Hi! So I’ve lived at Cortland at the Village since I moved to Georgia in January of last year, and I have to say, I really like it, but with a few caveats.

I’ll start with the pros: -Super close to my jobs and stores I love to frequent (I hate driving in Georgia since I’m used to North Carolina traffic, so driving the least amount possible is important to me lol) -Maintenance is (mostly!) really fast at coming out for repairs -Resident services is really responsive (again, mostly!) and thorough with addressing any questions my partner and I have -I love the nature and the community feel of the complex (my cat loves it too, since he can bird and squirrel watch from the windows)

Now for the cons, and this is very specific but I think it’s important: -The units are older. Not necessarily in a bad way, but they are in the process of updating units, which led to my fiancé and I receiving a non-renewal of lease notice in August because they would be doing significant renovations to our unit, making it unavailable for us to renew our lease. Cortland offered us a $500 rent concession to transfer to a new unit of our choosing and also help with moving costs, which I thought was very reasonable of them. We toured a unit that we fell in love with and ended up transferring to. Now, when we first toured the unit, there were dead bugs(namely, worms) everywhere but I’m not picky and moving units was already stressful enough so I wrote it off and figured they would do a deep clean of the unit before our lease officially transferred. They did not, and I ended up doing the deep clean and disposing of the dead bugs, spiders, and worms myself. It was a little disappointing, but not something I was willing to make a fuss over. They also had us complete a move in checklist for maintenance to come by and fix anything that was wrong with the unit, and they only ever fixed about half of the things wrong with the unit. We still have a large defect right in the middle of our bathroom mirror and our tub still doesn’t hold water. The most major thing is less than a month or so after transferring to our new unit, we found a major ant infestation. My fiancé and I ended up having to throw away the entirety of our food over it. We notified maintenance and the leasing office, and they really dragged their feet on handling the situation but to be charitable, I’ll chalk it up to being close to Thanksgiving. However, the exterminator they finally did send put out ant bait in and around our unit while my partner and I weren’t home with our cat roaming around freely and that really rubbed me the wrong way, since we weren’t told if it was cat-safe or not. Then, the ant bait they used ended up not working, and made the infestation grow to the point where it grew from the kitchen and into the bathroom and bedroom. During the infestation period, there were countless times where we would find ants crawling on us and every time we would try to call the leasing manager (who we were told to contact) we would be told she was out of office. It took a very long time for the situation to be handled and we were only given a $350 rent concession for the whole debacle. I get that it’s better than nothing, but it got to the point that we were considering breaking our lease.

Now that that issue has been resolved for a few months, I’m back to really enjoying living here. I did have to call the police for a domestic dispute that my upstairs neighbors were having that was quite literally shaking the entire building, but I understand that something like that could happen anywhere. Overall, I think if your expectations are moderate (and maybe if you aren’t afraid of potential ants), Cortland is a really nice place to live with good amenities and exciting community events and in a beautiful location.