Beautiful property, friendly and great staffs. I am so impressed and I'm hoping for many years here. Thank you again Carly Ortiz. She is best leasing office person. Office manager is great also. I strongly recommend this place. read more

I've rented at Avalon communities for over 7 years, and unfortunately, Avalon Teaneck has been the worst experience by far. If I could rate them 0 stars, I would. Cleanliness: Both times I changed units, the apartments were handed over in unacceptable condition. They weren't cleaned before move-in, and it took multiple complaints before anything was addressed. Maintenance: Constant issues with broken items both in the garage and in-unit, and rarely did things get properly fixed. Management & Communication: The leasing and management teams were consistently misaligned, providing me with misinformation they refused to acknowledge. Even now, Avalon won't give me a clear explanation around an "accelerated rent" situation that I've been left to deal with. Accountability: The manager, Jamal, has been unwilling to own up to the fact that his team (Niko and Patti) shared incorrect information with me. Instead of resolution, I've been met with avoidance. I have been trying to sort this out for over a month. For years I spoke highly of Avalon and recommended them to friends and co workers. After this experience, I can't in good conscience do that anymore. It's disappointing to see a company I once trusted fall so short in integrity, accountability, and customer care. Shame on Avalon Teaneck for treating long-standing residents this way. Do not rent here. read more

Last year my friend moved from a one-bedroom apartment in New Jersey, where she had lived for six years, to a two-bedroom apartment in our Avalon Teaneck building ten minutes away. The Avalon building only offered leases with durations of 1-2 years, and she signed up for a two-year lease expecting to be able to renew the lease in two years. Only after moving in, she learned from other tenants, some of whom were only given a maximum lease of 2 years, that upon renewal Avalon raises the rent for existing tenants by 25% to 30% even while empty apartments are being offered to new tenants at lower rates. Avalon also tells residents that they can "negotiate" the new terms, but then drag their feet and stonewall them, giving residents false hope and forcing them into a situation in which their lease expires and they have not yet made alternative arrangements to move out. To make things worse, Avalon further increases the racket by charging rent from residents who do find a new place but move out before the end of their lease, resulting in tenants having to pay double rent. On the flip side, when residents ask to stay another month or two on a month-to-month basis to finalize their move away, Avalon charges practically double the rent. Due to this racket, many residents have moved out after only one or two years, others moved within the building to a different apartment because new leases are cheaper than renewals, others were forced to downgrade to smaller apartments while incurring moving costs and experiencing many of the hassles of a move, and some opted to suffer the increases and remain in place despite the outrageous hikes only to avoid having to move again so soon after settling in. To add insult to injury, apartments that were vacated by abused tenants are often put back on the market by Avalon at rates that are significantly lower than the hiked rates Avalon demanded from the captive tenants as a condition for renewing their lease. The buildings and amenities are attractive but what Avalon is doing amounts to fraudulent inducement. Avalon is engaging in racket through the use of a bait-and-switch scheme to make unsuspecting apartment seekers become captive and to shortly thereafter hit them with outrageous rent increases. Avalon knows that tenants are very reluctant to have to undergo the torturous lengthy and expensive moving ordeal so soon after moving to their Avalon apartment, and the company is using this reluctance to engage in predatory practices against their residents. From conversations with residents, I noticed a common thread - every resident stated that had they been aware of this predatory racket in advance they would have never moved to the Avalon in the first place. Tenants that I spoke to moved to the building with the intention of residing in their apartment for many years and they were never warned that rents would be increased by 25%-30% when their lease would need to be renewed in 18-24 months. This means that, as my friend did, they researched a number of properties and areas, made arrangements to change their accounts and find substitute services in the area, including schooling for children, and went through the considerably disruptive hassle of packing, moving, and unpacking, a process costly in terms of time and money. If you were to subpoena the contact information of Avalon's current residents and the hundreds of thousands of former residents, you would find that most are or were victimized by Avalon's predatory read more

THIS PLACE IS MONEY-HUNGRY!!! THEY WILL DRAIN YOU OUT! They can't even fix some ongoing issues, but have the audacity to add on fees after fees for unnecessary reasons! DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!! The ONLY plus to this place is the maintenance! That's it! I am so done with the corruption here! If you decide to move here, don't even sign a one year lease if possible! FYI! Don't be fooled by the high-star rating on Google. Please read the reviews well. read more

