Apartment Life

I woke up this morning feeling hot. I could hear the air-conditioning kind of gurgling. Yep, just what I thought…..it was frozen up again. This makes 7 times in the past 6 weeks. I just moved into this apartment 6 weeks ago. It is a nice apartment other than that. Maintenance has not been the best as far as getting the “little” stuff done and fixing the air conditioner. I mean they have been very courteous, and have said each time they have come out to fix it that they will need to do a major repair on it. Well, come on now, let’s do it! I just hope my heater works during the winter; at least I have a fireplace. Apartment life isn’t too bad, for those that do not want to have your own yard and your own garage and your own space to really call home. My neighbors are relatively quiet. Occasionally I hear the upstairs neighbors get into a scuff. In addition, the neighbor across from me apparently got upset that the trash pick up people forgot to pick up ours for 3 nights in a row. Therefore, instead of taking it to the dumpster themselves, they just piled it up outside of their door. We are supposed to only put out trash in the container provided to us between 7 and 9 pm at night. About an hour later, it is magically empty. (At least most of the time). I understand them being upset about it, I was too, but come on, that is nasty! Other than that, it really isn’t bad; I live in a great area. That brings me to my last apartment. I lived there for 3 years. It was a nice apartment with total concierge service, swimming pool, tennis courts, cyber café, movie theatre, car wash, planting shed. I loved living there, but realized I wasn’t really using all of the amenities, so I could save a little money. When I moved out, my boyfriend and I cleaned that apartment sparkling clean. The refrigerator looked brand new when we left. Anyhow, I moved out May 31 of this year. When I talked to them about getting my deposit back, they said ok, we need a forwarding address. Why would they need that, it really isn’t their business? Therefore, I told them I didn’t have one and I was staying with a friend. She asked if the check could be sent to my friend’s address. I said, no, I would come by there and pick up the check. The manager told me, “Oh, we can’t do that. The home office will only send the checks here then mail them to your forwarding address you left with the post office.” I told her I don’t have a forwarding address. Then she says, “Oh! Well, I can go to the home office and pick up your check personally and bring it here for you to pick up here, ok?” hahaha, I said “okay!” That certainly was a round about way of getting to the original request. So, a week later, I never heard from her, and I have called and called, leaving messages, finally got in touch with her, and her bubbly little voice said “oh I haven’t heard anything yet, but you are definitely due back your deposit, it just takes longer than I want it to sometimes.” So she left it like that, I had to ask her if I need to call her back to check on it again, she said, call me back next Monday. Ok, I will, and then I think I will start getting upset, because as of Monday, that will be 1 week shy of 2 months. For a full service concierge type of apartment, they are not providing very good service. The way I look at it, they have had my money for nearly 3 years and 2 months! That is like a bad insurance company that treats you nice while you are making the premium payments, but once you have a claim, they drag it out. That stinks! Oh well, I just have to be diligent, because people try to get away with everything. As for today, I guess I will not worry anymore about it.