My husband and I were talking yesterday about our apartment and we both agreed that it's the only reason we really want to leave PA right now. It's horrible. It gets worse and worse the more time we live here. You walk into the building and it's instant cigarette smoke because the guy upstairs smokes in his apartment and in the hallways, especially when he's coming to change his laundry (BTW, there are 2 washers and dryers in our building, and only 1 of the dryers actually dries all the way). He doesn't think anything of it. Then you have to go down 6 really steep steps and open another door. The carpet is pretty much always dirty in the hallways and they "vacuum" it about ever 2.5 weeks. What they need to do is put in automatic airfresheners.

We can't lock our top lock (deadbolt) because it will bend our key, and the bottom one - I could break that if I kicked it. The front door is really old, but nice because it's solid wood, but there is paint chipping off of it. Then you walk into our apartment and you can see carpet lines everywhere, because I think they buy left over carpet and recarpet like that. The living room is a decent size, but the cable hookup is in a very inconvieniant place, in the closet, so if you want to put it anywhere, you have to run cord across the room, or under the carpet, which doesn't go back down.

Our kitchen is depressing because it's so small. We can fit our table in there, but we can barely walk around it because it's tini. Then there's the refrigerator - I think it's half the size of a normal one. It's so small, and we have about 2.5 feet of counter space on each side of the sink. Our sink leaks water out of the facet when we turn the handle on and the hot water will give you the worse burns ever. Even if you turn it on REALLY low, it comes out scolding. When we moved in, our stove wasn't clean and then side of the fridge that the stove was next too was covered in grease. I'm still trying to clean it off, but it looks like it's years of caked on grease and fat. When I open my stove, it hits the cabinets to the right of it and scrapes them up, and I'll probably get charged for that. The cabinets are aweful because they are either too high, or they are stupidly placed. There is a split cabinet above the fridge and one above the stove, but they are high. Then there are ones above the sink area, but they won't hold a box of cereal upright. The drawers won't hold a silverwear holder, so you're either stuck with them loose in a drawer or in a cup on the counter.

The dishwasher doesn't clean the dishes either. I cleaned the dishes thoroughly before I put them in there, and then just ran it so that it would pretty much disinfect anything else that was still on there or anything I missed and they came out with crap all over them. Gross. The biggest complaint I have about the kitchen though is that there is only one electric outlit, with two plug holes. So if you need anything other than a microwave and... whatever else, you're S.O.L. We need to plug in our microwave, our grill, coffee pot, toaster and blender because we use them almost every day, and we can't. We have to put them on our kitchen table and rotate them out when we need them, because there's another plug all the way across the room.

Our bathroom is PEACH! It's just really small too. The mirrored cabinet above our sink is a P.O.S, and it's about to fall apart from being so old. At least the light in the bathroom works. It was really weird to walk into because they told us that the bathrooms were remodeled... Maybe in 1975. Our shower is a decent size, but the tub filled up with water in about 3 minutes when we first moved in. The drain was horrible. Now it drains, but the water temperature never stays the same for more than 30 seconds, and it will go from extremely hot to extremely cold. The toilet doesn't take all of the toilet paper down mostly on the first flush either. We've had to have them "look at it" 3 times in less than 2 months.

The rooms are nicely sized, but there are things wrong with them too. The paint in the smaller of the two bedrooms is very uneven and you can tell they just went in there and slapped some paint on the wall and called it a day. The baseboard paint is pelling up everywhere. The blinds in the windows are very cheap throughout the entire apartment. They break very easily. In the larger room, it's nice because it is bigger, but then you have the AC in a stupid place so that you can't put a bed with a headboard on that wall, unless you want one side of your bed hitting another wall.

And the ONE thing I hate the most... Bugs. I can't stand them, and especially roaches. I'm not a dirty person, my house is always clean, and yet I put roach powder down and there are still 1-3 of them every day dead on my carpet that I have to pick up. I've had to pick up about 5 of them that were alive since we've lived here and they were always HUGE.

The squirells and the birds chirping help a little, and the fact that we always have a decent parking space is nice, but it's not worth it. The one nice thing is their deposit program - $131.25 and it covers up to $750 worth of damage. And the rent is what was in our price range considering we wanted to make sure we had enough money for the baby, and that we had never been here before.

User Responses
From: movernadshaker	Date: 08/18/2007
Wow you really have a lot of time on your hands to put all of that in a review. I live here also and I agree with some of the things, the nice things, not the riduculous things. It is hard to belive that someone would take the time to write all of this and still live in an apartment.wait until you live in your own house, and move to anothyer state.

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