The Ivy at Buckhead

Location is great. Close to Marta and shopping and dining. Apartment units are a decent value for the price.
Management of this complex is constantly changing and the current owners Trinity have yet to make a positive impact. There are constant issues with the entry gate and security of the property. The fitness center is good… when it is open. The same goes for the pool. Memorial Day Weekend the pool was closed because they did not get an inspection from the city. With the lack of security it did not seem to matter as people climbed the fence and had their own party after the rental office closed. Laundry facility is a joke 2 washers that work and one working dryer.
I will be leaving when my lease expires.

Cannot wait to move out. Cockroaches are in the apartments and your water bill is going to be $ 80 even if you live by yourself and are never home. Management (maintenance guys are awesome) is God awful-​Especially the property manager. I dread every time I have to go up front for a package. I highly recommend not living here. I cannot wait until my lease is over with. Would recommend living on Peachtree in downtown buckhead because you’re basically paying the same price for these shitty apartments when you factor in the water bill.
Update: I had cockroaches in my apartment. I killed the bugs I found and put them on managements desk and told them to fix the issue. One night I had to get a hotel room because I found 5 cockroaches in the matter of 20 mins after I came home from vacation. Management came into my apartment and said «there’s no infestation in your apartment.» Oh, never realized that you worked as an exterminator before and feel like you can call me a liar. Also, no one has reimbursed me for my hotel stay down the road because of the Roach issue. I didn’t feel comfortable enough to stay in my own apartment for days because of this. Spoke to other tenants at the pool that live in my same building and he has heard of the cockroach issue. Said some girl lived in her apartment for only 3 months because of the Roach issue. She tried to bomb her apartment multiple times and it didn’t work. she had to move out. He thinks THAT THE WHOLE BUILDING HAS AN ISSUE. But clearly I’m a «liar» according to management. :)
I understand that the water is «shared» but I find it hilarious that before this new management company came in, that’s my water bill was $ 35! When I brought this issue up to management they told me that it is the city of Atlanta’s fault and that we should «bond together and fight the city about this because her water bill is $ 300 for her house and she lives by herself.» I said, «I do not have time for that.» Please honey. Really???
Again…DO NOT LIVE HERE. Clearly management calls their tenants liars. Based on the above information and the comment below. I’m highly considering contacting their managers and complaining.
Also, I have a friend who lives here and he said that he gave them a good review on one website and wish he never did. Said this place is a rip off as well.
Recommend going across the street to the corner of Piedmont and Sidney Marcus (can’t remember the name). Same location and I heard their prices are the same, but they have roof top pool and their building is newer.

If you’re thinking about living here, prepare for your worst living experience. The place location is the best location you can ever find (especially if you’re going to rely on Marta)
However; that’s the only positive point I can think about, when it comes down to this place. I lived here in 2013, I was new to Atlanta. For what you pay, you expect that this place will deserve it.
Unfortunately; when moving here, their was not enough reviews about this place.
The apartments are filled with cockroaches, the kitchen sink cabinet was filled with mold. More than 8 requests were made, they came to replace 8 months later, which was a week before the lease contract ended.
Please find a different place, this place is not worth it.

I moved in to Ivy in August 2015 while my home was being built. When I moved in we were having a lot of rain and my first day there my apartment flooded due to some landscaping issues outside my bedroom. I am on the very bottom level in a terrace apartment. I went to the office and they immediately offered to move me into an available apartment that was nicer than mine and let me have it for the same price. I did not want to do that since I had just spent all day moving. Management sent maintaince, landscaping and the carpet people out to make the needed repairs that afternoon. They followed up with phone calls after that each time it rained to make sure that all was well.
I had a pipe bust during the Thanksgiving holidays and it was handled with the same speed and professionalism as the previous incident. I actually just signed another lease here because the home I am building is way behind schedule.
I highly recommend these apartments. The management, office staff and maintenance crew are awesome and I have nothing but praise for them. The shopping and dining in the area is great also.

