Living in an apartment certainly has both its positives and its negatives. On one hand, you are not tied to the property. That means you do not need to live there for any longer than your lease period. When you want to move you don’t need to worry about selling the property. Simply pack up your stuff and move on out. On the other hand you have a lot less control of what goes on while you are living there. In essence, the landlord and or management company gets to make many of the decisions regarding what you can and cannot do inside and outside of your apartment. That can certainly be incredibly frustrating. Here are five (5) more annoying things about renting an apartment.
Your Neighbors May Be Loud And Obnoxious
When you live in an apartment, especially an apartment building, you are living in incredibly close proximity to your neighbors. That means if they tend to be on the loud side, you will hear it. If they tend to be a bit obnoxious you will experience it. You will probably have to deal with their loud and or obnoxious behavior on a regular if not daily basis. As they say, you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbors.
Your Neighbors May Be Messy
When you live in apartment, you may very well have to deal with messy neighbors that leave their stuff lying around common areas outside and even in the hallway. If you notice this when out and about searching for apartments, you may want to skip renting the unit even if the apartment has all of the features you want and falls within your budget. That being stated, you can always ask the landlord if that tenant is moving out soon. What’s even more annoying is when you’ve been living in an apartment and a new messy neighbor moves in.
Your Neighbor’s Cooking Smells Up The Hallway
Have you ever come home after a long, hard day of work, opened the door to your apartment building, and been hit in the face with the smell of your neighbors bad cooking? You may feel as if your sense of smell may never be the same again. What’s worse is when you can smell your neighbors awful cooking in your own apartment and that smell doesn’t go away for a while.
You Realize That You’re Paying Your Landlord’s Mortgage
Although renting an apartment comes with far more flexibility when compared to owning your own home, you are spending a lot of money every month in order to help your landlord pay off his or her mortgage. The bottom line is that same amount of money you pay your landlord each month could very well be covering your own mortgage payment. You do need to keep in mind that there are additional monthly expenses of owning a home instead of renting an apartment such as maintenance costs, property taxes, and homeowners insurance.
Your Landlord Is Committing Landlord Harassment
Landlord harassment, also referred to as tenant harassment actually goes well above and beyond the annoying things about renting an apartment. So what is landlord harassment? It is a method that is used by some underhanded landlords in order to attempt to force a tenant or multiple tenants out of their lease. It is typically used to get people out of rent-controlled units so that the same unit can be rented to another party for more money. Not only is landlord harassment immoral, it is also illegal.
If you feel that you are being treated unfairly by your landlord, the good news is that you can do something to put a stop it. Your days of living with stress and or fear can be over. You just need to go about resolving the issues in the proper manner, and through the appropriate channels. Your Legal Rights Advocates is a 5 Star Nationally ranked consumer based law firm that specializes in helping consumers who are experiencing Landlord Harassment, Debt Collection Harassment, Social Security Disability issues, and a whole lot more. Please call us today for more information at 855-254-7841 or visit our website. We look forward to working with you.
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