You come home from a 2 hour commute from Seattle and you want a nice place to stay. You come through the door and sit down in your decently sized apartment with a view of the Olympic Mountains far far in the distance. You think to yourself that life is going good. You have pretty much every ammenity here that you could possibly ask for. Pool, fitness center, Big Screen TV theatre, washer and drier, huge gardens, pond. You are home, and you love it.

Ok, well, that was the first week living at Silver Springs. You just moved here from a smaller older place and the newness of it all is leaving you spellbound. However, things will soon change.

You realize that your car is not in the best running condition, so you'd better not use it that much, it could break down at any point in time. You also realize that unlike in Seattle, you are not in walking distance to a grocery store. Also, unlike in Seattle, there is no decent public transportation near by. You also don't have enough money to fix your car. You are in bad shape, but you love how new your carpet smells, and how the city lights up in front of you at night.

You also can't stop staring at the Olympic Mountains from your patio. You just love it.

You decide to stop worrying, and go for a swim in the pool. Uh oh, to your surprise it's closed. But it's summer dang it! too bad, it's closed for the year, maybe next year (but you'll have to sign a new lease to use it). Oh well, you love it here, you'd live here forever!

The next day comes and your eating malt-o-meal again for dinner. Afterall, you don't want your car to break down and it's all you have. You look at those olympics as the sun goes down. "I'm glad I moved here" you think to yourself. You're going to go take a stroll.

You walk down to the area outside of the complex. It's basically a few old buildings, a gas station, and a Dennys. If you had enough money you could just eat at Dennys every night, but you're not rich. You can't eat like a king and afford views of the Olympics now, can you' So you realize that your neighborhood is no Belltown, and it's not walkable at all. You return home. The olympics glimmer in the moon light. You fall fast asleep.

Coming back from work the next day you are hungry (you had only some malt o meal for breakfast) and your car is clanking. You can't get it fixed and rent is soon due. You are in quite a bind. You car is done for. What will you do now'

You walk to the nearby (1 mile away) Labor Ready, as that will be your new job, as a 3 hour bus commute to Seattle from suburban hell wont work. You wait all morning, no job, you go back home and you realize rent is going to be late, you are $10 short this month! (your car will soon be towed too!! but you don't know that yet!!!!)

You realize that the smart thing would be to talk to the land lord(s) (there are 3-5 of them) about it. They cluster in a horde and tell you that you need to come up with the entire amount up front. Oh, and there is a $50 late fee, oh, and there is also a $5 a day fee for every day you don't turn it in. (The landlord drives a nice new BMW, which she probably gets from taking the extra money from her renters).

The awesome view of the Olympic mountains and that pool you will be using next year doesn't seem to be worth all of this. You were told that there was an adequate bus line near the house (not that you had to walk about 2 miles to closest park and ride to catch a bus, which takes about an hour to get to Seattle).

You also feel upset at the landlord and her chronies because they are laughing at you as they pile up some poor unsuspecting person's possessions out on the street, after going through them for various items that may be of interest to them, like loose cash and musical instruments. And probably charging about $2000 for the carpet that their dog peed on a small corner of. Afterall, the pet deposit is only $200, not $2000!

You find a new place and move out, crying as the olympic mountains disappear in the rearview mirror. Your new place probably wont have that view or a pool that is open once a year, but you may find that there are nice people out there and a walkable neighborhood somewhere else for you to enjoy. They built this hell they call Silver Springs apartment in the worst location in the world, in the town of Kent, Washington, the sewer of the Puget Sound region and one of America's most awful towns. Yeah, that's right, you made a bad choice, but we all do, so all you can do is look back and laugh at those land lords that have chips on their shoulders, but have an awesome view of the Olympic Mountains. I'm sure they are loving their jobs!

User Responses
From: -nunya	Date: 03/22/2006
All I have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...that was good...so damn true!
From: Anonymous	Date: 01/14/2008
Quit whining about your life nobody cares that you're pathetic, this is a site for seeing reviews of apartments not people's pathetic personal lives.
From: Anonymous	Date: 09/04/2008
WHAT MOUNTAINS?
From: Anonymous	Date: 09/14/2009
biiiiiitch biiiiitch biiiiitch....moan....moan....moan! More than half this crap isn't even about the apartment! Get a job!!! quit complaining about your life! freak.

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