This is why you have renters insurance and why most land lord’s require it as part of your lease. Why are they making the landlord look like they have some obligation to rehouse the family. Assuming that the Cause of the fire is not due to the landlords negligence.

Like everyone is saying your best bet in terms comfortability. Might be to go with one of the big apartment complexes in downtown Newark for a year then decided which are you and your family wants to move. If you have school aged kids. I would. Recommend one of the neighboring towns like Bloomfield or west orange or even east orange

Good luck Newark is deff on the rise !!!

Just to clarify 1180 is a competing apartment complex. Walker house allows dogs with size and breed restrictions. But they where loosely enforcing it when I was leaving. They only do year and 2 year leases. You might find a hard time getting a short term least at one of the apartment complexes

Iron bound and forest hills section are huge Latinx areas especially ironbound. So it’s a lot of working class families. Forest hills is more a mix of black wealth, Latinx and white middle class community and is a little less busy/ noisey the ironbound.

That’s a old mindset of Newark, while mostly true some numbered blocks are changing. What’s your rental budget ? And what kind of apartment are you looking for? I lived in several sections of Newark. I currently live in upper Roseville and have a multi family home in lower vailsburg section of Newark ( this is a rougher area)

The apartments are nice but I think you get more bang for your buck at 1180 . It’s more outdated but closer to NY Penn and the Prudential Center,

I actually lived in walker house before I bought my 1st multi family home. I was paying 1900 for a one bedroom but the was one 2019-2020 I think for the same apartment it’s more like 2300 now 🙃. I’m glad I house hack now !

I think you have to give more details your life style. Are you looking for more of a suburban area or urban? what’s your rent budget ? Do you need access to public trans ? Do you have a car ? All of this matters. There are areas that “on paper” you may not think are good areas but truly are like upper Roseville

I recently bought a house which previous owner had the 1st floor tenants unknowing paying for the electrical in the basement ( where the owners mother lived ) . For this reason when we are going to rent out the 1st floor unit we will be including electricity in the rent.

All this to say that if you feel like something funny is going on call pseg and scheduled them to come out and do an assessment. Let them know your situation. They will have to get the land lord involved as they cannot just come onto someone’s property. Your other option is to get a real estate lawyer. But that route opens up another can of worms and might not be worth it financially. Maybe leave the unit when your lease is up.

I will say that I moved to Nj from NY 2 years ago and pseg is significantly cheaper than con Edison, with better service!!!