I have been a resident here for several months now. The apartment is definitely not a "luxury" apartment by any means. The kitchen appliances are old, the washer/dryer does not work properly, and the maintenance staff (including Jessica) is absolutely terrible. However, it is close to the PATH system and the apartment complex is decent by my standards. If you are looking at living here and commuting into the city, I would ask you to seriously consider just living in the city.

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From: Anonymous	Date: 12/11/2008
It's funny you mention Jessica because I took about 10 minutes of my life to write a scathing review of this apartment complex (I'm in North) and she along w/ many others at Applied were noted as being incompetent: I am extremely dissatisfied with the quality of service provided by the management offices of the Applied Companies, as well as the quality of the building itself at Hudson Square North in Hoboken (235 Hudson Street). On the outside, the building itself appears to be a "luxury" building as the sign outside purports. The apartments on the inside are mediocre at best, but that's not the real issue. Here are a list of reasons why this facility is abysmal: 1) When you walk into the lobby you can often smell the stench of cigar smoke from the grade-level cigar store that is located within this facility. There is no ventilation system in the building, so why not put a cigar store in there where the patrons may smoke indoors..in a residential "luxury" building. 2) The common hallways are not heated, it is often freezing cold in there during winter months, and very hot during summer. They clearly did this to save on utility costs for the building owner, with total neglect for the comfort of its tenants. 3) The apartments themselves do not have a quality heating and air-conditioning system. The apartment units have in-window PTAC (package thermal air conditioning) units which consume unbelievable amounts of power leading to a very high utility bill. These units provide both heating and cooling, however do so very ineffectively and inefficiently. The heat is dry and stale and the temperatures are unstable. One must keep adjusting the unit in an attempt to feel comfortable; it is never a very comfortable temperature in the apartment unless the weather outside is perfect and the windows are open. 4) MICE. There is a huge mice problem at this facility, particularly in winter months. The solution provided by the management office is a suggestion to the tenant to buy traps. They claim there is an on-site exterminator that comes by weekly, but I do not believe that as I have not seen him. And if there were indeed an exterminator, the problem should be resolved should it not? I have yet to see the exterminator that was promised to come by my apartment. 5) Flooding. I lived next door to the laundry facility and it floods once in a while. Not often, but this should not happen. Water comes up from beneath the wood flooring in the foyer and onto the carpet in the common hallway....causing a moldy smell because the maintenance people look the other way when this occurs. 6) The management company...Applied. It all comes down to the management company. As mentioned, they fail to rectify any of the many problems that occur within the facility on a regular basis, or if they do, they do it at a snail's pace as if it were an inconvenience to them. One time I had complained of a rancid smell in my apartment that I believed to be a decomposing rodent in my wall or heating unit(given the mouse issue)...the maintenance person wrote on the work order after having visited my place...in broken English "Check the AC unit, not smells dead mouse inside, please tenant cleaning the filters." That is a verbatim quote from Juan. That was their solution, blame the tenant for the air filters. To give them the benefit of the doubt, I changed the filters which did need changing (something they should probably do regularly since they opted out of providing central AC)....but the problem persisted. To avoid having to find the real problem they made a quick excuse to avoid further work for them. They are the most apathetic, incompetent group of people I have ever encountered. I do not know if it is just this building and this management office, but I recommend that anyone seeking an apartment in Hoboken do so at a building that is not owned and operated by the Applied Companies...no matter how nice the facility looks in its ads or even during a quick inspection when visiting with a broker. To name names, Don the building manager, Juan the head maintenance person, Dot (another building manager), and Jessica (the desk person who has falsely claimed to have informed the managers of issues that were reported by the tenant). In such harsh economic times, highly educated people being laid off en masse...yet Applied Companies continues to keep sub-par individuals on the payroll who are not even qualified for a career in fast-food service.

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