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Nothing like being woken up at 3 AM by a loud crash. When I found the where the sound came from, my WT upstairs neighbor was high and wanted a super hot shower and turned up the heat on his water heater. To make a long story short the safety release on the water heater let go and a butt load of super hot water was let go and the drain could not handle that much water. So, that much water cause the ceileing to collapse in my utility closet. One more thing in a line of things to happen in crappy apartment living like hearing your neighbors late night beer pisses, cheap bad food cooking and crazy old cat ladies. I am so glad that my wife and I are closing on our new house,

Owie :x
hope it doesnt happen often ,
good news on the house though!

Ouch.. Good luck with the new house though!

Sorry triple post

Godamn I hate my internet connection, again, sorry about the triple post.

Wow, that's a drag. Hopefully you don't get stuck with any of the repair bill for the ceiling.

Really makes me look forward to moving back into an apartment in a couple of months

You should quietly kill him in his sleep. Wait, no, sounds like he was being a douche. Kill him loudly during everyone else's sleep. I'm sure everyone else near you will applaud you actions/give you money and food for services rendered.

On a serious note, I know what you are talking about. My wife and I lived in an apartment close to college campus. I hated staying there. I wake up very easy and idiot college kids decide to drive around at 3 A.M. blaring loud, crappy rap music. On a Monday. And Tuesday. Wash, rinse, repeat every night, every week.

@overboss That sucks, the main reason I feel sympathy for you is I've went long periods listening to rap, REPITITION IS BAD!!!!

Wish you luck on the new house OP

Sorry to hear about your misfortune.

Apartments to suck, but the suckage factor varies quite a bit. I avoided a few bad encounters by simply leaving without a place in the world to go, but that is a no fly zone for most. The worst situations I have heard often involve confrontations and neighbors inability to reason with each other, on top of the managers not usually caring all that much about anything besides dem bills.

If it makes you feel any better one of my friends has some of the worst property managers I have ever heard of. Showers falling through the floor, trimming massive pine trees above the back porch without permits, experience, a brain between two people, and notification for the residents, etc... the rent is cheap though so he stays, and I say far enough, you should stay ...

Apartments would be awesome if it weren't for the people.

My times in aparments and various other hive structures were alright for the most part, with a few exceptions. But most of them had nice thick concrete walls and cielings.

And they can be good for some adventures.

Thats one thing that puts me off apartments, its not always what people do at the sides, its the risk of someone doing something stupid above like what you described or thumping your ceiling as they jump around.

Good luck getting that sorted and hope you get to move to your new house soon

Like when the chick next door comes knockin in her bath robe. M, wherever you are you are missed.

I have an ex-jailbird Junkie living above me. With two noisy Dogs, and no consideration.

The Dogs gak all over the lawn, and then she gets violent when you ask her to clear it up. And even though she is a Junkie, I still cannot bring myself to headbutt a woman.

Really, it's the minor annoyances that add up. I've gotten lucky with my apartment buildings, and have generally had neighbors that didn't suck. My landlord, however leaves a bit to be desired at the moment, in terms of response time. Unless it's a huge fracking disaster, you're lucky if he responds in weeks.

Then again, rent's ok and the neighborhood's good. Can't complain that much.

Sucks about the ceiling.
My neighbor bought a dog while I was out of town. And he leaves said dog alone in the apartment all day. As a result, the dog barks all day long. Before that my apartment was pretty swell.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And even though she is a Junkie, I still cannot bring myself to headbutt a woman.

That's racist.

Orkeosaurus wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And even though she is a Junkie, I still cannot bring myself to headbutt a woman.

That's racist.

No, you are wrong, that is just sexist! Well, unless it MDG really is an Ork, then it is racist and sexist. Wait, since Orks are "genderless", can they actually be sexist?

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I have an ex-jailbird Junkie living above me. With two noisy Dogs, and no consideration.

The Dogs gak all over the lawn, and then she gets violent when you ask her to clear it up. And even though she is a Junkie, I still cannot bring myself to headbutt a woman.

Just wear a dress when you do it.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I have an ex-jailbird Junkie living above me. With two noisy Dogs, and no consideration.

The Dogs gak all over the lawn, and then she gets violent when you ask her to clear it up. And even though she is a Junkie, I still cannot bring myself to headbutt a woman.

Ask a woman to do it !

I'll try to say this politely so as not to offend anyone... Most people know at least one unluckily overweight woman who could punch holes in a Rhino, ask her (nicely... VERY nicely (and don't offer her a donut as payment !))