I’m going to be very honest — My experience at The Ivy, which used to be Aventine, was not a good one for a 1-​year lease. Here are some reasons why I only gave a star:
Pros:
1. Affordable. If you want to find a place that’s reasonably-​priced in Buckhead, The Ivy would probably be one of the more inexpensive apartments.
Cons:
1. The gate was always open, allowing non-​residents to enter at anytime. In September 2015, when a series of car break-​ins occurred in the Buckhead area, this neighborhood was one of them targeted. We must’ve had at least 9 cars broken into, mine included, and the leasing office didn’t do anything about it. FYI — The gate was open the night this incident happened. I had to pay out of pocket to fix my windows.
2. Water bill is calculated per building. During the fall, Building 9’s bill was outrageous. It was over $ 190 for that month alone. This apartment complex always cleaned and changed their swimming pool water. I wonder if that is why our bill was so high.
3. Maintenance: At one point, my light bulb near the front door needed to be replaced. I emailed Management and submitted a request. They didn’t respond. That was my first attempt. On my second attempt, I emailed them again advising that they still haven’t replaced my light bulb. They apologized for the delay and assured it would get fixed. A few days passed and no one came. Third and final attempt — I emailed them one last time (a few weeks before my move-​out date) and complained, making sure that I wouldn’t be charged for this light bulb since it was a problem they hadn’t corrected after multiple attempts to reach them. Issue was finally resolved.
4. Security Deposit: I was supposed to be returned a $ 200 refundable security deposit, but after I moved out, I received a final check for $ 75 and some change. I questioned the leasing office and asked via email why I didn’t receive the full refund. No response to date.
As you can see, there are far more Cons than Pros. Being financially able to pay rent is vital, sure, but living in a location that’s safe and reliable is far more important, in my opinion.
Hope this helps.

When they tell you about your utilities, they pretend like water & sewer will be a small fee. It turns out, there aren’t separate water meters. Therefore, you get stuck paying an unfair share, which equals $ 77 per month for a one bedroom with one tenant… ridiculous!

Let me start this review by saying I have been an on time quiet tenant for over 2 years. My issues with the apartment complex are as follows
1-​There is WAY to much turnover when it comes to the staff at this complex. The staff was terrible and incompetent when the name was Aventine at Lindbergh and it continues with the change to Ivy at Buckhead.
2-​The gate leading to complex is very temperamental There is not much room when pulling off of Sidney Marcus so if one person is having issues getting in the gate, you are basically sitting in oncoming traffic.
3-​Once you pull into the complex, the entry way to the apartment buildings is very narrow for 2 cars. There are constantly moving trucks, maintenance trucks, mail trucks, etc that make is almost impossible to make it into the complex when another car is coming out of the complex. Terrible design.
4-​There is NO grill on the complex, and you are not allowed to have a grill on your backporch. Think about that one for a while.
5-​Every year they have RAISED my rent without any upgrades or changes to my apartment. From a common sense point that doesn’t make much sense.
6-​The trash compactor is CONSTANTLY OVERFLOWING. I don’t know if they just don’t pay the bill to get it emptied or what. The entrance to the complex SMELLS OF TRASH more times than not!
7-​I resigned my lease in August of this year. Just recently I found out that I am now on a month to month basis, which is an increase of 107 dollars per month. Way to take care of your tenants!!!
8-​I was charged a 100 dollar late fee when I did not pay my rent by the 5^th. I attempted to pay online but you can’t after the 3^rd. You would think with my payment record I would get a break on the late fee, especially since I paid on the 5^th. Again, WAY TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR TENANTS!
9-​The area. Homeless, terrible traffic… Do yourself a favor and LOOK ELSEWHERE! THIS PLACE SUCKS!

If you like roaches, centipedes and every other insect in the world then by all means move in. Place constantly smells. All repairs are done with bare minimum effort. Tons of water damage above shower on ceiling. I will never recommend this place to anyone. My lease is up in 4 months then I am leaving. It’s also incredibly expensive for what they offer you. Do yourself a favor and live anywhere else.

Before this was «Ivy» it was called «Aventine at lindbergh» well when i stayed here (during the Aventine days) it was ok, I stayed on the top floor because I didn’t want problems with plumbing and varmints (which i’m sure is at any apt complex you go to if you live on the base or first level floors). I never had varmints in my apt. So that was good, my appliances were all new at the time, plenty of parking and the managers were pretty nice.
Now the NEGATIVES
pool not always clean, most of the exercise machines don’t work (and I notice they still don’t)
I don’t know about the coin laundry because I had a washer/​dryer in my room.
I later moved from Aventine to another complex with same apt qualities for much cheaper and nice location. I had to move again from that one due to the hike in price. Well on my search for another apt, I went back to Aventine (looking for another new apartment) it was called IVY now and it looked the EXACT SAME just WAY HIGHER prices, and i didn’t get why the prices (at least for my room located at the top and 745sqft w/​washer/​dryer, jumped from 700s (when i stayed there), too 1200s when there was no improvement on anything. I now live in a apt about equal to this one that cost me around the 800s. I’m guessing the higher price is due to it now being apart of Buckhead? So you are just paying for location? But the location is even not all that because it’s not like the stores and food and train is right across the street. It’s at least a 15−10min walk to everything. So I don’t get the extreme price increase at all. I can understand maybe jumping from 700s to 900 but to 1200 that was just ridiculous. Not to mention they STILL haven’t created a crosswalk for people wanting to go to target or the restaurants located across the street from the apts. Crossing that is dangerous. And because that is an apt complex you’d think they’d have a special cross walk for the people wanting to cross. You have to walk WAY out of the way just to go somewhere right across the street.

