Worst part about living in an apartment?

[eyesroll]

Poll question: Worst part about living in an apartment?

It's choice "a" for me today, though it could just as easily be the rest of them at other points.

Edit: Actually, their cooking isn't bad.

[JTG of the PRB]

1. I'll go with the option with the stomping.

Somebody in the apartment above us is a friggin' elephant when they walk. THOMP THOMP THOmp thomp thomp thoMP THOMP THOMP. Every day.

It's not bad above my room, but in the hallway and the living room it's annoying beyond reason. Apparently they also blast music and TV a lot, but I hang out in my room so I don't hear it much. One of them also has the habit of talking outside on the stairs. Loudly.

[JVS]

2. When the neighbors argue frequently.

I live alone to avoid having to argue, those fuckfaces should too.

[Mad_Dem_X]

7. I called 911 on my neighbors once

The couople was fighting, and I heard the woman say, "Get off me! Get off me!" And then she SCREAMED. I called 911 because I was scared he was killing her. The cops came by, talked to them, and there were no other incidents.

[skygazer]

3. I had apartment neighbors once whose bathroom was right next to my bedroom

So I said other, meaning "smelling the neighbor's..." I'm sure you can figure out the rest. :eyes:

[Mad_Dem_X]

4. The MUSIC!

In the first apartment I lived in, with my sister, the women upstairs BLASTED their music and TV at all hours of the day and night. The people across the hall would turn up their stereo whenever they were having an argument.

In my second apartment, the people next door were Hispanic and BLASTED Spanish music for hours on end, until early in the morning. Their living room was right beside my bedroom, so it was impossible to fall asleep.

People are so damn rude.

[eyesroll]

8. My old neighbors had sex to the Rufus Wainwright version of "Hallelujah."

:scared:

[Lavender Brown]

5. Not being able to paint walls, change fixtures, etc.

Unless you have a more lenient landlord, which I never did. I like apartment living but I'm glad I'm not renting anymore just because I can personalize my space.

[Chan790]

6. A helpful hint for your neighbors...

one can avoid having an apartment that smells like weed in the first place by exhaling through a toilet-paper or paper-towel tube with two Mrs. Meyers brand dryer sheets stuffed inside.

[Auggie]

9. Not so much the music as the beat -- especially the bass

Always drove me nuts

[mainegreen]

10. Smelling the neighbors' attempts to cover up the weed.

Hey dumb-dumb! Lighting freaking Nag-Champa doesn't cover up the scent, it just makes the hallway reek of Nag-Champa and weed. Nag-Champa is also a major tip-off that you are only smoking weed as only stoners burn that much Nag-Champa incense. I'd rather just smell the weed. At least that smell dissipates almost instantly when you're done. That damned Nag-Champa lingersi.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

11. The freaking music

This past Sunday, honest to God 6:30 in the morning (I thought drunk guys passed out by then?) the music starts up so loud I'm woken from a sound sleep. Call non-emergency to ask them to send someone to shut them up before I go postal and an hour later, the cop's knocking on my door telling *us* to turn it down. The people in the apartment I thought was the culprit in turn thought we were doing it.

Point is, it's probably the douchebags downstairs who play video games all day and don't appear to have lives outside their apartment. It's seriously giving me PTSD. I freak out when I think I hear bass. x(

[TZ]

12. Stomping around on the floor.

Particularly in the bedroom area at 1am ......

[GOPisEvil]

13. The feeling of insecurity I get when I try to walk lightly to avoid being a stomper.

That and the lack of a garage.

I cannot wait to own a house again. x(

[LibDemAlways]

14. Back in the 70's I lived in an apartment with paper thin walls.

The guy next door did nothing all day except sit around smoking weed and listening to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain." I swear I must have heard him play it a thousand times.

He must have been filthy, too, because lots of interesting insect species came from his direction. I finally couldn't take it anymore and moved.

[old mark]

15. Having a landlord. We lived in 2 rentals before we bought our

old house, and they both thought they were totally in control of us.
I can say that I have NEVER had a good landlord, although I know there are such - I hear about them occasionally anyway.

My wife and I plan to die in our house rather than ever to live in a rented place again.

mark

[Zuni]

16. having the neighbors engage in bowling at 3 am

that sucks

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Having neighbors who think that cigarettes are fresh air.

I swear to God. When we walk into our hallway, it smells terrible. There is someone on our hall who smokes more than a chimney. And most of the time, when I get home from work, it smells like smoke in our apartment. And we don't smoke. It is nasty.
Duckie

[applegrove]

18. I once heard a neighbour get beat up. Does that count? I hated that. And that neighbour.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Other: All of the above.

And that's why, when I've lived in apartments, I've always lived in a corner unit on the top floor. Really minimizes the annoyances.