Delancey at Shirlington Village

Crows, roaches, and mold. I lived in the flats for one year. I have never lived in such poor living conditions before. Issue # 1 - Thousands (literally) of crows nest in Shirlington Village from October - April each year. They encircle the building cawing from 4am - 6am every morning. The walls are paper-thin and you can still hear the extremely loud cawing when using earplugs. Before moving here, go check out the thousands of crows that nest in Shirlington Village at night. Or just google "Shirlington Crows". They will ruin your life. Shirlington Village tries to scare them away with sound cannons, but that only lasts a few minutes. When you walk outside of your building every day you will see bird droppings all along the sidewalk and you will be forced to walk through the mess. Issue #2 - My health suffered from living here. The apartment that I moved into had mold. I developed clear symptoms of mold exposure (chronic cough, memory loss, fatigue, heart palpitations/increased heart rate, and a lesion on my lung - diagnosed by my doctor). Once mold spores are in your furniture and clothes, it's hard to get them out. Maintenance laughed at the fact I was complaining about mold and the musty smell. I used an at-home test and a mold detection company to verify the mold. Delancey did let me switch to another apartment. Issue #3 - The first apartment I moved into was infested with roaches. They told me this was because the apartments are above restaurants. I've lived in many apartment buildings over restaurants - and never saw roaches. Exterminators put sticky roach traps all throughout the inside of my apartments. I have never lived anywhere where I had to constantly have roach traps littered around the floor of my living space. It was so embarrassing to have guests over. The staff of Delancey acted like it was a normal thing to have roach traps all over the inside of your apartment. Issue #4 - The apartment they moved me to had silverfish and damp carpets.

I have now lived outside of the Delancey for two+ years. Their company UDR, put me out for collections of a balance of $42.78 remaining on my account when I moved out. I contacted my credit card company who confirmed payment of this balance and sent it to the Delancey, UDR, and the debt collection agency. Their extremely rude billing manager sent me an e-mail telling me to handle it with the debt collector. Which I did. This past week, December 7th, 2020 I received yet another letter from a new Debt collector asking for payment of $42.78. I now have to send more certified mail to the Delancey, UDR, and their Debt collector proving I have already made payment of money I did not owe. DO NOT MOVE HERE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE HASSLED BY THIS UNORGANIZED COMPANY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.