What was the worst apartment you've ever lived in?
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At the start of the year, we were having to kill 50 or more a day, some of them were huge, prehistoric era looking things. By the end of the year, we were only finding 1-2 a day and they were much smaller so we were definitely putting a lot of pressure on the population. Not sure if we would have wiped them out completely if we'd had to stay longer but I certainly wasn't gonna stay in that place any longer than I had to.
Oh wow. Yeah, that is on another level. I remember a court case that basically ruled " you cannot really get rid of the fuckers, having a few of them in an old building is not considered damage ". But 50, holy fuck.
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An unfinished garage with no plumbing for 1200 a month because it was the cheapest place within driving distance to work. I kept a gym membership for necessities and carefully planned my meals for 3 years
I finally left when a bee hive formed in the walls and the landlady refused to do anything about it
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A nice two bedroom, well-priced, with my partner and my friend. It was clean, maintenance was prompt, they had a great mail system.
It caught fire twice, then again after we moved out. aaaaaaaaaaa
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An unfinished garage with no plumbing for 1200 a month because it was the cheapest place within driving distance to work. I kept a gym membership for necessities and carefully planned my meals for 3 years
I finally left when a bee hive formed in the walls and the landlady refused to do anything about it
Out of sheer curiosity, what city or place was this garage in??
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Micro studio in a major city.
It was right next to a squeaky wood staircase and a main door that slams based on the weather. Loud metal gates that also slam. Every single upstairs neighbor thinking their floor isn't thin wood. Every upstairs neighbor letting their cabinets bang closed, making "thudthudthudthud" echo through my room while they toss pots and pans in the same cabinets carelessly. Shared kitchen that's an automatically closing door with a heavy spring and up the stairs. Can't use the window sometimes in the summer due to a neighbors grill blowing smoke into the room at random, while they go against city code by using said grill half a foot away from the structure. Had to seal a massive hole under the cabinets and along trim of the cabinets due to a neighbor in the other side of the complex blowing their weed smoke into the structure and right into my room. Before sealing the place yourself: you better believe you're getting a few carpet beetles that are gonna fuck up your clothes. Tiny sink that you can barely clean a damn thing in, and no sink in the bathroom so you have to shave over the same fucking sink where you wash food and clean things, or just over the toilet because someone decided that's where a bathroom mirror/cabinet should be. The plumbing from upper units going straight down until right behind my bathroom, so flushes from above get loud as fuck. A goddamn sliding door to the bathroom too? What kind of braindead sack of shit suggests putting a sliding door to a bathroom that goes RIGHT OVER A FUCKING WALL OUTLET. Want an outlet in the bathroom to charge your shaver? Fuck you, use the 2.5 square feet of counter space where you meal prep or dry dishes. Poor room design making me use a twin mattress that was stuck between two walls. Pre-installed shelving half-usable because it was blocked by pre-installed shelving. Bathroom fan that was on 24/7 by design, constantly pulling in air from the stinky stairwell. Junkies roaming fucking everywhere as soon as you leave the property. Constantly fucked up laundry machines since people are fucking stupid, or them leaving their shit in one of the 4 machines for several hours while all of the others are fucking full. Oh, and no, there are no laundromats because properly values have been completely fucked by shitty fucking investment companies that build cramped and overpriced apartment complexes. Want a front office? Fuck you. Want a reasonable building manager? Nah, he's a worthless sack of shit that sees your growing anger at living in a shithole as being "problematic." Quiet hours? Fuck em. Your neighbors are most likely fucking troglodytes that don't give a SINGLE FUCK.
All of this goddamn bullshit in the joy of 150 goddamn square feet. I can't believe I held out 5 years losing my mind there, through all the fucking sleepless nights. Hope the place gets hit with a fucking meteor.
Man, your punchline really sealed it.
I'm hoping for that meteor too.
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Out of sheer curiosity, what city or place was this garage in??
