Declining building & waste of great amenities
August 13, 2023 - Review from Apartments.com
Don't fall for their 1 month free deal. They will up charge you an additional rent increase at 10% the following year. Many tenants are moving out when in two years the rent had increased $300-400 for the same unit and no updates. No updates whatsoever. Yes amenities are nice but the tenants are not protected in this complex or in Rahway. It's truly a cash cow for developers when you pay additional amenities fee, the common areas and hallways don't even have AC on during 91F heat. Why is it ...
80-86F indoors?!
The design and visual appearance of the building is great but sadly new management and a decline in building maintenance really lessen the value here. There's a glorious pool and there's sediment visible in murky water of the pool. Hair, dead skin cells, chunks of dust, dirt, all are a coating on the water, etc. There's a ton of film on the pool. The pool is gray and speckled and if someone is trustworthy they'll assume cleanliness. Sadly, I've stayed and worked highend buildings and Meridia it's alot shortcuts that delete quality experiences and furnishings. The volume that the pool gets used and to not see one cleaner, one pool vacuum or cleaning device is pretty disgusting.
They waited until end of July to turn on the AC in the basic shared lounges and at 85-90f some hallways are truly steamy.
Multiple packages get stolen or misplaced. My neighbors has had packages broken into and another who's package was thrown away /stolen that was over $140 with of medical materials.
Previous management were more engaging and in the hallways and super friendly. New management is hardly seen or giving tours but pretty stand off-ish.
All of this with frequent 10% rent increase (200$+ increase per lease) and that's why people are moving out. If the building's gorgeous amenities were updated properly with the additional fee and if management cared about tenants even at basic communication level, they wouldn't have so many people move out. It's sad because I loved first living here and the quality is just not at the same par. Great things though - less fire alarms, additional parking, and a dog park, (via previous management) so that's a vast improvement.
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