Envoy on Northside

If I could give 0 stars I would, I’ve been living here a long time. With hopes things will improve. But in fact they’ve worsen. The manage sucks, hence to why they have a high turn over of management, since I’ve lived here I’ve seen 4 different property managers, I’ve been here 3 leases. The apartments are roach infested. I’ve also had mold growing in my apartment before too, they claimed it wasn’t but quickly removed the dry wall to avoid legal action I’m sure. I had to go to doctor and endured a medical expense b/​c of their negligence. There is animal feces and urine in corridors and elevator. Someone ran sacked the mailboxes, and left them all open. There are crackheads that run up to you begging for money. No one has a sense of noise control. There isn’t adequate parking, the parking deck isn’t secure or lit. Because of this inadequacy, cars are booted, when they aren’t parked correctly. The parking needs to be improved before you can boot an individuals car. People’s Windows constantly get broken out, someone has even been held captive, taken to there apartment from their car in parking garage, robbed and raped. They have currently changed the name, but nothing has changed its the same shitty ass desensitized, mediocre, ignorant min. Wage working ass management! I have a boot on my car b/​c they change office hours and failed to change the posted sign, but still I have to pay, and they do not have the correct time posted, but the boot guys knows and I’m a resident and I don’t know the times, how convenient for him and his business, but not for me.

My lease is over next month so I can leave an honest review finally. First let me mention that while I’ve lived year (one year) the leasing staff has changed 2 – 3 times.
Pros:
1. With the exception of traffic over the weekend because of the events at the GA Dome and the bluff being located right behind the apartment building (you don’t want to drive behind the building). Envoy is located at a very nice location close to schools, bars, etc.
2. The gym is nice but lacks loose weights, it’s usually empty which is great because its not that big.
3. The pool is very nice when it is not crowded with people who do not live here, usually over the summer.
4. Both the study lounge and TV room are very clean and nicely decorated. Also never crowded and a great space to do homework if you’re a student.
5. Packaging system is great, they collect your packages for you at the front so you don’t have to worry about anyone stealing them from your apartment.
Neutral:
1. A lot of young folks living here, it can be pretty loud sometimes– it does not bother me but if you’re older with kids you may want to reconsider.
Now for the long list of cons, again this is my HONEST review:
1. The parking garage is nice, but since I’ve lived here many cars have been broken into, stolen (yes out of the gate), and the gate is always broken. This past month the gate surprisingly has been working well, but usually it is always broke. My roommates friend’s car was stolen as well – but it was parked by the leasing office.
2. There have been countless robberies in the back apartment and on the first floors. If you live here I suggest that you live in the front building connected to the leasing office, and avoid the bottom floor (that is where the bugs live and most break-​ins occur).
3. The leasing management is shady as hell, (new and old)– the new management tried to charge us a move out fee, but took it away after we threatened to contact corporate about a moldy water leak we’ve had our entire lease that they did not come fix. Also, management will leave a sign saying they’ll be back at 1:30 (example) and won’t come back into the office until 2:30 — 3:00pm sometimes.
4. Maintenance Staff– VERY UNPROFESSIONAL! They take forever to answer your requests, unless you threaten to contact corporate. Again, we’ve had a moldy water leak in our living room and they took forever (our last two months) to come fix it. When the guy first came, he used the bathroom in our apartment and did not flush the toilet (its all girls that live here and the toilet seat was up); they went into our stuff under OUR sink and took OUR trash bag to block the huge hole in the ceiling until they came to patch it up a week later. Also, we our sink was clogged of hair so we had them come fix it and instead the guy tried to stuff the hair from the sink into the bathtub drain instead of just throwing the hair in the trash.
5. There is trash valet, which is nice – however, the trash shoots are disgusting. They’re always overflowing with trash. You can see for yourself when you visit because its always full, and there’s plenty of bugs living in there waiting to attack you when you open the door.
6. All year long there are stinkbugs that will come into your apartment and are difficult to kill. My bedroom has a balcony but I had to tape my door shut so that the bugs wouldn’t come into my room. We spoke to the office about this problem as well but there was nothing they could do about it.
7. Pet area – there is a nice little space to take your dogs poop and pee, but no one cleans up after their animals so there is poop everywhere in that space.
8. It takes 2 – 3 times of drying clothes for them to dry… which sucks.
9. The water bill is high, sewer alone is usually around $ 80, so utilities would be about $ 200 – 250 extra a month and it is split between the entire apartment building so there is nothing you can do about it. I kept track how much the utilities were each month so I can prove this fact.
10. Appliances and apartments are not updated, not sure if the new management is going to make some changes with the apartments
11. The security is only there over the weekends, and half the time you wouldn’t know if they’re random people standing around (because they don’t do much) or people working. They wear regular clothes most of the time, and chill by the pool in the day time drinking.
I can go on and on about different things. If you’re young, a student, and you just need a place to stay for a reasonable price in the city – go for it. I decided to move to Marietta St where apartments are a little pricier but at least I can go to sleep at night without worrying if my car will be stolen or my apartment will get broken into. For me, the negatives outweigh the positives but my experience may be different from others.
Choose wisely! I’ll add more pictures later.

