I recently visited the Park View at 320. I spoke to Clara the assistant property manager to set up an appointment. She was warm, friendly and extremely accommodating in her efforts to show me the very spacious units that were available. This building is very well kept; the units are bright, maintained and welcoming (just like the staff); the grounds are well kept and inviting to sit outside for work or to enjoy the poolside. Overall my experience was a 10. read more

yeah. Clara as a realtor looks down at perspective renters. it's like an interrogation to get an idea of the parking situation and of course they propagate false reviews to cover up. Wales Kansas great but everything has to go through Clara. who is going to send their ss card through email, then to be told there is an online application afterwards!? check this. this is the best part. if there is a problem found at the time of viewing the apartment her response is that to report it once you move in. yeah.. no thank you. read more

If I could do zero stars I would!! It amazes me that this building hasn't been reported yet for more problems then one. Rodent infestation, floors coming up, paint chipping, if it's not one thing it's another. The leasing office and the company overall only cares about collecting rent, they do not care about the people in the building or how they're living. read more

The Park View At 320 - Floors coming up in the bedroom and kitchen. - Apartments Near Me - East Orange, New Jersey

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Let's go ahead and start with the good. We will then transition into the bad and then into the very ugly. I am going to be very to the point and give this place the honest review it deserves. Good This place has all utilities included, with the exception of WiFi and your cable, of course. That's great. It's a great deal from the outside looking in. It also has a clubhouse, a gym, and a pool. The gym is nothing to write home about but other amenities are generally okay. Bad Now for the bad. Mice. They say the mice come up from the basement at times especially if you have an apartment near the trash chutes. Service/Repair/Maintenance issues around here are really bad in general. They range from weird stuff that isn't that serious, like the elevator stopping at the 3rd Floor EVERY OTHER TIME you get on it, to water damage suddenly leaking into your apartment from a washing machine on the floor above. Damage was pretty much extensive as you would expect water damage to be. Floors needed redoing, walls and ceiling damage. Also there are strange water outages every now and again, these happened often when I moved in around October-January, then they died down afterwards. I noticed a reviewer before me noted that. The water issue is obviously very jarring when you're trying to get to work or school. The place is generally in need of a major upgrade. Looks great when you first come, but then you start to see the cracks all across the facility. Needs help overall. Ugly Management. I am not sure why but management is generally very apathetic and one of them is actually outright rude and has an attitude. The other two (the actual manager and the lady who sits in the front office) are decent. That said, some of the security people, who are generally cool said they have problems with management too. As far as tenants go, they move very very slowly with requests. Not sure what the issue is, perhaps more staff is needed. There used to be a really good Super who was very prompt and got things done well and quickly, however, he unfortunately left and things are being left undone. read more

they are horrible horrible they dnt answer the phone for emergecy maintenance and when they do they tell you they coming and noone shows up the entire day and all they say when you call everyday is we had a plumbing emergency or we had an emergency else where so you hve to be patient wel my patients has run very low with these people ive literally had a leak in everyroom in my apartment down to water coming out the floors and damaging my belongings and my walls and ceilings are disgusting and a smell from my bathrooms ceilings leaks is coming out noone ahould have to live this way especially with the rent you pay here its horrible and unacceptable when i asked a maintenance guy anout my filters being changed on my ac units he told me they put down that they were changed mind you noone ever came to change them the same thing i called for a work order for clogging and noone showed up till a week after i was told someone would be here in the morning i had to pay someone from outside to come unclog my bathroom and the new super came a week later when it was already done by someone else and ask me to sign a form stating it was done read more

