I moved to southgate because I wanted to save money and stay on the south side of Milwaukee....I ended up spending the money when my fiance's car got broken into twice in the first 5 months I lived here. There is NO guest parking so my fiance who didn't live with me had to park on the street. That was fine until his car got broken into. After we replaced his window and stereo, it got broken into again 2 months later. I have to pay 25 dollars a month to get him an extra parking spot that is so tiny he can barely park in it. When it snowed and cars can't see the line you are lucky go get into your spot and get the doors open. I come home from work all the time and see someone parked in my assigned spot, you tell management and they will do nothing, you are out of luck. The outside of the apartments is covered in garbage and shopping carts the ghetto tenants steal to walk their groceries home. On any given night I can sit and listen to loud fights or unattended kids jumping, sceaming, or playing in the halls. And you think that you have alittle extra safety with the external locking door and the chainlock, only the whitetrash kids prop the front door open all the time and the chainlock is only attached to the molding, not the wall. I have to pay an extra 15 dollars a month because I got an "upgraded" apt, which must be code for we just painted all the old stuff to make it look new. There are so many layers of paint on the walls doors don't slide right, they even painted over the tiles in the shower. I don't feel safe at all, we never open our patio door or windows because we don't want people to look in and see our nice stuff. The cable hookups are so old I had to have 3 time warner people come in to get the addressable tap to activate, and cable is not wired to the bedroom and good luck trying to get it wired because the cables are so old!!!!! My lease is up in 2 months and we are so out of here. Spend the extra 40 dollars a month and move far away from this end of 27th street!!!

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/19/2008
I am glad to see that the management has time to read these reviews and leave comments but they don't have time to do anything about all the cars parking in the lot without parking passes or the ones parking in other peoples spots. You are right you can't control crime but you can use our rent to hire a security person to be on site at night. Our cars are getting broken into by the same person who must patrol on a regular basis or get tips from someone who lives here and that is your problem. They must also not have time to walk through there own buildings and smell what the hallways smell like or enforce any of the rules they say we need to follow. I would like them spend a night listening to kids jumping and banging on the walls while the 6 other people that live in the apartment do nothing. Or have your door bell get rung by kids whos own parents wont get up and get the door but they know you will check to see who it is! And then send a response on what management can control in these apartments!
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/19/2008
I am very sorry you feel this way. If you would like to discuss your concerns please give us a call despite what you think I do care about the residents and the property and I would really like to know which people are a problem so I can address the issues you have listed. It is unfortunate that all the people who love living here do not take the time to come to this site. I think when we are upset we tend to put forth more effort to tell others when we do not like something and do not make the time to compliment them. I do not think I have spoke to either resident and I encourage you to call me.
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/19/2008
You must live in my building or maybe they're all horrible. I CANNOT wait until my lease is up. My car has been broken into twice and yes crime does have feet but there's at least 4 pairs running around here. Mgmt says that tenants have to meet all these requirements, but that doesnt stop these tenants who meet these requirements to bring their ghetto friends around. I know that the crime around here is from someone who is familiar with these apartments or someone who lives here. There's no way its just someone wandering around Greenfield. Mgmt needs to try and enforce the rules a little better, maybe do a walkthrough of their units sometime, and what metropolitan really needs is a real 24 hour on site mgr. I didnt think we could have birds but someone has one that is squawking non stop. My neighbors sound like theyre running a daycare on one side, and Club Ghetto on the other and a mix of La Perla thrown in. Complain and of course mgmt doesnt do much. People need to be given a warning and evicted after. Why not? These apts are outrageously overpriced for the conditions. The ceiling in the hallways leak, the laundry room is usually flooded, it smells like piss, weed, cigarettes, drunk sweaty white boys with a mix of curry all in the same hallway. On top of all that, most of the office staff including the manager or former manager as it looks like shes gotten promoted are -------. They act like theyre too busy when you call and they brush you off or treat you like you're being difficult when you're just asking them to uphold their end of the lease which means they should be enforcing the rules when others are breaking it and disturbing the few of the normal people who actually have manners. Metropolitan as a whole is nothing but a corporate slumlord. Keep it up, you'll be running another Southlawn soon. But hey, why would you care? Another housing project... or what they call "subsidized housing" wouldnt hurt your pockets.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/06/2008
wow thanks for letting the people of Milw area know about the trouble at these apartments. I was going to recommend them to a friend but after reading thse reviews no way. Sounds like management needs to get off their butts and start working a little. While you may not be able to stop crime you can get these apartments cleaned up. Stop the children from running around the complex, and make sure other people are not parking in spots that are being paid for by someone else. I'll check back in a few months to see if there is any good updates on this site.
From: Anonymous	Date: 06/11/2008
"Anonymous" invites renters with complaints to 'call me'??!? How ironic, as renters with legitimate complaints, are largely ignored, dodged, sent elsewhere or labeled 'trouble-makers.' I can't help but wonder if changes would be made if the MET APT big wigs were forced to live here for a month?
From: Sal-vatore	Date: 01/27/2009
Teen arrested after jumping out of car in drag race By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Jan. 25, 2009 A 16-year-old boy was arrested and two stolen vehicles recovered after he jumped out of a moving car during a drag race early today on the city's south side, Milwaukee Police said. The other driver, who police say stole the 1996 Ford pickup truck he was driving at gunpoint minutes earlier, fled on foot. The 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass driven by the 16-year-old, which crashed into another car, had been stolen earlier in the city of Greenfield. According to police, the incident started around 1:30 a.m. when a 38-year-old man was robbed of his truck at gunpoint in the 2100 block of S. 17th St. Officers responded to a nearby drag race shortly after. The driver of the truck fled that vehicle near S. 7th St. and W. Hayes Ave., and the 16-year-old bailed out in the 2800 block of S. 9th St. He was not seriously injured.

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