In a word: awful. Don't live here. Don't sleep over a night or two here. Don't even drive by here on your way to work. It's a complete, total nightmare and I want to spare you as much of it as I possibly can, so I'm writing this review to help you avoid making the same mistake I did in moving in here.

Let's start with the outsides. The parking lot can fit at most a third as many cars as it actually needs to fit, with the spillover having to park out on the curb or even on the shoulders of far away streets. What makes it worse is that the people who work here (leasing agents, repairmen, etc) actually take up the best spots in the parking lot to begin with! Typical classless behavior of the employees here, but I'll get to that later.

The grounds are nice to look at-- but they're constantly littered with little kid (or worse, the scads of literally drug-addicted high school dropouts) running around and screaming at the top of their lungs at all hours of the day and night. Thanks, Collingswood school system! Once again, the feckless staff here does nothing to stop them, since it's been made clear that no matter what happens, as long as people pay their rent they can do whatever they want and whenever they want to do it. That works out great for the loads of drunks and heroin junkies that dwell within these "Heights".

Yup, the people who live here are the bottom of the barrel. Section 8 rejects who have to choose between paying rent and paying for more smack are par for the course, since anyone with half a brain had moved out long, long ago. What's left is the absolute dregs of humanity, people who think it's fine to beat their kids (my next-door neighbors), do assortments of drugs (all over the C & D buildings), and make as much noise as they want all day and night long (90% of the tenants). Why not, since they have no jobs to begin with. Your welfare dollar at work.

Speaking of noise, the walls here are paper thin- almost literally so. Even though I've never once talked to my neighbors (I'm seriously scared of them), but I know all their names, substance abuse problems, and their run-ins with the law, since they like to scream their words to each other like a group of drunken baboons fighting over a stick (actually, they probably HAVE fought over a stick before, knowing them). The slimness of the walls allows me to hear every bit of it, which makes me thank God everyday for earphones and bourbon. There's also EIGHT of them living in a single two-bedroom apartment, a problem that, once again, management does not seem to care about fixing, despite my repeated calls and letters.

My calls and letters, by the by, haven't helped in fixing the brown water that spews from faucets once or twice a week either. Apparently the hot water heater is broken and management, once again demonstrating their eternal wisdom, is too cheap to fix it. Yay. The woman who's the head of maintenance even went so far as to tell us to call a number she gave us for help-- and it was a fake number! Some random guy had no idea who I was when I called. I was absolutely shocked. I won't even bother mentioning that maintenance hasn't been able to fix my air conditioning unit- after 4 attempts. The last guy literally kicked it before shrugging and leaving, and I swear I think the next guy they'll send up is Don Knots or Schneider. I figure they would be a marked improvement.

The filth. Before living here, I had never seen a rat or more than one roach in a single room at a time, but I can't say that anymore! The janitorial staff- recently cut down to a meager one or two guys per building thanks to budget cuts- does just the bare minimum to keep this place from being shut down by the health department, and that's about it. Sticky floors, dog pee everywhere (at least I hope it's from a dog), and grafitti-ed swear words & gum plastered over every wall within arm distance of another section 8 reject on his way to buy a pack of smokes at the overpriced convenience store down on the apartment grounds.

Since I don't want this to turn into a manifesto, I'll cut it short here. Basically, imagine everything that could possibly go wrong with an apartment, add onto that managerial and maintenance staffs that're as incompetent as they are uncaring, and there you've got it. A smelly little turd that the gods of irony decided to name "The Heights". Yeah, the heights of despair and sleaze and repulsiveness. Avoid at all costs.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/14/2009
Patricia Veneziale is useless. Call the Board of Health. They know the complex well... AUDUBON COMMUNITIES MANAGEMENT, LLC 1000 S. LENOLA RD MAPLE SHADE , NJ 08052 856-914-1700 CALL FOR COMPLAINTS. THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL FIND HIGHER PROP MANAGEMENT. Good luck.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/14/2009
I agree so much with this. I can't wait to get out of here. My lease is up in November. The ghetto trash that is from Section 8 ruined this place. Sure, the staff is a big part too..but it goes both ways. If we had people with jobs and who were productive members of society with a staff of people who were lazy..we would all be smart enough to complain. However, since most people who live here don't care....yeah, we'll never get the management problem fixed. What a shame..because despite the filth, it potentially is a REALLY nice place to live. It's a great location and they ruined that too...
From: laststop3h	Date: 07/15/2009
Couldn't agree more man. This place is a dump. My mom still lives here and doesn't get around too well and she constantly has to walk 9 flights of stairs since their elevators break every day.
From: funnyjoanne	Date: 07/15/2009
I lived when it was Parkview and it still owed its lease to the town. Back then, it was SPOTLESS. The hallways smelled and looked clean. There were no roaches, no mice. My apt. had all working stuff in it. Neighbors fairly decent. You could hear them when there was arguments or hip hop music playing, but that was it. Then they paid off their lease, and COULDN'T wait to unload it on another company who proceeded to turn it into a flophouse. I was afraid to go out of my apt because of the people hanging around there. (this was B building). I'm sure A building is nice because that's where their sales office is and they need someway to trick decent people into living there. Go to Oaklyn, Runnemede, anywhere but there. Drive around town, there are plenty of people renting out rooms in their house and also plenty of apartment buildings around.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/21/2009
I have lived here for several years and have not experienced any thing bad. I find the staff to be helpful and friendly.I love my apartment and my neighbors. Some people will never be happy no matter where they live. So, buy a house and stop complaining!!! Usually the one complaining about how the ball is bouncing is the one that dropped it!!!
From: Sundown1	Date: 07/22/2009
Why is someone miserable if they write a bad review? Do you think I had nothing better to do then surf the Internet and write bad reviews for things? I'm single parent young professional with a positive outlook on life. I'm glad you love the place place so much and all but I hate to inform you that you are clearly in the minority. Heights of Collingswood has real problems. Point Blank Period
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/22/2009
It seems that the same person keeps writing this load of crap. It is how you make it. I have lived here for a couple years now. I leave in the morning to go to work and come home at night and go right to my apartment.Hmmm like most normal people. The people that complain about everything are the ones causing it. I have an amazing apartment newly upgraded never had any bugs maybe if you werent so dirty you wouldn't have bugs either. My building is usually clean but never disgusting and I am not in A building.I know a lot of people that love living here and people like you that write this crap make it bad for them, they don't waste their time being miserable and write reviews they live their life and make it a great place to live. Maybe you should try it..
From: Snowmiser	Date: 07/22/2009
Look, I don't know what to tell people like the above commenter. Look at the reviews. LOOK at them. 72% of the people hate this place, they loathe it. It's awful. It's one of the worst reviewed apartments in ALL of New Jersey. Do you think it's a coincidence? Do you think it's an accident? Or maybe, just possibly, you got very very lucky and have an apartment that isn't sandwiched in between a drug addict's pad and a welfare defrauding wife-abuser's place. I'm starting to believe former staff members who said that they're asked to make reviews on these sites that are positive, to offset the negative, honest reviews. Do yourself a favor. When you're in the small minority in your opinion, don't immediately assume that you're right and everyone is out to get you. They have a name for that: insanity. This place is a dump and a catastrophe for 72% of the people who've lived here. Accept it, try to change it, or better yet, keep quiet.

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