Overton Rise

DO NOT MOVE HERE. Especially if you are a working professional who has to wake up in the morning for a job that allows you to afford living here; you will not be getting sleep. The stupid fire alarms (that are loud enough to make you go deaf) go off at least once every two to three weeks. Does not even matter what time of the day either. Noon during the week, 2:00 in the morning, 3:30 in the morning on a work day, 10:00 on a Sunday morning. It is either due to a malfunctioning trigger (or so they tell us) or someone pulling the alarm (which is what occurs more often). Even though the malfunctioning trigger for the fire alarms was an issue even several months ago, they failed to fix the problem and the alarms keep going off. I have noticed this pattern with management — they know of problems but will not seem to actually take any concrete action to stop it until it gets worse enough for tenants to threaten leaving. But I digress.
Now let us move onto crime. There are so many break-​ins, whether car or apartment. There was even a car break-​in in the gated part of the parking garage. The thing is that unless you have a remote, you cannot get your car into the gated part. Well one criminal still found a way to get in with his car and broke into someone’s vehicle. Ever since the first round of car break-​ins I kept an eye on the Cobb County public incident reports and the crime just has not stopped even with a weekend security company being hired. I strongly suggest those who are still living here (or the people who still want to move in) to invest in a good ‘olé Glock. Just sayin’.
So if all that is not enough, certain people that live here make the day to day living difficult. Overton Rise is so desperate for tenants that they will let anyone who applies live here. While the majority of tenants here are respectful people, there are a few that just make this place awful. There are a few people who, because they do whatever the hell they want to do without any regard for anyone else living here, will blare music with their bass turned up all the way and their door open at 8:00 in the evening on a workday just because they feel like it. Or someone will let their children run around until 3:00 in the morning (not joking at all!!). Or will leave their apartment ALL NIGHT with their howling dog being trapped on the patio. Again with the whole you will never get sleep here thing. But guess what. Issues continue to worsen even though management knows about it. They should be fining them at least, since it is written into the lease agreement that each and every tenant has a right to «quiet enjoyment» of their apartment. Essentially you are paying luxury apartment rent without the actual luxury apartment experience.
Which alas, brings me to my final issue that I am going to discuss. After four months of living here I was done. I told my husband that I wanted out. He was reluctant. The apartment itself is nice and is in a convenient location, which he loves. But as summer progressed, all the issues kept getting worse and worse and it was not worth paying almost two grand a month in rent. Finally, at six months in he agreed we could break our lease and leave. So we read over every page of the lease before we went to go turn in our 60-​day notice. Well, either the management staff are not intelligent or they are crooks but they informed us that the lease cancellation fee was equal to two month’s rent. It most certainly is not. Even when we showed the staff member IN WRITING IN THE LEASE where it says if you give them a proper notice the fee is only equal to one month’s rent, they insisted we were wrong. They also used the «it’s a lot of money card» on us. I’m sorry but if you are living beyond your means just to afford rent and have no money for savings or emergency expenses, you should not be living here. So we spoke with the property manager and even she had the audacity to tell us «there’s no early termination clause to this lease» thus causing us to breach it. There is literally a section built into the lease that says… wait for it… EARLY TERMINATION OPTION. If in fact the staff is not a bunch of idiots, they are lying to residents and misleading them. Not at all what I expect from a «luxury apartment» office staff. This place is slowly garnering (if not already) a horrible reputation. If the staff so chooses to reply to my review, just keep in mind that actions speak louder than words. Please spare yourself the misery and look somewhere else!