Just a disaster…
Absolutely awful management.
1. I moved out before Pillar Properties took over, and they still tried to get me to pay rent for the upcoming month when I no longer lived there.
2. Without notifying any current tenants first, they started serious renovations with the front courtyard and landscaping, ripping out all the trees/plants: people were woken up to the sound of chain saws at 8am to learn of such renovations.
3. The construction going on with renovations to the building now seems to be causing more issues, such as damaging multiple units that tenants currently occupy.
4. They also hit a water line during their construction, causing the entire building to lose water… (however they only admitted to this verbally, the email they sent out to current tenants said something entirely different)
5. While the previous management took the building’s trash bins to the sidewalk every week, Pillar claims this is not their responsibility and have allowed the trash to accumulate into massive piles behind the building. Current tenants have had to resort to throwing their trash into the construction dumpster on site.
6. Finally, what breaks my heart the most is the lack of empathy for their tenants. This is some of the last affordable housing in the Piedmont/Midtown area, but Pillar seems to only care about “sprucing it up” and charging what current tenants pay for a 2 BR unit for their newly renovated 1 BR units.
This type of gentrification is such a sad thing to witness. Their lack of organization, communication, responsibility and overall humanity is hard to believe, yet impossible to ignore. It truly is heart breaking to see such a beautiful property taken over by such heartless developers.