All I can say Cody is when you pick your new apartment, be sure to ask the manager about soundproofing and what level of noise they tolerate in the complex. Ask for a demo before signing a lease. Maybe consider a top floor and a corner apartment with a bedroom on the outside wall. Read the lease agreement fully and understand what rights you have.
Yeah, as far as the demo, have the manager turn a porn site on full blast whilst he or she is playing jump rope. Seriously though Cody, I think just about everyone here has had apartment woes which is why most of us do not live in apartments. Face it guy, you’ve done nothing but complain since you moved in. If it isn’t about trash and cigarette butts it’s about the flowers, loud people or a neighbor with tattoos. How about finding an area you’d like to live, buy a 1/3 acre, throw a used 2 BR trailer on it, get a goat to rope and call it home. No neighbors means no one to contend with other than an occasional Jehovah’s Witness
Buying is cheaper than renting and it doesn't come with the same problems. There are problems, but they are different problems, and generally ones that you have more control over.
Buying is not cheaper and how about those who don't want to be owned by house...there are plenty of us. There are a lot of inconsiderate people out there and forget they live above other people..I've had my share in the 25+ yrs I've lived here and RENTED, and the last tenant above me, walked heavily on her hardwoods, she tore up the carpeting and this is illegal, but she did it..and then there was a period when she had a guy up there and they went to town on the nights he was there...I talked to her about this one. She just died recently and no one up above me NOW.....for some reason the owners are not getting the apt ready to rent out. They've made their millions on the apts they own.
Well, I'll make this clearer, this definitely isn't the first apartment complex that we've lived in where we've had problems. I'll try to explain here in a moment, but will say this about buying: Simply stating it, we can't afford to buy any property. IOW, we have a vehicle that has almost 180,000 miles on it, and a descent powerboat that we'd get very little out of if sold, just like our vehicle. Because we have so much fun with our boat, and so much money put into it, my wife told me that we definitely won't sell it. Wife is working, making a very nice salary, but not a single benefit. A day, or days off, she doesn't get paid whether that's a holiday or a vacation. No medical, but does have Medicare A/B and Supplements. And, on top of that, she has no idea, from month-to-month, if the company will extend her for another month. IOW, she's been very lucky so far in still having this job. And, there is no way we can afford a 55+ Community/apartment. We've encountered numerous kinds of noise, including: barking dogs, people sitting in their vehicle in parking lot playing Rap or whatever extremely loud at 1AM, Woods Owls sitting on the house roof behind our old one "hooting" at 2AM and on and on. Due to my hip replacement, and body condition in mid 70's, we only want, and can have, a floor level apartment (1st floor). When applying for an apartment, there are certain questions that can be and can't be asked. People really have no idea, whether it's an apartment complex or housing development, who is living around them. As far as noise goes, the Rental Lease Policy states about noise after 10PM. IOW, "be respectful of those that live around you". For whatever reasons, there are those, whether young or old/older that have to sell their house and move into an apartment. There are those that think they can play music, party or whatever in a apartment the same way they did in their house. Believe it or not, there are those that will lift weights in their apartment and they don't care who lives below or next to them. So, Bottom Line is this: No matter whether a person lives in a house, condo or apartment, there will be those that don't care about "Respect" or "Consideration" and do whatever they want. Actually, we've been told, at a different apartment complex, by a father going thru a divorce with small kids, who lived on the 3rd floor and we lived on the 1st floor "if you don't like my kids jumping off of the couch or whatever, then move". He had visitation, but would have the kids sometimes when he had to work on a Saturday. He left them in the apartment by themselves. I distinctly remember a member on here telling about all of the problems she encountered in her apartment. But, apartment living is all she could afford.
