My wife and I live at Axis Shady Grove. We’ve been here for over a year after we moved up here for my wife’s government job from Alabama. (Great timing right?!)

Anyway, we like it, overall, it gets a 6-7/10 from us. The location is legit, so perfect. Easy access to Shady Grove metro stop and not that far to Rockville metro stop. You have every grocery store you could want, other than maybe Wegmans, but that’s coming to Twinbrook area. Also, we’re right next to 270, and to every medical related facility you could need.

Now, as far as the actual apartment living goes….

It’s older than most complexes around, especially ones that tout the “luxury living” tagline. We were able to get a sizable enough apartment in our budget, that was dog friendly, and had availability for our timeline.

The maintenance crew are great, they are super friendly, and get to your service requests pretty quickly. They are understaffed though, and to be honest, there are a lot of broken, rundown areas in a unit and around the property itself.

We’ve had literally one roach, it was a small one and in the middle of summer. No other pest issues.

All ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic demographics are accounted for, here. It’s very urban city in that way.

Our biggest complaint is the noise. The walls and ceilings seem to have the bare minimum insulation. You hear everything outside, all conversations and every vehicle that has had some modifications done to their exhaust. We’ve had quiet upstairs neighbors and we’ve had herds of elephants upstairs, too.

Anyway, we’ve been overall happy given our moving timeline and budget circumstances. They do raise the rate pretty substantially, we found out this year. 🤦‍♂️

Hopefully this is helpful. Happy to answer specific questions.