Ford Factory Square Apts

I wish I could give zero stars, purely because management, specifically Lindsay (surprise surprise), is the worst person in a «professional» setting I have ever dealt with.
She will try to screw you over and she will try to do so illegally. Then she will deny you access to anyone above her to file a complaint … Luckily the internet is a weapon that’s incredibly easy to use.
The apartments are owned by D.E.L. Development and the area manager for this building is Kenna Rominger. (
) — don’t bother complaining to Lindsay about legal matters. Send your complaints straight to D.E.L.
Aside from management this building is in an amazing location and the people that live there, while sometimes loud, are actually really awesome people. But management alone is enough to make this apartment an unbearable place to live.

This is an honest review. To the new owner of unit 108, and future tenants of Ford Factory Lofts.
I moved in September 2013. My roommate and I knew the building looks like the usual waste lining the side of Ponce de Leon, and we wanted to experience living off the iconic Atlanta skid row.
The inside atrium is beautiful. It provides a sense of connection to the city even when you’re inside. You feel the rain when its pouring, snow in the winter, and every loud concert from the Masquerade Music Park. Every crappy dubstep band and every rapper who should have never been signed.
I had the corner unit on the first floor, 108. Maybe they secured the door numbers before you moved in, they were still falling off when we moved out. The unit is super spacious. 15 foot ceilings, large factory windows for the air to seep in and out, leaving you with those precious $ 500 power bills. Serious, a $ 500 power bill is a good month. Try securing the windows with caulk, turning the thermostat off, whatever, you’re still paying another rent in power bills living here.
There is a yard sale in the atrium every day or two. When someone doesn’t want to throw something away they just set it by the elevator bays. One time in 10 the stuff is useful. Most of the time it’s a second dumpster, overflowing to see you every time you exit the elevator.
The smoke and Cher seep up from Model T’s downstairs. Model T’s is a great bar, good people, but you will smell every cigarette they smoke and on Sundays with Karaōke just sing along, because you ain’t going to sleep.
There is continued construction from Ponce City Market, the surrounding new apartment buildings, and them churching up the Murder Kroger parking lot. Don’t worry FFL it will always be Murder Kroger, Beltline Kroger just isn’t happening.
We had a prime view of the dumpsters from our living room window. And we also shared the living room with some friendly neighbors. A couple yellow jackets decided to move in and make a nest in the mullion of our window. 15 foot factory windows provide great amount of space to construct a giant yellow jacket colony. They didn’t even have to pay power. If you’re really trying to live here on the cheap, I suggest this way.
The units aren’t bad. They have a lot of character. The neighbors are great. The main reasons I had to leave are due to the amount in rent and power bills, and the fact that the landlord, Lindsay, is a total psycho —- [Yelp cannot print the following remark].
Of the $ 300 my roommate and I invested for our security deposit we received $ 8 back. We left on the 24^th of september and disconnected power, we weren’t going to pay any more of that mess, especially if we didn’t live there. This item alone caused a $ 100 deduction. We received another deduction for the floors, a deduction you too will receive because the black paint chips up and reveals an old concrete floor, and some purple paint from sometime, this one still confuses me. This was another $ 100. The last two deductions were for the holes we spackled, they repaint the units when you move out anyway, and the light in the first bedroom which she never fixed.
The toilets will work half the time you use them. The hot water heater is in a pantry in the kitchen, and the building is prone to leaking a metric ton of water in your living room at any given time, it happened to us and our neighbor during last February’s ice storm. Oh yeah, the laundry machines flood once a week as well, and only half of them ever work, and somehow the machines take more than the $ 1.50 they charge. An extra quarter every 10 runs.
Once again, the building is an Atlanta icon, the tenants are some of the nicest people you will ever meet, Ponce isn’t bad, but you will pay $ 500 plus in power bills and have to deal with Lindsay, who is a —- [Yelp cannot print the following remark], it’s just a fact. Lindsay if you’re reading this, hey, I hope you take that $ 292 and shove it straight up you’re — - [Yelp cannot print the following remark]

