Asbury Park

Asbury Park Apartments is very conveniently located near local supermarket with department stores only 10 – 15 mins away. The freeway is also close by. Though the complex is fully leased most of the time, you’ll never see anyone even when the lot is full and the crazy part is that it’s still really quiet. People here are quiet for the most part besides people running up and down their stairs in/​out of their apartments. Walls are ok just hope you dont have a crazy heel striker living above you. There are only two dumpsters and they are pretty much at the opposite side of the complex. The gym is extremely small with only one treadmill, one elliptical, one cycle, one bench, and maximum dumbbell weight of 45lbs.
Inside the 1 Bedroom Apartments is cozy with tons of outlets! The living room heater sucks during the colder months and having a few additional space heaters are needed to stay comfortable unless you want two or three throws on your couch. There’s also good light when the suns out. The downside is that there is a lack of storage in the apartment including the kitchen. Avoid grilling anything on the stove because the apartment will smoke up quickly and stink up the place with any cooking.
Initial move-​in was kind of a weird one considering found spider webs on the ceiling and window sills, windows smudged with animal nose prints all over and fur all over the sills. However, those were simple quick cleans. Utilities that are attached to your rent is around $ 100 which includes water and garbage. Water is not per unit rather per building, so if you use water sparingly and your neighboor takes baths three times a day, you’ll be paying for it.
The leasing management is super nice and very accommodating. The maintenance crew is quick to fix! They are lovely people.

Horrible !! Raises your rent constantly! Repairs are slow, bath tub peeling all over and wont repair, staff are idiots and not helpful and forgetful, changes your locks but forgets to leave you keys, tows your car from your reserved parking space for no reason at all. Big turnover! I would never recommended this place to anyone. Lied about what actual apartment I had reserved an amenties and when I moved in said oh sorry.

Do not move here if you cannot afford over $ 100 increases to renew your lease. Plus over $ 100 for water, sewer, garbage each month. 1^st year they had upped our rent $ 100 to renew our lease because I had asked for a deal… This year they said they were upping our rent over $ 200. We called corporate and the best they could offer was still OVER $ 100. I’ve never lived at any apartment that does this. There reason is because we are below market value which is not by much. They are comparing themselves to the apartments around here that have awesome ameneties. Asbury lacks in ameneties. no hot tub. No sauna. No steam room. Work out room only has 1 tredmill and 1 elliptical and some free weights. Doesn’t feel like they want to keep their residents. Many people in our building we personally know have had to move because of the high increase in rent. They could not afford it.

The company that owns this property, Weidner, has recovered this situation beautifully. Once I figured out how to contact customer service, their response was speedy and extremely helpful. They listened to my concerns and worked to find a solution. The area director sat down with us to discuss our options and get to the root of our problem. The direct management at Asbury needs work, but the company recovered wonderfully. I am leaving a satisfied customer. I only wish we had gotten the area director involved sooner. Well done Weidner for proving that good customer service exists.

I am a new resident and could not be happier-​Office and Maintenance Staff outstanding–
I am extremely happy so far and believe me I am extremely picky-​apartment upgrades are gorgeous –grounds are beautiful-​quite a charming place-​would highly recommend this apartment community and I am actually a Kirkland Native-​if you are thinking of the past-​re: Shawnee Village-​believe me-​they no longer exist-​you would never know what it was like b/​4 unless you are from here-​night and day!!! New Company did an outstanding renovation-​I am not one to usually write a review but this complex deserves one
DP

I lived here for a year with my then fiancé, now husband. These were fine apartments for the physical buildings. My upstairs neighbors were pretty obnoxiously loud, though I don’t think the reason I heard them arguing was any fault of the physical aspects of the building. It sounded as if they were literally throwing furniture at eachother. So my beef with that is with them only. Apartments were not cheap, but Kirkland isn’t cheap/​well priced in general. Just something that comes with the territory. Office staff was always friendly enough to me, and the updated apartment features were nice. One bedrooms are a little small, but it worked or fine for us.

Thanks for the reply Wendee, and to explain what the only option was given to me was to move to another unit for a $ 200 fee plus a new deposit. If i had wanted to move due to my own will then i could see the fee being reasonable, but since the structure of the building needing repair is the reason behind my want to move. I can’t see charging anyone a fee to move for that. I can’t believe that management would charge their tenants extra to move to another unit if they can’t fix their current units.
One of your managers at the front office also said that their unit squeaks and makes noise when their upstairs neighbors walks which means that more than 1 building needs internal repairs.

Decent apartments. Expensive but so is all of Kirkland. Great location. Management is pretty good — although the desk person changes often.
Accepts all types an sizes of dogs — which is great.
The apartments themselves are nice until leaving in them for awhile. Not insulated AT ALL — during the winter I kept my heat on ²⁴⁄₇ and it maybe got to 60 (this is when we had the snow storm a few years ago). Could always hear my neighbors and the carpet was terrible.
If it is compared to other places it is about the same. Looks great but minor things that eventually get annoying to deal with.