Apartment Living : Will there ever be a bright side?

[Darth_Kitten]

:banghead:

Odors: Uh, if you are cooking something with both garlic AND curry, it's wise to open your windows so your neighbours don't have to. Will leaving an open box on baking soda by your door make you rethink your cooking habits? :eyes:

Graffiti: Oh, such nice stuff, especially over walls that keep having to be painted. Uh, are tenants or their lovely friends the gang members the artistes? Nice to know this is what I'm paying for.

Kids: it's nice when they are crying to leave them out in the hallways to disturb others.
Plus I love it when tenants and their friends chit chat in the halls at all times of the day and night. Why live in your own space when the hallway is much more open?



Man, I'm in a pissy mood. :mad:

[democracyindanger]

1. Yes. Moving out.

[Darth_Kitten]

4. I'd love to......

really really would.

:(

[crispini]

2. The bright side is...

you can move.

That's all I got! :shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

3. I really don't have the money right now....

that's just it. :(

[Bunny]

5. Have you considered renting a house?

I just helped my brother move from a small but perfectly nice apartment that he had lived in for two years. Why did he move? Noisy neighbors. People who played loud music and partied till all hours, during the work week. People who are just generally ignorant asses.

He complained to his landlord, who did nothing, so he went out and found a new place. His landlord was kinda pissed when he moved, but if he had warned the new neighbors to quiet down, it might not have needed to end this way.

[Robeson]

6. Actually.........

....No, there's not. Sorry...:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

7. That's what I was thinking. haha

I've gone over the cost of things and I just cannot afford it now. Seriously, I cannot.

So, I will complain for now. ;)
I should make a list of all the things that need improving here and tell the new property manager. :( Maybe they are really not aware. :(

it just seems that everything annoying is coming to a head now. :(

[Robeson]

8. Yes you should.....

...I never realized all the things I could have taken advantage of when I used to live in an apartment, until I became a property manager at one time. All the letters and calls I got, telling me this was in the lease or that, and that our company needed to do this or that or fix this or that, or......It went on and on. Probably one of the reasons I got out of being a property manager - 60 hrs. a week of dealing with other peoples complaints and problems....

Oh, and on edit: :rant:

[Darth_Kitten]

9. They should really know what they "inherited"

I'm kind of leering about being seen as a "complainer", but just bringing things to their attention shouldn't be such a problem.

The new manager doesn't seem like an ogre or anything, not like the last manager, who ran hot and cold. :(

[trof]

10. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

[AndyTiedye]

11. And The "Peak Oil" Folks Want Us All to Live Like That?

No way!
I think I'll keep my home out in the woods, thank you.
I'll bike to the train station if I have to.
Maybe I'll get a horse.

[SarahB]

12. That would drive me nuts.

I live in a townhouse which isn't so bad. Maybe that's an idea (around where I am, they even have one bedroom townhouses). Walls on the sides, but no hallways or upstairs neighbors. Sometimes I miss my house, but I'll have one again. In the meantime, I can happily live with it. :D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I've lived in apartments most of my life, and I've never had any of those

problems, except when I lived in one of those motel-looking apartments that they have in small town Oregon, and my downstairs neighbors had a dog (yippy terrier variety) that they'd let out to wander around whenever they went out to enjoy what passed for nightlife in that town. Eventually, the dog would get tired of wandering around and would stand at its owners' front door (they weren't home, remember) yipping to be let in. For as long as it took the owners to come home. Which...was...sometimes...hours...later. :grr:

Otherwise, I'm fine with appartment living. I'm not responsible for repairs, I pay property taxes only indirectly (and on an easy to handle monthly basis instead of quarterly). If I don't like where I'm living, I can move without worrying about what happens to the space next.