I love how, when Ai first presented me with student housing options, they made Metropointe seem virtually perfect. However, I soon found out this hell hole is far from the "new generation of student housing" I thought it would be.

For one thing, it's pretty much nestled beside the Fulton County prison! Well that makes me sleep better at night, knowing my home is a short walking distance from escaped criminals. :) And need I even remind you of the god damn train tracks' What a wonderful way to start your morning--to be awoken at 4 am by the roaring of a train!

Also, a lot of the residents as well as the staff here are nothing but immature, inconsiderate CHILDREN who can't seem to take care of their own ----! Um hi, leaving your trash in the ------- hall less than ten feet from the garbage chute doesn't exactly qualify as taking the trash out. Come on, kids, learn to pick up after yourselves! It's pretty sad when we pay a ridiculous amount of money to live here and some of you can't even keep it tidy.

Let me share a story with you, and I hope it will eradicate any inclination you have of moving here. I am not making this up!! (Names have been changed to keep the privacy of the people involved.)


My friend, Hilary has been through hell and back with Metropointe, all in a matter of a month. She put in her housing deposit in MAY for Dunwoody Place (she's 24 years old) and a WEEK before she was supposed to move in, Ai called her up and basically told her "Oops! There's too many people at Dunwoody! We're moving you to Metropointe, have a nice day!" So needless to say she wasn't exactly thrilled to move here in the first place. Well, within 4 weeks of living here, one of her cracked out roommates attempted to kill herself. So Hilary was forced to move. YES--Metropointe moved her, and still allowed the other girl (who had been smoking crack and housing bums in her room) to stay in the apartment. Metropointe staff told Hilary she only had one option, to move to another apartment on the second floor. It was, apparently, the "only one available." --------, if you ask me. Not only did they kick her out of her own apartment, they told her she had to move all her things into the other apartment AND clean it by the next morning.
So Hilary moved all her stuff, taking about 6 hours due to the numerous trips and the lack of sympathy and/or help of the Metropointe staff, and came to a gruesome discovery: the apartment she was to move in to was completely trashed. Yes, folks, the apartment was DISGUSTING. I saw it for myself. And not only that, it appeared to have been a murder scene! There were stab marks in the couch and chairs, and bullet holes in the walls. The kitchen was covered in grime and dried cooking grease--all over the walls, counter tops, fridge, etc. The dishwasher was still full of dirty dishes that were covered in some kind of black and green mold. The bedrooms and bathrooms, need I even say it, were filthy as well. One of the bathrooms even had dried blood on the shower tiles!
I accompanied her to the RAs office while she sat down to talk to whoever would listen--and no one seemed to want to. The housing director was a pompous douche bag who refused to care about anything other than his precious popcorn machine. She finally convinced her RA to do a walk-through and even then, he acted as if it were no big deal.

Quite frankly, I discourage ANYONE who is considering Metropointe to move here. It is hell and NOTHING AT ALL like the staff/website portray! Do not live here, and to anyone still living at Metropointe: get the hell out of there!!

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/30/2007
I understand your frustraion but please understand that this is not the MetroPointe Staff. You and your friend are in a lease with the Art Institute of Atlanta and you are referring to their housing office located on MetroPoints property. MetroPointe leases the beds and AIA handles all placement, transfers and problems with their students. MetroPointe if the housing program for AIA. If you leased directly through MetroPointe Staff your experience would be completly different. AIA is allowing their students to destroy our community. MetroPointe Lofts has a wonderful staff and has an on going battle with the lack of authority AIA has over their students. They want to have complete control but don't control them. Please direct this letter towards the President of AIA so they might wake up and listen to their own students that they so call care about. AIA is only in it for the money and once they get you they don't care.
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/18/2008
Ok, to the writer of this review. You are on the money. I lived at Metro Pointe last year and it was horrible. The security is basically not in place. And this is Metro Pointes fault because they think that its ok to pay rent-a-cops to protect students. Metro Pointe is located in one of the worst areas of atlanta and they could have found tons of nicer areas to put students. When I was living at Metro Pointe I had the worst time trying to get people to listen to my pleas for more security. My car was vandalized and thats when I hit the road, because I refuse to pay 1,000 a month of bull. I moved away because my car and because i was being stalked and no one wanted to increase security. Well this was over a year ago and I couldn't be happier at my new apartment away from that nonsense. To hear about this "shooting" was nothing new to me. When I moved away last year I told AIA staff and Metro Pointe staff that unless they changed the f-ed up attitude they have about their lack of keeping students safe, someone was going to suffer.
From: newluck89	Date: 04/15/2008
THE UNTOLD STORY... hi my name is Cary L. Davis, i stayed in room 250, i started at AIA in the summer of 2007, like shawty said, it seemed so nice when it was presented to us, but living there was hell. within two months, i got kicked out because of an iccident that occured with our apartment being broke in, which is supposed to be "impossible", let them tell it! I had no where to go, so the former dean of housing, (Demetrius Johnson) said he'd do me a favor by letting me move to another room (428), he didnt tell me, my roommate Mandell Smith aka Cubby, had stabbed someone before and has had trouble in the past, let alone how old he was. the dude was 27, and i was 18, what the hell am i doing in an appartment with a grown ass man? He had a gun, and threaten to kill everybody in our appartment that night, and ran in his room. now i got damn-near 20 people watchin this fool actin crazy, and i wasnt gone let them get hurt, so i kicked his door in. he went to grabbed for the pistol, and i ran towards him and grabbed him, be fore i knew it he stabbed me in the heart. was i wrong for doing that? to make a long story short, i got stabbed by him. three times, one to my heart,shoulder,and neck. i flat-lined at the hospital, came back to life and went to jail. he got locked up too, but guess what? They let him go free with two attempted murder charges, and i lost what supposed to been a full ride scholarship to the school i had been wanting to goto since middle school,and was kicked out of school and housing again. Even if this supposed to be true and i qoute "MetroPointe leases the beds and AIA handles all placement, transfers and problems with their students. MetroPointe if the housing program for AIA. If you leased directly through MetroPointe Staff your experience would be completly different." un-qoute, where the hell was your security, where was ya'll? you must be about nothing but money too, if you do business with such a ----ed up housing staff. Nobody listen to my side of the story, well here it is!
From: Anonymous	Date: 10/07/2008
How did yall get out of your lease because I am trying to move out of here. It defiantly is a hell hole!!

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