Highland Ridge Apartments

do not move hereeeee!!! the price is cheap for a reason! my place was infested with ants and i also had a break in! worst apartment complex ever in georgia period! the trash in the front of the complex is always overflowing! there are always stray cats around the property wandering around! the so called security code to get in each building is broken so anyone can literally walk into this complex and into your building! there is no gate to get into this complex! it is so disgusting! there is always trash left in and around the hallways!!! maintenance and management is horrible!!! the walls are so thin, its sounds like your neighbor is literally inside of your apartment!!! you hear everything!!! i will never ever in a million years recommend anyone to move in the dump!!! it is’nt worth it at all! trust me! and if you do end up making the horrible mistake of moving in this dump, i promise you that you will regret it!!! i barely leave reviews but i literally had an ant infestation! hundreds of them and the pest control that they sent did nothing at all! i literally had to move out so concerned about my safety. dont move here!!! please do not do it! i wish i would have read a review like the one i’m writing now to warn me about this place before i moved in. even the appearance is horrible! they really need to renovate this whole complex!!! just tear it down and start over!!! and then also the late rent fee is 175 then you’ll have to pay an additional 250 if its two weeks late!!! to break your lease is two months rent not including the move out fees!!! take your money elsewhere!!! management does not care about their tenants here nor do they care about the appearance of this place!

absolutely ridiculous how many ants are in my apartment. It started 2 months ago and is only getting worst. Management haven’t took care of it yet. They finally allowed me to break my lease because of the problem… but not after paying this month’s rent smh. They should be paying me to live in these conditions. Its not a few hundred of ants, but an army of thousands and thousands. I wish this site had the capabilities to allow me to upload the photos and videos. Around my toilet, in my bathtub, in my bed… my closet is theeeeee worst! On top of that my ceiling was leaking for OVER A MONTH before they finally fixed it. When you sign up they’ll show you the nice clean leasing office, and the 1 «show» apartment that is so vibrant and full of light. They will not want to show you your «actual» apartment because it will be dark and smell moldy… esp if its on the bottom level like building 4 though 8. its a big dumpsite behind those buildings, (its like a dried up lake in the back that everyone dumps their trash it). I moved here in January and I absolutely couldn’t finish out the year. Im actually going down to the court house to sue them today, I had to throw out so much food, I have to come up with an extra deposit for a new apartment and moving cost to move 2 month prior than planned because these pests are EVERYWHERE! email
if you want to see pics and videos of the ants for yourself

I lived here for a year and it was an awful experience. The only positives are the convenient location to Tech’s campus and cheap rent. But even that didn’t make it worth living here.
At one point, the water heater (that looked about 30 years old) broke and water was pouring out of a pipe. It took the maintenance guy over 4 hours to get there. All the water damage not only ruined many of my clothes and other items in my closet (which management refused to reimburse), but black mold began growing all over the base boards and the walls. I told the management and they didn’t bother checking it out until I moved thankfully shortly after the incident.
The people in the front office are also not honest. I was told to give a 30 day notice if I would be moving out. A month before the end of my lease, I went to the office to tell them I would in fact be leaving once my lease expired, at which point I was informed I had missed the 60 day notice and would be charged $ 800 for missing this deadline. I was told I could stay longer and pay the market value of my apartment, which they said was $ 1200 (for a 1 bedroom). No one in their right mind would ever think that apartment was worth $ 1200. That’s about what I pay now at Gables and it is a far superior community.
There are also bugs everywhere. I constantly found cockroaches in the kitchen and there was an ant infestation in my ground level bedroom. The walls are paper thin; I could hear every word of the conversations my neighbors were having. They also used their apartment as a studio so there were times I would wake up to my bed vibrating because of their speakers on the other side of the wall.
The doors to the hallway had broken locks about 95% of the time and the doors to the apartment never seemed very sturdy to me. There is no security in the parking lot and with no assigned spaces or a designated area for visitor parking, so you aren’t guaranteed a parking space. I came back very late one night and could not find a single space in either of the parking lots. People were parked beside painted curbs and I even saw a few double parked cars. I ended up having to stay with a friend that night because there was truly nowhere to leave my car.
The cheap rent and convenient location may be tempting, but please do not live here. You will regret it. There are far better options in the area.

I am very unhappy living here. Staff is really rude including the women who rent the apartments (Carmen and Karina) and the men who they send to fix things in your apartment.
I waited for seven hours for a guy to show up to fix my roof and when he came after many phone calls and insisting, he showed up to tell me he would be back to do the work another day.
Any complaints you have go to a voicemail that you will never get a call back from if you try to go above the office staff.
They half ass everything. My dog got injured in the area that they claim is not a dog area even though it has a post in the ground with a trash can and doggie bags. There is trash and broken bottles, glass, mirrors, all along the back area (which is how my dog was injured).
These people could care less as long as they get there money.