I’ve lived here about 4 months and am pretty satisfied. The construction is a little shoddy so I’ve had a few maintenance issues, but whenever I tell the management about it, they have always fixed everything within 1 or 2 days. Everyone was very helpful in helping me get moved in too. They let me park as close as I could get in the garage and even gave me a cart to help me move everything upstairs. What nice people! Rent is a little pricy, over $ 1,000 a month for a one bedroom, but I think that is a pretty typical rate for such an awesome neighborhood.
I got an interior apartment, which doesn’t have the big factory windows you see on the website. My number 1 complaint is probably the lack of daylight. If I had it to do over again, I’d get an exterior apartment with the big windows, though I think they cost a little more. To summarize,
Pros:
Awesome neighborhood. Walking distance or short drive from lots of awesome stuff. Backs up to the belt line and is close to lots of really cool bars and the Virginia Highlands area.
Grocery store and liquor store in your very own parking lot. Whole foods, home depot and chipotle right across the street.
Great security, and a guard who always makes sure you get your packages.
Contrary to what others have said, it’s really a very safe neighborhood. Not like it was a few years ago. Sure there’s drunks roaming around the parking lot asking for change, but they’re harmless.
High ceilings that allow for lots of good interior design ideas.
Very few kids.
Helpful staff that fix things quickly. They even have a dedicated maintenance guy who seems to know all the quirks of the building and can get things fixed right away.
Controlled entry (you have to swipe a card).
Cons:
A little noisy. There’s an outdoor atrium that echoes quite a bit, so even a little noise really carries.
Construction is a little shoddy and requires a lot of maintenance. Staff always responds to maintenance requests quickly, however.
Very little daylight on the interior apartments which is a bigger deal than you might think.
No good outdoor areas. The stairs go up to the roof, but they lock the door. The roof has a lot of potential to be a good picnic spot, but you can’t get there.
Overall, I’d recommend this place!

Amazing building and decent prices for living in such a centrally located spot. Unfortunately, Lindsey as a property manager is extremely difficult to work with.

Love the building, the tenants and the location is amazing, but beware of Lindsay. She is, by far, the worst property manager everrrrr.

Really great building. I absolutely love the location – right next to the BeltLine! I ride my bike there all the time. Great access to good bars and restaurants. However, like other reviewers have noted, I have had an exceptionally bad time dealing with the property manager, Lindsey. Steer clear of her.

After dealing with the apartment manager via e-​mail for several days and getting absolutely no help or answers and realizing there is a reason they do not have pictures of their kitchens/​bathrooms and will not provide you with an actual Sq footage number or floor plan for the particular apartment you want to rent, I will not be bothering with this place any further. Clearly the woman responsible for renting these places out doesn’t want to do her job and I’m not going to try to deal with that type of problem when I get a package or have a maintenance issue if it is not worth her while to want me to pay her a deposit to move in.
If you are thinking of moving in, you should know that none of the utilities are covered, and you pay extra for parking, so add another at least $ 120 to your monthly bill… then include electricity, cable, internet that you would normally have to pay.

After calling the rental office for 2 weeks to get some information I finally decided to just drive over there… The Manager was very short, which considering this is the SOUTH I would say she was RUDE.
On asking for pricing she wrote 2 numbers down, didn’t bother to explain what the difference was, what the amenities of the building, parking situation, features, etc…
When I asked to view the property she said i would have to make an appointment to come back…
She offered no pleasantries, no niceties, or any information. Clearly I am not the only one who has had this experience from the reviews on other apartment reviewing web sites. This place will always have vacancies if they have a manager like that around.
This is a great location, the units that I have seen are nice, and they are priced well. Clearly, it is because of management that they don’t have 100% full.
After they fire her I ll probably go back and look at a unit.

I enjoy living at Ford Factory.
Pros:
David the security guy is awesome and friendly.
One of the best deals in the area.
You can be loud and the neighbors are all pretty cool people.
The courtyard is pretty nice.
Walking distance to so many places.
Beltline trail right behind the building.
Cons:
No gym or pool.
Sometimes parking is a joke on nights when MJQ is packed.
Can be a little noisy at times.

