Poll: your worst apartment experiences

squirrly

Or, college dorm room if that's the best you've got.  Gross, scary, awful roommate, whatever it is.  Let's hear it.

arbolita

I went through a SWF situation that was kind of creepy.

stina93446

I lived down the hall from a murder scene.My dorm building was half dorm, half psych ward. We had tenants that were legally crazy and ready to die. The school could not kick them out, so whenever I'd come home from class, if there was an ambulance outside, I knew that someone had died.

squirrly

Mine:1 -- (what started this post) ex killed a spider in my college apt bathroom.  She spewed eggs.  About a thousand dead tiny spiders later, I gave up and moved out.  2 -- corporate housing apartment - one night, the neighbors on both sides AND upstairs were fuucking.  at the same time.  at 3 am.  After 30 minutes, I got out the broom and beat on the ceiling & walls and screamed for them to stop.

MeaghanandMichael

I have shared many bad experiences on here beofre but the three that come to mind are:1) freshman year roommate who was a psycho and scared of the world and literally made a cove under her vaulted bed that she would study in/sleep in/never come out of. When she did come out she would beg me to come to the bathroom with her because she feared being rape. It was quite sad actually.2) Last winter when our landlord ignored our calls for days when the 'included' heat shut off because he never filled the oil tank.3) This summer when my old neighbor stole our AC unit out of our locked storage unit (cut the cage), put it in her window in plain site, denied the whole things. H threw a fit and got it back, made her and her friends walk it down to our storage unit in heels and everything

Leah&Christian09

I lived with a guy who wanted to take the doors off our cabinets so that he didn't have to open and close them.  I put my foot down on that, after he'd painted "AC/DC" in our living room walls and flames on his bedroom walls.  He got bent out of shape when I didn't think I owed an equal amount for damages at the end of our lease.

salt78

When I was in college, I lived with two drug addict strippers and their drug dealer boyfriends. I had friends over and we were in my room and we could hear the girls talking about how they wanted to kill us and where they would bury our bodies if they did. I got out of the lease a short time later with no penalties because one of the girls threatened to kill me in front of the leasing manager.

saschaduran

I had a SWF situation too. She changed her whole style, dyed her hair black, got the same haircut, and started trying to sleep with everyone I slept with. She introduced herself as "Jennifer's roommate." to everyone. She decided she wanted to be smart so bought a book on quantam physics and the "Handy Science Question Answer" book and would carry it around the mall with her. She asked me if I would sign papers saying she could raise my daughter if I were to ever die.

kate51485

This is the mold that grew in our water heater closet. In a luxury, brand new, never before lived in apartment. [IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/2rwlzlu.jpg[/IMG]

ggmae

I lived with my best friend and a girl named Anna junior and senior year of college. Junior year was good, but senior year Anna did everything in her power to turn me against my best friend. And it worked for a long time! It was such a mess and there was such a division in that apartment. My best friend went home every weekend and I worked a lot to avoid going back there.In terms of gross - someone pooed on the floor in my freshman dorm study lounge. It was nasty.

janedoe1113a

- When I lived in the dorms, I walked in on my roommate having a threesome- My old roommate's boyfriend would come visit maybe every year (they saw each other every couple of months).  When he would come visit, they'd sit in her room on their computer playing WoW.

RachNRich

Last year, FI and I lived in our first apartment together--and my first apartment ever. I never lived in an apartment in college because I hated the thought of them. Our downstairs neighbor (we lived on the top floor of an upper/lower condo appartment) was older, and smoked a lot. She would smoke on her porch, which was outside of her bedroom/kitchen--which was also outside of our bedroom/kitchen. So our bedroom always smelled like smoke. She also had a boyfriend. We called him Pee-Paw. We called her Me-Maw. One night, at like 11, the sliding glass door opened downstairs--I thought they went out to smoke. A few minutes later, I heard what I thought was the sound of one of them packing a pack of cigs---but no, Pee-Paw was packing Me-Maw. Loudly.

squirrly

arbolita - details?  stina - oh. my. god.  why the combination in one building?  salt - holy crap. 

bintmejnuna

Does a townhouse count? In college I lived in a 5 bedroom, 3 story townhouse with 5 other people. It was ok at first, even though we lived in a crappy part of town. One of the guys in the house kept letting his friends stay on the couch until they found a place. They would never find a place. We had 13 people living in the house when I finally got out of there. Nothing was ever clean, there was always someone awake and doing something. Someone was always having sex (which you could hear from the street!) It was awful. A few months after moving out part of the roof came down and they had to rig a tarp up in the living room to keep the water dripping through the ceiling off the electronics. The landlord was nowhere to be found. Worst house ever.

Noron

I lived in a place with rats living in the walls.  I still haven't recovered.

Stacey2113

Found out my roommate in grad school was a witch (practicing black magic) after we'd already signed the lease.  Same chick also always had random people over...I tried to be there as little as possible for that and the witchy reason (which also made her resent me since her bf was in Iraq and she was lonely).  One morning, I came back from my boyfriend's (now husband's) apartment as early as possible in attempts to try to grab my clothes without running into her and found my door locked.  I knocked and had a naked guy wrapped up in MY sheet answer MY door.  Naked chick in my bed.  WTF????????  I also found drool over my freshly washed pillow cases  several times when I came home.  I ttried to lock my door, but she usually picked it.Found my clothes in her laundry - mind you, we were NOT friends and she had NOT asked.When I did buy food, it was almost always gone.Agh, thinking about it makes me so grateful to be married! 

janedoe1113a

Kate -- Eww!

salt78

Funny follow up to said story...both girls later found and wanted to befriend me on Facebook.

arbolita

Sascha - this girl got a boob job so she could "compete" with me, after I got highlights in my hair asked what the shade was and two days later had the exact same color, and tried to her her boyfriend into DH.  She also would call some of my friends on a regular basis to talk for hours at a time, even if she'd only met them once or twice.

vgmartinez

I lived in an upstairs apartment and the neighbor directly below me was a complete jerk. He would blast his stereo and when I say blast, I mean that he was obviously doing it to piss me off. I would stomp on the floor and bang things and he would do it back. One night, it got so loud the walls were shaking so I called the police. The guy told the cop that WE were the ones making all the noise! I was like...whatever just nevermind. It didn't help that my ex bf wouldn't grow balls and go tell him to turn his shiit down. Needless to say I broke up with ex bf and moved back in with my parents.

katiewhompus

Junior year I lived in a house with 8 other people. At any given moment at least one of them was having sex. It drove me nuts.Then senior year I had a seriously pyscho roomie. She was over at her bf's all the time, and as such decided that our apartment didn't need to run any ac. I was in the apt for most of the day and it got up to 90 in there. So after a few less than civil "conversations" she decided to just remove the ac unit from the wall. That escalated into an arguement which then escalated into her bf hitting my bf over the head with a frying pan. 15 staples in the skull later, we told her we wouldn't press charges as long as she paid for the damage to the apt and got the fvck out.I also had someone try to climb into my apartment for shits and giggles about a weekend after. He was wasted. Unfortunately my 6'8 neighbor had been apartment watching and saw him come up the balcony. He just stood there with his bat and was like "you have exactly 5 seconds to climb back down they balcony"My neighbors there were also crack dealers. One shot at a cop car and I had the swat team go through my apt looking for the suspect/rifle.Fun times...

RachNRich

Dear lord, Kate---that is an awful lot of mold.

betrothed123

I lived in an apartment complex where someone was murdered.  I was at a night class and H was working late.  We got home to find the entire road blocked off.  We parked and then walked as close to the apartment as we could get without crossing the police tape.  An officer walked up to us and asked me what we were doing.  I told him the apartment number we lived in.  He escorted us up to the apartment, but wouldn't tell us what was going on.5 minutes after getting into the apartment we heard a knock on the door.  I opened it to an officer standing there.  He told me that someone was shot in the entryway to our parking lot.  The only suspect they had got through our security door (it wasn't working right before that and I had called management a few times about it), and had run up to our apartment.  He was pounding on the door yelling for someone named Alex when the neighbors across the hall came out and said we weren't home.They searched our apartment, and the entire complex, and found no one.  About a month later the management released a statement saying not to worry because it was a random shooting (because yeah, that makes me worry less than say the victim was going to buy drugs and it went bad, or something.)

missy68

Miami, Florida.  First floor. Apartment next to the trash chute.All roaches, all the time.  And lizards. Those roaches made 2 moves with me.

squirrly

Oh, same apartment as the spider incident.  I had a job interview scheduled on my birthday.  I had to get up at 4 am to shower, dress, drive 45 minutes to the nearest airport, and fly to Indianapolis for the interview.  My upstairs neighbors decided to have a party the night before, so I got about 2 hours sleep.  And, apparently, somebody had a plumbing issue as I discovered 4 inches of nasty sewage looking stuff in the shower when I got up at 4.  I stood on the side of the shower and stuck my head in to wash my hair.  EEW!

saschaduran

Arbolita....it's so creepy isn't it?? She also did the calling my friends thing and I looked in her address book once and she had copied most of my friend's phone numbers into it. I guess that's what we get for being so cute:)

kate51485

That mold was the grossest thing I have ever seen. I have more pictures but it is not something you want to see any closer up. Needless to say we hightailed it outta there, the office paid for a hotel and reimbursed us for meals for 3 weeks, and I got out of the lease early.

Noron

I dealt with roaches, too.  Awful.  Nothing like the rats, but awful nonetheless.

tdmd09

My first apartment was a studio apartment in an old house that my ex and I rented for $250 a month. It was 2 blocks from campus, and cheap as hell. Except it was owned by a lazy slumlord.Problem 1: the compressor in our window AC unit went out, in July, in Kansas, so it was blowing hot air into our apartment. Landlord said he'd replace it. He brought AC #1, that made cold air, but the blades were rusted shut so it wouldn't blow, or would make rusty creaking noises that kept us up at night. I called and yelled at him so he brought us AC #2, that worked for 24 hours, and then the compressor went out. Then he brought us AC #3, which was so powerful it blew out the fuse in our apartment, unless we hooked it to an extension cord that snaked through our entire apartment into the bathroom. But whenever we turned on the bathroom light, we blew that fuse too. Finally he bought us a NEW AC unit, after 2 weeks and 3 window units. I wonder where the junkyard of window units was.Problem 2: neighbor's mom worked for the gas company and noticed our house smelled funny. So at 1am on a weeknight, in January, she called the gas company and the landlord, who came through every apartment to look for gas leaks. They found lots, including fittings connecting the gas lines to our oven that were outlawed in like 1989. They shut off our gas (meaning our furnace, hot water heater, and stove) until the landlord would fix it.My apartment was the living room of the old house, and had a fireplace that was boarded up. Turns out gas lines were snaked up the chimney, so in order for the landlord to turn on our furnace, he had to get into my apartment, unboard the fireplace, and dump crud all over my floor to get to the gas lines. After a week and a half our heat got turned back on, but we had no hot water or stove for another 2 weeks. And the rental company tried to make us pay for all of our utilities that month.Worst. Apartment. Ever.

salt78

God there are some crazy people out there. And yeah that mold is really REALLY gross.

YaPuppy

Our current neighborhood is not the best (worst neighborhood in a really nice town deal).  The day we moved in the couple next door had a huge fight with each other regarding his alcoholism and her being pregnant.  Several times right when I was getting ready to send Fi over (hes a cop) the cop cars would show up and take the husband away.  She did finally leave him at least.There are several gang members living at both ends of the block, and last Christmas a ups truck was held up a few houses down.  The new neighbors next door have no boundaries and enjoy letting their kids run all over our yard, and block our driveway.  In the haste to get this place ready for the previous owners (family no less) they designed it with 1 radiator in the entire place.  The place has 2 temps, blazing hot from April-August, followed by intense cold the rest of the year.  Its also completely unfinished (exposed sheet rock, etc), but since we're renting from family with no lease, its either we pay to fix it and waste money we want to put into a house, or deal with it as isMy first apt. was a studio above a garage.  The whole place rattled anytime the garage door opened, which was at all crazy hours.  It was also invested with large ants that traps and poison did nothing to get rid of.  Other then being really small, I almost miss that compared to this sometimes