Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!

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Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!

My spouse and I moved to Texas a couple of months ago. Neither of us had ever rented an apartment before, so this was our first experience doing it together.

My spouse and I decided to find a small apartment that is well located, affordable (so that we could settle down for a couple of months) in this foreign city that we barely knew. My spouse had to deal with his new company (which was the main reason why we moved in fist place). So I was in charge of finding us the perfect home...

We were in a little bit of a rush to find an affordable place to live, I was researching apartments online, saw a couple of pictures of how the apartment looked like, I immediately focused more on furnishing and decorating my future new home (by looking for the latest decoration trends and thinking about which color I would paint my walls).

I end up falling in love for the second apartment complex that we checked, one big mistake was not exploring enough apartment complexes! We forgot to do a better research on the apartment complex that we decided to move in, somewhat ignored all little signs that were right in front of us and we end up making the worst mistake of our lives...

Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!

I wish I had...

- asked or researched how old the property was:

We found out that the apartment complex been here since the late 70's and it needs to be constantly fixed. They started fixing the roof and it's been loud all day long, for weeks...We did not receive any notification that the roof would be fixed. Appliances break down often, our A/C just stopped working...

- seen the real apartment that I was going to live before I moved in:

They showed us a demonstration of how our apartment would look like instead of showing us the real one. The agent said that the apartment was being "prepared" for us. That was our biggest mistake because I did't exact know what I was going to get after I signed the contract and received the apartment keys.

-known how loud this area could be:

I can hear my neighbors because the walls are so thin. Some of neighbors play loud music late at night, have pimped auto engines that I can hear (every morning when they are leaving their home to go to work). Dogs constantly barking and there is the trash man that comes every second day at 4 am to collect trash and it's really noisy (the trash cans are old). I've been sleeping with earplugs...

- seen the pool that they are so proud of and that has been closed since we moved in here:

When the lady showed us a demonstration of how our apartment would look like, she did not show us around. We had to look around ourselves to find out were the pool was and it was disappointing.

- known that I had to pay every time I need to do laundry:

We end up finding out that we need to pay to do laundry in their laundry room.

- realized that they have infestation problems:

We've had several cockroach infestation problems in our kitchen. We've seen huge cockroaches in our balcony and we can't open the windows or they will come inside our home... Because the construction is from the late 70's there are holes everywhere, it's easy to get infestations from everywhere. The lady kept talking about "pest control" and that it cost $10, we didn't realize that this meant Infestation Problems...

- chosen an apartment complex with better community features:

I wish I had chosen an apartment complex that is surrounded by grass where I could go sit down in the afternoons and read a good book, enjoy the good sunny weather and gaze at the clouds, hang out at night with my spouse, have a pick-nick with my spouse sometimes, were I could exercise every morning...

I wish hadn't signed a 12 month contract:

I was seduced by the a special promotion "You'll get 1 month free IF you sign a 12 month lease contract" .

Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!
The lesson here is "You pay for what you get" , and sometimes it is just better to pay a little bit more than living like this. In a couple of months when I get out of this place, I'll find me and my husband a place that gives us better quality of living, that is worth paying for and we will definitely take our time, decide wisely and do some quality research.

I am upset, frustrated and ashamed of living here, I'm glad that my spouse and I didn't buy any expensive furniture (could get bed bugs, cockroaches eggs, etc) I will never invite friends or family here...

We know what we want now and what we are looking for!

A Life Lesson I'll never forget...

Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!

Have a Lovely day!

Things I Wish I Knew Before I Moved into my First Apartment!
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