re: Should I be worried about my soon-to-be apt rental?

I never said I had good grammar

listen to your gut

I've never had good relations with apartment management. In my first apartment, I went 4 days in July with no air conditioner. That's four days of calling the front office/maintenance repeatedly because I was continuously promised someone was coming yet, hours later they would never show up.

About a year later, my dryer no longer functioned properly and it took them 5 days to replace my dryer.

I like where I'm living now, but I had just started a new job when I got my new apartment. The apartment manager was supposed to meet me at her office so that I could pick up the key before I headed to work. I waited on her at her office for 15 minutes, making me a half hour late for work and she never showed. When I called her later that day, she said she just forgot.

My bedroom roof has leaked on three separate occasions. The second time it happened, it shorted out all electricity in my bedroom and plaster fell all over my shower.

The bottom line here is these people are only interested in filling units with warm bodies. Once they do that, most couldn't give a flip about you.

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The people in the office make money off of you putting down a deposit and signing a lease. You are their top priority. After that, you're a secondary concern. If they suck before you even move in, then they're really gonna suck once you're living there and need your sink fixed

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This pretty much nails it. I had a problem with my toilet in my apartment for over a month (I could only flush down 1 piece of toilet paper, so you could imagine how that went...), and it was never fixed. I eventually left that shitey apartment thankfully, but it all started as you described in your post Pectus. I would be very, very careful if I were you. Good luck.

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Yup. Taught hundreds of college students. Have a PhD. Still am a total pussy. You pegged me perfect.

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I think you are pretty freakin cool. But if you know me, you know I love rocks and geology. I even committed a felony as a kid when I took a rock from a state park as a souvenir. (I didn't know that until AFTER I stashed the 10-20 lb rock in my car trunk and we were leaving). Bad Kittie!!

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I waited on her at her office for 15 minutes, making me a half hour late for work

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So you were going to be 15 minutes late to work at a new job even if she was on time?

You sound poor. This is a poor person problem. Are you section 8?

Buy a house.