The Village at Lake Park

I have LOVED living at the Village. I am in one of the updated apartments and it is beautiful. I love the planked floors and white cabinets in the kitchen. Even though the interior of the apartments are perfectly renovated my favorite part of the complex is the outdoors. I appreciate the landscape every time I drive into the complex. I love all the trees and walking trails. I love that they put swings and paths and benches all throughout the complex. I love walking my dog to a new spot each day and finding a new, beautiful place to relax and enjoy the calmness. I have not had any issues with being able to hear neighbors, although this is of course dependent on the type of people you live around. If you are the type to get annoyed by any noise you hear then maybe you just should not live in an apartment. I have also gotten the feeling that the managers and owners of the village really value their residents. Any time I’ve had a problem they’ve been quick to resolve it and have not treated me like I was in the wrong, like many other complexes do. For the past 8 years I have lived somewhere different each year but I hope to be able to make the Village my home for a while!

I feel like I need to address these bad reviews. Some folks are so sensitive it’s like they feel the pain and anger of the world. No apartment in the history of man has ever been soundproof. Sometimes I hear my neighbor’s base or a heavy foot but it’s not at all bothersome. Gotta adapt if you choose to live in an apt. I sometimes hear a hammer or tile cutter but how the hell else do you upgrade apt complexes. The leasing office Always takes care of my needs, they’ve all been nothing but kind, and maintenance gets whatever I’ve needed done within a day. Always.
We moved from an old model to an upgraded and I don’t mind the rent increase. The upgrade is awesome and the view from my sunroom window is beautiful. My car window has never been busted, the landscaping is always on point, I walk with my baby all over this huge place, there’s lots of dogs and are cleaned after, always folks playing tennis, families walking around after dinner, good looking people in the gym, and the new pools are very nice.
Weekly there are intense exercise classes and a new gym with sauna. There are wine tastings and bands and activities that residents actually attend.
Apts are transient by nature but we’ll stay for a bit. Highly recommend.

I’m currently a resident. My apartment is renovated. I see no bugs except the occasional spiders but hey this is Georgia and we have a lot of trees. Maintenance is fast and the leasing and resident staff are nice. The only thing that is a con is the cell signal sucks and I have T Mobile so luckily I have service but my company don’t when they visit unless they have T Mobile. They are renovating now and almost done in my area but that can be quite annoying if you’re home during the day like me due to my work schedule. Other than that it’s a great place to live because of the nature walks, renovated gym, and nice landscaping not and pools.

I agree with Erin W about the construction. I’ve lived here for about a year now, and there would be construction workers and trucks everywhere, blocking the road. Trailers of storage compartments would take up parking spaces, as well. There’s a renovation happening next door to my apartment right now actually, and it is SO DAMN LOUD from AM-​PM. And as if there isn’t enough noise, the workers would blast their music, too. I just renewed my lease, but they told me I can only renew it for additional 3 or 4 months, because they have to renovate my apartment. Apparently, they’re driving out tenants with non updated apartments for renovations. So good luck to my fellow neighbors in the building, ’cause it’s gonna be a loud journey in this complex all year round. On the upside, the gym is pretty nice after the renovation (that they promised would only take 6 months and actually took almost a year, smh.). There’s also this pointless lounging area in the gym that they could’ve used for more fitness machines. But anyway, another upside, the response for maintenance request is pretty prompt, so that’s nice.

One of the best community for luxury, peace, resident activities, healthy lifestyle in Smyrna. Round the clock security with patrolling in the night. Poplar trails goes within woods and side of creek. Cleanness is maintained. Resident service staffs are friendly and resolve issues (if any) ASAP. Gym with fitness trainer, yoga, movie night, bingo and game nights, breakfast on the go, wine testing are few to the list for monthly events.

