RUBs - This is a bullshit system to be added to your rent with. This is basically saying “on top of what you’re paying to use, you’re to pay what EVERYONE else in the building uses!” even if it’s divided up. I get fucked over every winter for example, because I use electric heaters in my apartment and nothing gas-related. I’m still smacked with $48 ~ $62 of usage, despite that. This raises my rent up and makes it variable.
No-Bite Management - Management who lets nearly everything go, despite them trying to sound strict. You may be in a bit of a rivalry with a neighbor who likes slamming things or having loud music, obviously breaking lease agreement, who makes you wonder why they’ve gotten away with it as long as they have. You record, you report but management does next to nothing. They tell you to your face that the only way they can move forward, is a police report. Now that kind of thing should be reserved for more escalated and involved cases, not something management could deal with when they were the ones who made up the terms of the lease agreement.
Pets - From experience, people are AWFUL with their pets. Mostly dogs, I’ve never seen anything go wrong with cats, unless the owners don’t care enough to let them run around until they’re kidnapped or ran over. But dogs, they just let them go and go with the barking. Not to mention the dog shit on the ground they refuse to pick up.
Yup, this has been some of my experience.
People invite their freaking friends and family who hog up a lot of the parking spaces and forces actual paying tenants, like me, to park in areas I shouldn’t have to park in. We do have guest parking but it’s stupid small. Never got a walkthrough of the unit. I wasn’t allowed to enter my unit for 2 more days. Why? They said it “wasn’t ready” despite me having traveled 1,000+ miles from state to state to get to the apartment. I had to sleep in my cold vehicle those two nights.
And when it was finally available? The damn thing was emptied from the beginning! And all they did was just vacuum the carpets.
The only reason there’s a shortage of spaces in the first place is predatory design.
An apartment I used to live in was newly built, and each building had big gated underground parking, as well as a very few small outdoor parking lots. It was really clear that the underground parking was supposed to be tenant parking and the parking lots were for visitors. Yet, they were charging for the underground parking, and that outdoor parking lot was 100% full 99.99% of the time.
And now, apartment complexes are being built that don’t have that outdoor parking, and only have the underground parking, and the management wants to sell the underground parking as extra, rather than just letting people use the parking meant for them, and so all the street parking is taken up.
I had a friend in that more recent design, and it was in a residential neighborhood. So you have a bunch of apartment tenants parking all along the streets by a bunch of houses. It was awful… For everybody involved.
But the landlord has to make enough money to do fuckall and buy another yacht somehow.