I am very very content. I've lived in 3 ownership residences in my life and for last 25+ yrs live in my cozy beach town apt. When something breaks etc, I call management and it gets fixed pronto. I believe MOST here are home dwellers but wondering.
We lived in two apartments before we bought our house in 2004. After we sold our house in 2007, we've lived in three apartments now. One complex for 10 1/2 years. We don't have the finances to buy another house, so..........it's just apartment living. Just like living in a house/mobile home, there are pluses and minuses compared to an apartment. Wife and I would rather live in a house, but apartment living isn't bad either.
I don't know if I could tolerate apartment living again or not. Having to deal with the noise of others and the worry of disturbing others are not what I would choose. As I become less capable with age, I may be forced to go that direction, but it would never be my choice.
I haven't lived in an apartment in over 30 years, but I liked it fine when I was single. Joy, it sounds like you live in a very nice place... "cozy beach town apt."
Don, we have it so made in the U.S. I lived in an apt for many yrs growing up, after the depression and grandparents from the Old Country came to the U.S. and built a 6 unit apt bldg and some aunts/ucles and cousins grew up in 2 bedroom apts.....
I lived in apartments for about 14 years before I bought this house. I enjoyed apartment living at the time. Some were better than others. I tended to fix things myself, even in apartments, rather than wait for maintenance. There are always things that you don't like that you can't ever change in an apartment because the mgt wouldn't allow it. During those years, many apartment complexes were being bought up and turned into condominiums, or leveled for new structures, not necessarily more rental units. I was afraid I would find the perfect apartment and then it would be sold and I'd have to move. The later in life this happens the worse it would be to move I think. The first duplex I lived in was bulldozed and replaced with a new one. But all of the other places are still around.
Beth, it is primo and when I moved in people were paying finder's fees for SM apts and now there are 2 vacant apts in our bldg....prices have gone sky high and maybe the owners have made ENUF on their apts. I believe this bldg is paid off/ Here is a view From the street I deleted the apt photo. I'm not terrible fearful but you never know.
Looks like a lovely place, Joy. You might want to delete the google link showing the address, though.
Wow Ken, you Hate apartments....hate is so so strong and I try hard to NOT use it...but many many do.
Well, Don, let me tell you this: Unless the house is on numerous acres of land, noise can be, and most likely will be, a problem. Our last house, in a housing development, on 1/4 acre (large backyard), where the side of our one neighbor's house was some 10 feet from the side of ours. But, that neighbor wasn't the problem, it was the new one that moved in on the other side of us that was. They had two dogs that were left in the backyard all night and would bark for whatever reasons. The husband had told his wife to put the dogs in the garage when she went to bed, but she didn't do it. He worked the graveyard shift as school security. Apparently, before he got home, she did put the dogs in the garage. Anyway, we seen him and told him about the dogs and he was stunned that his wife didn't listen to his request. He talked to her and she would put them into the garage when she went to bed. Then, one evening when I got home from work, a neighbor told me that our dogs had gotten lose out of our backyard. Thing is, we no longer had a dog! Come to find out, the two dogs had gotten out of the garage next door, dug a hole under our fence, went into our backyard and then back into their garage. The owner fixed our fence. Then came two rather large woods owls that perched on the roof on the house behind ours. At 2AM, they would "hoot" back and forth and wake us up. So, after the dog barking and getting lose was taken care of, these owls showed up. I hot our high-intensity boat light, pointed it up in the sky and lowered it down to one owl.........never letting the light beam hit any house window. The owl took off and so did the other. Never had to worry about noisy neighbors, but dogs and owls we did have problems with. A large woods owl can have a loud "hoot" to it. As far as apartment living goes, we never got any complaint about noise, but we've sure had the noise in apartments around ours. Not a lot of noise, but enough.
Noise comes and goes and if it' s problem talk to the noisy tenant and if that does not work talk to mgmt. The lady upstairs of me tore up her carpeting and was walking and dropping things on hardwoods.....I told her about it and she changed. She got very sick and is now gone and that apt is empty.
Many apartment complex managers will tell a resident to contact them about a noise complaint, not confront the neighbor. We did that once with a neighbor that lived above us. She had two young kids, one old enough to babysit the other, while their mother was at work. They would jump off of living room couch onto the floor/our ceiling and do a lot of wrestling in the living room. It had gotten so loud that we went upstairs, knocked on the door, could hear both kids inside, but they wouldn't answer the door. So, we wrote a note and left it on their door. We went to the grocery store, and when we returned, their was a County Sheriff's patrol car sitting in front of the building. The upstairs neighbor had called him. The Deputy came down and talked to us and said that we couldn't leave a note like that and that the resident could press charges on us. She didn't want to press any charges, so we were lucky there. In another complex, we had an upstairs neighbor that had weekend visitation of his two kids, but sometimes he had to work during the day. His two kids done the same thing...........jumping and wrestling on the floor/our ceiling. When we seen the father in the complex parking lot, we mentioned to him about his kids noise and he said, "if you don't like it, move". So, it's not always as simple as talking to a neighbor, especially when the neighbor says "I pay rent here also. Don't like the noise, move!" And, sometimes management will do something about the noise, but many times, the noise will continue where an Eviction Notice may come into play for the resident making all of the noise.