I lived at the village for 3 years until I moved into my house in Lawrenceville. It’s everything you would expect from apartment living. I occasionally would have loud disrespectful neighbors who played their TV or music using a sound bar. It would vibrate the entire building sometimes. The walls and floors are thin which comes with the territory living in an apartment. The grounds themselves were nice enough and I felt safe for the most part until the construction started. The complex was bought out by a different management group and that’s when my frustration really started. Every time a resident would move out, they would begin to renovate that apartment and lucky me, I lived in a building where it seemed like someone moved out every week. The construction would start at 7:30am every morning, even on the weekends. The noise was unbearable. Also there would be construction workers every where all the time.
my last few months there, I had to deal with smoking neighbors sitting outside my apartment on the stairs 3 feet from my door. Every time I left my apartment, I would be accosted by gross cigarette smoke. It would even seep into my apartment at times. I asked them several times to please move somewhere else to smoke but it was a constant battle. When I complained to the leasing office, they simply told me that smoking is not prohibited in the walk ways and they were free to smoke there.
The traffic in this complex was another issue. It was so congested. People would run stop signs constantly and fly through the complex like they were on the interstate. I felt like I as living in the middle of a busy intersection most days.
My complex was right by the pool and grills so there would be people out there all hours of the night being loud even though the pools closed at 9pm.
The gym was pretty neat. It was huge with all different exercise machines. They even had different workout classes each night of the week. They closed the gym for about a year for the «construction» and I left before it re-​opened.
It’s not a terrible place to live but it was one of the most frustrating places I have lived.

I’ll admit that I was a little nervous about moving into our new apartment after reading some of these reviews. I am so glad that I stayed optimistic because I have nothing but praise for this place!
I love our new apartment here! My boyfriend and I just moved from the Midtown area because we wanted a home that was a little more secluded and a little safer. We also have a large dog, so we definitely needed more space for the 3 of us. Our leasing agent, Constance, is truly amazing and helped us find the PERFECT apartment for my boyfriend and I.
We went with a freshly renovated unit that is close to the dog park and swimming pool. Our dog is in love with the dog park and nature trails (as are we!) Since our unit was renovated just before we moved in, we have all brand new appliances and hardwood floors. So lovely!
We had some issues upon our move-​in but Constance did not hesitate and made sure to have everything resolved for us in less than 24 hours. We immediately felt right at home. Maintenance is so friendly and really quick! We haven’t needed resident services for anything just yet, but our first impression of the staff was a great one.
I honestly expected the community events to be awkward and cheesy, BUT I attended the wine tasting this month and has an absolute blast! Village at Lake Park does a fantastic job of creating a sense of community among residents. My neighbors are awesome!
TLDR: For some reason that I cannot understand, Village at Lake Park has more bad reviews than good. But I can honestly say that me, my boyfriend, and our dog could not be happier living anywhere else!

We went in to view these apartments this past Saturday & customer service was horrible. We were really interested in moving here because of its great location. Also, I knew a few tenants who lived here & loved it but that was a few years ago. The guy who showed us the apartment, Darius, did not at all seem interested in helping us. Once in his office he did not once open his mouth to assist. It was like a weird awkward silence which we broke to ask about the availability. When he answered our questions he seemed uninterested and kept on messing with his computer. This guy was unfriendly and seemed like he would’ve preferred to be somewhere else. Honestly the apartments are renovated nicely like an IKEA Ad but for the price and lack of customer service I’ll pass. I’m pretty sure there are better communities around the area.

I have been living here for a little over a year.
I will start with the pros:
The landscaping is amazing, BUT they are start to cut down a lot of trees and I don’t know why. Maybe to add more apartments?
The amenities are very nice BUT they are always closed for maintenance. There are several pools, a couple are in my opinion too small to be a pool though. More like a bath. But there are a couple of really nice pools.
Almost the entire staff is so nice! We brought our daughter to the leasing office for trick-​or-​treating and they filled her bucket with candy and gave her a balloon. That made her day!
My apartment is a nice size, even has a walk-​in closet.
Maintenance always takes care of everything so quickly!
Cons:
The carpet is really cheap and starting to come up at the seams. Maintenance fixed it though very quickly.
It’s impossible to get a cell signal due to all the trees, but we got a cell booster. So all is good now.
The kitchen is so tiny. We are just living here for a short period as we relocated here for jobs. If I were to stay here much longer I would be miserable. I need a pantry. So much of my kitchen stuff is in storage because there is no cabinet space. If you don’t love cooking, then this is not going to be an issue.
The appliances are outdated. I would expect for the rent I pay that I would have better appliances.
They raise the rent quite a bit each renewal period, which is generally not a 12 month lease.
They are starting to greatly increase the rates, I think it’s because of the Braves stadium going in down the road. I know of a couple people who will not be renewing their lease due to increased rates.
The paint is really cheap and there is so much wall paper.
For what we needed– a short term place until we sold our house and saved money for down payment on a new house– this place really is perfect. I wouldn’t be able to make this my long-​term home though.

