I moved into Milestone (originally Cameron @ Milestone) brand-new in 1996. It was very beautiful with a nice suburban/country setting and feel. Most residents were professionals, not too many kids overall, and some pets around. Over the years, management and ownership changed, sometimes for good, sometimes not.

Unfortunately, no amount of good management and maintenance can police and keep clean a property with 444 units, many of which are now rented to low-income people by law in Montgomery. The staff does try, but residents who have no respect for the property and others ruin it for all.

Parking is ample (again, though, residents do vandalize cars and drive wildly throughout), the gym is convenient (when undesirables are not hanging out in it), the pool is pretty (when people keep their kids under control), and the grounds are nicely landscaped.

The interiors of the apartments are great: parquet flooring, European cabinetry, ceiling fans, etc. They are light and airy and have large balconies (the older phase units). I only had noise problems with pets on occasion, and more recently, diverse residents who do not have consideration for others and play loud Spanish music on Sunday mornings.

I grew very attached to my apartment (3rd floor, near the main street) and the surrounding neighborhood. As a single female, I took normal precautions and never had problems except with unruly teens and kids running amok.

Maintenance staff is good, office staff needs to get with the program. Lots of internal billing errors.

I would recommend this community to professionals, to reclaim, as I obviously love the place and want it to be successful. Low-income need to move out and establish their own low-income ghettos elsewhere.

User Responses
From: jerrail	Date: 08/03/2005
I am a single black mother who is considered low-income. I am on the HOC program and my rent here is currently $1106 per month which is based 30% of my monthly income but will increase in February. I am a single mother of a son and am also supporting two neices since age 26. I work hard for my kids and come home to a place of peace and wouldn't have it any other way. I pretty much keep to myself. I moved to this neighborhood after my son was violated twice in our old neighborhood. We have every right to be here - low income or not. Thankfully, I have come a long way from my beginnings and in October, 2005 I will no longer be in the program. I have been on the program for 3 1/2 years and with 3 kids, I still qualify but choose to move away from that and be my own boss not having to answer to anyone. This Fall I will be opening my own interior design business and I currently co-own a hair salon in PG County, District Heights, MD where I'm from. I am proud of what I've accomplished while in the program and my kids couldn't be prouder. I am an example for those who reach out for help sincerely with the intentions of doing something real with what they're given. The negative stigmas don't bother me anymore since I know who I am and what I'm doing with my life. Some people make a living playing the system but for those who are in need, this is the kind of ignorance that makes some ashamed to ask for and receive assistance from anyone or any organization. Thank you Bill Clinton for signing into law the Welfare to Work Program! It got me where I am today and I am not ashamed of where I was when I started. Sorry to disappoint you but some of us are not low-income trash and never were. You can't be rich because if you were, you would be living somewhere other than Milestone and wouldn't time to trash kids running around a neighborhood making noise DURING THE DAY. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the noise ordinance took effect at 9:30 pm, weekdays, and 11:00 pm, weekends unless things have changed since 2001. Half the people you know probably come from humble beginnings but if it ain't written on their forehead, who knows and who cares. I'm staying right where I am until I decide I'm secure enough to move up and out. So I guess YOU'RE STUCK WITH ME!!!!!!!! Get over it Ms. Paris ("I wanna be a hilton"). Signed: Soon to be ex HOC Client!!!
From: unhapy11	Date: 11/21/2005
True... BUT if only ALL low income people could be just like YOU, others would not even complain. It does not matter how much you make, but how you behave yourself in society. I am of hispanic heritage, but that does not mean I have to listen to loud "Spanish music on Sunday mornings"... I have respect for all my neighbors and only hope they would return the favor, low income of not.
From: look13	Date: 02/21/2006
I use to live on the property and use to work in the office and amybk u have gots to be kidding if you think that the problem here are low income people take a better look at the office they are all walking around with there heads up there ass and when your going from bad to worst with property managers who don't have a clue or a corporate office that doesn't give a ---- then like they say you do get what u pay for and by the way did u know it was illegal for them to put your rent balance on u'r door without it being in an envelope. so u see amybk u have to go to the top to get to the bottom of your problems and that would be Andy Shore at Alliance Residential @ 7313691600 and the new property manager is the worst they have had since carrol so amybk take the advice from someone who has not only lived there but worked there it's not going to get any better and low income is obviously not were the problem lays try a property manager who is never in the office but she lives on the property or a regional who is as shady as they come or a corporate office that really just dont care and have been trying to sell the property for the past year and a half to investors that are turn them into condos and no one was not going to tell the residents u all were just going to get letters after the sale with no warning so to anyone who think they care the truth is that they dont never did and never will.

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