I hate living here. The apartments looked so nice when my SO and I toured the property with the agent before moving in. But the apartment block we actually moved into was HORRIBLE!
The walls are paper thin and you can hear EVERYTHING your neighbors are up to. We constantly have an ant problem and maintenance is always less than helpful. When we first moved in we had no power in our kitchen and it took maintenance a WHOLE WEEK to get around to fixing it.
The building is in such poor condition too, the automatic locks on the entrances are always broken and the door hardly latches.
Residents are constantly throwing trash into our porch area and the apartment threatens to fine US if we don’t clean it up! You can’t store anything on your porch like bikes and storage bins otherwise they fine you for that too!
The leasing staff are so rude and careless. There are only two staff that I’ve ever met that were a pleasure to talk to. And I think Highland Ridge fired them because I haven’t seen them in forever.
I can’t wait to graduate so I can break my lease and leave! At this point I would gladly pay to get away from this place!

On my apartment search today I thought I would stop by here and check the place out. WRONG from the ratchet and less than professional signs stating your rent is late have your fee ready.. to the leasing consultant with the shoe polish black comb over who is less than nice or welcoming to say the least.. I kindly left out of there with the quickness and didn’t turn back.

Horrrrrible!!! Worst apartment complex I’ve ever lived in. 1^st off you can hear everything, I mean everything. From full conversations of your neighbor on there cell through the wall. To exact song being played in bathroom and not at loud or unreasonable volumes. The lower level apartments treat the back area as there own personal garbage dump, the trash area its self is always overflowing and open trash bags everywhere. The pool is barely ever clean, bugs galore, parking is the worst! Worst of the worst is the management, good god horrible! They tell you one thing and then you talk to another and it’s a different story. Numerous times i was charged extra due to lies and miscommunication between staff to save there own hides. They charge you for whatever extra possible and poor attitudes and no worries towards tenants concerns or problems. I repeat do not move there regardless of price.

The 1 star I give this complex is for the location only. Right next to 75÷85− easy access to just about anywhere.
This has for to be the worst apartment complex I have ever stayed in. The apartments are old, bathroom and kitchen unbearably small and to top it off they don’t want to fix anything. Something breaks and the main phrase is «it’s not our fault». Just when you think ok, I can tolerate this complex (usually because of the convenient location and the headache of packing and moving) something breaks.
Like all others have said the walls are super thin so u can hear and smell everything your neighbors are doing. They keep the upper level grounds nice and clean, but the lower level not so much so… trash everywhere.
Thank goodness I haven’t had any issue with bugs or roaches, but cats roam the grounds day and night because of the trash being unkempt.
Maintenance and management are both incompetent. They lie, pass the buck and don’t get anything done.
I understand keeping repair cost low, but half fixing everything leads to more problems. They must not pay well because there is lots of turnover with the office staff and the maintenance team look horrible.
I would never refer a friend, enemy, or passerby to this place. It’s horrific.

Starting off, this is hands down the absolute WORST place I have lived in my 23 years on this planet. To start off, upon moving in there were glass shards all throughout our apartment, bugs everywhere, and they didn’t even have the decency to clean the carpets upon move in. It is June… The pool still is not open. I called up there only to speak with an incompetent b**** by the name of Latoya who was absolutely no help at all. She told me to take it up with the head manager who can barely speak English, then proceeded to be a condescending CU** whilst getting off the phone. The ONLY good thing about this place is the maintenance guy Jermaine, had it not been for him I would have moved out a long time ago. To put it simply this place is SHIT, the management is SHIT, and DO NOT move here. You’d be better off paying a little more money in the long run. FUCK YOU LATOYA & MANAGEMENT.
Sincerely,
An extremely pissed off resident.

BEWARE! These apartments have bedbugs. A few days after I moved in was noticing bites on my legs and arms. Once I actually found a bed bug and confirmed it with a pest control company, I tried getting rid of the bugs in the apartment with flea bombs and whatnot, but it was impossible. I ended up talking to a girl living in a different Highland Ridge building than mine and she had bed bugs also! I broke my lease and moved out. Do NOT move here.

