Living here for approximately 2 years. Listen to the review of the person who's been here already for a year. They're not making it up. This place leaves much to be desired.
Pros
- Standup Showers (this was the only pro for me)
Cons
- Location (while it was stationed next to nice things in a walking distance if you're a foodie [which I'm not], for me, this was more of a con b/c it was right at the high school and the kids are loud, they would smoke, and traffic was bad here esp. during the workweek when schools would release)
- cars got broken into and stolen (happened more than once)
- doors don't shut properly, slam, or are broken.. (this includes car gate entry ways) this has occurred numerous times now!
- rent got jacked up over $400 (for me personally) despite a 1 yr renewal. Needless to say, I've decided not to renew. Continuing to live here isn't worth $2,000 /month for a single 1 bedroom that's only 700+ sq ft
- noise.. now, I got a complaint made against me about music that I had always played despite already living for a year. Yet, this apt is located right behind Decatur High School. Game nights created lots of noise (esp. on Friday nights).. high school kids would mess up several of the amenity spaces and make obnoxious noises throughout my time being here
- kids of residents would at times turn the night lights to shine in windows of the apt units. One night I had to physically walk outside at night to turn it the other way around b/c the beaming light was shining into my apt unit and it was impossible for me to get any freakin' sleep!
- hallways and especially stairwell in the building often smelled like dog piss. I'm not joking either. Residents would just let their smelly dogs urinate right on the concrete stairways. So many days from work, I would come home and see drips of animal piss & I felt like vomiting from the stench of urine.
- mail room is the most disorganized mess I've ever seen (now, I don't necessarily blame the leasing people for this one but it's a huge con for me). If you order online a lot, just get a PO Box and pay the monthly fee for having one... you'll be searching for your packages forever in that pigsty
- residents are rude and won't bother to even hold the door open for you. This was a consistent thing I noticed throughout my time being here. Maybe it's a racial thing as I'm not White and most of the residents here are. I often felt like I didn't belong. Some were really nice but that's not indicative to the majority of people there.
- security is a joke and some of them can be very, very rude
- some of the leasing staff I found to be not necessarily rude (but disingenuous)
- maintenance request was ignored (never bothered to put in another after that)
- elevators were not functional for several times throughout my time being here
- lots of "tattle tale" behavior amongst residents--personally, I just think this is childish
- very cheap stacked washer/dryers (esp. dryer), takes me nearly half a day to dry my sheets, my old apt. had much more up-to-date washing/drying appliances.. for how much money they want from you per month, there's no excuse for this cheap quality of a cleaning appliance they give you
It's seems nice (at first), but when you've been here long enough, it will leave a sour taste in your mouth. At least... it did for me. Good riddance.. I'm happy to be leaving this place. AMLI, do better. I will not being going to another AMLI property either and I do not recommend living here. read more