Two Blocks

I’ve lived at Two Blocks for around a year and a half. I moved in a rush, so took the first thing I could get. It is conveniently located close the Perimeter area in Dunwoody and the prices were competitive as well. Originally when I moved in, I didn’t have any issues with the place. The office staff and maintenance team were friendly and cordial. More recently, I’ve been struggling to have a decent conversation with the office staff, without having to over power my voice. The office manager is good and very understanding, but some of the other staff members are on a power trip. The management seems to be trying to save wherever possible, by imposing unnecessary fines on its own residents. There have been a couple robberies and some of the residents, for lack of a better term, are ‘Shady’. There is no security as such, unless some incident occurs (there is an old beat up security car for a day or two). None of the cameras work or are monitored.
Over all the apartments are newer, so it compensates for the other stuff. The longer you stay, the lesser they care. I would definitely look around some more.

What only one review before mine from 2010? Yes the good olé days.
We moved in and it was great! The leasing and office staff were on point, the lights in the garage were always changed out. The hallways were swept and blown and cleaned on a regular, and then in 2012, it was sold and: Scary music plays: under new management.
Then the nightmare began. No one ever knew anything. Someone was always out of the office and they apparently held the answers to everything. Shall I list the wrongs?
1) They lost the rent, had us running around like banshees trying to figure out how our rent that had been mailed by the bank successfully for a year was now lost the month they took over.
2) We started getting late notices even though we paid the rent.
3) We got late notices for other peoples late rent repeatedly.
4) The gate was broken for months and just left open.
5) We referred a friend (Sorry J). She was in a car accident in the garage with a problem resident immediately after moving in.
6) They lost our rent referral form for about 5 months. Every time I spoke to one person, another person informed me or my husband of something different. Absolutely the worst office communication I have ever seen.
7) The manager is always too busy. Let me be clear. I worked in Property Management for 7 years on properties from 100 units to 1400 units. How is she so busy? Everyday? All day? It’s called deflecting and the staff isn’t even keen enough to do it well, so residents aren’t aware.
8) We wrote and asked for a move out inspection. After not receiving a call about the inspection. I called and was told they were waiting for me to stop by. In all my 7 years, I never assumed residents were psychic and could just tell I wanted them to stop by at anytime to do a move out inspection. In organized places of business they are scheduled. In this clustermuck of an office. Not so.
9) Here we are 3 weeks later, no statement of final deposit, and a condescending manager who actually answered the phone to give me no new answers.
If you want to get notes on your door asking your neighbors not to let their dogs crap in the hallway, move here. If you want to be woken up at 3AM with bass being played as loud as possible by some new piece of trash they moved in, move here. Their move-​in criteria is top-​notch. If you want to be charged out the butt for leaving an apartment clean, and being told it was fine, but then being slapped with almost $ 300 in carpet replacement fees, move here. I am so glad we are no longer renters.

First off, I have no idea how this place doesn’t have any reviews on Unilocal!already. It’s a great place to live, and the office staff has always been really cool and easy to work with.
I moved here back in July 2009 and I’m getting ready to resign my lease for another year. When I first moved in there was a lot of vacancies, so they had a pretty aggressive deal going for my floor plan. This year there is a reasonable increase in rent ($ 10) but that’s about it. Maintenance has always been quick to respond to my requests and the grounds are always in good shape. For the location, you would be hard pressed to get anything this nice in this price range. As far as the pool and BBQs, the pool gets packed out during the summer, so make sure you get there before 1 or 1:30. Kids start arriving a little after that, so unless you’ve already been drinking it might be time to start. There are really only 2 things I can complain about with this place:
1) Parking. The parking decks are seriously an accident waiting to happen. It’s dangerous enough trying to navigate in a tight environment without introducing another driver who wants to go fast and hangout in your lane half the time. 2B could invest in some of those «blind corner» mirrors and save everyone a lot of stress and headache.
2)BBQs. The grills here are propane, and it’s not that uncommon to find the tanks tapped out. But, whenever I’ve had to get a tank refilled or buy a new one the office has credited that amound off my monthly rent. What are you going to expect though, these are resources that everyone can use as they please and it only makes sense that people are going to neglect them.
I really can’t say enough about the office staff. I’ve worked with Shannon, Katie and Matt and they have all been top notch. Very easy to work with, and always willing to help out.
If you are moving to the area do yourself a favor and check out this place.