Apartment Red Flags

Some Badger

Some Badger

Meles Meles
kiwifarms.net
Joined
May 14, 2021
Moving apartments pretty soon after a couple months of searching, and I’m curious to pick the brains of my fellow rentoids. What are the kinds of things that turn you off when you look at a unit for the first time?

One particularly big red flag for me is when the landlord charges for an application fee just to see the apartment. I’m not talking a fee to cover background and credit checks, but charging to actually see the apartment to begin with. You are literally paying for the privilege of looking at an apartment building. I can understand wanting to charge for a credit/background check, but if the landlord doesn’t explicitly state they’re charging for that purpose, then it’s suspect as hell.

I got a few others too:
  • Bedroom doesn’t have any windows/natural light.
  • The landlord gives you an application that asks for extremely specific information like the breed of your dog or the make and model of your car.
  • Any landlord that communicates in broken English (I’m a burger).
  • Apartment is advertised as having a kitchen but is missing a stove.
Those are just the ones from off the top of my head. I can probably dig up more.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, Biggie Smalls' Taint, NoReturn and 10 others
The apartment I live in currently was promised to have new carpets, a new bathroom suite and the garden cleared, as well as the washing machine replaced.

It did have new carpets but none of the other stuff had happened. It was also filthy.

We refused to sign the itinerary which basically means we can do basically anything to the place and still get our deposit back.

Not that we plan on leaving despite the hideousness of the garden and the mold problems.

It's our home and we have an illegal cat as well.
 
  • Like
  • Feels
  • Agree
Reactions: NoReturn, Aunt Carol, seri0us and 3 others
If it's more than two stories and the only available units happen to be on the second floor or above. If you happen to get placed above an old person, have fun having that neighbor consistently be angry and irritated at any amount of noise you do in said apartment. It doesn't help if the complex itself is old as hell, if the place is shitty enough, any amount of sound or force coming from your walking is going to reverberate throughout the floor down to the ceiling of whoever lives below you. That's how it was in the last apartment I lived in.

Funnily enough the last time I had to deal with the neighbor below me at that old place was on my birthday because god forbid it was in the middle of the afternoon and I felt like playing music a little more loudly than normal. He tapped on his ceiling as hard as he could underneath me. I immediately stood up and did an indian rain dance stomping all throughout my tiny ass apartment.

Thankfully in my new place, I managed to get a ground floor unit, and the actual complex/unit itself is not as run down like the last place I was in. So now, general noise whether from me, or my neighbors above me, isn't as annoying or invasive like before.
 
  • Agree
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, NoReturn, WhatInTheActualFuck and 3 others
271929038_10224866472981793_2809548709818743029_n.pngunknown.png
>tfw no toilet
:stress:
 
  • Horrifying
  • Like
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, Hüftpriester, Chief Areola and 11 others
Weed Eater said:
If it's more than two stories and the only available units happen to be on the second floor or above. If you happen to get placed above an old person, have fun having that neighbor consistently be angry and irritated at any amount of noise you do in said apartment. It doesn't help if the complex itself is old as hell, if the place is shitty enough, any amount of sound or force coming from your walking is going to reverberate throughout the floor down to the ceiling of whoever lives below you. That's how it was in the last apartment I lived in.

Funnily enough the last time I had to deal with the neighbor below me at that old place was on my birthday because god forbid it was in the middle of the afternoon and I felt like playing music a little more loudly than normal. He tapped on his ceiling as hard as he could underneath me. I immediately stood up and did an indian rain dance stomping all throughout my tiny ass apartment.

Thankfully in my new place, I managed to get a ground floor unit, and the actual complex/unit itself is not as run down like the last place I was in. So now, general noise whether from me, or my neighbors above me, isn't as annoying or invasive like before.
Click to expand...
When I've had elderly neighbors they were deaf, conveniently for me but less so for them.

Once I had an upstairs neighbor that would stomp around for no reason, as all neighbors have done since the beginning of time. The ceiling and light fixture start to shake so I take a cane and rap on the ceiling a couple times. He screams "HEY! IMMA FUCK YOU UP COME UP HEEYA". Opened his door to yell similar things for 10 seconds then slammed it. Guess the race.

Burd Turglar said:
Tell me you're a fucking dork without telling me.
Click to expand...
How is he a dork? All Cats Are Based and rules are supposed to be broken.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, Baraadmirer, Cat Bread and 3 others
My top 3 are:

1) Being on the ground floor means that cockroaches could be a problem and also weirdos looking into your windows.

2) Big windows offer poor insulation and if they face the sun in the morning or evening it can get very annoying and very hot.

3) landlords in my area always overstate the apartment size. It wouldn't hurt to measure and double check. If they lied on the ad, use it to negotiate rent down.
 
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: Vyse Inglebard, JT Marlin, Toolbox and 6 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back