I have been living here for the past one year, and am truly sorry that I will have to be leaving (due to work)! My next apartment community has some very big expectations to live up to. My apartment was located in «The Meadows» on the 2^nd floor.
Pros:
1. The staff here is amazing. I cannot say enough about Kristina, Jomeka, and Donna, who have always done their best to listen and help me with anything and everything. They make it a personal goal to make everyone’s stay here as comfortable as possible! They are still working hard to help me, even though I am leaving in a few short weeks. The leasing/​resident services center is always very warm and welcoming. They have played a huge part in my enjoyable stay here at The Village.
2. The grounds are so green and beautiful, I feel like I’m on a vacation in the tropics. I have a gorgeous view of the trees right outside my window. The walking trail is breathtaking, and I find it hard to believe that someone could actually resist signing a lease after seeing it.
3. I have always felt safe in this community, which is a big plus. Aside from the key-​card access at the front gate, there are security vehicles that cruise around at night. Visitors have their license plate numbers written and ID checked before entering (I think).
4. Rent is rather reasonable, and compares well to other communities in the area, including smaller less-​maintained buildings and complexes.
5. The location is brilliant. Everything you could need is within a 5 mile radius. What isn’t nearby is easily accessible, since the 75 and 285 are 1 mile away.
6. There are multiple pools, and 2 gyms. The larger gym actually has a sauna!
7. Maintenance requests are simple, and taken care of promptly.
8. The floor plans are efficiently designed.
Cons:
1. The floors/​ceilings are thin, so I can hear everything going on upstairs. The previous tenant used to do jumping jacks or something, and I could count each rep.
2. Lots of greenery and humidity means ginormous insects everywhere. In my first week here, I learned that opening the balcony door was a terrible idea. Of course, the greenery also means we get to see lightning bugs during the Summer months, which is awesome!
3. The laundry machines are smallish, and tend to break down. The laundry centers are maintained by another company, and they are not always prompt about fixing issues. However, there are so many laundry centers in the community, that finding an available machine is never an issue.
4. The paint and counter top quality is not very good. The paint job itself is poorly done. Everything leaves marks and stains. This didn’t bother me, since I knew I was a temporary tenant. For someone living long term, though, this might be an issue.
Honestly, the pros most definitely outweigh the cons in this community, and I will miss living here!

