West Inman Lofts

We have lived here for about 6 months now and really love the location. You can walk to Krog Street Market, the Beltline and more. Management is very nice and are really trying to improve the quality of living. Maintenance is always quick to respond. Considering there are only 2 guys for the entire property… they really do a great job of keeping everything clean and are currently refreshing the paint in the common areas. Pool in the summer is great… again the maintenance team do a really good job of keeping the area and water clean and inviting. I would totally recommend this place. Very affordable for the area as well.

Honestly, the management alone can keep me here forever. They tend to any need one can have. Every day, I see them trying to improve the quality of living here. As for the apartment itself, I love the view, I love being able to go on a safe, 5 minute walk to a comedy improv show, the bars, the Atlanta Beltline, and/​or an artful food market from just one location. The neighbors are great, my pup loves the rooftop doggy park, and I can get food delivery from so many yummy places. I hit the jackpot when I moved in. Thanks West Inman Lofts!

I lived at Montage Old Fourth Ward now West Inman Lofts for two years and can only say positive things about my experience. I only left because I moved out of state to go back to graduate school. The floor plans are great with open space, natural light and updated appliances (stainless steel and granite counter tops). Management did turn over a few times while I lived there, but the current company staff are polite and helpful. I highly recommend moving here! I have lived in the highland and other parts of Inman Park for 9 years and this has been my favorite apartment. My car and apartment was broken into at other locations but NEVER HERE. I was on the second floor looking at the train… which I happened to love. Character to city living. Also, with the Beltline development, this spot will be highly sought after soon. I say get in while you can!

I have lived at The Montage for going on four years. I have never had any complaints against me and I have always paid my rent on time. It has been a mix of good and nightmarish. Good because I LOVE the location and the rent is not bad. Nightmarish because well let me list the reasons:
1. there have been 3 or 4 different management companies since I’ve lived here– one only slightly better or worse than the next. Always promise changes and not much happens.
2. The halls smell like a lovely combination of garbage and weed.
3. My apartment was broken in to as well as several on my floor that same day and all the manager said was «you live downtown, what do you expect?» It was 4 days before they replaced the broken door jam/​lock.
4. A gun was waived in my boyfriend’s face when he was getting on the elevator.
5. Someone had a shotgun waived at them in the parking deck.
6. My air conditioning/​heating goes on the fritz often. The first summer I lived here I had 13 «repairs» made and none of them actually fully repaired the unit.
7. The fire alarms go off loud and often and for hours for seemingly no reason in the middle of the night.
8. A sprinkler burst in the beginning of Jan (that 7 degree night). It flooded and rained in my apartment for 24 hours. My living room furniture was destroyed as well as other belongings. I was told I had to evacuate because they needed to do repairs. It took 5 days for them to get dehumidifiers and fans in there. I was told two weeks for renovations. Then I was told two more weeks because they are gutting the place due to severe damage. I was also told I still had to pay rent. I paid it. On time. As always. I was kind and understanding and patient. Things happen out of our control all the time. What’s the point in not being kind? I looked on the bright side– new carpeting– yay! Then I was told the apartment won’t be ready until mid February. I was told I was not allowed out of my lease. Then I was told the end of February. Luckily I am currently staying with friends. Cause my friends rule in a major way.
Then I was told they couldn’t give me a real time frame. Then I was told that CORPORATE (Woodward management partners) terminated everyone’s leases whose apartments were damaged due to the sprinkler issue. They did this without conversation. Without warning. Without agreement. Just because they can. I was told that if I chose to move back in to my apartment once the renovations are complete I could do so, upon signing a new lease at an increased rental rate. Possibly «sky rocketed» due to upgrades and the beltline. So I’m homeless for now (or I would be if my friends weren’t amazing) and the corporate slugs only care about how they can take other people’s misfortune and make a big fat profit. Big surprise.
I’d think more than twice about moving here. I could say more but I think I’ve said plenty already. I hope this helps someone make a decision.

