If the apartment you are looking at is managed by "West of Hudson Properties", do yourself a favor and RUN! This is the worst management company I have ever dealt with.
I had moved into a very nice, high end apartment building that had its issues as all places do, however attention to fixing and getting things up to par was where this property management company was the ABSOLUTE WORST. The model Amir, the property manager, likes to follow is ignore calls and just collect rent. He never got back to us, never fixed anything, and never was concerned about the building issues or tenants unless they missed payments (which was the only way to get his attention). In most cases even when they were summoned to court they didn't show up.
Towards the end of my stay here, the building (8917 Old River Road North Bergen, NJ) was broken into. Police were called to investigate and all that was found was the front door was smashed and the lock destroyed (Call the Bergen County police for details), however the fix for Amir was to ignore it altogether. From that point on I never felt comfortable leaving my wife at home alone, until one of the neighbors decided to put up his own wireless cameras to ensure someone was keeping an eye on the building. After a few months passed without any effort to make the building safer, there was a massive exodus of people moving out. I did hear since I left that the busted lock on the front door was beaten into place so that the door comes to a full close.
The next poor decision that Amir made since there were so many empty apartments was to have one of his colleagues, Tiffany, illegally rent out one of the units as an AirBnB. She was not smart enough or just didn't care to check the law, or to at least post the illegal apartment on the AirBnB site without a picture of herself including her name and company information. Once the unit was rented through AirBnB, the cops were called on a regular basis for noise complaints. Amir never cared about who was renting or what they were doing as long as the payment was going through. At one point the cops were called because there were 18 people staying in a 2 bedroom apartment, which is a fire hazard. When the county figured it out almost immediately summonses to court were given, and fines were slapped on them. Here is the listing for fun: abnb.me/EVmg/CSfCxQhSjC
At the very end of my stay I was attempting to do all that I could to be helpful to leave on a good note, however Amir was not having it. Spent most of his time ignoring my requests and then trying to intimidate me to stay or I would be taken to court. I took the high road here and helped with everything I knew needed to be done, even called a GREAT real estate agent (Danoly Guzman) to help me find a replacement. In the end, I never received payment of the % interest built on my security deposit. I also never received any reimbursement for the MUA (Sewer) bill that I had been paying for the better part of a year even though the lease stated it was their responsibility.
Amir knew that instead of doing what is right and just paying the few hundred dollars owed to me, he would instead do what he is good at and ignore me. Knowing that the endeavor would cost me more to fight this in court than to pay it, I decided to warn all of you out there to steer clear. There are tons of buildings and apartments out there don't rent from a place managed by West of Hudson Properties.
I WOULD NEVER RENT A PLACE RUN BY THIS GROUP EVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE! I would get myself a nice cardboard box and live in that before dealing with this band of knuckleheads. read more