Oh, really! I paid $14,500 for the house that I have been living in for 23 years. That's 276 months, which calculates to $52.54/month, and each month that number will decrease because the house is paid for. You might increase that slightly with property taxes, but they aren't that much, and Maine has stabilized property taxes for seniors so our property taxes won't increase when the town raises the millage. What are you paying to rent an apartment? About six years ago, a friend of mine bought a two-story house, with a full basement, for $600, and it was a perfectly livable home. I've been in it. Only a few months ago, I know of someone who bought their house at a tax sale for $2,000. When I lived in Southern California, I was paying more than $1,300 a month to rent a townhouse in 1983. Moving to Texas, I was able to rent a two-bedroom house for $300 a month but, even then, I felt more comfortable living in my own home, and was able to buy my own home by taking over the mortgage payments on a house for someone who had been transferred to Austin. That cost me a little more per month, but it was a bigger place and I owned it. There are plenty of places in the country where you can buy homes at more than reasonable prices, and there are even more places where you can buy land, upon which you can erect your own building, or move a trailer onto. I currently want to move to Michigan and, looking at real estate prices, I have found several homes for under $50,000 that appear to be livable, plus some much cheaper ones that would require more work and investment that I'm willing to take on at this point in my life. But, since I own my home here, I can wait until I find someone desperate enough to sell that I can get a good deal. If you don't want to be "owned by house," whatever that means, that's up to you. Unless we're living under a bridge, someone is going to own and be responsible for the buildings we're living in. I'd rather own the building I'm living in and live under my own rules. If I am on the ground floor, I own the floor above, and the floor above that. There are two side yards between my house and my neighbors. If you'd rather pay someone for the right to have a roof over your head, that's up to you. You make your own decisions, but you have to then accept the results of them. Oh, you can complain about what the neighbors are doing here all you want. If it helps to vent your frustrations here, that's fine, but we can't do anything about it, and those of us who know there's a better way to live won't necessarily be sympathetic. Others will, so it's worth a shot.
Thank You so much, Joy, for your explanation to everyone. There are those that just have a hard time understanding those that just want "peace and quiet" during sleep time. In our complex, when the winter first started, there were a number of vacancies. And, because of winter and cold-to-freezing temps, some of them stayed empty. Then again, we seen a young couple moving into an apartment and the outside temperature was 20 degrees. And, both were wearing Spring type jackets............in 20 degree weather!
There is nothing wrong with doing so, as long as you realize that no one here can do anything about these problems and that some, particularly those who know there are better ways to live, aren't going to be sympathetic.
\ $14,500 ?? Where was that and how many decades ago? My parents bought their first and only house in the later 50's in a small burg outside of Pgh Pa and they paid $14,500 as I can recall back to those days.....We sold that house in 2005 after they were both gone for a mere $60K...we could have held on for maybe $5K or more but wanted to sell and go on with our lives, that was my sister and I. Even now in that small burg I read real estate is going for $100K and above. The town died, nothing there not even a market. So today I'd like to hear where one can buy anything large for $14K....I made a bad buy in the 80's for a condo conversaion for $83K and got out of it 5 yrs later as it was not where I wanted to be and a lot of riff raff was moving in as owners were buying units as investments to their porfolios of real estate. Ken, many many just can't pick up and go running all over the country to find a cheap shack.... What is the $14K house you bought going for today if it were on the market.....
Clearly, you haven't even read the post you're replying to so I'm done. As for finding deals, you have to look for them, but they are available. Everything in life requires sacrifice. You sacrifice your time earning enough money to buy an expensive home or you sacrifice your time looking for those that aren't so expensive, plus you might have to move to where they aren't so expensive. For example, you're unlikely to find a livable home in a safe neighborhood in a large city, but, if you want to live in a large city, that's a choice you've made.
Oh Ken looking at your profile, do you reside in the small town of Millinocket Maine? Yrs ago when my mom and I were visiting my sister in CT, we took at drive up the coast to Kennebunkport, had lunch there and then drove to Portland and it was Hot and Humid day in August... that is what I remember about Maine. Oh and then there are the Rockport shoes, I owned some of them in my life.
Okay, enough is enough!! All that talk about sex, sex and more sex and WHAM…..the whole forum gets shut down for 3 days and it’s all Cody’s fault for starting the thread.
The reason they only wore spring type jackets is because of that warm welcome you gave them. I mean, you were watching them so I am sure that you walked over to them and offered your hand and a welcome.
What? Cody welcome MORE young folks to his apartment complex? Not unless they were tieing up cutting horses in the parking lot, wearing chaps and the "right" brand of hat and boots and could prove they had no tattoos. Besides, they were only wearing light jackets and everyone knows that's a clear sign of moral degeracy.