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re: Have you ever lived in an absolute shithole apartment / house?
Posted on 2/12/23 at 7:15 am to Thundercles
Posted on 2/12/23 at 7:15 am to Thundercles
I lived off of GSR1 for a while next to Gardere. Was sketchy.
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Posted on 2/12/23 at 7:33 am to Thundercles
First LSU apartment off Nicholson was probably uninhabitable by my current standards which are still pretty spartan.
I had a 1 “bedroom” apartment that was part of a divided shotgun on Aline in New Orleans that had barely functioning plumbing, and the ceiling fell in on my friends who were staying there when I was gone. Landlord was a slimy atty who tried to nail me for rent during a period I couldn’t even live there due to no ceiling.
Just a sampling.
I had a 1 “bedroom” apartment that was part of a divided shotgun on Aline in New Orleans that had barely functioning plumbing, and the ceiling fell in on my friends who were staying there when I was gone. Landlord was a slimy atty who tried to nail me for rent during a period I couldn’t even live there due to no ceiling.
Just a sampling.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 7:34 am to Napoleon
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I lived off of GSR1 for a while next to Gardere. Was sketchy.
Dude that has been sketchy for decades. I can’t even imagine it now.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:14 am to DreadDub
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Todd Graves lived in a smaller efficiency connected to the back of the place as he worked to get the first location up and running. The wall between us was crumbling due to the roof leaking. The original Cane (yellow lab) could access the roof of the building from a stairwell in the back of the place.
That really is a cool story.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:16 am to Thundercles
Yep. I lived on Jennifer Jean for a couple of years. The house itself was fine, but it was still Jennifer Jean.
Also when I decided I wanted to live some time without roommates, I moved to a super small 1-bedroom on Brightside that was pretty questionable. Again, place itself was fine but the other residents were certainly not students.
Also when I decided I wanted to live some time without roommates, I moved to a super small 1-bedroom on Brightside that was pretty questionable. Again, place itself was fine but the other residents were certainly not students.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:22 am to Thundercles
Most people here would say where I currently live is a shithole
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:23 am to Thundercles
Kirby Smith, Tiger Plaza, Fountainhead, Jennifer Jean need I go on?
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:26 am to Thundercles
Shittiest place I’ve lived was probably the apartments next to brightside bar and grill.
Actually a solid spot, just old. Was maintained pretty damn well considering the place had 40ish years of lsu students as its tenants. There were similarly priced places that were way shittier.
Actually a solid spot, just old. Was maintained pretty damn well considering the place had 40ish years of lsu students as its tenants. There were similarly priced places that were way shittier.
This post was edited on 2/12/23 at 8:30 am
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:27 am to DiamondDog
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I lived in those crappy downtown apts across from the governors Mansion near the interstate almost 15 years ago.
Dang I am having trouble picturing these. I'll have to look next time I'm over there.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:30 am to LouisianaLady
He's probably talking about the ones right as you are coming out of the capital curves on the right headed south. They've been there forever. Lake Towers I think it's called.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 8:37 am to McLemore
This was 1999. I had a two bedroom townhouse. Rent was $420 split in two.
Was a decent spot but it was hood. My roommate played football for southern and picked the spot. I only lasted three a semester. He took it over and I to a house on Nicholson.
Was a decent spot but it was hood. My roommate played football for southern and picked the spot. I only lasted three a semester. He took it over and I to a house on Nicholson.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 10:17 am to LouisianaLady
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Dang I am having trouble picturing these. I'll have to look next time I'm over there.
Lake Towers as the other guy said. It's been remodeled since it seems. I was there when it was all blue and concrete.
Rent for a 3 bedroom was $610 in 2010.
It was sketchy as heck. When the Saints won the Superbowl everyone went outside on the balcony to celebrate until someone started shooting a gun in the air.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 10:19 am to JohnnyKilroy
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Shittiest place I’ve lived was probably the apartments next to brightside bar and grill.
The condos across from them were legit in 2005. Used to pass out at a friends place all the time.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 10:44 am to fallguy_1978
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He's probably talking about the ones right as you are coming out of the capital curves on the right headed south. They've been there forever. Lake Towers I think it's called.
Walk across the bridge from those apartments and you’re in the hood.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 10:51 am to Breauxsif
Yeah nothing like looking out your bedroom window at Memorial Stadium 
Posted on 2/12/23 at 12:19 pm to Thundercles
At one point, when I was working on making a career in radio, I lived in the old, rundown house the station's transmitter was kept in. I was so fricking broke I didn't have a mattress nor box spring, just a couple of blankets on a 1970s shag carpet thick with encrusted dirt. The house was in the 'hood, surrounded by a fence overgrown with weeds and shitty trees, but it wasn't thick enough to disguise the gunfire I would hear from time to time.
The windows on the bedroom had long ago been covered on the outside, but that was fine with me because since I was working overnights and that meant I slept all day. It was months before I finally spent enough waking time there during the day that I realized that the tiny balls of dirt deeply encrusted into the carpet wasn't dirt, it was old, dried and crumbled dog shite.
That was a low point in my life. I busted my arse to get out of there, which led to moving in with a buddy. Turned out that he had a massive crack addiction. I moved out of there not long after having to call an ambulance for him because he OD'd (he actually died at least once after they arrived). That was probably the worst year-ish of my life as a young adult.
When I finally got out of all of that, I decided "never again" and have never again been at such a low point.
The windows on the bedroom had long ago been covered on the outside, but that was fine with me because since I was working overnights and that meant I slept all day. It was months before I finally spent enough waking time there during the day that I realized that the tiny balls of dirt deeply encrusted into the carpet wasn't dirt, it was old, dried and crumbled dog shite.
That was a low point in my life. I busted my arse to get out of there, which led to moving in with a buddy. Turned out that he had a massive crack addiction. I moved out of there not long after having to call an ambulance for him because he OD'd (he actually died at least once after they arrived). That was probably the worst year-ish of my life as a young adult.
When I finally got out of all of that, I decided "never again" and have never again been at such a low point.
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