If I could give zero stars, I would. My experience at Sun Valley at Florham Park has been extremely frustrating due to ongoing maintenance issues and poor management response. For months, I dealt with repeated plumbing failures affecting both showers in my unit. The showers would start with pressure and then quickly become unusable. Maintenance opened the wall and even replaced a mixing valve, but the issue kept returning. After multiple visits and weeks of disruption, the actual "fix" ended up being simply replacing the shower heads -- meaning the prior invasive work never addressed the real cause. During this period I went weeks without reliable use of basic shower facilities, despite submitting repeated maintenance requests and written notices. Every step required constant follow-ups and documentation just to get basic issues addressed. After all of this, management eventually offered a $250 credit for months of disruption and loss of essential facilities. I formally requested a reasonable rent abatement consistent with New Jersey tenant habitability standards and provided detailed documentation of the issues and timeline. Management has since stopped responding entirely. Tenants should expect working plumbing and a responsive management team when issues arise. Unfortunately, that has not been my experience here. If you're considering moving here, I strongly recommend asking current tenants about their experiences with maintenance response and issue resolution before signing a lease. read more

Maintenance ! They need to hire experienced people to maintain this complex. When a family move out paint completely not in spots. Clean the borders and not paint over the dust. read more

The leasing manager Viktor is fantastic. Him and his staff are very accommodating and helpful. Apartments are very nice and property is well kept. read more

Honestly - save your money do not move here. There are so many nicer complexes that aren't a complete waste of time. I have been living in sunvalley for 4 years now . There are consistent maintenance issues that do not get addressed, 0 parking spots, rude security, and more importantly an unhelpful staff in the leasing office. Take your rent money elsewhere. read more

I wish i could give it zero stars or half a star. These apartments are NOT smoke free. i was there for a year and had to move our due to my downstairs neighbor smoking and it coming up though the floors making the living conditions unbearable. read more

Negatives: You can NOT walk 20 steps without smelling the stench of weed! Be prepared to hear all your neighbors conversations and sometimes take part. Kids in the playground are the definition of failed parenthood, 5 yo cussing with the WORST language. Positives: Place is in a great city. Close proximity to many good places. Maintenance is on top of it, sometimes it takes long to fix things, but the up keep is great. read more

I was a previous tenant at Sun Valley which is under the ownership of Middlesex management company. I dutifully paid my rent for three (3) years and never had a single complaint lodged against me. Middlesex management portrays themselves as the provider of affordable luxury housing yet their housing is expensive and cheaply built. They also have a maintenance crew that except for one member is mostly incompetent. Unfortunately the manager of the property has his son working for him who to describe him as lazy would be a compliment. My first maintenance call was about the dryer that took three cycles to dry one load. It took three (3) visits to then change the dryer. It turns out it wasn't really the dryer but the venting tube to the outside that was clogged with lint and could have caused a fire. This was discovered about 2 years later when the new dryer wouldn't dry again. In the meantime I paid inflated gas bills for almost three (3) years due to this incompetency. Also a refrigerator had to be replaced, once again three or four service calls and the same managers sin arguing that refrigerators run at 52 degrees. Now we come to the topic of pet rent which seems to be a very shady practice of this landlord. I was charged a hundred dollars a month extra for my nine (9) dog. While other people paid nothing and had pets. Last but not least once I informed the landlord I was leaving before the end of the lease thirty (30) days in advance they not only took my deposit but wanted to charge me rent for an empty apartment till the end of my lease. They also placed me in collection. My advice to you is to avoid Sun Valley and any other property managed by Middlesex management. The 100 dollars you save on rent will cost you in the long run. read more

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If you're reading this i can only hope that you'll walk away from renting there.. We have been living there for 2 years (6 more months to go) - we had signed a 2 year lease - Basically and without exaggerating, you will hear your upstairs/downstairs/next door neighbor sneeze, cough, TV, steps and everything else in between. Carpet are gross, and when you ask for a cleaning or replacement they will charge you!!! appliances, dryer, washer and dishwasher more specifically are so old, they break every moth...good luck on that too. Incompetence is too light of a word to describe the crew there. Luxury rental? where is the luxury? is it the van that takes you to the train station? please, slowly take a step back, a deep breath, and gently walk away from signing any sort of contract there. please, do yourself a favor read more

worst complex ever!!! mgmt is the worst. horrible disorganized, unprofessional people ever they bandage one thing and five other things break!! been here 8 years and its one broken thing or leak or mold after another do not move here read more

Moving to Sun Valley Apts was the worst decision of my life. When we moved in, our front door had holes and scars, no apartment number was on the outside, other people's hair was in our showers, shelves were dirty, floor was not clean, air conditioning broke down 3 times, our doorbell was b and multiple lights wouldn't work. The staff and managers are lazy, nasty, rude, and don't care about any complaints. We take time off work to schedule times for repairmen to come fix the problems, and then they don't show up. The legal representative won't return our lawyer's phone calls. Please don't move here! It's miserable and a living hell! read more

