We moved in back in late 2020 and have been there for over three years now. To start, the maintenance staff and front office are very friendly and helpful when you have a problem both with things that need to be fixed in your apartment and documentation you need. It also has an excellent location at the end of Budd Lake with easy access to Netcong, Hackettstown, Roxbury and Flanders, not to mention route 80. The neighbors are nice, and we've never had any problems with crime in the area. There's
...a gym and pool on site, although I haven't personally used either. People get a little daunted by the rules of the lease, but honestly, they aren't that restricting and KV leaves you alone for the most part.
There are some downsides. I've heard rent is up 50% from when we moved in for the same type of unit. A lot of the "new" appliances, like our faucets, didn't last long and started leaking within the first year. Access to laundry rooms ends at 8pm, which gets inconvenient on weeknights (this could be fixed easily with a key fob like the one on the gym door). We had a honey bee problem in our outside wall our first year that Kings couldn't do anything about because of protection laws (our neighbor at the time took matters into his own hands after the nest grew to a few hundred bees). And even though we had a good monthly rate in 2020, rent has gone up around $100 a month every year at renewal (that's about an 8-10% monthly increase every year) which is a little rough in these harder economic times.
Overall, the experience at KV has been pretty good. From what I've heard, Village Green may be a better place to look these days from a purely financial standpoint, but KV is definitely still better than Overlook.
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