It's the only thing that can explain how such a vast percentage of apartments have totally ass ugly design choices
Stingy landlords is another.
"Whatever's cheapest."
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BarcardiAll the WizardsUnder A Rock: AfganistanRegistered Userregular
edited July 2013
Well, it appears I am moving to Seattle in 2 weeks. Working downtown. Anyone have any suggestions as what parts of town are awesome/what parts of town to avoid?
I am soooooooo excited but also surprisingly freaked totally out at the speed at which this happened.
It's the only thing that can explain how such a vast percentage of apartments have totally ass ugly design choices
Stingy landlords is another.
"Whatever's cheapest."
You can see the progression in our apartment complex since they left most of the old hardware in place even though it isn't being used. I've got hangers for vertical blinds (broken), mini blinds (both white and taupe), hangers for a proper curtain rod (no curtain rod included), and in the downstairs apartment they just remodeled they didn't bother to put in any window coverings at all so the guy nailed up an old sheet over the window (ultra class).
It's the only thing that can explain how such a vast percentage of apartments have totally ass ugly design choices
Stingy landlords is another.
"Whatever's cheapest."
You can see the progression in our apartment complex since they left most of the old hardware in place even though it isn't being used. I've got hangers for vertical blinds (broken), mini blinds (both white and taupe), hangers for a proper curtain rod (no curtain rod included), and in the downstairs apartment they just remodeled they didn't bother to put in any window coverings at all so the guy nailed up an old sheet over the window (ultra class).
People are so focused on short-term expenses that they don't see the long game.
Like the people that own our apartment. We're on our third bathroom exhaust fan because they just won't get a decently made quality fan as a replacement when the one that's there now finally dies to the dust and moisture that comes from having two layers of shitty carpet and insufficient extraction due to the crappy fan they paid for. Our vertical blinds slowly went mouldy and started to rot despite Amy's best efforts to keep them clean and dry, so they replaced them with the exact same cheapest possible vertical blinds that are already breaking...
If you want to be a slum lord so badly you fuckers, just fucking move to South America and build some tenements.
People like this don't even stop and think for a minute, to realise just how they are in fact fucking themselves over.
Yep, your could-be trendy close to the city upmarket apartment worth a shitload of money is in fact a dump because you wanted to save a couple of dollars here and there. Your tenants are fed up and sick of paying rent on an apartment with an almost unusable bathroom, an almost unusable kitchen, and only stay because the housing market is so fucked up that moving would cost them near enough to $5000.
The paint is peeling off the walls and ceiling in the second bedroom because of damp problems caused by a lack of maintenance and a half-arsed attempt at rectifying the problems.
The carpet, my goodness the carpet. The original stained white carpet was deemed suitable to act as an underlay for the replacement second-hand poo brown office carpet that was laid over the top some time in the 80s and is now threadbare and unravelling at a rate of knots...
The tiles in the kitchen and bathroom are so extraordinarily ugly (light brown, with speckled dark brown flecks) and difficult to keep clean (they're so old they're becoming porous and mildew and mould are taking root in the tiles themselves, nevermind the grout) and difficult to keep clean.
The linen cupboard (conveniently located inside the bathroom, right next to the shower!) has door hinges that are rusted shut.
The oven is literally falling apart.
If I spent about $80-100,000 completely renovating this apartment and bringing it up to modern standards of style and comfort, the place would easily be worth $600k.
In its current condition?
Maybe $350k, and that's in an extremely overblown housing market.
there is no level of apartment living you can get to where that mentality doesn't exist
they will get the cheapest thing that looks passable, all the time every time everywhere possible
this is most evident with florida where they buy piss poor windows and window installations that let mold in like crazy
like
if you just invested in some good quality storm windows with quality sealants and such, you wouldn't have a mold farm in every single apartment in your complex
but see in florida you have to sign a piece of paper agreeing that you will not sue for health problems related to mold to even live in an apartment
Can't get internet at the new place until Saturday or Sunday.
