Post Glen

There have been 6 burglaries in a week and this is a quote from Post management. «While we take steps to promote a safe environment, we cannot and do not guarantee personal safety and security for our residents .» Post has hired a guard service on a «temporary» basis. Why temporary? Where is the Post apartments of years ago… wasn’t safety and security on the top of their goals for their residents? When did it become acceptable for Post to relinquish their part in «a safe environment «? This is very disappointing and a reason to think twice about signing a Post lease.

I recently moved from Post Glen and while I was not unhappy living there, there certainly is a lot to be desired depending on your priorities. Pros: central locality to restaurants (I walked to Pub 71), a great dog park at the rear of the complex, close to Marta (again, walking distance), and lots of greenery. However, this is an older facility and it shows in the apartments. The walk-​through we had showcased new carpet, overhead lighting, and looked very nice.
On our move-​in day, however, the apartment we moved into had old carpet, had not been cleaned, mold in the bathroom, broken shelves, a general rundown appearance, and NO OVERHEAD LIGHTING IN THE BEDROOM. Now, you may think that this isn’t an issue but I promise you, it is. Parking and crime are also issues previously mentioned in other reviews.
Bottom line, if you are looking for a less expensive option for Brookhaven living, Post Glen may be for you. Just be forewarned that you get what you pay for and there may be far better options worth exploring.

They are very intrusive. The past 5 days they’ve had repairmen outside our 1^st floor window with power tools from 8am to 6:30pm. They are always here inspecting, repairing and generally intruding. I wold be fine with this is there weren’t so many break – ins, but we feel uncomfortable leaving our privacy lock unlocked when we’re not here, and we feel like they are ALWAYS asking us to do so,

I recently transferred here from Post Lindbergh. We are renting a 2 bedroom with a garage. Overall I have been pleased. The location is great especially if you have a pet as it backs up to the Brookhaven dog park. The apartments are decent, what you would expect from Post Properties and the prices are fair for the size and the area. The staff has been excellent. They are very responsive to emails and any issues we have had.
The parking is an issue. If you do not get a space by your building you could end up parking a good ways away. The traffic on Peachtree in front of the complex is terrible. Two entrances would have been beneficial, turning left is nearly impossible. Aside from these minor inconveniences, Post Glen is not too shabby.
I am interested to see when this lease is up if they will cause me to change my impression of them with the fees I incur. The pet fees are sky high and regardless of an actual pet odor each Post has charged a «pet odor» fee. Oh the anticipation…

«SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR DEPOSIT»
I lived at Post Glen for a year, and the only reason I left is because I purchased a home. Overall, I had a pleasant experience with Post and the only reason I’m giving them a poor rating is because of the items I was charged for when I moved out (which I’ll get to later).
The biggest perk about Post Glen for me was the location, I mean you really can’t beat it. Bars and restaurants on one side and a huge park on the other side, which was so convenient especially for dog owners. Other than the location, it’s pretty much a standard apartment complex, and there’s really nothing else that makes it stick out above and beyond the rest.
THE NEGATIVE. The security was pretty much non existent. We got emails of break-​ins in the complex pretty regularly, which is to be expected since MARTA is across the street. With that being said though, you’d think they’d have some type of night guard patrolling the complex. In talking to some of our neighbors, I think most of the break-​ins occurred in the apartments that faced the park. My recommendation, if you still want to live here after reading all the negatives, would be to avoid moving into a garden apartment, especially in the buildings along the perimeter of the park.
There were many times that I’d go through the resident gate, and it would stay open long enough for one or two other cars to follow me in. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a gate. There was a constant flow of suspicious looking cars gaining access to the complex.
A few months before we moved out, we received a note in the door with our renewal rates. If we would have stayed, our rent was going to be $ 200 more per month! Talk about bait and switch. Just for shits and giggles, I decided to look up similar apartments that were currently available to see what they were going for, and they were pretty much in line with what we were currently paying. They were probably counting on us just paying the increase to avoid the hassle of having to move out.
NOW ON TO THE REAL REASON FOR MY REVIEW. As mentioned earlier, I moved out of Post Glen as I decided to purchase a home and left about 3 weeks prior to my lease being up. When I signed the lease, my roommate and I paid a $ 200 deposit which was refundable and then a $ 500 pet deposit (of which only $ 150 was refundable). I was shocked when I received a letter from Post with all the items I was being charged for.
**Side note. When I moved in to Post, I had just adopted a one year old rescue dog. To make a long story short, she had chewed a small (quarter sized) hole in the carpet in the master bdrm.
The bill from Post included, a $ 75 «vacate labor charge,» (whatever that means), $ 50 pet treatment charge and now for the real kicker, $ 550 to replace the carpet in the master bdrm. Now, I am not arguing that the carpet needed to be repaired. What I am arguing though is the charge. I find it very hard to believe that builder’s grade carpet would cost that much for ONE ROOM. When I purchased my home, I replaced the carpet in 3 bedrooms and it only cost $ 400.
When I questioned the $ 75 charge, I was told it was to repair the holes in the wall from the TV mount. Our TV was never even mounted. The holes were from pictures, and they were actually filled in before we moved out. All that was needed was some touch up paint, what I would think is fairly normal. When I questioned the $ 50 pet treatment charge, I was told it was for the strong pet odor. If that apartment smelt like anything when we moved out, it was bleach and various other cleaning supplies. I asked why this wasn’t taken out of the non refundable portion of the pet deposit and was told that, and I quote, «As for your nonrefundable pet fee, as I said yesterday, the nonrefundable fee is not applied to any damages but it is paid for the privilege of keeping your pet in the apartment with you.» So basically, they just pocket that money and is just another way to get more out of you.
When all is said and done, I owe Post money! Morale of the story, Post Glen will try to «nickel and dime» you when you move out, especially if you have pets. Unless you treat your apartment like a museum, and walk on egg shells while you live there, you can expect to kiss your deposits goodbye.