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I have lived at Sun Valley for the past 9 1/2 years and have become completely outraged at the lack of response to maintenance calls. Currently, my air conditioning has been dead for 2 weeks. I have called the maintenance Dept 14 times in the past 2 weeks and they have promised that someone would get back. Not once have they delivered on the promise. I was just told that AC is not a priority at this point but they will try to get somebody to my place. Never happens. Not even the common courtesy of a phone call or status as to when they will check out the problem. They just ignore and lie everyday. Don't know where to go with this issue as I pay a high monthly rent and have little to no service. If anyone is considering g moving here... don't, your problems will just be beginning and then your stuck paying and outrageous monthly expense. read more

Absolutely the worse place to live ever !!! Problems weekly. Managment and maintenance is are poor to say the least I wish I could give zero stars. I could go on and on. Do not live here !!! U have been warned read more

For the first few weeks we loved living at Sun Valley! We'd had no issues in our condo where we'd lived for 9 years before moving to Sun Valley but we'd long since outgrown our one bedroom unit and Sun Valley seemed perfect for our growing family. Here are the maintenance issues we encountered during our 1 yr there: -The dishwasher wasn't bolted to the counter top and it would fall a few inches each time we opened the door. Same issue the day after they "fixed" it. -Our washer flooded our dining room as well as the apartment below us due to a cracked part. They quickly repaired the issue but it took days for the carpet to dry out and our things near the laundry area were ruined. I'm sure it was worse for our poor downstairs neighbors. -When flushed, the toilets made a horribly loud clunking noise. We adjusted the water pressure numerous times but it never did get fixed. -Our air conditioning went out right before we moved. They came in and said it was fixed but it was still 90+ degrees in our apartment! -we had issues with our hot water heater going out 3 different times (which was tricky with a toddler and newborn). At first they just cranked up the setting on the water heater which is a burn hazard for young children. They did finally fix the issue. -our fire alarm once went off mid-morning on a weekday. I had to call maintenance 4+ times and it took them more than 6 hours to come turn it off -our garage door kept opening in the middle of the day while we were at work -the water bill quickly became outrageous. At first it was around $60 but then it ballooned to well over $100! We called Conservice to see if there was an error but the bill is apparently shared by most renters in the development. Factor this into your monthly budget (incidentally, in our new place we only pay for what we use and we have yet to go over $45!) -despite paying for a refurbished unit ours wasn't fully refurbished and some of the "new" bathroom tiles were cracked and coming off the floors All of these issues aside we would have been able to tolerate Sun Valley had it not been for the management company. It started with a complaint about someone smoking an illegal substance. The police went door to door and couldn't find the source. About a week later my husband received a letter from Sam in the legal department that we were to immediately stop using illegal substances in our apartment. Mind you we had a weeks old baby along with a 2-year-old with bad asthma - nothing was being smoked in or near our unit! We tried calling and visiting the rental office to correct the issue but were never able to get in touch with Sam. We wrote it off as an error and went 8 months with no problems. About 2 months before our lease was up (we'd already decided to move to be closer to the city/our jobs), we received a noise complaint notice. We'd never had anyone raise an issue with noise and if we had we would have immediately rectified whatever the issue was. We often heard our neighbor screaming on the phone at all hours of the night but we'd long since gotten used to that. The complaint was a formal notice (again from Sam) telling us to be more courteous to our neighbors. We didn't think we were being excessively noisy but made sure to be extra careful about the kids making noise in the apartment for the remainder of our lease. Despite this, we had two noise complaint visits from the police! Each time the police said a neighbor called on us but documented that we weren't being loud (no parties, music, screaming, banging, etc.) They recommended that we work things out with our neighbor and asked if we'd ever had an argument with them or done anything to upset them. We never had and didn't know who was making the calls. We then received an additional notice from Sam that was a formal warning threatening eviction if we didn't stop the noise. The complaint listed dates when we weren't even home! We tried getting ahold of Sam but were unable to reach him no matter how many times we reached out. With only a few weeks left in our lease we received an eviction notice (the eviction date was after our official move out date confirmed by Sun Valley). The date and time of the final noise complaint was of course a time we weren't home. It was smack in the middle of my daughter's dance class - a day we were gone several hrs because we went to the zoo after class. We moved out on our requested move out date without any issues and received our full security deposit back. The nightmare at Sun Valley ended as soon as we moved. We've been gone 7 months and love our new place at Oakes Pond (I HIGHLY recommend it!!!) We've had an excellent experience with maintenance, management, & neighbors. Please be cautious if you plan to rent at Sun Valley. It was an awful experience for our family. read more