Do not live here. Sure, the model looks nice and the admin teams seems great on your tour, but everything about this place sucks. Upon moving in, it didn’t even look like my apartment had been cleaned and the roof to the bathroom had so much water damage above the shower it was caving in. The first week they fixed most of our major complaints, but after that you have to twist someone’s arm to get answers and get anything fixed, and then it’s done half assed. The leasing office is full of ASSHOLES and and completely rude.
The revocations are a joke. This place costs way too much money for what you are given, even with the location– look somewhere else. If I could rate them lower, I would.

These guys are under new management as of like ⁶⁄₁₄ or so. I only have a couple months left on my lease, but I’m cautiously optimistic that they wont be as terrible as the previous management.
Still, the apartments (or at least mine) are poor quality, so even the best management is going to have to deal with the constant need for maintenance.
I won’t be staying here when my lease is up. Bottom line, reviews from before the management change should be taken with a grain of salt, but a change in management alone doesn’t address the shoddiness of the apartments.

Have not moved in yet & to be honest if it weren’t for the location, We WOULD NOT move in!!! The leasing agents are morons, complete morons, and I hate to put it that way, but thats the only word that comes to mind when thinking of them.
Remember unless you already have renters insurance, that you are required to have it. My point is they’ll get you to sign a lease, now you’re in a contract, and then they’ll throw an extra $ 17.50 for renters insurance on top of you. It’s not charged from the complex, but it is something that is required and is an extra $ 17.50 a month out of your pocket, which you should have the right to know about!!!
Now their online leasing, this is how I signed my lease online, I read every document. The document regarding my pet said $ 0 pet deposit, there was also a document that said $ 0 apartment deposit, I agreed and signed to both of these documents online.
I called my agent Kiana to get my pro-​rated fee for the month of Aug. since we’re moving in August 21 and she comes out with $ 1,245.00…My jaw hit the floor!!! Now I know and am aware that complexes charge pet deposits, but if Im held within a contract and I cant break a contract, how can you go in there after I’ve signed my contract and add in a $ 385 pet deposit? and then add in a $ 99 apartment deposit that wasn’t there before? Did they just alter my contract after I’ve signed it?
Kiana asked me did you put your pet information on the application, when you applied? I told her «Yes, when I went online to sign the online lease, you have my dogs name, color, breed, weight, etc and the lease said $ 0 pet deposit» I signed it online, but now they can go back and change it?
I understand certain fee’s, pro-​rated rent, water set-​up, etc they are pretty legit fees. But $ 50 for a gate key? Shouldn’t that already be included? Im paying $ 1,300 a month for rent but I cant get a gate key to get in and out of the complex?
My point in writing this review is we can sign our lease online, and be legally held to that lease. But after we sign that lease, the complex can go back and change agreements, to which we’ve already signed.
Be very careful with this complex, there is shady business already!!! Im scared to see what we will go through the next 10 months, that we’re at this complex.

Aventine has been pleasant for the 13 months I’ve lived here. Marta transportation, restaurants, post office/​UPS, dry cleaning, laundry, shopping, is all within a walking distance. My review is based off of living in three separate units at Aventine. I lived in both an upper level unit and a base unit.
Upper Unit Pros/​Cons:
Pros — High ceilings, fireplace, no noise from upstairs, beautiful view from balcony, no bugs even if you are messy!
Cons — Can’t have late parties because of downstairs neighbors, It gets warm very during the summer because heat rises, so expect an increase in electric bill if you use AC, noisy stairs
Base Unit Pros/​Cons:
Pros — Cool temperature during spring and summer, easy to move things in and out of apartment, have parties as much as you want (no neighbors downstairs)
Cons — if you are messy, bugs will be unwelcome guest (to avoid this problem, be clean), gets cold during winter, chance of flooding if upstairs neighbor has a plumbing problem
Apartment Community Pros/​Cons:
Pros — Gated community, nice staff and maintenance is fast, Pool is beautiful with cabanas, conveniently walking distance to everything, very affordable for Lindbergh/​Buckhead area, 400 is down the street, Midtown and Buckhead are a 5 minute drive
Cons — Gym equipment is old, electricity is high so you must learn how to be energy efficient, trash dumpster is located outside of the gates so if you live a building unit far away you have to take your trash with you to dump when you leave.
Overall, I would recommend this apartment complex to anyone who is looking for a nice place to live that isn’t too expensive for the Buckhead/​Lindbergh area.

