I almost was ready to go in and make a "deal" here solely based upon the look and of course the location. If it weren't for web heroes like this guy, I'd have been stuck and no telling what would have happened to my expensive audio/video and PC equipment, and not to mention my guns. Better yet, no telling what would have happened had someone broke in while I was actually THERE.
Methinks I'll look further north. What a shame half-assed management has to ruin a place, let alone thugs and rats.
My lease is up soon and I am definitely leaving Centennial Ridge. But can anyone recommend someplace better? I don't trust the reviews on apartmentratings.com. I think there are a lot of complainers who wouldn't be happy anywhere, while a lot of the positive reviews read as if they were written by staff. None of the communities have a very high rating. Does anybody know anything about Belcourt? Or Martins Landing?
Don't even think about Belcourt! I have lived there 7 years and it has taken a real nosedive in the last year. It is such a shame, since the location and the setting is so perfect. What you read about Centennial Ridge is exactly what you get at Belcourt.
I have friends who live at both complexes. Belcourt just finished renovations but they're a rip off for the rent considering its the ghetto. Martins Landing had high crime but just changed ownership so I don't know how it's going to be from here on out. The local police dept. of any city can tell you what the crime rate is like in specific areas, all you have to do is give them an address or street and the info is free.
Unless you are close to that location. There are a lot of nice places around exits 9, 10, and 11 off GA400. I have lived in a lot of complexes around metro Atlanta, but one thing is certain: the closer you get to 285, the worse the units (and tenants).
For 2 weeks I tried to get maintenance to come out and fix a window that wouldn't close all the way. All during the freezing cold weather we had at the beginning of March, I was having to pay a fortune to heat my apartment while cold air was pouring in my bedroom window right next to my bed. Nobody ever came out to fix it, so I finally paid someome to fix it myself.
I was here when Archstone was running the place, and they had a 24-hour service guarantee, which they even put in the lease. They took care of maintenance issues immediately, and they fixed it right so it stayed fixed. We also had rewards such as a free carpet cleaning every six months, a new paint job after two years, new carpet after five years. That program is history, but the rent keeps going up.
As soon as Worthing took over, they removed the 24-hour service guarantee from the lease, while adding numerous clauses that limited the rights of the tenant, and reduced their own liability to virtually zero. All the while bombarding us with propaganda about who great things are and how lucky we are that the place is under "new and better" management.
The Archstone team didn't have to "tell" me how awesome they were. The leasing agents had all been employed there for several years and many of them lived in the community. They were making a decent salary and they had a reason to care about the quality of the community.
I can't wait until my lease is up so I can get out of here.
What a bunch of cowards to threaten a lawsuit to a concerned resident (that means CUSTOMER the last time I checked) who had the chutzpas to start up a consumer awareness website for this complex.
As usual, the idiot management team couldn't handle the TRUTH and just turned it over to a leech law firm. Slander of business is not, I repeat NOT when you just want to get the truth out. But alas, the incompetence of the losers wet their beds and figured it would be easier to take the legal route than the repair route.
There are a lot of shoddy apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, but it appears that the Chamblee herd has moved well north of the Perimeter, and that includes pathetic half-ass (at best) management.
Yeah homeboy may have gotten evicted and lost the battle, but he already won the publicity WAR. Centennial Sludge deserves what it gets.