I know my review in stark contrast to the only other review is going to confuse some people. Perhaps the place was not in good shape 2 years ago but it was honestly the best apartment comlpex I’ve ever lived in over the years, especially in Atlanta. I was sad to leave honestly.
The pros are that I had a 2 bedroom 1 bath on Ponce in Midtown for under $ 850 a month. That was impossible to find of a non-​privately owned complex.
The place is literally in walking distance of TONS of places you want to be like the Whole Foods shopping complex, Eats, Eagle, Masquerade, Cleremont Lounge, MJQ, Bookhouse Pub, the Local and the Plaza and Little 5 is only a mile away. Cameli’s is right downstairs so you can eat the best pizza you’ve ever had or drink at their bar in your pajamas if you want (which I did).
The money I’ve saved on cabs and the dignity saved from having to get friends to drive me home drunk all the time was alone worth the 14 month lease. The office staff is incredibly helpful and everything that was ever broke was fixed immediately. During the week they have a security guard named David who is awesome. He is so good at his job — from seeing you enter the parking lot at night and making sure you pick up your packages on the way in to keeping the drunks in line and out of the building. Plus he’s way more awesome to talk to when you get home at 3am then homeless gay people.
The cons are plentiful too at this place but you have to decide of course what you’re willing to sacrifice for a great location. I never used the beautiful courtyard they’ve fixed up because it’s where everyone goes on the inside apartments to smoke (which I hate more than anything), so since it’s only open at the roof the whole courtyard smells faintly like a bar even if only one person is smoking. Noise also echos badly in the courtyard so when people gather outside (as one apartment had a party well past 2am when I had a midterm at 8am the next day) you’re going to hear it loud and clear from your bedroom window. That includes the crazy second floor tenant who I swore the first time I saw him was a homeless dude who got in because he was smoking pot and singing Linkin Park at the top of his lungs like a lunatic on a daily basis near the end of my lease.
The worst part of living right on Ponce in the same parking lot as «Murder Kroger» is the countless homeless drunks who are constantly following you asking you for change or food at night. Once I sat in my car eating some fast food while in a hurry to get to work and had a guy knock on my window throughout the entire meal, not taking a hint. While eating on the patio at Cameli’s one afternoon, people came by and went through the garbage looking for food. I never felt safe at night in the parking lot, regardless of the security they have outside most of the time.
If you work nights like I do and come home after 10pm any time between Wed — Sun you will NOT find parking either in the shopping center or the Kroger lot. I had to park 5 rows deep in the back of the lot every night because people park there for MJQ and Drunken Unicorn every night until they close at 2am and get away with it.
Overall it was a delightful place to live. Mostly hipsters in the building, no kids, walking distance of the places I go to most frequently, great price, great staff and inexpensive. Ultimately I left because I was tired of living on the doorstep of the underbelly of Midtown and would rather live in a nice yuppie area with a pool and gated parking lot and drive 5 minutes to my favorite places instead.

My experience wasn’t nearly as bad as Jeff G’s, but the bottom line is this place is not worth the money. Yeah it’s great to be able to walk to MJQ and the Local. Live somewhere cheaper and take a cab. Also the maintenance man stole my iShuffle when he was painting over the mold on my walls from when a bathroom pipe burst (twice). I’ll take that more as a lesson in «old lofts are, in fact, old.»
I miss Camelli’s, but not my overpriced, biannually flooded apartment.

This was the worst place I’ve lived, in all of my life.
Truly, I have better things to do than gripe about apartments, because after all, it’s an apartment. I believe you should go into an apartment understanding that’s just what it is, rather than bitching about noisy neighbors or stairs on ratings sites six months after you move in.
Back to the factory, I moved out of there in 2004. When I moved in, of course, I was deceived by the coolness of it. Renovated factory… giant atrium inside… loft with gigantic ceilings… Nevermind that.
The management sucked a fuck. I’m talking, literally. Try getting a UPS package and finding the office manager blowing some dude.
My neighbor for six months was a hardcore drug dealer with no job. I could care, only it was shady coming home to some fiend waiting next to their door and/​or trying to look into my «peep hole». I complained about her for months, and she was finally evicted… not after someone in her apartment was thrown out a window, not after a gun was fired in her apartment… but when she was jailed on a warrant and was unable to pay rent.
The garage parking was a joke, not worth the money unless you want someone taking your assigned position after dealing with an hour of Atlanta traffic and the gate crashing into your car from time to time.
The beautiful atrium… The deck collapsed while I was a resident, and stayed collapsed for a month. Extremely hazardous.
Beyond everything sucking as much as it could possibly suck, especially the dated amenities in your loft unit, I did have loads of adventure while I was a resident. Sometimes, I’d just go outside at night and watch how fucked up Ponce culture is. The drunks, the druggies, Killer Kroger, the homeless, the girls who would squat a piss coming out of MJQ, and the amateur gay porn that was regularly filmed on the roof. I’ve missed that.
I finally moved out of the Ford Factory lofts… They’d lost a rent check a month before my last month there and I went through high hell dealing with that. Then they lost my last rent check which was for two months, as I’d already found and moved into a new place. I only found this out by going back to my old «loft» to clean it up and finding a court order for not paying rent.
I saw them in court… at least their «lawyer.» They didn’t stand a chance.
Beware, I doubt that crack house has changed much, if at all.