I grew up in Burlington township, safe area, decent schools, good sized houses and parks. Also look into Mount Laurel, Westampton, some area of Cherry Hill and Moorestown.

Why wouldn’t you live in the Heights again?

You pay $14k in property taxes for a 2 bed apartment?? My parents pay $11k for a 2 story house! Although it is in south jersey so I guess since jersey city is more congested the taxes are higher?

Personally I don’t need it to be a luxury building. When I moved to jersey city I was short on time (new job in NYC) and the smaller apartments had issues (dead roaches on the floor, dirty/broken appliances). In NYC I wouldn’t even look for a “luxury” building since those are mostly for the wealthy. Can definitely find an apartment in NYC under $2475.

Honestly most people in my building don’t even use the amenities so luxury buildings are not worth it besides the (usually) extra space in square ft in the apartment.

Congratulations on the Wedding! 🎉

Yep! And I’m gonna write a very thorough Google review, apartments.com review and wherever else I can post a review of them because they are definitely not worth even $1900 a month in rent. My dishwasher started leaking a week after I moved in, the heater would blow cool air for about 2 months during the winter last year, etc. so many issues I can’t wait to tear their ass apart.

No they never advertised free wifi as a promotion. It was always just free wifi. Wifi is not even mentioned in the lease agreement as being a waived fee or anything. It was always something they just provided.

Lol cardboard apartments is right! I had so many problems with this apartment within the first month of me moving in that I seriously considered breaking the lease to move out.

I definitely agree with everything you said, although I didn’t move here from NYC- I moved here from south Jersey since my new job was in Manhattan. But I heard Jersey City had lots to do and was fun and had a bunch of young singles. And that the apartments were so much better than you would get in NYC (space, parking, amenities). It definitely seems like the NYC crowd moved in all over Jersey City including the West Side because even a “luxury” building down the street from me is charging $2450 for a 1 bedroom and they wouldn’t do that unless there were people that were willing to pay (probably NYCers). But at least they have a pool lol.

Wow! Are you gonna renew the lease?

So are you saying if the original lease didn’t have water and WiFi in it then the renewal can’t include them in the increase?

Would they normally advertise on Zillow/apartments.com or would it be more like on Craigslist? Or is it through word of mouth/walking the neighborhood and seeing signs to rent?

How did you find your place? I’m having a hard time finding small landlords renting 1 bedroom apartments.