Waterside Village

We have been living in this beautiful apartment since March 2016. I must say that its perfect in every thing! We were given clean polished apartment and to my surprise when I stepped into the balcony I saw the river in front of us! Its sooo beautiful and is the neighborhood!!! We drove from Massachusetts and we were late to have a look at the apartment! But Daisy and Irine from the rental office were so helping. They made us sit and explained everything about the community even though it was very late for them! We immediately booked the apartment due to their gesture and of course after seeing the apartment! They have beautiful landscape and I see that many families do organic farming. Its such a soothing sight!!! You are free to do anything (with the gardening).even to maintain the landscape! The rental office members Daisy and Irine set the example of how a Rental Office should be! You can hear foot steps of others while using stairs or sometimes from the neighboring apartments but that’s fine! You can never find such a calm neat community in New Jersey! Its 11 out of 10.:-P.Its perfect!

The good: Apartment size (HUGE bedrooms!), convenience to everything (15 mins from the GWB, 3 minute walk to a bus stop, less than a mile from Shop Rite, 5 minutes to route 80, 1 minute from route 46, 10 minutes from route 4 and 5 minutes from the Turnpike) availability of office staff and maintenance since Jacob fixed everything no problem. The rent is also reasonable by Bergen County standards and this place is pet friendly, which most aren’t in the area
The bad: Parking (there isn’t enough parking so people had to park on sidewalks so the complex had a towing company regular towing cars, which literally caused residents to leave. This is a private residence and the town DOES NOT oversee the property nor have anything to do with ticketing or towing UNLESS a fire zone is blocked. Still, the complex had a contract with a towing company that caused major problems in the community. Why would you do that when you know your residents are struggling to find spots? From what I understand, they are building more parking (I’ve since moved as have other residents due to the same frustration of having their car towed and top management not doing anything about it, regardless of what they said)
The stairs are VERY loud. Some of the neighbors are also rude (not the complex’ fault in any way, shape or form) and since a number of them speak limited or no English, communicating problems with them (IE: noise from an upstairs apartment) is challenging.
The only cable/​internet company you can get here unless your balcony is facing the southern sky is Time Warner. Again, this is not the complex’ fault but rather other cable companies since they haven’t invested in wiring the community. Time Warner is a ripoff but also a monopoly.
If you move here with a third floor apartment and only one car, I’d rate this place a 4 out of 5.