Here is why you should NOT move into Brookville Townhomes:
1) It's nowhere near a metro stop and buses don't run past it late at night
2) The building have become run down due to neglect over the past 3 years
3) All the sudden the management has started towing cars off of the property (even though the owners of the cars are paying for parking)
4) Management illegally distributes important notices in the mailbox and doesn't give too much notice when residents need to move their cars.
5) Management doesn't let you play games in the yard in front of your house
6) Management has been complaining like crazy lately and cracking down on every minute little clause of the rental contract
7) My apartment leaks like a sieve
8) There were a plethora of thefts from parked cars
9) The power has gone out at least 5 times since I arrived
...and that's only the beginning...

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/18/2008
Metro line 25B runs until about 9:30 PM Mon-Fri, Dash #5 runs 7 days a week until about 11 PM. Yes, I've lived there about 3 years myself, and have noticed the lack of upkeep of the apartments and grounds also. Paying for parking? I don't know about that, but Management DID start having cars towed that are parked in areas reserved for residents with parking stickers when those other cars lack a Brookville parking sticker. Personally, I'm glad they enforce this. And when Management is "going crazy" enforcing lease provisions - I'm glad they do that, too - you signed the lease, abide by it. Apartment living for kids sucks, but that's no reason I should have to listen to a bunch of screaming kids playing right outside my window. In an apartment community, there just isn't enough yard space like you have with a single-family home to have kids just run around playing games. The community has a playground. And yes - the power situation is frustrating. I don't know what's going on, but I had more reliable electricity service when I was in the Air Force stationed in Honduras for a year. Between the 8-10 hour outages after a major storms, to the occasional 2-5 minute outages in the middle of a sunny day for no apparent reason, the reliability of electricity can be iffy. Until I switch to Comcast internet phone service, my Verizon service seemed like it was out of service more often than it was in service. I'll definitely not be renewing my lease here.
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/18/2008
I have had problems with really big ---- roaches and No they are not waterbugs. When on any average day there is 30-55 bid dead bugs on my basement floor, there is a problem, I had to get the city code inspector invovled. My neighboor had a mold issue, for weeks, a whole in the ceiling of her kitchen, the whole was big enough to put a basketball through, it took them 3 months to fix that. In addition they are so stupid and allow there money to go to waste as oppose to fixing up the units. I know of atleast 2 residents, one who has never had their electricity switched to their name and the other never had the gas switched to their name, Both have lived their 1 year..so Brookvilles dumm asses have been thier bills the entire time to date...that money could be invested in the upkeeps of the property..They are unprofessional and stupid...
From: ManagerBrookville	Date: 07/17/2008
I can assure you that we do not pay for resident utilities bills.If they come to the office they are sent to the resident or service is turned off. We have a preventative pest control schedule so that we do not have any problems with pests. They are here every Monday to do the service. We must all follow the rental agreeement we sign it for a reason and if the rules are not followed then we must enforce them. It is not fair to those resident who do follow them and have to live with the chaos of those who do not. We just made updates to our playground to include, play chips, new picnic benches and grills. Please feel free to use at any time. Everyone is welcome to go to the City of Alexandria website to see recent crimes in the area. I have checked the website and also with our officer onsite and nothing has reported as far as car thefts. Here is the link http://alexandriava.gov/police/info/crimereports.aspx?id=98 As always please contact us if you have any questions at 703-370-1330. Have a great day.
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/24/2008
So the brookville people told you the giant cockroaches were waterbugs too? I just laughed at that and then asked the exterminators, who indeed confirmed they are huge cockroaches. And I agree with all the points lised above - My car (with my brookville sticker) has been towed out my own parking lot because my roommate (also with a brookville parking sticker) was parked in the same lot. Yeah, real safe to make your tenants park far away on the street and walk in the middle of the night back to your townhome. Stupid rules.
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/30/2008
They try to tell me too that the roaches are water bugs too. I know what a cockroach looks like and these are no water bugs. The exterminators are useless here and Brookville management could not care less about making their residents happy. They are hell bent on denying any accusation that comes up and have no shame in hiding that they just don't care. DON'T MOVE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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