Post Glen is definitely one of the smaller Post complexes, and I have mixed feelings writing this review in terms of recommending the complex.
PROS
–Management does its best to address issues (requests and complaints, especially). However, I’ve also had good service because I went to the same person each time, after one of the people in the leasing office showed herself to be completely incompetent.
–It is fairly quiet and you don’t hear noise from Peachtree Rd or other neighborhoods.
–Convenient accessibility to the Brookhaven MARTA.
–A majority of the apartments do not face the sun, so in the summertime, your cooling costs are much lower. In fact, compared to other places I lived, I spent a lot less on AC in this place during the summer than I have anywhere else.
CONS
–CRIME. Several break-​ins and incidences over the course of 4 months, with almost a non-​response by management. Not sure what additional measures they could have taken, but it was a little disconcerting to hear a mugging occur right outside my bedroom window one night and later watch someone get held up again by the gate. I’ve lived in town for about 4 years (including a year in Little 5 and some time in Post Briarcliff), and have never heard of so many incidences in a short time.
–The cost. Someone else here said it best: You pay to stay. Post does not reward you for loyalty and hikes up the rent by 15% when you renew your lease, as well as other fees. My rent basically jumped up per month, even though the quality of services and size of the apartment did not improve. The $ 5/​mo for a trash fee is ridiculous, when you see what a basic service it is (literally, to throw trash into the dumpster on site… and sometimes the trash tends to stink up the parking lot, so the $ 5/​mo clearly is not to operate it in an efficient manner).
–Parking. This is possibly the most exasperating thing in the entire complex — just ask any resident. If you show up anytime later than 7:30pm, you are not guaranteed a spot. Several times, I have had to drive around for half an hour or so to wait for someone to pull out so that I could park my car. Couple that with residents who let their friends park in the complex during winter break, it is sometimes impossible to park your car without having to hike back across the complex to your apartment late at night (see above with crime to understand why this is not just an inconvenience, but a major concern). Furthermore, management allows illegally parked cars to sit in the lot for week with flyer after flyer asking the car to be moved adorning the windshield, rather than just having the car towed and letting the owner deal with the car.
Overall, this is a decent fresh-​out-​of-​college apartment, but I would recommend a cheaper alternative, given the crime rate and because you cannot park your car without spending a lot of time.

