My husband and I were new to the Ghent area when we moved into Metro on Granby. The location is fantastic, and Jacob in the front office is absolutely wonderful. We moved into the 411 building which is older, but had bigger floor plans. We had a "1 bedroom loft", but it was essentially a studio apartment with partial walls around the bedroom. Everything was great until our first weekend there. Granby Theater plays loud house music(lots of bass) late into the morning every weekend(one night it
...went until past 4AM). I'm fine with noise, and I expected noise being in the city-I did not expect music so loud and so full of bass that it would make the glasses in our cabinets vibrate.
The building itself is supposed to be secured with key fob entry. At one point our key fobs stopped working all together... Several times we went to leave the building and when we pushed the handle on the door to open it, it wouldn't budge. I mean wouldn't budge at all - it was like pushing on a wall. After they "fixed it", the door stopped closing completely.
On the topic of security: on New Year's Eve, we had someone come through our hallway at about 4 in the morning and rip the wreath off of our front door and smash it on the ground before running off. When my husband alerted the front office and asked if they could review the security cameras in the hallway to see what happened/who had demolished our wreath, he was told they don't have access to the cameras. It was just a wreath - we weren't going to get the police involved so we just let it drop. Then a few months later we were both woken up at about 5-6 in the morning by a fight happening in the hallway. A man and a woman were loudly arguing and moving up and down the hallway. The woman started yelling at the man to get off of her and yelling for someone to get her gun. We called the cops immediately. We both felt uncomfortable even walking into the hallway, so we weren't able to get the best look at the two in the hall. We were, however, able to hear everything clearly to relay to the police. When the police showed up, they had to call us back to get us to come down and let them into the building! Luckily for us, the people had left the hallway and it was safe to go out there. Had it still been going on, neither my husband nor I would have felt comfortable going outside to let the police into our building...
Overall while Metro was in a great location, I couldn't recommend it to anyone after our experience.
Closet.