I have lived in this apartment for 10 months -- only two months left on my lease and I will NOT be renewing. When I moved to Maryland I thought that this apartment would be a good fit for me since it was close to work and had good access to major highways. However, I have found that the price (pretty cheap rent for the area) is not worth it!

Parking is ridiculous -- if you don't park in a "V" designated spot for visitors, your car WILL get towed. I had a rental one week due to a car accident; I asked for a temporary parking tag and was DENIED. I told them I was in a rental and they said that I shouldn't worry about towing. I got home late from work one night -- couldn't find a "V" spot and decided to risk it. Big mistake! Woke up the next morning to find my car was gone -- $100 to get it out of the tow place, 45 minutes away in a VERY bad part of DC. Not good.

The apartments are very old -- therefore I can hear every fight, door slam, walk across the living room, phone ring, etc. of my neighbors. The neighbors above me have some sort of domestic-violence thing going on because I have no other way to explain all the slams and screaming at night. The people below me are on drugs and have parties all the time. People drive through the complex with their loud noise coming from their cars. Fights occur often in the parking lot and I have been woken up more than once -- the apartment employees/manager refuse to do anything about any of this even though I have put complaints in writing.

The apartment employees will enter your apartment with NO notice. Two days after I rented, I was in the bathroom when my front door opened and an employee came in trying to SHOW the apartment to some prospective tenants. What! Today, while I was watching TV in my living room, two employees decided that they were going to conduct my move-out inspection with NO notice. They just put the keys in the door and tried to walk in -- I had the chain on and told them they could come back after they scheduled an appointment with me. Who knows how many other times they have just came into my apartment when I wasn't there. I don't even want to think about it!

However after all of this the biggest thing is the safety. This apartment complex is NOT safe AT ALL. I have seen numerous cars broken into (the aftermath at least), heard reports of cars being stolen, and to top it off there have been TWO shootings AND a hostage negotiation situation since I've been here. The first shooting happened in about January 2008, the hostage negotiation (don't know the details but saw the police/EMTs and heard the negotiator over the bullhorn) happened in May, and the most recent (and saddest!) happened in June when a police officer was killed in the complex.

If you value your privacy, the quiet and your SAFETY don't risk it! Pay a few hundred dollars more and live in Columbia!

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/30/2008
i agree with EVERYTHING written here. i've lived here for two years and am most annoyed by the noise of neighbors. i was spoiled by the last apartment building i lived in because they had concrete walls and floors and were virtually soundproof. but after my roommate bought a house, i couldn't afford to live there on my own and moved here to Deerfield Run. the walls and floors here must be made of rice paper. my neighbors above me sound as if they each weigh 3000 lbs because their heavy footsteps stomping across my ceiling sound like those of sumo wrestlers. and the floor creaks with every single step you take. it is loud enough to wake you up from a sound sleep. not to mention the disgusting hours spent trying to ignore sounds of them having sex, praying for the blessed peace of sudden hearing loss. there should be no reason that walls are so thin that you can hear amorous sounds coming from someone one floor up. it is ridiculous. my next door neighbors are so LOUD and let their kids run all in the halls. their voices are loud and shrill enough to bend steel, and i've had to go knock on their door to ask them to knock off the loud partying and music blasting at 1 am. i know these are issues one could experience anywhere if your neighbors are inconsiderate and rude. but if Deerfield would renovate and get more soundproofed walls, the noise would be reduced drastically. in my last apartment, i rarely heard noise from other neighbors. the hostage situation/suicide was no joke...that was scary and sad! and parking sucks like no other. there are very few visitor parking spaces so if you have company coming over, you better move your car into a V spot and "reserve" it that way for them; otherwise, you'll be out of luck and your company will have nowhere to park. they are sinister, money-hungry losers with nothing better to do and WILL tow your car in a minute! the only reason i haven't moved is because the rent is much cheaper than so many other places around here (plus utilities are included, except water). and i can't afford to pay $1000/mo for rent plus extra for utilities, as is the case with most of these overpriced apartments elsewhere. and even with all the problems, Deerfield is still safer and cleaner than most other neighborhoods with lower rent, where you'd be dodging gunfire and rats on a daily basis. so i'm kind of stuck for now until i get a higher paying job and can afford to move.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/30/2008
It is unfortunate that you have experienced theses things I know how annoying it is to pay rent and have no peace of mind, but realistically except for the hostage situation and the cop getting run over every building is different and I have been blessed with a quiet building with very friendly and respectful neighbors so far and the noise level is fair I have never had any parking space issues even on the weekends where you would expect for there to be a lack of parking the management has always been friendly and helpful. And as scary as it is to know that you have experienced the employee's come in your home unannounced I have also never had that problem (knock on wood) ??? .
From: vs0104	Date: 01/10/2009
Who in the leasing office are you dealing with that things are so bad? I have never had any problems like you are mentioning and I lived here in 2006 and then moved back again in 08. My car got totaled last month and I went into the leasing office to get a temporary parking pass and they gave one to me no problem. I just had to sign a paper and give them the make and model. They told me that if I had it past the day they authorized parking, to just come back and they would change the date. You complain about people fighting all hours of the night and loud music all the time, why don't you just call the cops? You also mention them coming into your apartment unnanounced. I used to work weird hours, so I would be here during the day a lot trying to sleep and they would come in to do maintenance and they always left a note saying they came in, they never came in unnanounced, only when I called them for something. A lot of times, they didn't even know I was in the apartment when they were doing work. When I moved out, they scheduled the appt with me to inspect this place. I had no problem with that either. I lived in Columbia from 07-08 and I much prefer this place over there and I lived in a nice townhome there, but I see less fighting and more courteous people here in Laurel. The hostage situation and the cop getting run over I know nothing about, but I don't feel that its the leasing office's fault. I like this place.
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/28/2009
I'm planning to move here soon. Would someone help? What's the laundry situation like? Is the neighborhood bad? What's with this shooting? Could someone post some pictures of the units? etc. etc. etc. ...

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