Metropolitan At Buckhead

SERIOUSLY DON’T LIVE HERE! The new management has attempted to rename this complex from Metropolitan at Buckhead to «32 Hundred Lenox» to hide this atrocity of an apt complex. One of my biggest regrets is signing the lease to this place.
Broken bottles and trash fill the hallways and parking lot for weeks before being cleaned.
I’ve heard gun shots (yes I’m sure) in my complex several times… and this is supposed to be Buckhead.
Basic maintenance requests takes weeks. Recently my ceiling COLLAPSED in my living room & its been 1+ week and they have done nothing to fix it and it continues to expand. Their 24 hour emergency maintenance team is a joke. I called them while my ceiling continued to cave in and he couldn’t comprehend what was going on (ie, didn’t speak english).
Regardless of the price or location i would not recommend this to anyone!

No stars. This place is the worst. Both of the previous reviews are spot on, all the way down to the specifics. Last night, some teenage girl had a pool party for her birthday at the community pool. About 100−150people, dj set with big loud speakers, the whole nine. It went on till around midnight, when I’m guessing the cops shut them down. It sounded like a real concert. But like a really terrible karaōke rap-​battle type concert.
The lights to our particular building are out, so at night the parking lot is PITCH BLACK. I’m pretty sure I almost got mugged the other night…
The front door doesn’t lock 75% of time. And even then, the door to the stairwell is right beside it and it’s always wide open (because it is always broken).
One guy in particular, parks his big SUVs right in front of the building, giving him and the other 20 members of his household, direct access to their back door on the bottom level. How convenient. Not to mention he’s parking next to a RED CURB!
The kids play soccer in the main entrance of the building using the pillars as a goal, slamming the ball into the glass door and leaving there little juice boxes in the giant ashtrays that once were flower pots with real life flowers.
Last week, we were without hot water for 4 days.
Very inconsiderate, noisy neighbors. Old and young. Early in the morning, late at night, doesn’t matter. The Voodoo lady I think went back to the mental institution. So I guess that’s a relief.
But I absolutely love the location! About to go do some LEGENDARY SHOPPING at LENOX right now!

We lived there for a year, and it was horrendous. In the winter, we lacked heat for weeks and when the summer came, we were without air conditioning for a month (not to mention the pool didn’t open until 4^th of July and they closed it when it was still 85 degrees outside). We had constant companions in the form of cockroaches, the laundry facilities were far below par (half of the machines were broken and those that functioned were taken too quickly to be efficient, additionally they were always filthy so if anything clean dropped to the floor you’d have to re-​wash it). Packages left at our door were stolen and even things delivered to office mysteriously disappeared. Also, the staff would not listen to any comments/​suggestions and were actually downright rude and derogatory. Furthermore, the rent was reasonable but the utility bills were split among apartments, not charged individually so although we were frugal, we paid $ 300+ more often than not. We lived there for convenience but have since paid extra money to live in a nice place and its worth it. Those people should be ashamed of themselves.

If I could give this place negative stars I would. I have lived here for a year, and in this year I have had to pay a late fee almost 75% of the time. Not because I didn’t have the money, but because there is non overnight drop box. If you want to pay your rent (with out paying out the butt for a «convenience fee» that they destroy you with to pay on line) you have to go to the leasing office during their hours (9−5… Is the posted time. However they are always out of the office and never come back) it’s an absolute pain in the ass. Especially when you don’t work normal hours. I work in film, so I’m at work at 5:30 every morning and I don’t get home until 9 – 10 every night. And they do not work with you.
Add to it the fact that there is a crazy lady who lives upstairs from me and sits on her balcony all night long screaming voodoo chants and when you complain about it «it’s ok, she just got back from a mental institution» I’m sorry. I don’t care. Like I mentioned before I work long hours and I like to enjoy every moment of possible sleep that I can get and I don’t like being jolted awake in the middle of the night by billowing sounds of ungodly horror that sounds like a terrible mixture of the exorcist meets ET trying to learn Mongolian throat singing.
Also add in the fact that there is an army of kids that run around the building and parking lot screaming and playing. Granted I do enjoy seeing kids out and about and not in front of a television. It’s when they do it late at night, or early in the morning. Or when they are mindlessly chasing a soccer ball through a parking lot with no care for the car that just pulled in through the gate.
Also, in order to do laundry you have to fill up a little card that you can only get in the leasing office that is never open and you have to do a minimum of $ 5 on it. What if I just wanted to do one load and don’t want to spend $ 5 on it?
My hot water doesn’t work in the mornings, and when and if it does work at night, it’s barely luke warm.
The carpet is a piece of shit. It’s barely taped down with Scotch tape and if you are drunkenly stumbling to the bathroom for a mid night piss the carpet tries to eat you alive. And yet, I’ll probably have to pay to replace a carpet because hey why not? We’ve already ripped you off this much, why not twist the knife just a little more.
Oh, and utilities. Little did I know when signing a lease that instead of paying for what I actually use. I have to pay for a % of the whole building. Which means, yup you guessed it. The family with the ten kids next door that leave everything on all the time and the TV blasting. Yeah I’m paying part of their bill. Congratulations family of 20. Cheers to you for taking advantage of the system.
Oh yeah — once it gets cold. Don’t even bother trying to keep your apartment at a warm temperature. The windows leak more than trying to hold back a flood with a piece of Swiss cheese. I basically just hope that I don’t freeze to death in the middle of the night.
Ants. Cockroaches. Rats. Possums. Squirrels. I have seen every kind of Vermin possible crawl through my apartment. But it’s ok, maybe they pay a % of the utilities as well. Sure would be nice.
There’s always a loud buzzing noise coming from the front door to the building. I have no idea if it’s a fire alarm or door alarm or what. I just know that after a night of a little too much special soda it’s the most god awful noise (next to the screaming lady upstairs doing her morning yoga) that you can possibly imagine.
All the doors in the building are constantly propped open; which is nice. It allows for this lovely establishment to serve as a homeless shelter. There’s nothing I love more than walking out of my apartment and seeing a homeless guy sleeping on the floor. Who then tries to ask me for money. But hey, I’ll stay optimistic and hope that he has to help pay for the family of 20 to run every light and electronic imaginable for months on end.
This isn’t a «oh they did one thing that pissed me off review» this has been brewing inside of me for months. And sadly, there’s nothing I can do other than face possible eviction and crippling debt. But all I want is to help prevent the next helpless soul from falling into the same trap as I did.
Oh yea, last but not least. The main building that they say they are «remodeling» isn’t a remodel. It’s burned down. It went up in smoke so fast I hope the poor people inside were able to escape. The likelihood is very low however because as you will find out. The doors on this building randomly lock. And the magnetic force field that holds it shut it much strong than any ninja kick of shoulder thrust no matter how many cop shows you have watched.
Here’s to you metropolitan at buckhead. I wish you would have told me to bite the pillow before you stuck it in dry.