Apartment Living for sane and happy people
So, I have been thinking a bit recently about the apartment life here in Tallahassee. Some parts of it I really do not enjoy. Other parts are good. Let me give a little preface of our background for those of you who don't know.
We were married in August. We thought that we needed to have an apartment starting the first day of the month, so we signed our lease to start on 1 August, but that didn't really seem too logical since we didn't actually start living in our new home until the end of August or maybe even September. There was the convenient feature of a place to store our stuff as campus-approved housing started to boot us out of our homes. So, we just had a kind of expensive storage locker. We also had what could be considered one of the largest square-footage places in our ward, and it had a washer and drier. In fact, it wasn't actually an apartment. It was a basement to a house. The ceilings were roughly 6'6', except in the bathroom where the ceiling was lowered to allow for the plumbing upstairs, and the floor was raised to allow for the bathroom plumbing. I, at 5'10", couldn't stand up completely when showering. I could list the ways it violated code, but regardless, we lived there for over a year and a half before moving into a renovated garage/bomb shelter. Smaller, but much taller ceilings.
Here in Tallahassee we have lived for a year now in what we call apartment life. We really do live in apartments here. There are 149 units in the complex. So, my question is what can you expect to receive in exchange for your rent? What standards should you expect or accept?
I figure that most of us have lived at sometime in a place that will never truly be "yours" because you are paying rent and will never have an appreciable return for your money besides a place to live. So what should be considered acceptable or even contemptible?
So, I have been thinking a bit recently about the apartment life here in Tallahassee. Some parts of it I really do not enjoy. Other parts are good. Let me give a little preface of our background for those of you who don't know.
We were married in August. We thought that we needed to have an apartment starting the first day of the month, so we signed our lease to start on 1 August, but that didn't really seem too logical since we didn't actually start living in our new home until the end of August or maybe even September. There was the convenient feature of a place to store our stuff as campus-approved housing started to boot us out of our homes. So, we just had a kind of expensive storage locker. We also had what could be considered one of the largest square-footage places in our ward, and it had a washer and drier. In fact, it wasn't actually an apartment. It was a basement to a house. The ceilings were roughly 6'6', except in the bathroom where the ceiling was lowered to allow for the plumbing upstairs, and the floor was raised to allow for the bathroom plumbing. I, at 5'10", couldn't stand up completely when showering. I could list the ways it violated code, but regardless, we lived there for over a year and a half before moving into a renovated garage/bomb shelter. Smaller, but much taller ceilings.
Here in Tallahassee we have lived for a year now in what we call apartment life. We really do live in apartments here. There are 149 units in the complex. So, my question is what can you expect to receive in exchange for your rent? What standards should you expect or accept?
I figure that most of us have lived at sometime in a place that will never truly be "yours" because you are paying rent and will never have an appreciable return for your money besides a place to live. So what should be considered acceptable or even contemptible?
posted by The Pagets in Florida at 5:41 PM
3 Comments:
So what parts are you enjoying and what parts are you not enjoying about your current apartment? I don't think you told us.
we are trying not to focus on the negative. It makes it easier to stay. The large member concentration with all of the kids make it exceptionally good for the family and a social network.
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under Heaven.” Equity is not everything; it seems to rob you from time focus on eternal things sometimes. It is great to have a house to work on together as a family, (many wonderful bonding and teaching opportunities), but lately I spend the better part of two days a week keeping the house from falling down and the yard from going to seed (weeds). And I do not do such a great job of that. (A/C upstairs was leaking water last evening. The attic was probably 110 deg, I had something else planned.) I look forward to a time when someone else can be responsible for what breaks. But, the Lord blesses in all circumstances. Dad P. (Papa)
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