Canter Green 1255 Magie Avenue, Union, NJ 07083

"Was here for a meeting that one of the tenants had arranged. The meeting area looked nice. We rented out the entertainment room. There is a virtual screen for golf, soccer, etc. equipment worked but only had a couple of golf clubs. The cue ball for the pool table had a chip in it. Parking was an issue and it was easy to miss the entrance, it’s a one lane road that is easily missed from the main road and traffic at rush hour is a nightmare."

"A beautiful place to call home. Everything about this place is perfect. Am glad I took an apartment here."

"Nearly half of the units are subsidized for affordable housing (low income). I moved in Oct 2021 when it was newly built. What was originally built as a beautiful luxury complex with green grass and nice (but small) pool was very quickly turned into a dump as the units started to fill up with tenants. Let me explain: 1. There have been multiple drug stings and arrests at this complex in early 2022, so they implemented a "cop next door" policy where now a police officer lives there with his cop car usually parked out front. Often you will see multiple cops called to the premises for various incidents. 2. Many tenants bring their whole crew (far exceeding the 2-person guest limit) and occupy all the amenities such as grill stations, pool, and game room. Once I went to the game room on a Saturday night and it was filled with non-residents smoking hookah inside the room while blasting music and screaming. 3. This is a big problem if you like to get a good night's sleep before work the next morning. The music and screaming is not confined just to the game room; it will be present every night outside in the courtyards where you will hear it through your windows/thin wall as if they were in your actual apartment. On the weekend - forget about sleeping, it's not an option so might as well join the block party until 2AM! If you have a noisy neighbor like I did and most people I talked to, that will just add to the noise since the ceilings/walls are paper thin. 4. This place is advertised as a smoke-free complex but there is a constant marijuana smell surrounding the complex and especially in the hallways. My neighbor's puppy ate a partially smoked weed cigarette that was thrown on the ground in the court yard outside the building side entrance and almost died - she had to get her stomach pumped for $5,000 including all the follow ups which was not reimbursed by management. 5. This place is not "pet friendly". Aside from the risk of your pet ingesting marijuana, there is constant insect repellent being sprayed on the (dead) grass and they don't warn you or put up signs. My dogs ate this grass and got sick for 2 weeks. Then the manager told me "sorry I didn't know they sprayed the grass - the landscaper's email about it went to my spam, that's why I didn't put up signs or send an email". Even after this incident, they kept spraying and still no signs or warning from management.. I gave up. The dog park has fake grass which is full of dog poop and pee and you can smell it as you approach. No one cleans it ever. People abuse their dogs there too, Animal Control has been called. 6. There is nothing green about Canter "Green" anymore. The beautiful plentiful green grass in the courtyards has been reduced to brown dried up dead grass and mostly dirt/mud except around the main entrance and small spots of grass around the parking lot which they do maintain since that's the prospective tenants will see (this maintains the illusion of green grass). But the actual grass that surrounds you once you live there (the courtyards) is dead all year round. 7. The pool quickly turned to a cesspool because of all the toddlers with dirty diapers going in; my neighbor got a horrible full body rash from dipping into the water once (never again). Instead of constantly cleaning the pool and maintaining it, management simply closes the pool to paying residents for the majority of the summer (but still collects their "pool amenity fee"). From what I hear this is still an ongoing problem even in late 2023. Management does not have the spine to enforce it's own policies and people do whatever they want; there is no order or "luxury" here. The only thing you can do is avoid this place and if you're unfortunate enough to fall into this scam, just break your lease and escape ASAP - it's not worth it."

"These walls are super thin. You hear everything. Dog park is disgusting and stinks, can’t be used. They never wash it - EVER. Grills dirty, fire pits don’t work, the outdoor tv’s don’t work. People smoke all the time, they never water the grass and it just looks disgusting, the grass is pretty much non existent. The pool is full of people that don’t live there and very dirty most of the season - pubic hair, poop in the water - my roommate got a serious skin issue after being in the water just once. LOW INCOME UNITS, so be aware of that!"

"Claims they are pet friendly and then expects you to only use the dog park which is absolutely disgusting and unsanitary majority of the time. Limited access to even walk your dog out of this apartment complex. The amount of grass outside theses areas are a complete joke and next to none."