SoCam 290 Apartments, new-brunswick-nj

Really nice apartment. been living here for an year and its been great. they are amazing with receiving feedbacks and implementing changes. That said, while they have worked well with improving the gym, an addition of lat pull down machine would make the gym complete and the smith machine can also see some improvements seeing it is quite unstable and not fit to use.

I really regret choosing Socam290 as my student housing. There are so many issues with Socam. First, at any given time there are one or two of the three elevators broken. This means that there is sometimes a 5-10 min wait to get out of the building even as someone on the second floor (there are no accessible stairwells to the lobby). Second, the hallways often smell of trash especially next to the elevators. Third, the building has walls that are thin as paper - you can hear every conversation and all the music played by your neighbors. Fourth, the neighborhood is just awful - inconvenient to have to take the EE (it’s 40 mins if you’re lucky to get where you need to go). Also, there are so many people outside yelling (which you can hear through the walls!) which generally makes the area feel very dangerous. Finally, Socam is just such a scam when it comes to value for money - they add a six dollar utilities fee just to process the bill (also why are they charging us for sewer - seriously…). Furthermore, they have multiple times randomly dropped my insurance which means that I have to deal with a hour long call to my insurance to get a new letter for them. They just recently added a 10 dollar charge after dropping my insurance unannounced- it’s honestly such a scam. They have been inundating me with renew lease messages since I moved because they clearly want to get you locked in before you wise up to how awful the value of this place is. I could not recommend it less.

Touring apartments is typically an incredibly stressful process for me as someone who won't just settle in any place. I was a little anxious walking into SoCam, but thankfully, the staff was welcoming and kind giving me a much needed sense of relief. I was given a tour of the apartment, as well as its corresponding facilities, by Amadou who did a wonderful job at explaining everything in great detail. He had an immense amount of knowledge and knew where everything was. It was quite impressive! And because of this experience, I will definitely think of SoCam as a potential place for the future!

The apartments are really good and quite spacious. But there were a few maintenance issues in the unit we got, otherwise the location is top notch and the facilities in the building are all really good. Overall great choice!.

Please, please, PLEASE ventilate the hallways of each floor. I smell trash every single time I leave my apartment to walk to the elevator. It’s a nightmarish smell. You can smell every single thing people are cooking which isn’t always pleasant, but trash? I can’t stand the trash smell, it’s really bad. 😱 Even the elevators themselves smell like trash for a while after they take out the trash. Back when the weather was hot out, the air conditioning helped circulate the hallway air. Now that the air conditioning is turned off, the hallways are extremely stuffy and also stinky 😓 Please fix!! Can you guys just turn on a little bit of AC so then at least the hallways are ventilated 🙏🏼🤢🤮🤧😷😵‍💫 thanks so much, please help