I have lived at The Village at Lake Park for the past five years and will try to outline my experience as unbiasedly as possible:
The first apartment I moved into was a ground floor apartment in The Fountains. The first day I moved in and opened one of the cabinets, 30+ roaches were running around. It seemed to be contained to this cabinet only. I immediately notified the leasing office and they took the situation very seriously. They advised it would take about 3 weeks to get this one totally roach free and as a result, offered me another unit that would be available the next day. For the one night before I could move in there, they put me up in a hotel, which I thought was very considerate and professional of them.
The next unit I lived in was on the second floor of The Gardens. This unit had some old and outdated flooring, compared to my first unit. I asked them to replace it and they did the same day. I was very pleased with this as well. I was in this unit for 2 years and left because of annoying and nosy neighbors. I received noise violations all the time because the idiot underneath me accused me of «stomping on the floor all night.» The neighbor beside me was a nosy, old grumpy man. When I left this unit, I had to pay about $ 300 in damages to replace carpet, repaint 1 wall and some other misc things. They are quite picky on the walkthrough.
The next unit I moved into was located on the ground floor in The Meadows. I have lived here for 3 years now and really have no complaints, specific to the unit. The apartment is quite nice and I am only moving because I cannot deal with the poor management company that operates this complex. The service has totally tanked.
When I first moved here the property was managed by JPI and I had absolutely no problems with them. Once I was even locked out on my balcony because the sliding glass door locked when I closed it and had to call a locksmith. It was very expensive ($ 500+) because the security deadbolt was also locked on the front door and it’s not even visible to the outside. The property manager at the time, Sue, I believe was her name — was very nice about it and offered to cover a portion of the expenses.
The apartment is now managed by Greystar and I really can’t say anything good about them. There are always new people in the office now and the current property manager couldn’t care less about the tenants. Since Greystar has taken over, rent here has skyrocketed. I have been threatening to leave each year and this time I am definitely out of here. For my lease renewal, my rent will be increased by $ 85. To me, it is so disrespectful to treat a tenant who has been here as long as I have so poorly. Talk to your friends in other nearby complexes and they will tell you when their leases renew their rent doesn’t even go up, in fact one person I know even gets a month free each year. Greystar couldn’t care less about the tenants here — all they want to do is move us out and bring in new people to pay even higher, ridiculous prices. I don’t fault them for wanting to make money but it is upsetting potentially long-​term tenants are forced out due to these price increases.
Also, if you take a look at the reviews you will notice 50+ positive reviews written in June. It is quite obvious these reviews are fake and they didn’t even do a good job trying to hide it. If you read them there are many consistencies in the style of writing as well. They have been on here for years but a little less than ¼ were written all in one month… hmm strange. When I confronted the office about this, the reviews stopped so I would ignore any review in June.
My review here really is not to discourage anyone from renting here. I chose no that I would not refer someone here based on their lack of respect for tenants and the audacity to write these fake reviews. If this matters to you, then you may not want to rent here; however, this will not bother a lot of people. Some people expect these insane price increases and if you do, it won’t be a bad spot. For those people, I will include some specific positive notes below:
— The community is extremely well lit. We sometimes get letters saying a car has been broken into but this has never happened to me and I feel very safe being outside at night.
— The ²⁴⁄₇ guard at the gate is also a plus. In the past they have been quite incompetent but I have seen a lot of improvement here.
— Aside from my first incident, the bugs here are not bad. There may be the occasional roach, spider, or centipede but that’s to be expected in a place like this. I am really surprised especially being on the first floor that I don’t have an issue with this. Also, the new pest control company is very good and there is a barrier around the entire community once a week or once a month I believe. In any case, if I do find a roach, they are usually already dead — which I assume is from the barrier.

They have spacious apartment homes at a great price. There is also 7 pools in the complex, a 11 000 sq ft. gym, and a valet dry cleaning service. There is plenty of tree cover which really helps with the shading and the bills on the low end. Got an excellent deal on the apartment I was in so I give it a 4 out of 5 with the only thing being bad is sometimes spotty cell signal.

I lived in Village at Lake Park for 3 years before I’d had enough and moved. It used to be a Post property, but they were sold 5 or 6 years ago. I was happy with the property management group running the place for the first 2 years I lived there. Then a different company took over and things went downhill. A big reason I chose this complex when I moved to Atlanta was because it’s in a nature reserve and was beautifully landscaped. It was relaxing to me. The old property management company had the landscaping crew out there working on something every week. The hedges around the buildings were trimmed, flower beds were weeded, grass was cut and edged, and stray trash was cleaned up regularly. However, when the new management company came in that all changed. I don’t think the landscapers ever made it past the main road leading to, and the area around the leasing office. In other words, the areas potential leasors saw was kept up. The areas the current residents lived in was not. I had a neighbor with a teenaged son who consistently sat in his car in front of my apartment blasting his hip-​hop music for hours in the late afternoons /​early evenings. I complained to the security staff because the bass from the stereo was VERY distracting when I was trying to study (I was in grad school at the time) but they kept telling me they couldn’t do anything about it unless they caught him in the act. They may have been able to do that if they bothered coming out when I called. It was always an hour or more after I’d called before I ever saw the security car come by, if they came out at all. Very frustrating!
I understand that it’s typical for lease rates to increase every year for current residents, but the final straw was when I found out that new residents were paying over $ 250/​month LESS that what I was being charged for the SAME floor plan. WTH? Obviously they care less about retaining current residents than bringing in new ones. Sad. I’ll never live there again.

