r/Apartmentliving

Mostly as title reads. I'm 22, we've been here for ten years, next door neighbor talked to my father directly as well as the landlords but I guess we couldn't get our act together. Notice gives us until end of next month to be out. Been starting to look around for places and I've been struggling to get through applications. He has bad credit. I understand there's no actual eviction on his record. But he doesn't want to marked down on any application thinking it'll get me rejected. Co-applicant or not I'm almost sure I'd just be setting myself up for trouble by not being honest about having a second person moving in with me. Other concern is regarding applications asking for prior landlord info and reason to move. If they read or hear noise complaints, I'm almost sure it'll be rejected. I feel like I can't really trust my dad's advice and I'm having trouble making progress.

Upstairs neighbors and I moved in the same day 4 days ago. And i've been woken up at 6am 3 out of the 4 days to their dogs running, jumping, fighting and barking. I've also heard the neighbors screaming at them for fighting. My husband and I work nights so I already want to move again, because this is hell.

My husband went upstairs to ask them to try to keep them out of the rooms in the mornings so we could sleep longer and she said they can open doors?? Even though its a door knob so im not sure how that works. She also said she crates them most of the day which I think is cruel, and ive only seen her take them out once in the 4 days we've been here. The rental application says no huskies on the list of unauthorized dogs so I'm unsure how they even have them in the first place.

If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it, ive emailed the rental company but im not sure they'll do anything. Im hoping they will because this is not sustainable, ive had like 12 hours of sleep in 4 days and im already at my wits end. Can I break the lease for this?

I (25f) live in a newbuild apartment building. There are 3 floors and 4 units on each floor. I am on the 3rd floor and up until about a week ago the other 3 units were not rented out yet. Last month the owner of the building moved his daughter into one unit and two of her friends into the other 2.

These girls have been so annoying since they moved in. On move in day there were at least 20 people helping them and I let it go because I figured once they were moved in it would calm down. It hasn't and if anything l, it's gotten worse. They are always going between apartments, treating the common area like a hangout spot, parties, loud music, people constantly coming and going.

I have complained once but the office just shrugged it off since it's the owner's daughter. I also filed a noise complaint with the police department one night when the music and loud talking was still going on at 2am. They showed up and did absolutely nothing.

Other than breaking my lease, is there anything else I can do?

Ugh, just need to vent a little, but honestly, I'm desperate for some advice here.

I actually love home-cooked food, but cooking for just myself in a small apartment is exhausting. Between the grocery runs, prepping in a kitchen with basically zero counter space, and then tackling a mountain of dishes by hand (yep, no dishwasher life), the whole chaotic process easily eats up 2 hours of my evening.

Then I sit down, inhale the food in literally 10 minutes, and boom—I'm left staring at a messy kitchen and days of the exact same leftovers. It just feels like a massive waste of my energy after a long workday.

I really don't want to live off of takeout every day, but this routine is draining my soul.

For those of you living alone in apartments, how do you keep it efficient and actually enjoyable? What are your go-to lazy meals or kitchen hacks? Please save my sanity!

My wording was really confusing on my last post so I'm trying this again. i just need some advice on what to do

Two weeks ago I came home and my electricity was out and when I turned on my phones flashlight I saw water all over the floor in and around my bathroom and there was a bubble that opened up on my ceiling

After contacting my landlord they sent someone right over to fix the ceiling once it dried. Apparently the upstairs neighbor left their shower on and the drain was clogged

The same exact thing happened again two days ago except this time even worse. The water made it to my livingroom and almost ruined my computer. This time I'm pretty upset as this is getting a little ridiculous. The ceiling is even worse now. i have a fan drying it out and my landlord is sending someone over again to fix it tomorrow

Havnt heard anything from my upstairs neighbor about it. How do I voice my frustration to my landlord so they actually do something about my neighbors? I have a really hard time communicating when I'm mad and dont want my landlord thinking I'm taking the frustration out on them

I've been apartment hunting for a few weeks, and whenever I come across a review, it's clearly written by the apartment management, with "great tours" or 5 stars on Google. Most of the reviews aren't specific to describe the actual living experience, and the past few apartments that I've lived in have been terrible because of how inaccurate the reviews are. They would often be "Luxury Apartments" and a "safe area". They would also be written by someone who created a Google review account a month before writing the review. Has this ever happened to any of you all? What factors would help you decide to pick a certain apartment? Would a tool that flags suspicious fake reviews be useful to you when looking for an apartment?

Our apartment recently got bought out by someone else, and they've started making changes that have annoyed the ever loving hell out of me. First they advertised this Doggy DNA to find out about your dogs genetic making yadda yadda but I'm aware this is a thinly veiled poo dna thing for them to track who in the apartments keeps leaving their dogs poop behind. When no one stopped by for this 'complimentary service' they sent out a new e-mail saying it was mandatory to be eligible for lease renewal. I found this annoying as hell but whatever, I get why they'd do it because it is genuinely an issue at our dog park. Place reeks.

But now they are moving our door locks away from traditional key locks to STRATIS which allows them to unlock our doors whenever (yes they have to give notice but they claim emergencies constantly bc the plumbing has been a major problem here lately) and store our keycode locks in a cloud service.

I don't know a ton about cyber-security but I know that I've consistently heard noise about how often cloud-based servers are hacked and how poorly secure they are. And from what I can tell, there is no way for me to audit when my door has been unlocked OR by who/the source.

It just overall feels deeply unsafe/not at all secure but I'm hoping maybe others have apartments that also use STRATIS and can tell me if it's secure/good/bad honestly anything. Our apartment also told everyone through email that if someone is not home to set up a code when they are doing this, they will set their own code for the door and will have to call the front office to get said code. So anyone working a 9-5 is basically SOL.

We plan to buy a few more cameras bc the maintenance people genuinely knock and ask to come in whenever they want due to 'emergency leaking' (they think we use the toilet wipes despite us saying time and time again that we dont so they resorted to this so they can look around our plumbing to catch us with them. We let them in because we know they're never gonna find that shit bc we DONT use them)

TLDR: The new property owners are really micromanaging the residents with small little things that could be helpful but mostly feel like a breech in privacy.

If anyone has STRATIS I'd love to hear how it is, if it works well, if its safe, etc etc etc

So two weeks ago I came home and had no electricity. I turned on my phone flashlight and saw part of my ceiling coming down and water all over the place

No apology or anything. Okay, fine.

I came home from work yesterday and right after they repaired the ceiling they did it AGAIN. No electricity and water everywhere. This time the water traveled to the livingroom and almost ruined my computer set up.

Again there wasnt even a note or explanation

How do I calmly voice my frustration to my landlord without it sounding like Im yelling at them so they actually do something about it? Im furious but is there anything that can be actually be done?