SE Florida is about as close as I will get in the modern age of data scraping. It was semi-urban
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I lived in a 300sqft apartment in a bad neighborhood. eight women were raped in my parking lot over the span of a year.
along the baseboard of the entire apartment was cat litter from the previous tenant.
the kitchen was painted flat black. the cabinets, the floor, the ceiling, the sink, the counter tops, the walls, the stove. everything. there was a window but it did nothing.
there was one door in the whole apartment, the front door. no door on the bathroom, no door on the bedroom, hell there wasn't even a wall for the bedroom.
the bathroom was 5' 8" tall. I know this because I'm over 6' tall.
the HVAC system never had a filter in it. I know this because to cool my 300sqft it cost me $700 one month and I thought, "no fucking way!" I pulled the side of the blower off and looked up into the a-coil. it was so matted with hair, fur, dust, dirt, it looked like cardboard. it took me four hours and two bottles of bleach spray to clean it with a toilet brush in 100°+ weather.
so to recap on what I did
- cleaned the litter up
- steamed the carpets twice (probably for the first time ever)
- freshly painted the kitchen
- refurbished the kitchen cabinets, stove, and sink and made them look brand new
- cleaned the HVAC system
- installed new insulation in the bathroom so it wasn't 13° in the winter and trimmed it up
- installed plug plates because half of them were missing
- replaced some of the plugs because they were so worn out they stopped working
now, some of you might say, "you're an idiot because you did all that free work!" and normally you'd be right, but this landlord never answered their phone unless you missed rent.
when I left that fat fuck tried to keep my deposit because I didn't have proof that the carpets were cleaned. Told him they were cleaned, personally by myself with my own equipment. then said there was trash left behind, then explained the furniture left behind was there I moved in. bastard kept half still.
worst apartment I've ever had. I was burned so bad the next place I took pictures of EVERYTHING before a box was moved in. that's a story for another time though.
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I rented a house with a bathtub that drained directly into the crawlspace... We also had a groundhog crawl up from the crawlspace into our walls where our hot water tank was. (Yes, the landlord put the hot water tank IN the wall. You had to deconstruct part of the house to get to it.)
Out of sight, out of mind
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My second apartment with my ex. He picked it out, and he always seems to gravitate towards the shitty places because he's just a trash human in reality. I even told him I hated it and wanted to look elsewhere and he insisted it was all we could afford, which was false, because he's a fucking bully and liar. The second bedroom which I used for my office had such ancient linoleum tile for flooring that it ground to pieces under my desk chair. The toilet was so small it was almost unusable, the bathroom had zero outlets, they did not provide kitchen appliances like most do, it was very small, no air conditioning, and the first summer we lived there they decided to replace the balconies so it was even hotter. It had one ancient elevator for the whole building, they locked the laundry room at 6 pm, the closets were tiny, it had mice and a drunken superintendent, and it was just miserable and I hated it. Then we moved up north for my ex's job, which is a whole other can of worms, and he picked what was largely regarded as the shittiest apartment complex in town, the hallways smelled of cat piss, and people smoked openly in the hallways. The apartment itself inside was ok, it was pretty large and reasonable.
I picked the next place and it was reasonable for us and we had super low rent as we lived there for 10 years. We had to move because my landlord wanted it for his kid and evicted us under the personal use clause, and he ended up picking a place in a neighborhood I loathe, which is renovated and very expensive, at least has a dishwasher and washer and dryer, but we've had horrible pest problems, and it's like 1K more than our last place, but that's what rent is here. I still live with him because I can't afford to move out, but I hate it and him; he always has this perverse need to be provocative by picking a place I hate.
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I rented a house with a bathtub that drained directly into the crawlspace... We also had a groundhog crawl up from the crawlspace into our walls where our hot water tank was. (Yes, the landlord put the hot water tank IN the wall. You had to deconstruct part of the house to get to it.)
Must be nice. I hope you see your mum firebombed lmao
