Just moved from the Heights myself to JSQ.

Heights is still a diverse, family-oriented neighborhood with little pockets of things to do here and there. It is a relatively quiet neighborhood. Like mentioned before, there is no nightlife. You’ll be going into Hoboken or Grove St for things to do. As for transit, you’ll mostly be locked taking the bus to PA. It’s an easy 15-20 minutes, if the bus shows up when it’s supposed to. Weekend coverage is a abysmal. You can find a two bedroom in your price range here.

If you’re looking for lots to do and easy access to the city, Grove St is the way to go. Though, you’re unlikely to find anything for a two bedroom in that price range. You could expand your search to JSQ or Bergen-Lafayette, which are good neighborhoods closer to Grove St and public transit than the Heights. They will have more options in your price range.

It's all good. There are way richer people to replace us.

Grove st is the right neighborhood based on what you want, but not at that price. $3200 for a nice 1 BR on the other hand…

Sarge’s is such a sleeper, that place deserves so much more love but I feel like it gets less attention than Pastrami Queen or 2nd Ave

They’ve been in there for at least a few months. They’re the same ones that used to be on the walkway. Just only visable at low tide.

You can get to the heights or grove Street as quickly as you can get from one side of Hoboken to the other so why not just check the areas out? Maybe you're bored in Hoboken because it's a small city and you would be less inclined to leave if you explored more of the greater area?

Separately, $3200 for a two bedroom near Grove will be tough. You're definitely in walk up territory but there won't be many. Will be more availability in the heights.

yeah they gotta have a solid scam where they make more money turning over tenants than keeping them. maybe fees, maybe security deposits, or maybe something as dumb as commissions on "new" tenants for sales people who happen to also work in the building.

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You'll need more money in JC for a 2 bedroom.

I moved here from the city because rent was way to high there no matter where I lived. Got myself a place I’d be paying double in the city if it were there (high rise, rooftop, gym, personal washer and dryer) Rent went up last year and will only go up again I’m sure. So far I’m managing but at some point I won’t be able to save if I pay these prices. The rent here is basically the same as living in the city. Ive been considering moving to Newark but even those prices I hear are going up, but still currently low enough that I’d Live comfortably for a few years.

That type of nightlife doesn’t exist in the Heights. You’re better off downtown between the two, but still a very different environment than Hoboken. I would suggest coming out and exploring downtown JC a couple weekends. Jersey City is much more diverse than Hoboken. You’ll find all kinds of age groups, ethnicities, income levels, education levels etc hanging out in the same establishments. The nightlife is also very inconsistent. One Friday can be packed and the next it could be dead and closed by 12am. The Ashford is the only place consistently busy with nightlife, but isn’t well received by a lot of locals since it tends to bring in a louder drunken nightlife.

No thank you Buzzfeed.

Er, Hoboken girl.

If Jersey City stopped building, rich people would simply bid up the old houses, as happened in San Francisco and most of Manhattan.

Been living in Hoboken for awhile now and got bored of it. I never really ventured out into JC which is why Im considering it. How’s the nightlife in the Heights compared to Grove St? Im looking for spots similar to Mulligans in Hoboken

Have you considered that what Jersey City is building is not enough to serve a metro of 20 million people? And yes, that is the market for Jersey City housing, not the 290k already here.

No one on the New York side is building anywhere close to enough. All that demand gets added on to Jersey City. Nothing Jersey City can do to fix it. New York has to fix it. If Jersey City stopped building, people would simply bid up the old houses, as happened in San Francisco and most of Manhattan.

Yeah I'm just moving back to a walk-up. Had my first year at one of the supposedly better "luxury" doorman buildings and it just isn't worth it to me. My rent will be halved and my savings will go up, double victory.

From another nj.com article:

>IXP Corporation, based in Princeton, handled the city’s previous reviews of dispatch services in 2018. The company’s senior vice president is Adam Safir, son of Howard Safir, a former New York Police Department commissioner who led the search to hire Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea in 2013.
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>...IXP corporation, which also runs a private 911 dispatch service, will push for the service to be privatized... "The problem is if we are hiring these guys to do the study, they are not an independent consultants that can give us options. They have a financial incentive to recommend to us to privatize the service,” [Solomon said].

The city's 911 system is totally broken, but putting all our eggs in the IXP isn't prudent.

Sure you want to leave Hoboken just yet? Much more happening where you are. Heights is a little removed from transit and urban night life but otherwise a great choice. If you’re looking for urban but less noisy than lower Hoboken then grove street area is the way to go. Lots of new inventory though $3200 for a 2 bed seems aggressive now.

Damn RIP. Goat was a cool dude, used to bump into him all the time hanging around downtown back in the day. Chilled in his apt once while he tatted a friend of mine. Pouring one out.

That’s what sucks about so many of the LUXIRY buildings in Downtown JC! (I don’t know if other neighborhoods/cities.) The buildings often advertise great deals - free amenities, free 1-2 months’ rent upon signing, etc., but they offer those only to “new” tenants, not to existing ones.

That is so stupid and counterproductive, it seems. If you have had a good tenant all along, who paid rent on time and was never a problem (loud music, smoking in hallways, etc.), why wouldn’t you want that tenant to continue instead of risking it with a newer tenant you have little idea about?! Also, with a new tenant, you need to spend money on professional deep cleaning, repainting, etc., and it just seems that continuing with the existing tenant is cost-effective.

But still, they never offer such deals to existing tenants. It always boggles my mind.

Sarge’s or 2nd Ave Deli in Manhattan.

That's what I was going to ask. I'm new to Jersey City (approaching 1 year of occupancy) and I thought Jersey City, as a municipality, had a rent increase cap of 4%. If so, does it only apply to specific types of properties?

The approval of the huge new school complex in Bergen Lafayette is going to mean another huge tax hike. The school is definitely needed, and I'm all about a highly educated population, but it's going to be rough on the renters and homeowners here.

Yep, I just saw that Haus 25 is offering 1 month free now, which I’m pretty sure they weren’t doing just a few months ago.

It’s a sign the market is beginning to soften even if the advertised sticker price hasn’t gone down yet.

This just highlights the fact that landlords will generally seek to charge the maximum amount they can get in a particular market.

It doesn’t matter what happens with their property tax bill. They will seek the maximum rent possible given prevailing market forces.

If a similar tax increase happened in a market like Detroit, many landlords there would not be able to recoup the cost simply because their housing market is the opposite of ours in terms of supply/demand factors.