That’s Apartment Life

My current apartment days are numbered! Of course there are three different ways to number them depending on how you count, but there is an end. In fact, today we celebrate my last rent check! :woot: My check today is for this month and next month because I am just that ready to be finished with it all.

So I present here for you the list of things I like, and don’t like, about living in apartments.

First the good.

• On site maintenance. Except, in these apartments when I go tell them something’s broke, they hand me the part and expect me to fix it myself. It’s why there’s an air conditioning filter in my hallway instead of in the vent.
• Pool. This is good. Pools are nice, but they are also a lot of work. I don’t have to do anything but enjoy it with an apartment one.
• Easy drop-off for packages. Packages are all delivered at the office where there is always someone to sign for it. So there’s no waiting around all day for the delivery man. It’s very convenient.

Okay. Now the things I won’t miss.

• Neighbor sounds. The guy above me in Utah had squeaky bed springs. That can get uncomfortable. I wish the people above me had squeaky bed springs, it might drown out some other noise. And he snores. And the kid next to me here for a while liked to randomly scream. At least that wall was in the kitchen. And then the kid who would ride his skateboard up and down the sidewalk outside my apartment and try to do jumps off everyone’s porches. Not enjoying that sound.
• Drunken swearing contests at 1am. This is just a more specific example of neighbor sounds. I was woken in the middle of the night in June by the people in the building next to mine enjoying the middle of the night on their porch with some friends, and for some reason one of them felt the need to just repeat swear words for a good ten minutes. Wasn’t saying any other words. That was not for a good night. And it wasn’t the only time either. It’s happened rather frequently.
• Neighbor smells. WHY do smokers think their dirty habit doesn’t affect everyone around them? My apartment smelled like a cheap motel (and I mean motel, not hotel) all last summer. It was disgusting! This wasn’t really so much a problem in Utah.
• No in-house laundry. Oh how I love doing laundry at my own place. I could in my last apartment. But I could not find any one bedroom apartments in Tucson that had hook-ups. Apparently people in one bedroom apartments aren’t supposed to do laundry.
• Weed blowers outside my bedroom window at 7am. Okay, so 7am isn’t really that early. But when the “quiet hours” for the complex are until 9am, I find it very rude for the apartment complex grounds people to be blowing their blowers right outside my window that early in the morning! I actually feel a bit of hate in my stomach now whenever I hear one of those no matter where I am or what time of day it is.
• Teeny tiny kitchens. Oh to have counter space! And cupboards!
• No yard. I did okay with my pot garden in Utah. This one here didn’t do that great this year, just about everything died. Oddly, my tomato plant started making flowers again this week. I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
• Walking across a parking lot with my groceries.
• A 2.5 foot tall water heater. It’s barely enough hot water for a good shower.

In short, I’m not really going to miss apartment living at all. Yeah! 😀