What to know:Allanah Morales, 26, filed a lawsuit on Oct. 2 against RCA VG LLC, the parent company of the Millie apartment building in downtown Detroit.Morales says she has dealt with rats in the lobby, roaches in apartments, mold, faulty appliances, and security breaches at the building.Morales pays about $2,300 a month and says the conditions have made her feel unsafe in her own building.Her lease runs through March 2027. She is seeking damages and wants to be released from the lease so she can move out without additional fees or legal consequences.The property is managed by Village Green. Its parent company, RCA VG LLC, is based in Farmington Hills and owned by Jonathan Holtzman, Village Green’s co-founder and former CEO.DETROIT — The disgusting sight of rats scampering throughout the lobby at the Millie on Brush constantly lingers with Allanah Morales.“Even with friends like they asked me to go out at night, sometimes I’m a little scared to even like walk through the lobby, because I don’t know what’s gonna be out there waiting for me,” Morales, 26, said on Friday outside of the building that was once known as the Millinder Center. “I think that my brain has literally been rewired.”Her plight has gone viral since our first story back on Aug. 7. She has lived in the building across the street from the Renaissance Center since November 2024. She pays, in total, $2,300 per month in rent and has seen everything from rats in the lobby to roaches in the apartments to numerous security breaches. It has also led to some odd moments with her being recognized.“Nobody wants to come forward and say, ‘I’m dealing with rats and roaches and crazy homeless people threatening my life,’” she said. “Once it got to that point, it was a lot of concern from family”That’s why she filed a lawsuit against the Millies’ parent company, RCA VG LLC, in Wayne County Circuit Court on Oct. 2. The company is based in Farmington Hills and is owned by Jonathan Holtzman, the co-founder and former CEO of Village Green – the Millies’ current property manager Morales is seeking damages for the multitude of issues she’s faced in the building, including the rodents, mold, and faulty appliances. She is also looking to be freed from her lease, which runs through March 2027“I do not want to be living with these issues…”Since Local 4 first spoke with Morales on August 7, not much has changed overall in the building. Some changes have been made in terms of the tenant issues, but the rodent issue is, at best, a work in progress, as exterminators were seen going into the building on Friday.“When these tenants signed this lease, they expected to have basic utilities to have clean apartments and clean community areas,” James Murray III, Morales’ attorney, said on Friday. “When you have tenants complaining about rats, complaining about mold, fungus, and mushrooms growing on the windows, and you simply just paint over it or do a temporary job and not permanently eradicate the issue, that’s a red flag to me.”The management company also attempted to evict Morales in August, which she claims was retaliatory (Village Green said at the time it was not). The order was eventually dismissed in early September.“Most troubling is when you find that your tenants are trying to get action to get assistance to bring these issues to your um to the landlord’s attention to instead of listen and act appropriately to then go in a bit or try to quiet and silence them,” he said. “It’s a habit and behavior that I think is quite startling and why some landlords can get such a bad name.”Local 4 contacted Village Green, and they said they have no comment due to the ongoing litigation.The city’s Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department (BSEED) said in August that they have issued corrective action to Village Green.“Tenants should reach out to us after they have filed a complaint with the management company to put in a service request for issues within their unit and within the building,” Arthur Rushin, BSEED’s executive director, said on August 7. “We did issue an emergency correction order, and they did hire an extermination company; however, we issued another ticket because they did not move fast enough.”Contacted on Friday, BSEED said that while a number of concerns at the Millie have been fixed, the rodent and bug issue has not been confirmed to have been handled.Why she hasn’t moved out…After going through all of this, the obvious question posed by her family and internet commenters alike: why hasn’t she just moved out?“If it was as easy as to just break a contract, without having to pay fees and fines and just up and move without any type of fear, a further legal action, that is something I would do in a heartbeat,” she said. “I do not want to be living with these issues that I’m facing right now.”One of the demands in her lawsuit is to be let out of the lease and be able to move on. She wants this entire issue resolved so she can finally get out of this apartment. While she’s tired of the Millie, she is not done with Detroit.“I still love my city,” she said. “I hope to stay downtown, but in a better property with better livable conditions.”Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit – All rights reserved.
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