I would recommend that you stay as far away from here as possible. I only lived here 6 months and I couldn’t wait to get out.
Pros:
Gated community, except the gate is always broken.
Friendly staff, if they ever respond to you.
The pool is nice, when it’s clean.
There’s convenient shopping within walking distance.
Cons:
You’re lucky if you get them to respond to emails or answer the phone.
The gym is smelly and hot.
The rent seems low, but they will nickle and dime you for EVERYTHING! $ 75+ water fee, $ 2 pest fee, $ 30 W/​D rental (when it’s already in the apartment), admin fee, $ 15 charge to pay online, and it goes on.
Electricity is insanely high. I’m used to paying around $ 40/​mo. My bill at Aventine ranged from $ 100-​$ 130/​mo! Ridiculous for a 1 bedroom apartment.
And the stories…
My first night in the apartment I was woken up at 1 am because someone was throwing a big party and there were cops everywhere.
There was a leak in my ceiling that took them almost a month to fix. I called, emailed, visited the office and they would not update me on the status of the repair. I was even threatening to refuse payment of rent until the repair was complete. I finally had to call the property owner, Greystar, to complain about their lack of communication. Then I got a response from Aventine.
One night I heard about 8 people, guys and girls, getting into a fist fight and hair pulling match in the parking lot.
A water pipe burst, twice in 6 months. They emailed us to let us know that it was broken but would not email to let us know it was fixed. Of course we were not credited for days when our apartment was unlivable.
A crazy lady on the first floor like to throw eggs outside her door into the hallway. Weird.
I found what I think were brown recluse spiders in my window. I am a very clean person, so I believe that they entered the apartment from the tree outside my window. I highly recommend that if you do live here, that you use some serious spider spray around your windows and doors.
The only good thing about the apartment I lived in was a spacious floor plan and updated appliances/​cabinetry. I wouldn’t say that dealing with everything else was worth it.

I had a terrible experience living in Aventine at Lindbergh. I received the last bill and sent the payment in the next day. After a week I found out that they had sent my name to collection agency. management business rating 0. In my entire life I have never gone through an experience so negative as I passed at Aventine at Lindbergh. If you are looking for a place to live, I would not recommend this place. You will have a lot of headache.

Awful.
Entirely disorganized.
Staff is friendly, but no follow through. Pool is generally closed when you want to go on the weekends… packages are misplaced… water isn’t running on the weekends. pedestrian gates are never fixed.
Everything that I DO enjoy about living here is based on my own efforts and attempts to enjoy.
Otherwise, had I known better, I would have chosen better.

Honestly, I’d give it 2.5 stars but I’m okay with rounding up.
If you drive a car that thieves like then do look elsewhere. I take a lot of security measures: don’t leave stuff visible, always lock the doors, windows are shut, I have a fuel cutoff switch AND immobilizer, I try to keep it ugly and unappealing looking, etc but… Someone tried to steal my car here. Management tried to tell me it was the first time it ever happened, that people only break in to take things, which is bullshit when I use the APD crime map and find car theft in March 2010.
They do not bother to leave notices about crime, so buddy up with that
map if you actually want to know what goes on. Also basic shit like lock your apartment doors, don’t leave things in your car, etc works wonders.
Obviously you can hear people above you… if you’re lucky it’ll be almost constantly. Not sure if the person above me ever slept.
I lived back in building 8, and if you want to live here, I wouldn’t go any other way than the back building. The loudest people are always the ones who have to park on the side of 8 because the parking is full closest to the building in front of it (6 I think). There’s plenty of parking overall, which is nice, but at the back it’s even better. You can’t hear traffic from Sidney Marcus or 400 from inside.
Beyond the stomping above me, I really never could hear either of my neighbors, although both were barely ever around. It’s definitely people who don’t even live here who are the loudest. Obviously any moron who’s outside on a cell phone talking loudly does not live here. If he wants to have what sounds like a pretty private conversation about funds at the end of a walkway, he obviously does not live here. Overall soundproofing is something unheard of here, enjoy listening to the people above you peeing and the voicemail messages left for a drunk fratboy at 2am.
I lived on the first floor, and I had to deal with maybe 10 roaches total the whole time I lived here, mostly coming in from the patio when it was getting cold. I know there are complaints about roaches all around outside but I’ve never seen one and I walked 4 days a week in/​out of the place for a year. Granted, I’ve seen the flying roaches of Texas so one scurrying about outdoors isn’t going to freak me out.
The management people are alright, they changed at least 4 times since I moved in. I never had any problems beyond being slightly tricked when renewing my lease. They sometimes organize events like pool parties and my favorite get together was one done in conjunction with Eclipse di Luna, complete with tapas and sangria last November. I think in my 2 years here there were maybe 4 events.
Maintenance is pretty awesome too, they only changed once. The guys before were pretty awesome, when they’d come do their quarterly air filter replacement, one would always talk to me about cars. Another one helped me calm the hell down over the whole attempted theft thing. I only needed something taken care of once, and they were pretty quick about it, and the office bothers the crap out of you to let them know how they did.
This is probably a good place if you don’t have a car. A lot of stuff is accessible by walking and I definitely took advantage of that. Getting to Midtown or to Buckhead is no problem at all, and having major highways nearby is a plus.
TL;DR: ways to be okay living here
— you can’t spend more and really want to be in this area
— you want to be close to MARTA and nearly every kind of store but a legitimate grocery store (still baffles me how there are 4 Publix stores nearby and they are all a pain in the ass to get to)
— you can get on the 2^nd or top floor in the back building
— you drive a car that isn’t found on a top 10 stolen list and you are capable of removing valuables, and locking your doors
— you are capable of using the APD crime map if you want to know what’s up
— you don’t care to have much in the way of community activities or really getting to know your neighbors
— you don’t care if the gate works or not
— speed bumps don’t bother you
— you are okay with a universal water billing system rather than a flat rate system. I paid $ 50 – 60 a month for water/​sewer/​trash for a 1 bedroom.
— you don’t freak out if there are roaches outdoors, where bugs obviously live.
— you won’t ever need to put your mail on hold with the shitty local post office branch.
Move out was a breeze, I got my entire security deposit back so I really appreciate that they did not nickel and dime me for little wear and tear things.

