Apartment Review for 710 Peachtree - Atlanta, GA

I do not recommend leasing an apartment at 710 peachtree. I moved in because I am a student, needed affordable rent, love the location, and when I went to visit, I was fooled into falling in love with the building. They put up a good front. I have lived here for a year now and my lease runs up in a month. I am actually writing this from a hotel room because yesterday I was unable to stay in my apartment due to flooding. It was caused by a pipe connected to the air conditioning that leaked from the wall underneath the carpet flooding at much as 70% of my apartment.I had extensive damage to my furniture and feel incredibly unsafe with the lead seeping into my carpet from the paint. The wall is soaked and paint just falls off. I understand that things happen. But this didn't just "happen." These floods are caused by old pipes that they fix but do not replace. I have to leave my dog with a friend because he can't stay there. I woke up the other night to find brown water coming out of every faucet. Trash-talking aside, Solace just isn't a safe place to live. I am on the sixth floor and cockroaches do invade my home. I set off my own bug bombs once every two weeks and still find them. No one should make excuses for girls being harassed on the elevator. This is my home. This is where I am supposed to feel safe. What happens outside of that building is my responsibility but the leasing agents here said there was key card only access. Due to the first floor construction, anyone can enter. The doors to stairwell 4 don't even lock so anyone can enter from the outside ground floor. On top of everything, the management has done an excellent job of screwing you into that lease. I have heard my neighbors sneeze. I can hear conversations and anything they happen to be playing in their apartment. For some reason, my stove is always hot. Sometimes hotter than other times but I have burned my hand twice just by touching the surface. This is without use for weeks. People let their dogs urinate in the elevators and stairs. For three days there has been dog feces in stairwell 4. My advice: read the lease very carefully and do your research. I laughed at the idea of being worried about lead paint. Of course if it chips off I won't eat it. I didn't even think that if my apartment floods, lead gets into the carpet, lead dust is inhaled, and I am left without a home that Solace management will have no fault. I thoroughly enjoyed the first few months. I am the type to look the other way when little things happen. I didn't make a big deal about the construction (that I can hear at early hours in my apartment) or anything else that appeared to be wrong. But this was my last straw. You have to take a lot to enjoy it a little.