Atlanta L.

Like a luxury hotel? No. There is new management in place and they have their good days and their bad days. There's a new male leasing agent that is full of misinformation and I avoid him, everyone else seems pleasant but now they've stopped signing for packages and alerting us when we have a package in the office. The packages are really piling up so hopefully soon they will realize it would be smart to let the tenants know they have a package. Pros: -Great location near the Grove, LaBrea, Beverly Hills -Maintenance is very good. Maintenance staff is cordial, works quickly and answers requests pretty much immediately. -Pool is pretty and large -Gym is decent and clean -24hr gate and guards. Guards are friendly and pretty strict, but they really need to having more than one on duty (especially on Friday and Saturday nights). They need one guard at the gate and one on patrol! -Kitchen appliances are very good and well maintained -Close to CVS, Ralphs, Whole Foods, the Farmers Market, Trader Joes, LaBrea Bakery, 3rd Street Restaurants (Izakaya, Little Door, Toast, Olio) -Vegetation around the property is plentiful, pretty and well maintained Cons: -Traffic on 3rd Street/Fairfax District (Whole Foods parking lot...yipes!) -Clubhouse couches are disgusting and old -Hallways (at least mine) have not been cleaned or painted in a long time (since new management). Also, someone steals the light fixtures in the hallways. I don't know why since they are plastic and full of dead bugs. They are disgusting and line all the hallways. As for the stealing... it's probably immature vandalism. -In a nutshell...many of the residents still think they are in a college dorm, if you miss dorm-life, this is the place for you. -My car has been keyed, dented and people have left gum (chewed up balls) on my hood (again, there is a serious lack of maturity in this place) -P2 parking level gets flooded every time it rains -People from neighboring complexes sneak in (with coolers) to use the pool -Rent is high for the square footage you get and closets are small -No washer/dryers in units, lugging laundry and paying 1.50 per washer load and 1.00 per dryer load adds up. Take that into consideration if you are thinking about other apartments. It's about $50/month for me to do laundry in this building. -Windows are never cleaned and neither are the garages. -More immaturity...the fire alarms are pulled frequently. It's highly annoying. Pro/Con -Getting an apartment that faces the courtyards is much quieter (and prettier!) than facing the street but you will have to deal with drunk wanna-be actors coming home at 3am and screaming in the courtyard and then slamming the entrance doors. Additionally, everyone that has a dog uses the courtyard like a DOG PARK. MUCH MORE OFTEN THAN NOT... they take their dogs off leashes and leave the poop behind. There are three buildings at this property, why don't they make one of their buildings pet friendly and leave the others to people that don't have pets. -They are replacing all the carpeting with "wood" floors. Nice, but now you hear EVERYTHING from the apartments above you and below you. -There is a business office and conference room but the computers are really old and the printers hardly ever work. All in all, I think the management tries but they really need to be more selective with who they rent to.