Hard ass management/complaints about poor maintenance follow up. I have a relative living there who was issued an eviction notice by a nasty person banging loudly on the door. Due to a misunderstanding where the wife and husband each though it was paid, it was paid when the non payment was discovered (within 10 days). Even though when the notice was given the rent had been paid the goon insisted that a $200 fine had to be paid. (Their attorney's will look into this). The area is very desirable so people renting these apartments may not realize the problems until it's too late. read more

Just moved into Sun Valley Apts and it has been the worst experience. There has been near constant water leakage from the apartment above. The maintenance staff fixes it but it keeps getting worse. Do not rent here. read more

I moved into Sun Valley few months ago. Like other reviewers, I am having a terrible experience with maintenance staff and there is no one who can actually help. The office is just for sales and not for customer complaints - they will tell you this on your face but only AFTER you have signed the contract. They are great to talk to, but only before leasing the apartment. Problems I have faced include several water leakages within few weeks, dryer that would not dry, dryer vent that was filled with something that seemed like a bird's nest, uneven flooring in the kitchen and rooms, broken windows, cheap window blinds - really cheap I tell you, broken lights, broken bathroom fittings, dirty apartment - no housekeeping was done prior to handover, a terrible paint job on the walls - made even worse by touchups that they did on my request. The basement garage is very tight - it is risky to maneuver your car into the lot without denting it - so many residents park outside and the parking gets full by evening. Further do not be fooled when they say they have 24 hour maintenance crew - their emergency lines go to voicemail and no one ever calls back - even if the whole roof is leaking you are on your own!! Not only this, I now feel cheated as I have to shell out around 140$ per month for water and sewage charges - something not all tenants pay - i wish i knew this before signing the contract and made sure i didn't agree to pay it before signing. The amount they charge is absurd and totally whimsical - There is a strange calculation behind it you see but there is no individual water meter. I will move out after one year. Unfortunately I cannot leave sooner as the contract is completely one-sided and I would be forced to pay for the rest of the months - does not matter if I give them an advance notice. I have spoken with other tenants too - they all have had similar and in some cases even worse experiences. If you sign up with them you may regret it just like I do. New update: recent reason in Florham park meant that water can leak from the windows outside. If the maintenance crew is to be believed, this is normal whenever it rains. Don't know how I'm going to get through the winter here with all these problems. read more

We have been staying at Sun Valley since January and cannot describe how many problems we have had to face with this community. From poor building quality to maintenance issues to passive cigarette smoke the list is endless. Everything in the apartment is either broken or of very substandard quality that it eventually breaks. Their maintenance people take forever to come and fix things. The way to reach maintenance is a joke. Their apartments are smoking apartments(which was not advertised) but if you are a non-smoker, beware, you will become a passive smoker because apartments reek of cigarette smoke from next door. But lately there has been a problem with the water. There has been dirty water in the faucets and the last time this happened they told me it was the city water problem and I believed them. But when it happened again today I called the city water works and they told me they did not have any water problems neither now nor in the past. We were informed by the maintenance guy that there was a service issue that was causing dirty water. Should't you be issuing notices or warnings if you are going to be working with the water or going to mess it up? I am disgusted and super disappointed by our choice of moving into this community. This is definitely the worst apartment community in the entire country that cares the least about the people staying in their apartments. read more

Where do I begin, this is the worst experience I ever had. I moved in a month ago. There are so much problems in the unit. The refrigerator is leaning to the left because the kitchen floor is uneven; there are dents on the refrigerator door witch noting that maintenance can or willing to do; no screens on most of the windows; kitchen faucet is not working properly; the front porch needs be fixed (too bad it doesn't allow me post pictures). That's not the end of it! The storm right before 4th of July, my recreation room wall was leaking, water was pored in to my unit and damaged my personal property. No one fixed it, mold start to grow. After a long email to their legal department, the maintenance finally came over, the wall is just sensitized, but can't garantee that it will not leek again. Want to sleep well? No, someone lives above you will make sure that you will not be able to sleep or someone will wake you up 3:00 in the morning. Want to file a complaint? Sure, they will give you a piece of paper to fill up and mail to them. Will they do anything? Not at all. Don't believe me? I'm writing this review at 4:32am because the a hole lives above me woke me up 4:00 AM! Want help with the office? No, they can't do anything but telling you to get in touch with someone else. They show you a nice finished sample room to lure you in, and then, you are one of thouse unreasonable tenants keeps bothering them and will be ignored. read more

Lived there for several years, never really felt very safe. Have little ones (5,7) that wanted to go out and play and use the playground, but never felt safe enough to let them do that. The "low income" housing has to be better handled. The renters there usually sublease their units out to other people so they can make a profit and the staff never really knows who is in them. Not good! They have a police officer that patrols the area until 7pm m-f but if they want to be effective they should have them there between 6-12 am that's when things really happen. There are A LOT of stairs to climb to get into your apt.(47) from garage to living room. And you can always hear your neighbors, what they're doing, what they're talking about....EVERYTHING!!! Lol so beware of this place. I can't say anything about the new units they've built because I wasn't in those ones, just the older ones.. read more