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My first apartment; what should I expect?
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DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
I just moved out too, so I'm taking some of this advice also.
Right across the street xD
I'm looking for a Japanese touch in the living room.
~60m² (what's that? ~645 square feet?)
You're gonna need shit you haven't even thought about yet. Best advice I can give you is go through your parents' kitchen, linen closets, bathroom (your bathroom) and make a note of shit that you don't buy but that helps the household run. Once you move in, do a run to the local store and pick stuff up.
brickarts295
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Lol I get the reference but I don't see how's that relevant to this.
Top floor. The whole floor right under me is currently unoccupied.
disappeared
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Oh wow man, you hit the jackpot. No fuckers making noise above you and you've got empty space below. Party hard.
ProtomanNeo
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What's the style of the space? Hard wood or carpeted floors? Window height?
PancakeBurglar
Member
I live in a studio with no roommates and I love it. Pay rent on time, decorate like an adult but still show some of your personality through it, keep it clean it'll look better and you'll stay in better mood, invest in some decent furniture, also make sure its not embarrassing mess when you have a date over.
Such as?
I need a good 5.1 set.
Hard wood. Normal window height, lol.
Autumn Wind
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I agree with most of what has already been said however may I also add to that list that if you buy something online, try and get signature confirmation for everything. This way anything you order if you are not home, you can just pick it up from UPS, FedEx, or the post office.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
You laugh but the difference between windows that start half a meter off the floor and those that start a meter is pretty dramatic. Wood is good though, you can make a place with wood floors look real nice
This. SO much this. If you don't do this, 90% of the time you will not get your deposit back because they'll either blame you for doing shit that was already there when you moved in, or they will make something up.
Also, read your lease at least once so you know how, if necessary, to get out of your lease and what it will (or won't) cost, as well as what constitutes a breach of the lease on their end (and yours of course). That way if maintenance or something isn't doing timely repairs for broken things (AC/Heat), or any other reason stated in the lease, you can get out without paying a dime.
Edit: Also, always have extra TP on hand. And if you're a single dude, get a hand towel or two for the bathroom. Ladies dig hand towels, as should any self-respecting human! Who wants to leave a bathroom with wet hands? When my friends and I started getting our own places, most of them didn't have hand towels. I've had many girls comment on how refreshing it is to be at a guy's place with a hand towel. This may just be a unique experience, but it stuck with me, and I pass this information along to you!
I H8 Memes
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Upstairs or downstairs?
StriKeVillain
Banned
Congrats on the sex.
Answered already.
Skellig Gra
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Wash your towels, sheets, and clothes on a regular basis.
Fucking GAF...I never thought this would have been a thing to mention before some of the threads on here.
superdeluxe
Member
Expect to be kept up by loud neighbors
Jason's Ultimatum
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Welp, I can't sleep tonight.
underkanter
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buy a slow-cooker
Skellig Gra
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Once or twice a year should be plenty.
Electret
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Ding ding ding ding ding
This is like your one and only hedge against a landlord making excessive deductions from your deposit. Most will ding you for the smallest nick, scratch, stain, etc. If you're feeling studious, brush up on your local landlord/tenant laws. It's good to know what your responsibilities are and what theirs are.
What to expect? Noise. Possibly lots of it, depending on the building and neighbors. Never hurts to have a polite conversation early in tenancy with a neighbor (assuming they're reasonable) if they're being excessively loud. Beyond that, get noise cancelling headphones if it bothers you.
Another thing, coming from someone who was the noise-sensitive tenant in an insanely noisy building for years: please be conscientious about the noise you make with respect to the mundane stuff - shutting doors, drawers, cabinets, clinking dishes, etc. Maybe it's less of an issue in your building, but in mine everything traveled through the walls, and having neighbors with no awareness of that shit drove me to the brink of insanity.
How do you prove it's not recent?
What I did was have a walk around with the landlord and pointed stuff out and noted them. I think that's more of a just so you know, don't screw me over but not iron clad thinking about it now.
How About No
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You don't need that much room to set up a slow cooker, even less if you're just throwing shit in and not having to prepare much
Email them to your property manager.
Captain Tuttle
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amazing haha
Electret
Member
This is good advice, and extends to much more. Generally, the more you can correspond with the landlord in a way that creates a documented paper trail, the better. Not to say a phone call is inappropriate for the small stuff.
PanicFreak
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Fuck me I would live like a king if I only paid 210 for rent.
I've been in my first apartment for a year and a few months. Expect a lot of things to go wrong with the house/floor and be ready to deal with anything. Last week my key broke off and got stuck inside the lock so I had to borrow the owners ladder to climb up to a window I knew was unlocked and slash through the screen with a knife to open it. It was like -10 degrees that night too, it sucked.
Electret
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That's slightly over 10% of my rent. Crazy!
Escape Goat
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Slow cooker eh? I shall look into that.
Jason's Ultimatum
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If only my place looked that good.
Good tip.
yeah, get curtains.
parrotbeak
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Save water and time by pissing in the sink.
parrotbeak
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Although you will need a lot of stuff, buy as you need it, especially if you're in a city where you can run to a store at any time. A small place will get cluttered fast.
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