Sidenote: Funny I am posting about this on the 4th of July!
I moved into my FIRST apartment a little over 11yrs ago.
And guess what?
I AM STILL THERE! LOL!
#1 REASON I have not moved and bought a house: CHEAP RENT!
I moved by myself in a, maybe, 600sq ft, 1 bedroom apartment for $550. And during the first 10 YEARS of living there, the rent up $10! EVEN THROUGH THE PANDEMIC! Isn’t that insane! I was saving so much money!!!
A company bought the building last March and it has gone up $225 since. Which is STILL really good rent.
But now, with my husband and I both living there now (He moved in after 5months of dating hehe) and 11yrs of accumulating clothes and other crap, the walls are starting to close in every day it seems.
There is literally no storage!!! No linen closet, no pantry. Only a very small walk-in closet in the bedroom and coat closet in the front. Perfect for 1 person! lol Absolutely NOTHING has been updated. Carpet hasn’t even been professionally cleaned. We have to do everything ourselves.
My husband and I were actually saving to buy a home before he got sick. We had almost $7k saved and now we are down to less than $3k. Once he gets awarded Social Security, we will save all the back pay and his monthly checks. Especially since we now know we can survive on my income alone.
But I am now ready to move more than ever! I am so tired of the apartment living. We have flies EACH YEAR once it starts to get hot. This past week has been an absolute nightmare that I wanted to bawl my eyes out.
We had gigantic beetle size flies that were in our BEDROOM. No idea where these came from. We may have a fly or two, in our living room, but never in the bedroom and never seen them so big!
Took me 2 days to literally sit there to watch where they were coming from because we could not figure it out. Finally, realized they were coming from the window. But not from outside. Seems like they were coming from downstairs.
Maintenance redid both of the downstairs apartments completely and maybe they opened up something that let flies in. I don’t know. I had to get electric tape and used it all around my windows, blocking any entry. We haven’t had a fly in since. But now we can’t even open our window in the bedroom. I sent a text to management and of course they never responded. They are going to get one HELL OF A REVIEW once I leave this shithole.
I am so over it. But it makes me so nervous to buy a home, ESPECIALLY in the economy and world we are in right now. Everything is so unpredictable, and it gives me so much anxiety.
At this point, we have no choice. God is definitely showing us that our time is up here. So as soon as he gets his money, we are saving. Giving us no more than 2yrs left in apartment living and we are saying PEACE OUT, BITCHES!!!
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