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HottyToddyChick

HottyToddyChick

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Common courtesy and basic consideration for others?

I hate living in an apartment! I'm sick of people in the parking lot blaring their music. Particularly this dude who sounds like he's playing Oompa Loompa music. (I get that it's not late, but the six buildings with 16 apartments each don't want to hear your music!) And then people stomp on stairs, and run around, and scream and yell. Especially kids. I can't tell you how many times I hear kids playing outside screaming bloody murder. One of these days a kid is going to get abducted and no one is going to notice because the screaming is a daily thing and we all just tune it out.

I go out of my way to not make noise between certain hours, I don't scream and yell at my husband, I turn my radio down when I get off the highway, I turn the television down if the movie turns loud and will turn it back up if it gets quiet again.

I just don't get it. I decided the other day that some people make it their mission in life to be as noisy as humanly possible.

Surprisingly, I feel better having gotten that out of my system.
 
We lived in an apartment in 1992 while house shopping. The people upstairs were beyond obnoxious. They played their TV at a level I could not hear mine. They had a dog who ran up and down the hall at all hours. The ditzy woman forgot she was running a bath until I went upstair because she had flooded my walk-in closet. Christmas morning at 2 am I has banging on their door because her son had his strereo at a level it was like karaoke in my daughter's bedroom.
 
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It's apartment life. I have dealt with worse.

Unfortunately, no, Ryder. It doesn't look like there's a house anywhere in the near future, unless you count my parents. I have no clue what's in store other than things are about to get REALLY rough for us, potentially. I guess I should appreciate the craziness of an apartment while I still have my own place, right?
 
I haven't been on here as much lately and am not up to date. What is about to happen to make things rough? Did anything ever happen with your job hunt? If that question is too personal feel free to ignore it or pm me instead.

Do you all get a special rate at the apartment because of your husbands job in the service? I don't know how those things work.

When the hubbub and I were looking for a place to live we ended up finding an amazing deal on a house. It was a foreclosure which are generally pretty trashed but ours was close to perfect. We would have paid just as much each month to live in an apartment. Deals are out there if you look hard enough.
 
i just moved into an apartment last week for the first time in almost thirty years. since 1982, i was either camping, mostly from a vehicle, or living in a house on at least a half acre of land. this is new to me.

i live in a bigger complex that's a predominantly hispanic melting pot and definitely low income. lots of students in the neighborhood too which is probably one of the highest population densities in austin.

the noise isn't so bad. there was a loud party one night but it didn't go real late. my upstairs neighbors play the tv loud enough to hear it but not loud enough to bother me.

my next door neighbor knocked on my door earlier. when i opened it, he was pointing at the keys i left in the lock last night. later he stopped by with a sack of food. not everybody are shitheads. there are plenty of nice people left.
 
Boomerang said:
I haven't been on here as much lately and am not up to date. What is about to happen to make things rough? Did anything ever happen with your job hunt? If that question is too personal feel free to ignore it or pm me instead.

Do you all get a special rate at the apartment because of your husbands job in the service? I don't know how those things work.

When the hubbub and I were looking for a place to live we ended up finding an amazing deal on a house. It was a foreclosure which are generally pretty trashed but ours was close to perfect. We would have paid just as much each month to live in an apartment. Deals are out there if you look hard enough.
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We get a 5% discount, which is nice, but it's still just "meh". For what we pay and the space we get and the safety of the area, we're doing good. It's a good balance. Very hard to find space and quality and safety around here without paying out the wazoo.

No go on the one I was super excited about, so it looks like we're staying here. I did find out some good things about getting certified here, so I'll start getting that ball rolling this week. But basically at some point in the next few months, unless I can get a full time job, we're looking at having no benefits and no full time employment once he gets out. And we don't know when that is. Kind of playing the cross our fingers game and holding on to the fact that we love each other, house, apartment, or cardboard box. It'll be interesting.

TommyTooter said:
i just moved into an apartment last week for the first time in almost thirty years. since 1982, i was either camping, mostly from a vehicle, or living in a house on at least a half acre of land. this is new to me.

i live in a bigger complex that's a predominantly hispanic melting pot and definitely low income. lots of students in the neighborhood too which is probably one of the highest population densities in austin.

the noise isn't so bad. there was a loud party one night but it didn't go real late. my upstairs neighbors play the tv loud enough to hear it but not loud enough to bother me.

my next door neighbor knocked on my door earlier. when i opened it, he was pointing at the keys i left in the lock last night. later he stopped by with a sack of food. not everybody are shitheads. there are plenty of nice people left.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I adore my neighbors! Well, all but the one who put huge ass speakers in his car and rattles my chest when he comes home. But the rest I love. Even the elephants upstairs aren't so bad. We exchange pleasantries when I see her in the common areas, which is more than I can say for neighbors just about anywhere else I've lived. It's mostly the people in other buildings that share our lot that I have issues with. And I'm sure they're in other buildings because I don't recognize them.
 
HottyToddyChick said:
We get a 5% discount, which is nice, but it's still just "meh". For what we pay and the space we get and the safety of the area, we're doing good. It's a good balance. Very hard to find space and quality and safety around here without paying out the wazoo.

No go on the one I was super excited about, so it looks like we're staying here. I did find out some good things about getting certified here, so I'll start getting that ball rolling this week. But basically at some point in the next few months, unless I can get a full time job, we're looking at having no benefits and no full time employment once he gets out. And we don't know when that is. Kind of playing the cross our fingers game and holding on to the fact that we love each other, house, apartment, or cardboard box. It'll be interesting.



Oh, don't get me wrong, I adore my neighbors! Well, all but the one who put huge ass speakers in his car and rattles my chest when he comes home. But the rest I love. Even the elephants upstairs aren't so bad. We exchange pleasantries when I see her in the common areas, which is more than I can say for neighbors just about anywhere else I've lived. It's mostly the people in other buildings that share our lot that I have issues with. And I'm sure they're in other buildings because I don't recognize them.
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don't get me going about scumbag neighbors. the house we had to sell two years ago was next door to a crack house and around the corner from a meth lab. that neighborhood and those of several friends are full of jerk offs who love to call the police, health department, whatever if they don't like their neighbors. most of them actually hate themselves and take it out on everybody else.

my friends own a carriage company and a herd of clydesdales to pull them. these people make some incredible sacrifices for those horses and the lot are the most magnificient beasts you're likely to see and twice some scumsuckers tried to report that the horses were being abused. you can't see a rib on any of them. the colts are more robust than a lot of full grown horses, but some people just have to try to make people miserable.
 
THIS is what I'm talking about, same people to:

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