained on you when it wasn't fixed, so then you go and spend money to fix the place up as it was and to the tenants liking but they don't change their behavior and cause the same mess as before. What would you do? If people want the place fixed, respect it after it's fixed and for goodness sakes stop letting your children run around unsupervised. I'm sorry but the children and some people in the apartment are very ghetto; that is a fact. Don't like it do something about it, but you can't change truth. And I mentioned my race for the simple fact that people want to throw the race card and scream that only someone caucasion would think the way I do. You can think what you want of mem I could care less, but I still stand on my opnion. I miss Channel Square deeply and wish I could afford to live there again, but I found a new apartment in Silver Spring that comes close to Channel Square so I'm all good.
From: sadsadworld	Date: 12/17/2007
shevi first of all you don't seem like you've ever lived in a bad area. I think kiwi was just trying to express her issues and be clear. I am planning to move to the DC, I have visited several times, but a visit is not the same as calling somewhere home. For me her comment was very help ful and it eas nice to be able to put a race/face on the writing, there are many attitudes of many races and you can call it stereo typical or not. It still biols down to the basic fact, bad people, bad kids can make a nice place horrible for everyone, the good. As far as management, instead of griping on all the what she should do, why don't you write a letter and tell them about what you heard. see f it does anygood. If you haven'e lived with it, or delt with it SHUT UP. A "ghetto envorionment" can develop in a year in a really nice neighbor hood. I lived it. I called police and every one was tolerable that could actually fix the probelm. My car was wrecked in my fron yard twice..whkile parked inthe middle of the night. I had to almost get arrested to get an appointment withe the chief of police in oder to get an accident report. Because the neighborhood was "going down" Experience it or Shut it

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