Metropolis

May I start off by saying that I’ve lived here for five years and the one thing that has not changed is it’s unique sense of community. People that live here want to have fun and be outgoing. If you want to hide inside your shell of an apartment and complain about everything around you, do not move here.
Most of the people that I have seen complain about this place are either too immature to understand how to live responsibly, or they are too self centered to realize their being childish. Let me have the pleasure of explaining and setting a few things straight.
The leasing office will be very clear with our traditions and curfews. This is a complex open to artists, musicians, and anyone who can enjoy the product from either. HOWEVER, the curfew is 10:00pm. I know they make this clear to everyone because each of my roommates through out the five years were told infront of me when siging their contracts. Now, there are bands that play later than that (surprise, young hearts don’t want to go to sleep at 10pm). This is where being an adult comes in. If you have a problem– address it. The reason they find it ok to pass curfew is because of that community feel I mentioned before. Most of the building know each other. The ones who live here have a certain child inside them and the same goes when meeting new people. They aren’t so jaded and afraid of meeting their neighbors. In turn, whether or not you know who is keeping you up at night when you have work in the morning, act grown and politely ask the band to be considerate of why you need to sleep. People are super friendly here. They will listen. If it comes down to it and you catch a stubborn, bad apple, the office has security over night YOU can call and they will IMMEDIATELY give that apartment a friendly warning. Their next act (which is last resort) is the police.
Next, I want to address the cleanliness of one’s own apartment. Yes, they have colorful concrete floors. Someone said in a previous review that they mopped and the water is brown… no shit. What are you mopping off your floor that you expect to be clear– the tears from your whining? Try mopping a carpet, see how that works out for you. I love that I was able to mop my apartment and keep it clean. Another mentioned that you better be careful about dropping a glass. as if the kitchen floor were made of a wood that glass would bounce back up and smile at you.
As for a bug problem, the only time I have had a problem (in five years) with roaches is when dishes were consistantly stacked in the sink and garbage was piled high. If you are going to live like a child, than you are going to reap the consequences. Unfortunately, there are no maids at this complex. Clean up after yourself, little rascal. They will send pest control if you need it who get there within a couple days if you slack at one point.
On the subject of maintence request: A+. I garuntee you will not find a maintence staff as quickly responding as this one. You can even request maintence online at the same site you pay rent. From fixing the sink’s disposable blades to installing a brand new fridge, from responding to a raccoon that found its way into our wall to requesting paint for repainting a floor we scratched up– they are on top of their shit. They take care of ten buildings while keeping the palm trees trim, pool clean, and buildings freshly painted. Most of the time, they have been there within one or two days. If they are not there in three, its because they dont like your rude ass. or the season has changed and they are busy as bees.
As for life at the Metropolis, events, events, events. Pool parties where they supply their own kegs and live music. Wine and cheese events, art events, toga parties, and Halloween parties full of contests (including prizes of free rent, $ 300 in cash, and more).
If you are responsible enough to live in an apartment but you’re too young for a lame ass home, this place is perfect. If you ever have a problem with anything, stand up and say something so it can be fixed. Please don’t keep it a secret until you want to nerd out in anger on Unilocal.
ps. If you wear a crown of flowers on your head and you’re upset that someone offers you acid, wake up– you’re in Austin. Poser.

I lived here 2010 – 2011 and reading these reviews I’m laughing because they couldn’t be more spot on.
I was lucky enough to never have issues with my car being broken into or have anything threatening happen to me while I lived here alone at the age of 19.
I was drawn in by the bright colors and friendly staff, but don’t be fooled! I’ll keep it as short as I can:
I was told when I moved in that bands are allowed to practice in their apartments and there is no noise cut off. They also told me if I had an issue with someone being too loud, I needed to deal with it myself. There were at least three nights I can recall of drunk bands playing literally right outside my door at 4am. Not cool. They did this all the time, but these are the nights I can recall for fact.
They’re right about the drug dealers. I lived in building 8 and I knew of for sure four drug dealers in my complex, but that’s just the ones I knew about.
These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound. I could constantly hear my neighbors dog barking any time he wasn’t home. Also when I was in my bathroom, I could actually hear my neighbor taking a piss.
I got offered acid here an obscene amount of times. Which is just weird and uncomfortable.
My bedroom was the only room that got any natural sunlight. The rest of my apartment was a cold, concrete floor, cave. Also because of the sun (even though I had this issue at night too) my bedroom was consistently 10 degrees warmer than my apartment.
My AC unit leaked/​rained water down every single time my AC clicked off. Water would just pour from the ceiling. I have a cat, and I had to start putting a bucket there to catch the water and now my cat would try and drink this mystery water. Ew. I had the handy man take a look at it and he assured me that your apartment raining water all the time is totally normal. I called him back several times hoping he’d finally fix it. All I got was, «these apartments were built in the 70s sweetheart, they’re going to have problems.» WHAT?!
But I think my favorite memory was coming home to my place absolutely REEKING of sulfur. I called the fire department thinking maybe I had a gas leek or something, only for them to inform me that someone who I shared air with was cooking meth. Oh. Cool. The firemen suggested it was the apartment right above me. Scary. «What if their meth lab explodes?!» Was all I could think all night. Luckily they moved out in the middle of the night the next night and skipped out on rent. Maybe the fire department scared them.
I’m lucky to come out of here with no trauma but wow. I would never do it again. Please shop around and find something better with less drug addicts roaming around.

