A Deeply Disappointing Experience with Ashton Woods-Eastlyn Crossing, GA & HOA Access Management Group
A Deeply Disappointing Experience at Eastlyn Crossing by Ashton Woods, Flowery Branch, GA
If you’re considering buying a home in Eastlyn Crossing in Flowery Branch, GA, I strongly urge you to think twice. What should have been a peaceful, hardworking community has turned into a place where the priorities feel completely upside down.
This is a working‑class neighborhood—people here earn their living through real jobs, real hours, and real effort. Yet the HOA, Access Management Group, backed by Ashton Woods- has a vision of “community standards,” that has decided a homeowner’s work truck with a company logo is somehow an eyesore worthy of towing and Heather Martin from Access Management group has made multiple threats of towing the car straight out of my driveway. This is the same truck that gets me to and from work every day, but apparently that’s unacceptable.
Meanwhile, my next‑door neighbors—police officers—have two patrol cars parked in their driveway daily, and that’s perfectly fine. So let me get this straight: official government vehicles are acceptable, but a regular resident’s work vehicle is not? The double standard is astonishing.
And this is happening in a community where homes cost around over $500,000. Half a million dollars to be treated like a problem for simply having a job that requires a logo on a truck. It’s shameful.
What makes this even more absurd is what is allowed. The neighborhood is filling up with rental properties, and the issues coming from those homes are far more disruptive than any work truck could ever be. One renter has already been arrested for domestic violence. Another home is packed with multiple families—over a dozen people living under one roof. But somehow, my work vehicle is the threat to “community appearance.”
It’s hard to understand how Ashton Woods and the HOA Access Management Group can look at these situations and decide that the real problem is a truck in a driveway.
Eastlyn Crossing had potential, but the priorities here are completely misplaced. Instead of supporting the people who actually bought into this community, the rules are being enforced in ways that feel arbitrary, unfair, and disconnected from reality.
If you’re thinking about buying here, be prepared: the house may be nice, but the experience of living here may be anything but.