A week with no Internet at my house and no wife or kids to distract me is killing me. I've been hitting Redbox like whoa and even that isn't helping. Bluuuuuuuurgh
but see in florida you have to sign a piece of paper agreeing that you will not sue for health problems related to mold to even live in an apartment
what the shit?
basically apartments are required to tell you up front that the apartment "probably has mold in it" and you agree to waive your right to do anything about it other than move out
even small complexes I have lived in do this, not just the corporate ones
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
At my flat today, was cleaning the paint rollers. By, like, holding them under the taps and squeezing along them to get the paint out. And as I do this I say to myself, "Huh, just like jelqing."
So I moved into my new apartment today, I was supposed to move in Saturday but the plumbing backed up and it flooded and they had to replace the carpets.
It is in a wooded area so it is pretty humid during the 90something summer. I go in and it is around 80-85 inside, go to turn on the AC and nothin'. I told the lease office and they said they would send a maintenance man asap. I finished loading up stuff from my old place and came back after an hour, still no AC. They said that a maintenance dude stopped by and said everything works. So now they have a dude who they are going to "have a talk with" and I have to spend a night in swamp hell until another guy arrives tomorrow morning.
Also: UPDATES!! We've painted the living room, kitchen and dining room completely. The only thing we need to do is some touch-ups here and there. Also the back yard is in! I've also replaced the light switches in the living room and dining room with decora wall switches. The fixture in the kitchen has also been replaced with a nicer light (may have been in other pictures).
The living room with furniture and our new entertainment center.
The kitchen unpacked:
The Dining room. JJ's image is perfect for the dining room.
I replaced the hideous $14 bathroom fixture with something a little nicer.
The back yard! WOO!!
One of the things we like about the house is the space between the houses. So many subdivisions in Texas have houses so close together you can literally hear conversations next door. Also this house is out of the city and is so very very quiet at night.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Most of my flat is now painted.
Guys, I am so. bored. of painting.
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Tomorrow I get to strap my queen size mattress and box spring to the top of my jeep and move it about fifteen minutes down the road.
It's gonna be an experience, all right.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
Question: have any of you guys had to deal with large expenses of empty wall? I have two really big walls in my apartment and none of my pictures are quite enough to take up the space. And... I currently own no vertical furniture.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Two days until the move! We finally got to see the inside of the place yesterday and I am quite satisfied. Also someone is giving us a free 50" flat screen TV and that's pretty awesome too.
So, my grandmother is doing pretty poorly health wise, and just recently moved to an assisted living home. My parents want me to move into her house and take care of the place for about a year (mowing, shoveling, etc), rent free, and possibly buy the house when they're ready to sell. Pretty amazing opportunity really.
The interior needs a lot of cosmetic work (terrible wallpaper, awful carpeting...pretty much everything you'd expect from your grandmothers house), and the appliances are older than I am, but that's easy work, especially if I'm not paying rent for a year.
Yea, she was just getting too old to take care of it, falling down a lot and things like that. She's told them she doesn't care what they do with the house, but I don't think they want to sell it while she's alive.
Oh that wasn't a complaint at all. I'm going to remove the wallpaper/carpeting and paint, and invest in, at the very least, a new stove and refrigerator.
I've always thought picture frame clusters was a neat visual thing to fill up a large wall. Just all sorts of different looking frames with all sorts of different looking pictures that just kind of comes together cohesively, and you can usually find frames for pretty cheap if you look around. Target and Home Goods, if you have either in your area, are usually pretty good about having bundle sales all the time on this kind of stuff. Finding stuff to put in the frames is usually the hardest part of the whole thing, though...
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Stingy landlords is another.
"Whatever's cheapest."
I am soooooooo excited but also surprisingly freaked totally out at the speed at which this happened.
You can see the progression in our apartment complex since they left most of the old hardware in place even though it isn't being used. I've got hangers for vertical blinds (broken), mini blinds (both white and taupe), hangers for a proper curtain rod (no curtain rod included), and in the downstairs apartment they just remodeled they didn't bother to put in any window coverings at all so the guy nailed up an old sheet over the window (ultra class).
I'm trying to run around between the realtor and my paranoid uncle and it is making me want to scream.
People are so focused on short-term expenses that they don't see the long game.
Like the people that own our apartment. We're on our third bathroom exhaust fan because they just won't get a decently made quality fan as a replacement when the one that's there now finally dies to the dust and moisture that comes from having two layers of shitty carpet and insufficient extraction due to the crappy fan they paid for. Our vertical blinds slowly went mouldy and started to rot despite Amy's best efforts to keep them clean and dry, so they replaced them with the exact same cheapest possible vertical blinds that are already breaking...
