I have lived here a very unhappy 2 years and am about to move thank the good Lord in a few weeks and believe me, no one here is exaggerating in the least about the terrible management. There is extensive renovating going on, but it has been handled so poorly that it seems to me like they are basically putting a new coat of paint on a broken, beat up car. I have had-no exaggeration- to pay for 3 new tires 3 different times because of nail punctures in the parking lot; the nails are leftover from NRI construction. They did not pick up any debris from the parking lot and this is what happens, I feel sorry for the children here the place is not safe for kids at all. Even after they do renovating, you will be paying for overpriced, poorly constructed dwellings and a terrible management team that allows any jackass that can pay rent into the complex. Every night I see some sketchy person outside waiting for their drug dealer-this seriously is the ghetto of Vinings. Do not believe the bullcrap they have on all the apartment finder websites, I was laughing histerically at the pictures they posted-there is nothing here that looks like that. There is no freaking gazebo by a lake (there is no lake at all-see apartmentfinder.com to see what I am talking about) and the tennis court is in pieces right now and covered by gravel; there is no "state of the art" fitness center, just a treadmill that won't turn on, an elliptical machine and a weight bench on its last legs. There is no spa, and the pool is dirty and stained and there is one gas grill on the pool deck that they won't let anyone even use-I guess it's for showing new suckers when touring the place. The manager --- ----- is a ------------- airhead that will lie right to your face. The utilities are screwy; never move anywhere where Ista is the utility company, we have 80$ water bills (yes, that was before the drought too)- people in houses don't have 80$ water bills!!! So even if you do move into the new renovated place, remember that they will be doing construction for quite a while and the floorplans suck anyway, the kitchen is so small you can barely cook a meal. They should just bulldoze the place and start over from scratch.

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From: Anonymous	Date: 11/01/2007
My two-person water bill has never been more than $20. What the heck is this person doing to use $80 worth of water? And there IS a gazebo by the lake -- it's down behind buildings 7, 8, and 9 in Woodlake. This person is a liar.
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/01/2007
All this is true. The construction has been miserable. It's not just during normal working hours. It's all day, every day, including the weekends. If you want to live someplace that's quiet, don't move here. All the construction has been more of destruction. When the apartment above me was gutted, I had repeated water leaks from the bathroom ceiling for several weeks and had to make three calls to the office to get it fixed. And then more calls when I had water dripping from the ceiling again. I still have construction trash on my porch. Unsecured refrigerators populate the parking lots. Great for kids, isn't it? My favorite moment was leaving my apartment one morning and finding a construction worker sleeping in the walkway outside my apartment. This complex is putting lipstick on a pig, but it's still going to be a pig.
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/25/2007
And the manager's name is -------------, not --- whatever, so whoever wrote the other comment is not current. I think the three apartments up here have the same management staff if I'm not mistaken. Yolonda's been here as long as I have (two years). I agree that the construction has been a nightmare plus it takes several calls to the office to get anything done it seems. But we have three beautiful, newly-surfaced tennis courts. I know because I raised hell until they were done and I play on them often now. Love them. They are in Wood Lake, along with the GAZEBO. Yes, it exists and I was surprised when I found it while out on a walk around the LAKE (hence the name Wood LAKE!) The prices are high enough and are going up considerably once the construction is done so I'll be moving, but I've stayed as long as I have because I love my two-bedroom floorplan and the perfect top-of-the-hill Vinings location. It's quiet and nestled away such that everyone who comes to visit says they never knew these apartments were up here. The construction has been a pain in the ass, but when is change/improvement ever joyous? It will be after it's done, but unfortunately I won't be able to afford it. Nice place to live despite the growing pains and other concerns. Once could do much worse.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/20/2008
true, I too have had to replace tires... and no one in the office wants to believe that it is due to construction. Living here is HORRID, theres this monster dog who barks all day and night and craps like crazy and his patio FUNKS UP the whole building. YOLANDA AND TY are PRETTY MUCH AWESOME! its too bad you CRY BABIES ran Yolanda off!

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