If a landlord won’t let you see the apartment before you rent it, there’s probably a reason why. Kemyia McGhee said she learned that lesson the hard way last month when she discovered the place she had just signed a year-long lease for was crawling with bugs, covered in grime and had a busted window. “The roaches greeted us at the door,” she said. “It was horrible. Everything was dirty or .
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution created this searchable list of the most persistently dangerous apartment complexes in the Atlanta metro area in recent years and provides the reasons that each complex puts residents at risk. The AJC examined records from dozens of government agencies in order to produce the list of 275 complexes, as part of the Dangerous Dwellings series.