Post has been my home for the last five years– we spent four years at Post Chastain and one year at Post Glen. I didn’t love living at Post Glen, but I didn’t hate it, either.
THE GOOD:
* Spacious apartments — We lived in a 1313 sq ft apartment that cost less than $ 1/​sq ft.
* No noise issues
* Across the street from the Brookhaven MARTA station
* Quick response to maintenance requests
* Recycling center in the complex
* Laundry room with hook ups in each apartment
THE BAD:
* We received several incident reports in the last month that we lived there — two armed robberies and one assault allegation. I can’t say that I always felt safe.
* SO MUCH TRAFFIC: It was impossible to safely turn left out of the complex, and when you turn right, you just sit in traffic. I didn’t love living off of Peachtree Road… it wasn’t nearly as convenient as I thought it would be.
* The complex isn’t really close to any highways.
Our renewal notice proposed an almost 15% increase in rent. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Post does not reward loyalty. You pay to stay, so if you don’t like to move every year, expect hefty rent increases.

There’s a lot to recommend about Post Glen: The flat that I see regularly is spacious (although oddly arranged) with surround sound and satellite speakers in each bedroom, MARTA’s Brookhaven/​Oglethorpe University station is located a short walk away; the property includes a backside walkway to the next-​door shops and restaurants like Mellow Mushroom, Pub 71, and Sugar Shack, and is a short drive to various restaurants and shops, including the relatively-​close Buford Highway area, Yoforia, Kaleidoscope, and the Costco in Town Brookhaven, for all of your gigantic-​tub-​of-​mayonnaise needs.
Unfortunately, all of these niceties go hand in hand with living at the traffic intersection of Cluster and Fuck. There’s only one entrance/​exit to this complex, and thus, making your way in and out of Post Glen during rush hour is mind-​bogglingly frustrating. Northbound Peachtree Rd. goes from three lanes to two shortly before the complex, and the respective lights at N. Druid Hills and Dresden aren’t synchronized appropriately. You’ll end up with the six lanes of traffic (3 from Peachtree, 2 from N. Druid and 1 from Dresden) all trying to push forward in a very short span of road, so getting home after a long day of work suggests a daily adventure of Tokien proportions.
Add to this that the three lanes of Southbound traffic on Peachtree tend on the heavy side, getting out of the complex without a much-​needed stoplight at the entrance will likely involve waiting in a queue of cars attempting to leave, and the potential kindness of the South-​bound strangers…
In traffic…
In Atlanta (HA! Good luck!).
Ideally, they’d install a stoplight at the entrance of the complex, but it might exacerbate the traffic mess with the aforementioned N. Druid Hills and Dresden intersections.
Thus, if you’re considering moving to Post Glen, I can only recommend living here if:
1) You work South of the complex and you somehow drive North of it during your workday;
2) You don’t ever plan to turn Northward out of the complex;
3) You take MARTA to get everywhere;
4) They install a stoplight at the entrance (with the stated caveat); or
5) You’re a masochist who likes sitting in mind-​numbing traffic.

I lived here for 6 months about 4 years ago. I know some things may have changed over the years, but certain aspects are surely the same.
First, the biggest drawback to this property was its price. My share of a 3 bedroom, 2 & ½ bathroom apartment was the most I’ve ever paid for any apartment. But, for the Buckhead/​Brookhaven area, and for a property of its quality, the high price was expected.
I most enjoyed its location. It is almost immediately across the street from MARTA Brookhaven station. There is a grocery store, restaurants (most notably Mellow Mushroom and Waffle House!), a library, a park, and just about all the essentials within reasonable walking distance. One MARTA station, or a short drive, to the south is Lenox Mall and Buckhead with everything they have to offer!
The property itself is definitely one of the smallest Post Apartment complexes. All the neighbors seemed very nice. They were mostly young professional types, and I don’t recall seeing very many kids. It is beautifully landscaped. The office staff was super friendly and always responded immediately to any questions or concerns. The pool and other facilities looked wonderful, but I didn’t take advantage of them so I can’t say much.
The units seemed luxurious, compared to the humdrum complexes I’d lived in before. Ours had a gas fireplace, vaulted ceilings, a surround sound system wired to every room, two sinks in the master bath, and that extra ½ a bathroom that is so hard to find in a 3 bedroom apartment, but makes all the difference when there are 3 roommates and frequent guests.
Overall, I’d live there again, especially if I had the money and worked on that side of town.