Everything the first reviewer said was true and I’ll add my list next. We moved here a year and a half ago so my boyfriend could finish school so we needed a nice, student friendly apartment. We got a 10.00 student discount and that’s as student friendly as it got.
The walls are so thin I could hear my neighbors conversation and usually kept us up until 3am. We could call appropriate people to complain to but with no luck.
Ants, mold, and spiders are among the biggest problems. There was black, thick mold growing on all six of our windows and we were told it’s fine and to just spray bleach on it, even though an EPA officer said do not do that.
There was also a fire here during my stay, back in November. The head of maintenance really dropped the ball because he never checked to make sure the apartments were cleared before he locked the doors once the fire was out and everyone was evacuated, because we were in the apartment and given clearance by the fire department. They were also less than accommodating. We don’t have family or a car here so the hotel the Red Cross wanted to put was in was really far away and did not except pets (we have a dog) so we ended up having to pay for 4 nights in a hotel up the street.
Oh and the security officer is weird! I was in the laundry room one evening and he walked in and just stood in the corner watching. I asked what he was doing, and just stood there blankly and said nothing. Totally weird and freaked me out, now my boyfriend has to go with me when it’s laundry day.
It’s nice because you’re close to Target and Georgia Tech, but that’s it. I would rather pay a little extra and be somewhere safer and cleaner.

The apartments in this area are ok. They are just the right price for a student. I lived here for two years while I completed my degree, and it was liveable for me. No apartment in the southern United States is perfect (you have to expect some problems), so I will simply list all the negatives I experienced in my two years here.
I had minor roach problems. I would see perhaps one or two every two weeks. I set up roach baits and boric acid around my apartment to minimize these infestations. Had I not done so it probably would have been much worse.
I had major ant problems. I had ant bait set up to kill them, but they continued coming back. It was so bad I could not leave any opened food out without suffering major repercussions. The ants would often swarm in my sink and cabinets for no reason. I would kill hundreds of ants every day. I would actually spray raid all over my cabinets every morning to reduce the number of ants I would have to kill when I returned from school in the evening.
The air conditioning would continuously malfunction. This was horrible in the summer when temperatures would hit 100 degrees. I would often just leave the apartment and go somewhere else when the AC would break. The maintenance people were very prompt to fix it, but it would happen so often it became problematic and a symptom of the apartment issues.
Noisy and unkempt neighbors. My neighbors were often very noisy and many of them were not students, so it made studying difficult. It probably didn’t help that the walls are paper thin. At one point there was a motorcycle race in our parking lot. It was horrible since I had an 8 am class. Another time one of my neighbors was shouting on the phone to a counselor trying to talk her down from killing herself with a loaded gun — she didn’t thank god. My neighbors would leave bags of garbage out in the hallway. This would make pests even more problematic. The garbage bins are located at the exits of the parking lots and management would issue warnings not to leave garbage in the halls because they were not responsible to pick them up. People did it anyway. Mountains of trash would line the hallways. I would end up throwing most of it away, so that I would not be forced to face the army of roaches that it would summon.
During my stay, someone set the building on fire. Someone had an accident and set half of the lower buildings on fire. I was lucky my building was not one of the affected ones, but it ravaged many of the apartments. I guess the architecture is meant to address efficient use of space and not accommodate safe living.
There was a murder in one of the buildings adjacent to mine. Someone was shot in the head during what was likely a drug deal and his body was only later discovered several days after the murder. They never figured out who killed him.
The police are called to the apartments quite often for various complaints. One night I was awoken by a pounding on my door. After waking up and answering I was ordered to step outside of the apartment with my hands up and to lie face down on the floor in my pajamas. The police had guns drawn and believed me to be an armed robber who had been seen in the area entering one of the apartments. I was not him. I do not believe they ever captured this criminal or any criminal from this complex.
The office staff is rarely in the office. Your best bet to get in touch with the staff is via phone or email.
My mailbox key kept malfunctioning and would get stuck in the mailbox, leaving my mailbox wide open for anyone to take whatever they pleased — my paychecks for example.
Finally, there used to be a strip club adjacent to the complex that would constantly be raided by the police for prostitution. The people that would hang out in front of this building were never of the savory variety.

These are the worst apartments I’ve ever lived in.
1. We have a lot of bugs in our unit because of a flood in our apartment prior to us moving in, which they failed to mention to us. They do nothing about the bugs.
2. Our washing machine was leaking. My roommate called to inform them and ask to send someone out right away. They failed to do so. I noticed that night when I came home and called again then they finally sent someone. By this time our laundry room was a pool and it smelled like a sewer. they came and fixed it and vacuumed out the water but did nothing about the smell. Not to mention a lot of our towels and other items (shoes, clothes, etc) which were on the floor got ruined.
3. There have been many break-​ins into cars and into apartments. they supposedly have security but they do nothing to prevent it. Several cars got broken windows in the same night. The security must’ve had enough time to stop this if they were paying attention. By law they should tell everyone who lives in the complex about these but they failed to do so.
4. A lot of small things are broken in our apartments including a door knob, dishwasher tray, light bulbs, etc. and they never came to fix them after we told them.
5. they have a lack of communication at the office. One person tells you one thing and another tells you something else. They dont pass on the messages to the right people. When we were moving in, they changed our moving date at least 4 times. Each person would give us a different date.
There are many more… these are the things I remember now