This is a newer property which looks great visually but has some unseen downsides. 1. It's part of the Avalon system who are exceptional at creative fees, invoicing, billing, and following up to collect. However services and speed tailored to residents are lacking. 2. If you're not familiar with NJ law, there is fine print in your application stating that apartments can collect a "reservation fee" regardless of whether you sign a lease. What does this mean? If you submit an application and are approved, the clock starts ticking. If you don't move in, Avalon will charge you daily rent up until you cancel. Wait, what? Yes, that's right. No lease, no move-in, yet you're paying rent. Refer to #1. 3. Past this, the bedrooms are tiny. A king-sized bed is a squeeze. This is why I couldn't move in. 4. There are railroad tracks just behind it. Loud. 5. It's not a walkable location to really anything so you'll be driving a lot. Limited convenience. read more

Please read til the end and brace yourself. I'm sharing this as I experienced it: It was the most beautiful, modern apartment, with a great gym and lovely pool (open in summer). After a two year term, I moved out after being presented a renewal increase of over $700/mo. It just didn't make sense to stay. I asked management for a more reasonable increase and was told there was nothing that could be done. Then - surprise! - after giving notice of vacating, my apartment was advertised lower online and the next tenant rented it at close to what I had been paying all along. This is not just my story. It's what others have gone through too. Moving is costly and exhausting and tough when you're leaving friends and family behind. After two years, you feel settled and although it's not a perfect place (***keep reading!!!***), it was home. What Avalon Teaneck is doing with rent gauging is horrible and unethical, and I would not recommend to anyone to move here. What a traumatic experience to settle into a new home and community and then be held by the neck with a crazy renewal increase. Some people really can't move, and are forced to pay nonsensical amounts to stay. And considering that this is supposedly "luxury living"... Important things to know if you are considering moving here: The big, beautifully decorated front lobby is elegant looking, but houses just the leasing office team when they are there, and is off limits for tenant use. The tenants use a 'service entrance' door (and delivery people often get lost because they don't realize that the front lobby is not "the entrance lobby".) The building has no doorman or concierge watching things, so there is foul play during off-hours. Some scary stuff happening, and not enough cameras. You can walk down the hallways and hear tenants shouting and violently cursing at one another. The police are there every other day for "something", and packages get stolen from the package room. In the summer, management had to send out an email informing tenants of pool rules not to use explicit, foul language at the pool. The building is made of wood, and wired up with a very sensitive fire alarm system that, when triggered by even just one weed smoker in an upper stairwell, means everyone has to evacuate -- usually in the middle of the night. It happens often enough that you go to sleep wondering if you'll be woken up by the fire alarm. It's advertised as 100% smoke free living - with little signs in various places indicating such - but there's weed and cig smoke wafting out of apartments and management doesn't seem to enforce the policy. Doors that are designed to secure the building from the garage and/or outside, get tampered with, and don't always lock. There are fire pits for tenant enjoyment, and the fire department has had to be called due to mischief outside at night. There are stolen cars being housed and recovered from the garage - cars without plates, and some with flat tires, that make you wonder why they're there. Sting and swat operations happening with a few police cars at a time, sometimes multiple unmarked vehicles. The garage doors regularly break. They have everyone register their dog for a poo DNA program in efforts to get people to pick up after their dogs, but for some reason there was dog poo everywhere in the grass around the property, health risks. The hallway on the first floor near the garbage smells, especially in warmer weather. If you're taking an apartment near the garbage room, be aware. Also, when you move out, you need to clean every last spot and leave your apartment pristine, not just broom swept like a normal place, or you get charged a cleaning penalty. Same with any spot on the rug, marks on the walls - fix that before you leave, because if you don't, you'll be charged. Leaving the funny one for last: Not the greatest experience to live in a place that if you walk into the lobby bathrooms late at night, you encounter minors inside a stall doing things their parents may not know about, with condom wrappers on the floor! So I'm giving this property ONE STAR with a brutally honest review. The staff were friendly and responsive - but a lot seems to be out of their control and upper management doesn't seem to care. It's in a great location. But what a shame that they don't care about retaining good, long-term tenants - they don't seem to want to build a stable community - and won't put more efforts into tenant and building safety. read more

Do NOT rent here. The greed is beyond. Not only are they raising rents by more than 20% regularly, they are raising them to above what they have listed for the same apartments online. They are looking for the pain point of how much they can charge you to avoid the hassel of moving. Only move here if you are looking to rent short term and won't be staying past your first renewal. Or budget in a 20-30% rate increase each year. What they are doing should be criminal but Teaneck doesn't seem to care read more