Had a situation like that when I first started renting. Guy thought he could heat his apartment by turning all the hot water taps on. His apartment was like a swamp.
That's why the last time I looked for a new place I went to over thirty places before picking the one I've lived in for the last ten years. Nice place, older building well maintained so it has character but isn't falling apart. Managers are selective of who gets in, openings are usually filled by word of mouth so anyone that applies most likely knows someone already living there.
Lots of us hang out in the front area (nice lawn with hedges blocking the street) and sit around a fire and chat. Actually a few years back the manager asked us to help him install a brick patio where we gather and most people put in 5-6 hours helping him build it. Was nice as we helped contribute to making the place all the nicer.

In ten years living there, I've only had one bad neighbor (and she was a doozy), but the management got her out of there as soon as they could (dang laws protecting deadbeat renters).
Good luck with the house.

Where I am, we have an apartment above and below that like to have loud parties on weeknights. Full of rich kids with no consideration for other people.

One time, I got pretty annoyed about it, as it was 3AM on a monday morning. I leaned out the window and yelled "Hey! Turn the music down and get in off the balcony, I can hear every word you're saying"
"We'll talk quieter."
"No, get inside. It's 3AM."
"What, do you have exams tomorrow?"
"No, I have to get up for work."
"WORK?!" (Tones of shocked disbelief)
"Yeah."
"What time?"
"That's irrelevant. Get inside."
"Well, what do you do?"
"What the feth does that matter?"
"Well, if you were an investment banker or something I could see you needing to be switched on, but I don't think you are." (Sneering tones)

I called the police.

God damn rich kids.

I much prefer living in an apartment. There's a manager to handle fixing stuff and renovations and such and the costs are spread around. And it's not like you can't have problems with crazy neighbors if you own a house... in fact they can be worse because they can damage your property without having to break through the front door.

I've had my fill of living in an apartment. The wife and I's first place was a ground level apartment in a complex on the outside of town. It was a pretty cool feeling (the freedom that is), but over time the apartment life gets old. We had neighbors above us who I believed were either making porn or really liked to party (we're talking thumping/running at 3 in the morning). The chick was really hot, but that is besides the point. Next door to us was a guy that went to school with us, but I hardly knew. He moved out a month after we moved in and a friend of friend moved in.

Behind our apartment was a trailor with some WT that listened to Eminem way too much. The first day in our apartment I look outside and there is a pitbull or something taking a dump in front of my window.

I liked the community feel of the apartment, but I got really tired of having to deal with neighbors at the same time. The good thing about these neighbors is that they may move out after their lease is up. Since we have resided in your typical house we've found that if you are next to a neighbor you don't like, you're stuck with them for a while (unless they die, or move).

trailor with some WT that listened to Eminem way too much

Easy on the eminem gak here
Some of his music isnt that bad.

but yea, never lived in an apartment before, but the singles quarters in the army (before meeting the missus) was gak, due to everyone in the section working different hours someone was allways playing gakky music at all times of the day.

No worries JD. I don't generally have an issue with Eminem, but when I had to listen to his music for 3+hours a day it gets old. They could have been listening to Cake or STP and I still would have called them WT (it had to do with the arguing, crying, and typical trailor craziness).

Thanks to all the well wishers.

I think I would have rather stay in my old barracks than in this apartment. At least I knew what to expect and you could shoot you neighbor with an airsoft pistol and not get into trouble or make fun of the girl as she does the walk of shame out of your neighbor's room.

14 days left before we close on the house. Damn Sub-Prime mess and it's new laws on first time home buyers. We have to wait 45 days from making our offer to closing. But the $8000 USD tax credit will buy new windows and a bunch more 40K crack.

Glad you are getting out of there. My wife and I were in a similar situation. We moved into our has a couple months ago after 8 years, 3 states and 2 children in apartments.

And the $8k tax credit is nice. We paid bills and redid a bathroom (up to usable standards now) but went through it faster than expected. Beware the impulses.

Cheers

Well, we are taking all the tax breaks we can. $8000 first time home buyer credit. Energy saving drapes which is another tax credit, energy saving appliances tax credit. Plus, if you let the local utility company here conduct an energy audit and you do their suggestions they take $1200 off your utility bill for the year or give you the money.

I know what you are talking about it going faster than one can expect. I started adding up the stuff I need to buy in the first week and it came up to over $1000 USD. But, I don't mine since it will be my house not my landlords.

WOOT! 300th Post!

Monday can not come soon enough. Nothing like trying to do the interior detail of a dreadnought (yes the interior of a dreadnought) with a cat trying to eat the gutair strings I cut and a 90 pound German Shepard's swamp breath in your face. I can't wait for my man cave!