I’m baaack. Yup, nearly half a year later after I’ve moved out, this place came back to haunt me AGAIN (See first 2 reviews as this an update). Me and my roommate painted our rooms, so, before we moved out, we tried to paint them back. It looked great, but I wouldn’t have been totally upset if they came back with a charge for something — I’m sure we got some of the white paint on the carpet. Ok, cool.
But here’s where, in true Atlanta fashion, this place screwed up. After I moved to the TWELVE, I came back to this place — on two whole separate occasions — to make sure they had my forwarding address and info AND to make sure there weren’t any other more charges or whatever for damages we needed to take care of. I specifically came back to make sure I didn’t need to pay anything. And both times, they told me all was good.
So why the FUCK did I get an email from Experian listing an account placed in collections because of this place. I was able to get it completely cleared and resolved and removed from my credit history, but seriously, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH BUILDING?! I called them requesting an itemized bill explaining just why I owe them nearly $ 900 and the woman in the phone told me that, literally, the day before, they were taken over by new management and so those records were inaccessible.
FUCK ENVOY! My entire time here has been punctuated with nonsense, tomfoolery and haberdashery. Please, heed NY warning, avoid this place at all costs possible.

In the duration of my stay here the apartments were managed by several different companies. Very unorganized and all over the place. Alisa that works in the office is very rude and had an attitude with me before I walked in her office. New management is needed. Not to mention my car was broken into while I lived here.

I am a current resident at Envoy. i have lived in Southeast DC for the majority of my life (probably one of the «hardest» parts of DC) and this isn’t a far stretch from that.
No, there isn’t drug dealers lurking and shoot at rival gangs but there are definitely crackheads (zombies) walking by constantly. cars are constantly being broken into. there is always shattered glass on the streets in the neighborhood. the parking garage is shady and the gate works half the time. DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING ON YOUR SEATS AT ANYTIME… not even a childs toy… YOUR CAR WILL GET BROKEN INTO… I personally stash any charging wires, audio cables, shoes, black plastic bags that look like they have liquor in them, ANYTHING!!!
We have a” parking enforcement” person who walks obsessively around the complex. HE Carries a visible gun wears dark shades, and is very sneaky, in any other case this would make me feel better.
THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT IS NOT THERE TO ENFORCE PARKING!!! HE IS THERE, AND ONLY THERE, TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF THE RESIDENTS. I SAY AGAIN. THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT IS A SCAM…
«this is my educated guess» i don’t have proof of this. but…
i feel like the previous office staff that was fired back in the end of 2014 had some kinda deal worked out with the parking guys to give them free reign of the parking deck. i honestly believe there was some other type of incentive, not sure if the parking co. was paying them off to allow them to get rich off the residents or some other negotiations but its NO WAY IN HELL A PARKING COMPANY SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOT PAYING RESIDENTS AT WILL…
UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO THERE WAS NO CLEAR RULES REGULATIONS OR GUIDELINES STATING WHO GETS TICKETED BOOTED TOWED OR ANYTHING BUT «NO BROKEN VEHICLES PAST 30DAYS»
side note: there are cameras in the lot but only on the top floor. i asked a maintenance person and an office staffer did they work because someone hit my car and i wanted to see if it was captured… (Drum Roll) maintenance, i think they are for «Show of force»
Office staffer I’m not sure how we get the footage because its monitored by «someone» online SMDH
Side note #2: today is Memorial day and the pool is not open… Just though id throw that out there too…
Side note #3 the fire alarm goes off randomly throughout the week and especially on fridays. sometimes 3 – 4 times at 2,3,4am… the alarms went off for the last two nights in a row and i have video of this happening. but don’t think i can upload here…
DANGEROUS SIDE NOTE: the fire department looks at this building as a thorn in their side making the come to false alarms all week long. i have seen the fire trucks show up and all the guys were in tshirts because they knew the fire wast really happening…
IM GOING TO A POOL PARTY AND MY GIRLFRIEND IS TELLING ME TO HURRY UP SO THIS ARTICLE WILL CONTINUE LATER…
OH YEAH
–the ceilings are paper thin and you can hear every little step anybody takes.
–the Water sewer bill flexes between 100 to 200 dollars a month with NO Explanation of how prices created.
–staff has no way of sorting packages for residents, on several occasions we’ve been told no packages for you but the packages have bee sitting there for almost a week.
–Loading zone for carrying heavy items, are only if you are moving in. anyone who needs to move anything else has to walk almost 400feet to the parking deck up and down stairs for risk of being ticketed or booted.
–Residents can only enter the gym at 9am when the staff gets there… even though we have key FOBS for access. so if you work out in the morning you are out of luck.
Example: i want to bring my groceries in the house i can’t pull up and park in the loading zone 20 feet from my house i have to walk the green mile multiple times…
Last side note. the staff that did our initial paperwork was fired. we moved in 5 months ago with a new staff. and 2 weeks ago the staff was replaced AGAIN I’m no MATH-​a-​Magician (Mathematician) but you do the math.
To be continued…

This is just a short edit. The Sunday after I posted my original review, there was a mugging out in the hallway a few doors down from my apartment. Security cameras are located on the corners of buildings and near the parking garage, but not in the hallways. I sometimes feel unsafe walking down the halls at night, because I know that the parking garage gate is often jammed open, homeless folk do live nearby, and muggings do happen. I personally haven’t been touched at Envoy, but knowing that it happens make me skittish, and I want to make sure others looking into living here know all they can.