Talk about not getting what you pay for. I don’t know if these are still owned by Post, but they used to be and Post apartments are small, you’re just paying for the name. If they are under new ownership, the prices may have come down, I don’t know. But I do know when I was apartment hunting I was not impressed at all by the floorplans. And since I wasn’t going to be ready for a few months, the leasing agent didn’t even take me to see an actual model. BUT I have been inside before and just like the floorplans… SMALL!

7 Swimming pools, excellently shaded apartments. It keeps my bill down so I am a fan. I got a really good deal on a 2/​2, so the price is fair too.

I like the Village. I’m lucky to have one of the huge two bedrooms for a good price. Unfortunately they need upgrading and after asking they won’t disappointing

For the price, this place is great. My husband and I pay around $ 750 for a two bedroom, 1100 square foot apartment. The complex’s security system can be a little annoying, but it makes me feel better knowing that there is some kind of deterrence for intruders.
The complex is huge. There is a nature preserve/​jogging trail that is pretty nice. I have a hyper dalmatian so being able to take her on long walks away from heavy traffic is amazing. The location is great, there are a lot of stores, restaurants, etc REALLY close to the complex.
The only complaint I have is that there are some bugs. I keep the apartment really clean, but occasionally we catch and kill spiders and small roaches. Bugs really gross me out but you can call the complex exterminator and he’ll spray around your windows free of charge whenever you want.
It’s a nice place to live and is great if you have a pet. The only reason I didn’t give it four stars is because of the bug problem. But I can’t say I’m all that surprised about the bugs when the complex is surrounded by trees and we live on the outskirts of the complex.

Convenient to most things. Nicely landscaped. Decent amenities. Aggravating access into the community during early evenings due to traffic. Can be noisy with air traffic into Dobbins ARB.
It is in a rather convenient location with relatively quick access to 285 and 75. Smyrna Market Village is a couple miles away. Midtown is reachable in about 15 minutes with light traffic; Marietta Square in about 10 minutes. It was handy having Target less than a mile away. Aldi and an International Market are handy however, the usual big name grocery stores were inconvenient (either the Pickup Publix in Vinings or the dumpy Kroger south of the Galleria on Cobb Pkwy).
The apartment community is huge but is pretty nice: lots of pools and tennis courts, a hiking trail, lots of trees and pretty nicely landscaped. The apartments are OK: a little dated but clean, straight and everything functioned fine, repair requests were handled quickly. The gated entrance gets backed up in the early evenings with guests coming in and can delay entry for residents. I found this particularly frustrating. Also, be aware, the complex is in the landing pattern of Dobbins ARB.
While I was there, they advertised referral bonuses of between $ 300 and $ 500. I don’t know why it varied. I took advantage of it when a friend of a friend was looking for an apartment and I split the $ 500 referral bonus with her. If interested in this place, I recommend poking around (on Unilocal,with friends) to see if you could find someone who lives there.
One thing that I thought was odd was the renewal lease rates. I expected the rates to be consistently cheaper for longer terms. However, this was not always the case. As an example, a 8 month lease could be cheaper than a 9 month lease. Typically the differences in rates were around $ 20 /​month but were sometimes more. Also, this phenomenon was not consistent (ie, linear with term). Go figure. I think it had to do with peaks and lulls in occupancy whenever the lease was coming up for renewal. Also, the lease renewal letter I received provided only 3 lease terms (e.g. 6, 9, 12 months) but after talking with the management staff, it seemed nearly any term was available, just not listed. So, considering the inconsistent lease rates, it seemed beneficial to talk to the Management staff when renewing the lease.
All in all, considering the apartment complex was relatively convenient to most things; rates seemed competitve; pretty decent amenities, I give the place 3 ½ stars but round down to 3 because of the aggravation dealing with entry to the community during peak times and noise from air traffic.