I have been at Montage old fourth Ward for 2 years now (also when previously 626 Dekalb) and have experienced three different types of management. While I will say that overall I have had no concerns with break ins in my unit or car, I have heard about different occurences through out the complex. Also you will see lots of cameras but none of them work.
While I can’t understand why we continue to have a different management every other year, I will say that the current management is the worst thus far.
The last management team (Scott and Kevin) as well as maintanence staff would answer right away when it came to any issues or concerns. You would always see the maintanence staff cleaning and keeping the complex looking very clean and welcoming. And more importantly maintaining the dog park area which can start to smell due to artifical grass and urine mix, plus residents not cleaning up dog crap. And while I know that there are residents that do not properly clean after their dogs or dispose of their trash, me and my boyfriend watched the «poop disposal bin» overflow to the point where the only choice was to leave the «poop bags» on the floor piling up surrounding the trash. Mind you, this trash is placed in the park where the dogs play and the smell became unbearable. This lasted for a week until. This has become a frequent problem with new management while with old, atleast the trash was taken out every monday.
The parking garage has trash, furniture, blankets, and whatever else all over the grounds and the trash chute areas smell like crap. With last management, you actively saw the maintenance crew cleaning common areas and there was never any concerns about the smells. The fire alarm has gone off more in the last month or two than it has in the 2 years ive lived here.
It just sucks that all the nice renovations that were done to the Complex are not being kept up by new management who will «smile» at you when you make complaints and requests but will take literally weeks to fix. And the corporate office of this new management could also give two shits about complaints. And to add insult to injury, prices have gone up (because «new» market value has increased)
Overall, the complex is nice but new management is not doing a good job with the up keep of the complex. (They have been here now almost 2 months.) And good luck with getting any maintanence requests done. The controlled access gate (one leaving out the complex) is always broken and expect on friday and sat nights when the night club is open, there will be people driving in through that gate to park inside the garage.
Units are spacious and upgraded kitchens are a plus. But for the price they are charging now… not worth it.

Maja and Jerrico have been very helpful with getting us settled here at 626. The usual issues are here, residents not properly disposing of their trash and the car gate either being open or people following you in really closely.
Beyond those things, the apartments are nice, clean and don’t appear to have been abused. More to come once I’ve lived here longer…

Kudos to Jerrico, Kimberly, and Melissa! I can’t say enough about them and all that they did to make our move in as smooth as possible.
We viewed the apartments 3 months before we planned to move and then being as fickle as I am, decided that we wanted a different floor plan a very short time before moving in. They worked with us to get it all set up a matter of days before our scheduled move in. This place is GREAT, (especially considering that we were paying an arm and a leg to live in a small old apartment in the Highlands for the past 2 years).
Granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, upgraded lighting, TONS of kitchen cabinets, full sized washer & dryer, garden tub, huge open living space, walk-​in closet, balcony, pool, game room, gym, media room, secured parking deck, elevators… the walls are pretty thick, the only noise that I can really hear is a little bit of the upstairs neighbor walking around, but no noise from the neighbors on either side or outside…
Really, we’ve been nothing but happy since moving here. We had a few things that needed to be fixed and were taken care of really quickly.
The neighborhood is awesome and close to a ton of Atlanta’s goodness.

These people (Kimberly especially) are rockstars! Kimberly talked with us on 3 different occasions when we dropped in on her. She answered every single question we had. If she didn’t know the answer, she emailed or called me once she found out. We seriously spent an hour (maybe longer) with this girl on the second visit.
These apartments are some of the nicest apartments I’ve seen. I never really understood the term luxury apartments until I walked around here. Beautiful granite countertops in every kitchen, gorgeous mahogany wood cabinets, and some of the largest walk in closets I’ve ever seen. Their floor plans are really nice.
They have a game room with a pool table and air hockey. The have a movie theatre room with plush leather chairs set up stadium seating style. They have a beautiful pool and a decent sized gym. There’s a business center there with free wifi and printers to use whenever you need/​want them.
If you have things you don’t think you want to display or just don’t know where to put it… they have storage: small, medium, and large. When we were looking they were on special for $ 35/​month no matter what size. And Kimberly said that is that what was holding us back, she’d give us 6 months of storage for free. See? Rockstar.
The only bad thing I have to say is that it’s right next to CSX railroad tracks. I know they blare their horn every single night because I can hear it at my house (if I’m awake) a little over a mile away.
So, if you’re looking for a luxury apartment and don’t mind spending moderate, to pricey, rate — live here.
And no, we don’t live there. Couldn’t convince the other half to live in an apartment. Some people are apartment people, some aren’t. She’s just not. =/​
PS… don’t trust their prices online. When we talked to Kimberly I had looked at the Inman (most expensive 2 bed) online and it was saying 1400ish and she told us that it was actually 1320. So, check with them before you say no!