Eclipse On Broad

This is the worst place to live in Athens. Definitely not worth the 700+ dollars a month when there are plenty of other nice and well-​run apartment complexes downtown for the same price or cheaper. My roommates and I encountered some of the most absurd problems here:
1. Coming back from Christmas break to a cardboard box covering the outside door– rendering the security system completely worthless. The door wasn’t fixed for weeks, and management put a sign on the cardboard that said «Do not punch through door.» Sure. That’s going to keep criminals out.
2. One of our roommates going abroad for the semester and subletting her room to another girl who ended up moving away from Athens but still paying for the room. Eclipse attempting to get double paid by filling this already TECHNICALLY filled room with a 19 year old non-​student who turned out to be PREGNANT. When we brought this to Jennifer’s attention, she told us pregnant people are a protected class. We’re 25 year old law students. That law doesn’t apply in this situation.
3. One of our roommates’ shower broke during a game weekend and was leaking water. Jennifer sent «maintenance» aka her boyfriend to fix it and he didn’t fix it but actually busted the tile up in the shower.
4. Every problem brought to Jennifer is completely not her problem. She shirks her responsibilities as the manager and claims everything is «out of [my] hands.»
5. The apartment was SO LOUD. The bottom floor apartments have a garage door that opens up on the outside wall and they would have loud parties with the garage doors open– sometimes at 7 pm on weekdays. Sometimes at 4 am on Sundays. When this was brought to Jennifer’s attention, she did nothing about it but said we should expect it since we live in a student complex.
6. We had no one to complain to security-​wise or noise-​wise. We had one «security officer» who never answered the phone. If you left a voicemail, he would call back two hours later. If there was an actual emergency, you’d be dead before he got back to you. You basically have to call the cops for any emergency or noise issue.
7. The fifth floor apartments have 20 foot ceilings and no less than 8 smoke detectors in them. They put the smoke detectors at the very top of the walls adjacent to the ceilings, making it impossible for residents to change the batteries or turn the detectors off if they go off for no reason– even with a tall ladder. We complained once about the smoke detectors needing new batteries, they came to change them and discovered they didn’t have a ladder long enough to reach them. It happened a second time and they said they’d come fix the problem. They never came. We never got the problem fixed and when they went off one time, it took the fire department showing up with trucks and sirens to get them shut off.
8. There’s no parking. You can’t have visitors. They’ll be towed.
9. The facilities are constantly disgusting because they don’t have a cleaning crew and animals live there. Any flyer that’s put up is torn down. Beer cans everywhere. I’ve seen cereal split on the floor as well as an entire bag of pasta. Nothing is cleaned for weeks on end. On my last day living there, there was throw up in the only elevator.
10. After FINALLY moving out, I got charged 50 dollars for a mysterious «bag of trash.» They charged absurd amounts for nicks and scrapes on their cheap, cheap furniture. Even though they cleaned nothing and did nothing to fix the apartment for the next residents, they charged an absurd amount for cleaning and a paint job (with the cheapest possible paint you can buy. The kind that scrapes off if you touch it) and I ended up having none of my security deposit left even though we left the apartment in good condition, nothing but standard wear and tear.
In short, do NOT LIVE HERE. The management and staff is bottom of the barrel, irresponsible, and flat out not very smart or friendly. They do nothing. They might as well not even come to work because they contribute nothing to the running of the property. Go elsewhere!