Updating my review to reflect continued price-gouging. We're moving out and looked at our current apartment online out of curiosity: THEY'RE LEGIT RAISING THE RENT *ANOTHER* $500/MONTH ON WHATEVER TENANT MOVES IN NEXT. I feel so horrible for whoever takes the apartment and for all those living here who are stuck with these horrific hikes. In less than 18 months, the rent will have increased more than $1100 per month - GREED GREED GREED, makes me sick. SO GLAD WE CAN LEAVE THIS PREDATORY SYSTEM, and so glad we won't be paying another psychotic increase. Hopefully my review informs someone how OVERPRICED this complex is, how much less expensive it was just a short time ago, and saves someone from becoming the next victim. read more

Rent renewals are at 25%!! Horrifying for tenants who move here without knowing about predatory practices amounting to fraudulent inducement. Noone moving in here would choose this home for themselves had they known how abusive the leasing terms are. They treat the lease like just a long hotel stay. You spend a lot of money to relocate your family here and expect this to be your home for an extended period and then get slapped with an unconscionable rent increase if you want to renew/continue living here. My girlfriend is living here, and her lease renewal is just around the corner. As an attorney myself, I am trying to convince her to start a class action suit against Avalon on behalf of all the tenants nationwide who have been abused and suffered extreme losses of money and time by this predatory practice. Even though Avalon lawyers designed this scheme to skirt legal regulations, the implied offer of a residential lease only to be followed by this pattern of extortion, is for all intents and purposes the definition of fraudulent inducement and racketeering. They trick people into this situation by not giving reasonable lease terms, maximum of two years, some shorter. They know that people don't expect that they will be hit hard to renew and stay. My girlfriend and I personally know a number of people who moved in with intention of making a home here and were hit with such unfathomable increases that they had no choice but to move out one year later. We also know a few others who were forced to renew their lease at hefty monthly increases because they can not afford the time and money needed to find a new home, and their kids are already in school near here. The excuse that the building has various amenities doesn't validate upcharging on rent renewals, because residents pay an annual additional amenity fee and the amenities have been here since the building was built and are not new. So why is Avalon Teaneck doing this? Because they can? Because until now noone was speaking out about it. They need to stop taking advantage of tenants who trusted Avalon to conduct itself with decency and reasonable practices. read more

I'm a current resident here at Teaneck and If I could give them no stars I would! I hate staying their they are swindlers. I was late on my rent by two weeks because I had just lost my job, and they sent me to the eviction court. I paid to get out of eviction court and for the last few months I still receive invoices attached to my rent to pay their lawyer fees! I received one invoice for 480 another one for 250 and now I'm receiving another one for an additional 572 and it's been months since I was behind in rent! I hate living here I would not recommend this place to anyone! Avalon it self has been sued by multiple parties this place is not a place to move your family in nor get comfortable in at all. They also have rodent and roaches while your paying 3000 in rent luxury my ass read more

Currently trying to raise our rent 30%, during the COVID pandemic. I have lived many places and have never found a management company so impossible to deal with, so unwilling to talk, and so dishonorable in their attempt to take advantage. We pay rent, are ideal tenants, and had they said they wanted to raise our rent a few hundred dollars, would have agreed without batting an eye. Instead, they want to raise our rent $1000 and want to increase the amenities fee (for amenities that have been closed down since March) by 700%. Did you read that? 700%!!! Do not rent here. They are heartless opportunists, borderline criminal on how much they want to raise rent, on good paying tenants for no reason, during a pandemic. read more

Do not rent here. The comment about the millipede breakout is correct. Live and dead millipedes were in the stairwells for weeks. The humidity in the summer is unbearable. The AC units can't keep up with it. It's build on wetlands. Elevators haven't worked for months since Hurricane Ida flooded the place with water on the ground floor reaching over 6 feet in some areas. Stay away read more

Horrible experience. Noise disturbing me during working hours and sleeping hours alike, smoking filled my apartment at all hours of the day (was supposed to be a smoke free building) and my balcony was rendered useless/gross due to a millipede outbreak over many of the summer months (yes these millipedes made there way into my apartment as well). Been renting in the tri-state area for 15+ years and have never paid more for a worse experience than I did at the Avalon Teaneck. I have no problem with any 1 person working there but as a whole, they were simply unable or unwilling to fix these issues. read more