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Rented here 2010 to 2015. There are extreme pluses and minuses to living here. Whether it will work for you is really a question of whether you can deal with the minuses. The building is quite attractive. Berg (still there?) is a very conscientious and classy property manager. He flipped this building into a community with a genuinely upscale feel. It's a great thing because a majority of the residents are middle class blacks and this building was like an affordable oasis in an otherwise struggling community in the rough city of East Orange outside of Newark. (Granted, with gentrification in the Newark area, things may have changed.) Beautiful common areas, grounds and pool in the back of the building, and apartments. The apartments have a nice layout and most have nice appliances. Nice Manhattan views in the front-facing units. But looks can be deceiving. While the crescent shape of this mostly glass building looks great from the outside, its poor design/placement means the building gets very, very, very hot in apartments on the inside of the "U" shape (so, the side facing south IIRC), especially in the middle of the building. Look up "convection" in a physics textbook. The building does not provide any type of window coating or coverings - not even blinds. Even if the previous tenant left them, maintenance would remove them before showing the unit. So, you have to figure blinds into your move-in budget. And because the entire length of the apartment is glass, they are not blinds you can just pull off the shelf at the Home Depot. The strong sunlight and heat were so bad that the paint peeled from the walls in my apartment. If you don't buy some type of window covering, skin cancer may be in your future. This building went co-op in the past, so it was a mix of rentals and condos when I lived here. Also, I can't remember if East Orange has rent control, but I wouldn't doubt it. Having taken a peek at a list on the secretary's desk once of what everyone in the building was paying, there's some kind of social justice project going on here, which I personally think is great. "Newcomers" live in units rented at market rates, but they are below market when you consider what they are getting. OGs get a break for once. That said, the upkeep of the owned units wasn't nearly as good as the rental units, so you can have a lot of inequality living in close proximity, which can breed resentment and other issues. Not all of the tenants are middle class and there were issues while I lived here related to lifestyle and education differences and poverty. The woman who lived next door to me smoked, like, 10 packs of cigarettes a day and the smoke consumed the bedroom of my apartment. In the trash room on our floor, there was a mattress once covered in bedbugs. The tenant made a crappy attempt at covering the mattress in clear plastic, but it wasn't completely wrapped. One of my neighbors had a fit! I was assigned a parking spot outside and my parking neighbors were inconsiderate buttholes who hit my new car without giving a crap (the paint was on their fender) and piled snow behind my car when they shoveled out in the winter. I guess an education doesn't mean much because the Seton Hall University students, whose parents pay the high "newcomer" rents, did not respect the building or its tenants. Maintenance was super slow and nothing got done until lease renewal time. They also did a building-wide reno once in which they wore out and replaced the carpet in all of the common areas of the building, including the hallways, that left a thick layer of carpet fibers, dirt and dust all over everything in my apartment and in the air. They didn't do anything to clean it inside apartments and it literally took months for the air to clear. Most of East Orange is impoverished although this building is on Harrison Street not far from the South Orange border, so the neighborhood is better than most of the city. However, the walk to the closest rail station is about a half mile towards East Orange Center and is not safe after dark. Worst is the "security", who are receptionists at best. Maintenance tried to enter my apartment during the day without advanced notice once while I was home. I had extra security devices on the door, so they couldn't enter and I was looking through the peephole at this massive guy ramming all of his body weight against the door repeatedly trying to break the door in. I didn't know he was a maintenance man and I was mortified. I called "security" at the front desk and the main "security" guy answered. I told him someone was trying to break into my apartment. We otherwise had regular conversations during my years of living here and he was a native speaker of English, but during this call, he acted like he didn't understand English and just hung up the phone. In this area, decent security is very important, so I would think that for most, this would be a deal breaker. read more

I have been living at the park view for over a year now and have been very pleased with the responsiveness of the management. The building is generally quiet and clean. I have had one request for maintenance and it was completed the next day while I was at work. read more

Lets see...the past few days the hot water has been lukewarm, or off all together, no explanation or notification from management. Last night, the night before the first day of school, no hot water (completely turned off) at all. Came back on at 10PM. This morning, again, the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL and a WORK DAY, no hot water, completely off, no explanation or notification from management. read more

I have been living at The Park View at 320 for a year now and cannot wait to move. My experience with mgt. hasn't been too bad, but they could definitely do better. First off, the square footage is overly exaggerated!!! They are counting spaces that are normally not included when calculating spaces as livable/usable space. Second, their bathrooms are constantly clogged!!!! There's no hair or debris in the drains, yet it is clogging. Maintenance does less than subpar work, but it could be what they're paying them; you sort of get what you pay for. The parking is ridiculous!! You cannot get into your parking spaces if someone else continuously parks over your line. You can barely get into the parking area because people are always parked in front of the building, preventing residents from getting into the parking area. The front desk security/concierge has been pretty professional. The ones that are not the regulars can be extremely rude and abrasive! However, the regulars are familiar with tenants and make us feel appreciated. The mgt will attempt to force you to accept terms that are not the norm and you would have to know some landlord/tenant laws to have a well prepared rebuttal; otherwise, you WILL be taken advantage of here! They attempt to charge you late fees when you still have a legal right of time, based on the fact that they had you sign a lease that says otherwise. However, no private entity cannot overwrite municipal and state laws. The actual owners of course have politics in their back pocket, so they tend to get away with a lot; unless you know someone yourself, be prepared to be taken advantage of at The Park View. Now, we have advise them that we are in the process of looking for a home, which was well before the 60 days allowable time, but they are not willing to do month to month; they offered 6 months, but if we close on our home before then, we'd have to pay a penalty? I have consulted with my attorney and will be legally serving them going forward. Again, this place will lure you in with all sorts of promises and smiles, but once you actually move in, it's not as beautiful as you would think. You'd have a better experience with the Lotus or even the Indigo; which is where I should've moved instead of here! read more