Our apartment complex is full of dogs. I can hear the two upstairs from us barking all day long, they jump at the door and howl every time someone walks past their door and when the owners take them out they rarely have them leashed and they always come running straight at me. For someone who is nervous about dogs, it's awful! Most of the dog owners in our complex let them do their business right outside the front door all winter. This makes for a disgusting slushy mess. Seriously, everyone has to walk right through poop alley to get into the building! Just take your dog 20 more feet from the door and for the love of Pete pick up it's poo- even in the winter when you think the snow will cover it up. When spring hits, BAM! poo everywhere.
I also don't think it's very fair to have big dogs crammed in an apartment all day. Some of the dogs in our building are pretty good sized (one neighbor had two Great Danes!!) and I think it's got to be terrible for them to be trapped inside all day while their owners are at work. I've seen some cases where I feel like it's very irresponsible and selfish of the owners to put their dogs in that situation.
Not sure if you can tell but this is a big issue for me. I am realllllly looking forward to not having to deal with this any more.
2. Neighbors who leave their stuff all over the place. This wasn't an issue until our new neighbors across the hall moved in. I don't know where all this junk comes from but it's everywhere in the hallways. We asked if we were allowed to keep our bikes in the hallway and were told no by the complex management. Our neighbors however, have stored easy chairs, bookcases, storage boxes, laundry baskets full of random things and their garbage in the hall for days on end. Just the other night I took this picture:
3. Parking. There is never enough of it at our complex. In the winter it's made even worse by the piles of snow that are mounded into some of the spaces. People in our complex also seem to think that they don't need to park properly. I've seen people park right in the middle of two spaces, pull in at almost a 45* angle, park in the handicap spot every single night even though they don't have a placard to do so. We consistently have to park at the far end of the parking lot since there are not enough spaces and, although this is definitely a first world problem, it annoys me to no end.
4. Not being able to grill or have our own outdoor area. Again, this is such a first world problem but we weren't allowed to even store our little gas grill on our small patio let alone use it. The poor thing spent most of the last two years either at the bottom of our storage closet or in the trunk of Thomas' car. And it wasn't in his car because we were taking it somewhere. There was just no more room for it in the closet. The outdoor space we had was a small patio where the ash from our upstairs neighbors' cigarettes dropped and the grass behind our house was constantly covered in cigarette butts. The landscapers did a great job of leaf-blowing dirt, twigs and said cigarette butts onto our patio every week or so.
5. Space. When we moved into our little 2 bed, 2 bath apartment we were so excited to have all this extra space for storage. We have a lot of camping gear and Christmas decorations plus we've been trying to grow our food storage. We don't have a TON of stuff because Thomas and I are very committed to not being hoarders. As mentioned in #4 we couldn't store anything on our patio. We found ourselves having less and less space every day especially when we started renting out our spare bed and bath. Our bikes were very carefully parked next to our bed, food storage was packed under our bed and in the TV console. There was a bag of rice behind our bedroom door for about a year. I kept meaning to move it but there was just nowhere to put it. A lot of our storage was inaccessible which meant that we never used things we should have and if we went through the trouble to dig it out it stayed out. We had leftover Christmas decorations still hanging around when we began packing to move in March.
We've been in our house for a few weeks now and we are loving it! It's been nice to stretch out and really be able to make things our own. We are looking forward to BBQs this summer and lots of other exciting things! We can finally see our entire back yard and although it could use a little TLC it's not covered in dog poop or cigarette butts! Winning!
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