It is what it is. Lindbergh is a fantastic area of town, especially for those that don’t drive, and Aventine absolutely strikes the best balance between affordability and quality. Trust me. I’ve toured every complex in that area.
I lived at Aventine for 13 months, and I would recommend it to others… with ONE HUGE CAVEAT — please, please, do yourself a favor. DON’T live in any of the partially underground units. I can’t speak for every partially underground unit, but mine certainly had a flooding problem.
The MOST IMPORTANT THING about this complex: BEFORE MOVING, examine your unit CAREFULLY. DO NOT rent a unit that is even partially underground. Better yet, just rent a 2^nd floor unit. My unit was about halfway underground (bedroom/​closet/​vanity were underground, living room and kitchen were ground level), and it flooded twice. Once last May, once in December. I heard that other units were flooded in May, but I didn’t hear whether others flooded in December — mine may have been the only one.
Both times, the entire closet and vanity area as well as half the bedroom flooded. The first time, half of the living room flooded as well. The second time, the kitchen and bathroom got it. I lost a fairly significant amount of stuff, as well of course as being totally stressed and upset about the whole situation. It’s not a fun thing to go through…
I do give props to the maintenance staff here — I had carpet ripped up and blowers on full blast pretty promptly. They also dug up and rerouted some of the drainage outside of my patio, which did stop the living room from flooding the second time around, so that’s something. To my knowledge, they did not manage to fix whatever was causing the back half of the unit to flood, although they DID try.
If you’ve read reviews of this complex elsewhere (
for example), I do have to say — 95% of the complaints of this complex… are things that are true to EVERY COMPLEX EVER.
There will be some noise. That’s apartment living. Until the last TWO DAYS of my stay at Aventine, I heard my upstairs neighbor maybe like one time. I guess I got new neighbors at the very end, because boy did they stomp a lot! But that’s apartment living for you.
There will be some bugs. There are a lot of roaches outside, but I only saw maybe like three in my unit the entire time I was there. Not too bad, in my opinion. All it takes is one messy person to live in the unit next to you two years ago to ruin it for everybody else in the building forever. That’s apartment living for you. I don’t consider Aventine’s APARTMENTS to have a roach issue (the grounds are another story, unfortunately). However, the bugs that I DID notice a lot? Earwigs. Fortunately they’re harmless to humans… more irritating than anything else. Spray/​fumigate responsibly and you’ll be fine.
There will be some crime. That’s Atlanta for you. Sorry. It’s a pretty crime-​stricken city. Lock your doors, park your car near a light, and hope for the best. Your car/​house is just as likely to be broken into here as anywhere else. Welcome to high-​density living.
Would I recommend this apartment complex to renters wishing to live in the Lindbergh area affordably? Absolutely.
Just please — do yourself a favor. Don’t rent underground!!!