Valley and Bloom Apartments

I loved living in Montclair and the location of this building was great. My apartment was in decent condition.
However, be aware the staff running this place are pretty bad at their jobs. Very disorganized, they messed up my security deposit and applied it to my first month rent which I guess is no big deal but definitely an indicator that they kinda don't know what they are doing.
The other issue for me was about 4 months after I moved out they sent a utility bill (water and gas I believe) to a... collection agency and it dinged my credit score like 40+ points. They made NO ATTEMPT to contact me about it, I got no phone call no email nothing.
There's lots of other beautiful places to live in Montclair to consider. Read More

All the things promised and sold at the start of the lease have either changed or have been reduced in order to save the building money and charge residents more fees/fines. Recently, they have laid off very helpful concierge staff and charged an added trash collection fee that is totally unneeded bringing our "amenity" fee to $800 / year in total. This "luxury" living is not worth the cost anymore. Think twice before signing and ask current residents about the changes.

I have lived here for several years. While the apartments themselves are great and the few remaining onsite staff are generally very friendly, recent cutbacks and policy changes by the management company, LCOR, have removed any remaining feeling of “luxury” that this self-proclaimed “luxury” apartment building once had. Within the last month, the building has signed a deal with a third-party vendor to pick-up trash, and has enacted a policy that requires tenants to leave our garbage in the... hallway. The hallways are now cluttered with trash cans and, often times, trash bags and loose recycling. The package room offered as an “amenity” by the building is no longer staffed, and packages are now piled up in the package room and lobbies unattended, for anyone to take. Even worse, the building seems to have let go the few people employed to staff the package room right before Thanksgiving. Happy holidays indeed. While the “luxury” amenities have disappeared, the “luxury” prices for rent and amenities fees remain, and in fact the building continues to raise rents. The concerns raised by the tenants to management seem to have fallen on deaf ears. In a town with new apartment buildings popping up everywhere you look, you certainly have to wonder what management's thought process is. Read More

Multi-year resident of V&B. Overall it’s been a pleasant place to call home. However, recently, likely due to covid financial challenges, LCOR Mgt has focused new amenities on the tenants which are costly and less than the ‘luxury living’ the complex prides itself on.
Valet Trash. A trash pick service at your door. Sounds good, until you’re living with the reality of foul smelling and unsightly trash bags and bins in your hallways 24/7. This new ‘amenity’ comes with a mandatory monthly fee. Oh... joy!
LuxorOne Service. Gone goes the Concierge… replaced with a self-serve package pick-up. Try seeking out your package among 100s of resident packages, this is short of impossible. Because many of postal carriers leave packages outside the pgk room – unsecured… don’t be surprised to find… gone goes your latest electronics shipment or monthly prescriptions or that backordered Prime shipment. SMH
It should be noted that local management and maintenance teams are very pleasant. An effort is made to support & socialize tenants, keeping maintenance issues timely and common areas clean. Read More

I've lived here since 2017 and in the last year to year and a half or so, this building has rapidly declined from a five-star experience to a one-star nightmare. While the building staff are extremely friendly and truly a joy to interact with, the management company, LCOR, has started cutting amenities left and right while increasing the price of living here.

The two most recent cost-cutting measures are: 1) the building's package room and 2) the building's trash collection. The management... company has inexplicably decided to get rid of the staff who once worked the package room. Staff once logged packages, and residents would get notifications alerting them to a package's delivery. Then, residents would be able to pick up the packages with the help of the staff manning the package room.

Now, management expects FedEx and UPS to individually scan each resident's package. Of course, management doesn't employ the FedEx and UPS workers so packages are not being scanned in and are instead being left out in the open where anyone walking past can see them. If you're lucky, your package is--often without any notice being sent to you--dumped into the package room. Of course, you can't access the package room without the notification that your package has been delivered. If you're lucky enough to get a notification, good luck actually finding your package, as there's no discernable organizational system.

Second, the management has recently implemented what they're marketing as a "luxury trash valet" service. The only luxury this service has provided is the luxury of trash piled in the hallways. Residents are now required to leave trash in the hallway to be picked up where before, each resident was responsible for disposing of trash via convenient trash rooms. This has absolutely ruined the apartment's aesthetic.

Despite slashing amenities left and right, the yearly amenity fee has remained a hefty $500.00. Anyone not currently in a lease is also going to be expected to pay $25.00/month ($300.00/year) for the so-called luxury of trash in the hallways.

There are a number of other luxury buildings in the area that have gone up in the past few years. I would strongly recommend checking them out instead. Read More