The roaches weren’t mentioned to me by the future roommate until the day I moved my clothes, bed, and food in. They were all over. Alive, dead. In the bathroom, bedroom, and worst in the kitchen. I stayed for one night and I have already removed everything I brought. I am now awaiting to see if I get my month’s worth of rent back. Awful.

READ THE FILTERED REVIEWS. SERIOUSLY.
The location was convenient for me and it’s fun to look at. I didn’t see a lot of actual musicians while I was there… but?
Gross gross gross gross gross. There are bedbugs and cockroaches everywhere, mosquitos outside because of all this stagnant water, and people let their dogs shit everywhere and don’t clean it up. There’s no carpets inside the units. Just concrete — don’t drop your glass!

Very homey, very Austin, very artsy. Very down to earth people live there.

I moved here because I was actually into the idea of living around musicians and artists, all types of alternative folks. They warned me when I first moved in that it might be kind of noisy and that could be a problem since I have a child, but I used to live in West Campus so I’m pretty used to noise and parties. I actually enjoyed living above a band who practiced every Tuesday and Thursday, the music was good! I’m a very laid back person, I’ve lived in ‘ghetto’ areas in much worse cities, low-​income government housing, you name it, I’ve been there. Now that you know where I’m coming from…
I can’t give this place a good rating though because of the way it’s run. I think management are all good people, but pretty much NONE of the rules they explicitly warned me about when I first moved in are actually applied. My first week living here, my neighbors who apparently moved out left 4 reeking bags of garbage infront of their door. Not just regular trash either, I’m talking the entire contents of their freezer. I know this because the smell of rotting meat started on day 2 and that smell is unmistakable. I was told we were not allowed to put bags of trash out like that, and if we did and maintenance had to pick it up, there would be a $ 25 fee. Those bags stayed for 6 days and no maintenance came around all that time.
I also could never take my kid out to enjoy the nice courtyards either, dog crap everywhere. They have those little waste bag dispensers all over, some are broken, the rest just empty. There is no «quiet» time after midnight either, and I only ever see the security guard hanging out by the pool all night. Not that it matters, the walls are insanely thin so if your neighbors are loud in the bedroom, you will hear everything.
Of all the apartments located between Riverside/​Oltorf, Metropolis has to be one of the good ones. It’s not overly ghetto with kids running around everywhere and no parents in sight [though I have had an experience that made me feel it might be headed that way]. The gates actually work most of the time, and keep people from wandering in and making you feel generally unsafe. I feel it could be better though, if management would just step up and enforce their own rules.

… at first the met was great… lots of bands and artsy type folks, pool parties all the time, cheap apartments, lots of loud and fun neighbors… the parking did suck, but that just meant you had to walk farther.
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then the management changed about 5 times in one year, i really never knew who the manager was anymore. the owner seems to care less what the residents felt or preferred… after months and months of everything just going downhill… they implemented rangers and a curfew… hey. no smoking outside your house after midnight or you will get a ticket payable to the office! no thank you.
if you wanted a quite place to lay your head… this was never the place to live, kids… but if you wanted a fun and exciting community where it was okay to get off work at 2 in the morning and still come home and have a drink by the pool… yeah!
aww not anymore. :(sad days. goodbye metropolis! i am sadly dissappointed.
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i know this is kind of rambling, but im all a fluster over here.

When we moved here from OH, we had no clue what we were getting ourselves into with this place. The office staff is the laziest bunch of people I’ve met in a long time. The parking situation is HORRIBLE [all of the spaces are for super Super SUPER compact cars]. There are constant parties, alcohol, drugs, loud noise 24 hours a day.
The only thing redeeming this place is the pool [nice, not always clean, but nice] and the fact that i got a ²⁄₂ for a decent price, $ 699.
If you are a college kid or someone who loves to party, this apartment complex would be great for you. But those of us adults living in the real world with jobs that start at 8 am, or earlier, this is not the place for us.