Massachusetts Mills Apartments

Jennifer G’s review is spot on. To recap:
* No AC, despite promising AC on every rental website.
* Doors not locked, despite promising a secure keyed system.
* Horrible unsanitary gym equipment never cleaned or repaired.
* Torn wallpaper and vomit in halls.
* Zero guest parking — they promise parking for guests, but it’s a lie. Residents park in the twelve-​spot «guest» lot.
* Not only do they charge you extra for the pool, but the lifeguards are often not there, and they lock the poor gate so it can’t be used when they’re gone.
But wait, there’s more:
* The adjacent building is derelict, crumbling, and infested with bats. Very embarrassing when you have guests!
* The lots are only barely plowed during the winter, and have a solid coat of ice, snow, and/​or slush until spring.
* Constant threats from management — the latest today is that all cars must be moved from lot A to lot B by 7am or you’ll be towed and fined, but lot B is roped off overnight. All winter long, we received threats of being towed and even having our parking sticker revoked if we didn’t move our cars within an hour of when the snowplow «blew its horn,» but you can’t hear its horn from the back of the building.
* Any packages bigger than a brick get put in a publicly-​accessible room where anyone can walk in and take your package.
* Not their fault, but relevant to prospective renters: There’s a bridge right next to the building so traffic is a nightmare. You can’t get in or out without sitting in bumper-​to-​bumper traffic except very late at night. Want to go a mile up the road for groceries? Enjoy your 15 minute drive. Want to get out any time between 6am and 7pm? Add at least a few minutes of sitting and waiting.
Don’t move here.

This apartment is horrible. The staff lies about everything. They told us when we moved (1 year ago) that they turn on the AC June 1^st. It is July 17^th today and it’s still not on. It’s between 80 – 90 degrees in our apartment every day. They also told us that they would be renovating the workout room last July. They haven’t touched it. The workout room is extremely dirty. I don’t think they’ve cleaned it once in the year I’ve lived here. The machines are all broken and very old. Speaking of machines, the washer and dryers are always broken. One washer on the 2^nd floor has been broken since I moved here and the office staff told me they would fix it (it’s been a year and they haven’t touch it.) They never clean the inside of the building properly, only the grounds. They do take care of the grounds but lawn mow and weedwack early Saturday mornings, not nice to wake up to. The inside is never cleaned properly. There was vomit in the stairway for 3 weeks. The wallpaper thoughout the building is falling down. They are «working on the pipes» for the AC so the ceiling on the basement floor (where there are many apartments) is all falling down and there are pipes hanging everywhere. I feel unsafe every time I walk through the basement (which is every day because that’s where you go in if you have to park in the back). The back entrance door has been broken for a couple months so it doesn’t lock or shut. This means that anyone can come in the building, even without a key. There is only one parking space per unit so you have to pay $ 50 a month to park another car and it’s across the street. There is no guest parking and they will immediately tow anyone without a sticker, even if they are running up for just a minute. I thought it would be nice to have a pool but they charge you for guests and if you lose the tiny pass you need a buy another. There are lots of other regulations related to the pool. In just the year I’ve lived here the apartment has become very dumpy, I don’t know what’s happening with the maintenance inside the building but they’ve been seriously lacking and it makes the apartment feel and look extremely dirty. It wasn’t like that when I moved in. I feel embarrassed bringing guests into the apartment! The inside of the actual apartments are nice with the large ceilings, big windows and new rug. But the fire detectors often go off randomly. We’ve had to replace ours twice and the same thing happened to our neighbors. Don’t move here!

Mass. Mills looks good on the outside but there’s a story there’s a lot of crime in the area. There’s no parking, rent is high and the management was next to impossible to deal with. If the same person who was there in 2000 is there now that would be a shame. Very rude, inappropriate and nasty.

I’ve lived here for 6 months and the place constantly smells like weed, people leave trash out in the common areas all the time and there are ZERO parking spaces for each apartment. You only get one parking sticker per apartment, forcing you to park in the visitors parking lot (which has 15 spots and it’s always full) or get towed. They have a tow company go through every night and check cars. $ 130 cash each night. I’ve complained several times about all these issues and they are never resolved! DO NOT RENT FROM HERE!

I’ve lived there from 2005 until 2008. Initially, I thought it was a great place. Pretty clean, good tenants, good staff/​management. However, as time progressed, the place got worse and worse… The place is now «trashy» — something that I would not consider as «Luxury», even though the sign says «Luxury Apartments». Frequent fire false fire alarms during the middle of the night.
Worst of all, during my final year there, my apartment got broken into by thieves, and lost a lot of valuable items. I had to move out for my safety — i no longer felt that it was safe there. My apartment was broken into on a Sunday during the late afternoon. They supposively have a security guard there, and surveilance cameras — however, the security guard was useless, and the cameras got nothing. Management was rude, and unhelpful with the whole situation.
Bad apartments, bad management, bad overall!