Things I hate about apartments

[shiver]

So I go outside the apartment to feed the birds. My goal is to make them too fat to fly, it seems to be working.

On my door I notice a notice dated for January 31st.
Basically they are letting me know that they will be entering the apartment to spray for pests tomorrow.

I could be wrong but it seems like if they printed these up January 31st they could have delivered them before today. :twisted:

It doesn’t help I have spent all day so far dusting and cleaning (err and posting here) and now I have to deal with it all again tomorrow after they spray.

Sigh.
I need to move into a house.

[Kullall]

Or just have your own lock installed ;)

[Genda]

Actually, you have to admire a landlord that sprays for pests and parasites. That is an act of bravery for sure, seeing how the poison could easily consume them as well. Being pests and all.. Oh, nevermind. :P

[smooth1]

They fine you for a new lock and take the new one off and replace with their own many times. I would definately send the leasing office a well writen letter telling them where they can shove thier spray nozzles though. Pulling all that crap out of the cabinets last minute can be a pain in the arse. I used to use the laundry baskets to hold everything and put them in another room.

[shiver]

I take back my 'rant' over the whole thing. The guy who came by to spray for pests was yummy looking.

:D

[Elrar (of Silky Venom)]

rofl. You get his number?

And as far as appartments go. Whats with the Californian middle class ghetto?

Are people just pampered here in So Cal, or is the quality of living just that much higher here than on the east coast?

(recently transplanted)

[Lord_Vyper]

And as far as appartments go. Whats with the Californian middle class ghetto?

Are people just pampered here in So Cal, or is the quality of living just that much higher here than on the east coast?

(recently transplanted)
It's just So Cal. Heck, coastal So Cal even :p
Come inland a bit, and it starts getting fugly.

[shiver]

I didn't get his number, sigh. I didn't even drool politely on him though I was tempted. I figured between being married and having whips and knives hanging from the walls he would get scared off anyhow. :p

I lived in a scary place in So Cal. The day we moved out we were telling 'scary' stories to the movers. Then we looked out side and realized the cops were serving a high threat warrent on a across the street neighbor. Was pretty funny since at the same time a parole officer was visiting another neighbor. And why was it that when people see a whole lot of cops with guns that they step OUTside to watch the 'show' better? I mean really, I don't want to see things that badly.

[Lord_Vyper]

Heh, Riverside got some notoriety a while back when members of a local gang decided they didn't like the police helicopter flying around overhead. They shot it down. No explosion or whatever, but shot it up badly enough to require it to make an immediate emergency landing.

I can't wait to get away from here!

[Finch]

It doesnt matter where you live anymore. I live in small town MN and I had a drive-by happen across the street from my parents house. Well actually it was a get out of the car, hide behind my Landcruiser, pepper the house, then get back in the car and drive off shooting.:rolleyes:

[Nubb]

I need to move into a house.

I have a deal for you! Oh lucky day!

I have a house.
You come live in it.
I make only one simple demand:
1. I require broadband.

Your husband is welcome here too! I have no interest in romance or other silly things that might force me to abandon my computer!

If you cook that's a plus, cuz I never do. I have a stove (it's somewhere under all that old hardware and cabling). I have a fridge (I'm rigging it to pipe cool air into my case, otherwise it's empty and you're welcome to fill it up!). If you like cleaning, then this is the house for you! If you like gardening, then this is the bathroom for you (all sorts of funny stuff growing in there, some aquatic, some tile/grout based, and I think some is some sort of airborne foodsource (another bonus, if you choose to cook!). There is a garage, you (and naturally your husband, and definitely children if you have any) are welcome to sleep there. There is also carpet, if you choose to inhabit the main domicile. Oh and I stay up all night, so you have to put up with my noise, but should be absolutely quiet from 6am until around 1pm.

Oh yeah, and naturally you have to pay all my bills and stuff (including annual computer builds/broadband/games).

It's a big plus if you're cute, single, and childless, else cold hard cash works just as well (if not better!).

Thanks,
Nubb

[Demmic]

LMAO :pirate:

[shiver]

Gee Nubb that’s such a great offer that I will have to think about it.
*thinks*
The fact that you live in Seattle is a big plus.
Sounds like you don’t have kids, also a big plus.
How big is your garage?
How burnt can food be before you don’t think it is edible?

[Hannar]

I'm in the process of trying to find my first house right now after about 2 years worth of appartment living. I don't mind appartments, mainly because I'm fairly quiet and so are my neighbors... mostly keep to theirselves. But I desperately want to get to a place where I can have my own washer and dryer set up. I hate the having to sit for a few hours each week doing all the laundry with my wife. It would be so much easier if it could be done on a daily basis.

[shiver]

The place we are in now has a dryer and washer. Thank goodness. In fact doing laundry right now. I love that about this place. It seems like in so many apartments the laundry is down in a scary, dark and dirty basement. yuck

[smooth1]

I hate the having to sit for a few hours each week doing all the laundry with my wife. It would be so much easier if it could be done on a daily basis.

Lol my wife and I sit down on Mondays and spend usually an entire movie folding laundry. With two kids (6year old who thinks she is 15 and a 3 year old who I am sure will be a fashion model) the laundry never ends. My son changes clothes 2-3 times a day just cause he says he wants to look cool and handsome....I even bought the high capacity units and still its a all day and night afair. We tried the daily thing but as you can guess life with two small kids dictates twice a week and depending which one has which practice or lessons it can be once a week.

[Hannar]

Hehe, I can understand that with kids. We're still about 3 years away from that point.

[JAdams]

Heh, I'm the first out of four kids. I still don't know how my mom does it :D

[Raya]

Heh, Riverside got some notoriety a while back when members of a local gang decided they didn't like the police helicopter flying around overhead. They shot it down. No explosion or whatever, but shot it up badly enough to require it to make an immediate emergency landing.

I can't wait to get away from here!
This seems amazing until you actually live with this kind of situation. I live in one of the rougher neighborhoods in Calgary...and often the police helicopter will fly over and back and over and back our area for an hour or so at a time. It is loud and nerve wracking, often it's in the wee hours of the morning, and it sounds like it is going to crash right into my house.

At first I didn't really notice but when it started to happen every night, I got tense. It reminded me of a fantasy story where the humans were enslaved by some other race. The superior race would, at random, broadcast a certain wavelength down in the ghetto where the human slaves lived. It would make every human there appallingly and achingly sick. Many died because they were interrupted doing something that required attention and/or follow-through (like building a fire, working with chemicals, or nursing a baby). The "sick days" happened at random and their purpose was to keep the slave population in suspense and off-balance--it also had the side benefit of keeping the population numbers down to avert an uprising.

That's what the police helicopter made me feel. I am not a criminal nor do I indulge in criminal activities but here was a noisy intrusive machine shattering my sleeping peace for an hour or more at a time in its relentless search for illegal activity.

I have since mellowed...there undoubtedly is fairly high crime in my neighborhood, and I am glad the police patrol, but I still feel a little sick inside when they keep flying back and forth like that...

[Lonagan]

I cannot say as I condone it, but shooting down a police helicopter is fairly badass. Though I would not like to live in such a neighborhood.