If you want to be a slum lord so badly you fuckers, just fucking move to South America and build some tenements.
People like this don't even stop and think for a minute, to realise just how they are in fact fucking themselves over.
Yep, your could-be trendy close to the city upmarket apartment worth a shitload of money is in fact a dump because you wanted to save a couple of dollars here and there. Your tenants are fed up and sick of paying rent on an apartment with an almost unusable bathroom, an almost unusable kitchen, and only stay because the housing market is so fucked up that moving would cost them near enough to $5000.
The paint is peeling off the walls and ceiling in the second bedroom because of damp problems caused by a lack of maintenance and a half-arsed attempt at rectifying the problems.
The carpet, my goodness the carpet. The original stained white carpet was deemed suitable to act as an underlay for the replacement second-hand poo brown office carpet that was laid over the top some time in the 80s and is now threadbare and unravelling at a rate of knots...
The tiles in the kitchen and bathroom are so extraordinarily ugly (light brown, with speckled dark brown flecks) and difficult to keep clean (they're so old they're becoming porous and mildew and mould are taking root in the tiles themselves, nevermind the grout) and difficult to keep clean.
The linen cupboard (conveniently located inside the bathroom, right next to the shower!) has door hinges that are rusted shut.
The oven is literally falling apart.
If I spent about $80-100,000 completely renovating this apartment and bringing it up to modern standards of style and comfort, the place would easily be worth $600k.
In its current condition?
Maybe $350k, and that's in an extremely overblown housing market.
they will get the cheapest thing that looks passable, all the time every time everywhere possible
this is most evident with florida where they buy piss poor windows and window installations that let mold in like crazy
like
if you just invested in some good quality storm windows with quality sealants and such, you wouldn't have a mold farm in every single apartment in your complex
but see in florida you have to sign a piece of paper agreeing that you will not sue for health problems related to mold to even live in an apartment
therefore they don't give a shit
A week with no Internet at my house and no wife or kids to distract me is killing me. I've been hitting Redbox like whoa and even that isn't helping. Bluuuuuuuurgh
what the shit?
Florida is awful.
basically apartments are required to tell you up front that the apartment "probably has mold in it" and you agree to waive your right to do anything about it other than move out
even small complexes I have lived in do this, not just the corporate ones
This god damn forum.
Well. Happier than the alternative, at least.
It is in a wooded area so it is pretty humid during the 90something summer. I go in and it is around 80-85 inside, go to turn on the AC and nothin'. I told the lease office and they said they would send a maintenance man asap. I finished loading up stuff from my old place and came back after an hour, still no AC. They said that a maintenance dude stopped by and said everything works. So now they have a dude who they are going to "have a talk with" and I have to spend a night in swamp hell until another guy arrives tomorrow morning.
Also: UPDATES!! We've painted the living room, kitchen and dining room completely. The only thing we need to do is some touch-ups here and there. Also the back yard is in! I've also replaced the light switches in the living room and dining room with decora wall switches. The fixture in the kitchen has also been replaced with a nicer light (may have been in other pictures).
The living room with furniture and our new entertainment center.
The kitchen unpacked:
The Dining room. JJ's image is perfect for the dining room.
I replaced the hideous $14 bathroom fixture with something a little nicer.
The back yard! WOO!!
One of the things we like about the house is the space between the houses. So many subdivisions in Texas have houses so close together you can literally hear conversations next door. Also this house is out of the city and is so very very quiet at night.
I am open to decorating ideas!
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Guys, I am so. bored. of painting.
It's gonna be an experience, all right.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Satans..... hints.....
I have a black and white clock tower wall vinyl on one wall and pandas and bamboo on another wall from them!
Hey gurl
The interior needs a lot of cosmetic work (terrible wallpaper, awful carpeting...pretty much everything you'd expect from your grandmothers house), and the appliances are older than I am, but that's easy work, especially if I'm not paying rent for a year.
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Maybe I should start packing since I move Sunday.
Naaaaaaaaaaah.
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I saw the light
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
None of these scream my name
Except the AT-AT but that's making a commitment to being a certain kind of person
...wait nevermind all of these are baller
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN