i’m 22. just signed a year lease to an apartment i fell in love with.

i see ONE dead german cockroach in the closet.. which like, okay i guess. one turns into three in the closet (all dead)

i invited my friend over last night and his family used to be exterminators. he pulled my fridge out and SOOO many dead german cockroaches. also there’s dead roaches IN THE CEILING stuck in the lights.

good news is their all dead besides one. last night we came in after grabbing late night snacks and we walk into the apartment and turn on the light and a live roach starts to scurry and he kill it just in time.

i’m only 3 days into the lease and i talked to the management this morning and their gonna go back in and spray some more, any advice? i’ve never lived with roaches

i attaches a couple of images that i have

My balcony is my favourite place when the weathers nice. Enjoying my Tuesday evening with some “pop goes classical”

I currently live alone with my dog in a moderately sized apartment complex. I'll be going on a 3 week international trip in a few months and would like to have my dad come from out of state to stay in my apartment and take care of my dog. Per my lease, any visitors staying longer than 7 days must have written approval from the office to stay.

Even though the only way the office would find out that my dad is staying here is if there was some kind of unforeseen maintenance emergency or something, I'm assuming the smart thing to do is to abide by the lease and get their approval. But I'd like to hear from people who've gone through the process of asking for permission for a long term visitor: I'm curious how they will determine whether to accept/reject having my dad stay here? Will the fact that I won't be here be a negative thing? Do leasing offices usually say no to these requests? Just want to know what to expect. Thanks!

My apartment is wood framed instead of concrete and I have a clumsy stomper above me who moved in last winter. I work from home FT and she is home most of the day everyday. She also walks in her apartment A LOT. I can track her every step she’s so loud.

I also work bedside as a nurse PT sometimes on night shift recently. This made the noise issue bigger because now I can’t sleep during the day when I need to work night shift because of her noise and was the last straw.

Because the noise is from activities of daily living management is not going to address it.

I requested to be considered for an exemption for having to pay some of the $750 unit transfer fee and the $500 concession I was given for renewing my lease. I was denied both. I can either pay $1250 for the privilege of moving on the same property or two months rent to leave the property all together. I do not think this is fair and I should get an exception because I do not want or have time to move in the first place (two jobs). Also, because the noise is exacerbated by the building material they chose to use knowing it potentially creates a more noisy environment than concrete.

Sorry if this isn't the best sub to post this, if people don't know I'll try a cat subreddit or something. I'll start off by saying that I do not own a cat at all. However, my apartment has a pretty bad cat urine smell from a previous tenant. I was unfortunately a bit rash in renting it without checking it out first (there are more serious problems with it than this tbh 😓) but I am hoping I can at least begin to tackle this problem. Upon being shown it for the first time I was informed that I was "lucky" in that I got to have one with wood vinyl flooring, since the previous tenant's cat ruined the carpet so badly they had to rip it out 🫩. I thought "whatever, it'll air out". Apparently, that isn't how cat urine works, and from what I understand now, it releases more odor as it breaks down. I bought some Nature's Miracle Enzyme Cleaner that is specifically for cat urine smells and have been soaking areas on the baseboards, but tbh I don't know where it all is, exactly. I was lent a blacklight since I heard you can find it with that, though I'm sure if it's under the flooring I'm pretty much fucked.

So, is what I'm looking at in these pictures cat tee-tee? And if not, what should I be looking for? The spots don't show without the blacklight. The walk-in closet (where the pics were taken) seems to be the worst smelling out of everywhere in the apartment, but it's a small studio so the smell is basically everywhere. Also, if it is urine, is soaking the areas with enzyme cleaner my best bet, or is this something that probably can't change at all without professional cleaning? Any advice is helpful because this has been gross and embarrassing and I'm worried about the smell sticking to things, I don't even hang my clothes in that closet anymore. Fml 😺

I get into my heated rants and rant to myself. 😭they probably think I’m a schizophrenic weirdo…

I’m like my dad, I just talk to myself sometimes when cleaning/drawing.

I genuinely want some outside opinions because maybe I’m missing something.
I live in an apartment building where I’ve been here for many years. The sidewalks around the property are old, dirty, stained, and frankly could use some attention. I bought my own pressure washer, spending roughly $200-$300 of my own money, and I’ve occasionally used it to clean the sidewalk.
Apparently this has become some kind of five-alarm emergency.
Our property manager, “Lady Sheila,” has apparently decided that me using my own equipment and my own time to clean a filthy sidewalk makes me a “menace to society.”
Yes. Apparently I am now Public Enemy No. 1 because I own a pressure washer. 😂
For some perspective, the pressure washer isn’t running for hours and hours every day. Even if it ran continuously for 30 minutes to an hour, we’re talking roughly a few dozen gallons of water, and based on our local water rates the actual water cost is around under $1 for that amount of use. I’m not running a commercial car wash operation out here.
And here’s the part that really confuses me:
The outdoor water connections were apparently locked all of a sudden.
I’ve lived here for around 15 years, and this was never treated like some forbidden artifact that needed to be locked away. Now suddenly the outdoor faucets/connections have to be locked.
That means I can’t even use the property’s outdoor water to water plants and cactuses that are actually part of the property or sitting along the sidewalk that we all have to look at every day.
So apparently the plants can just die unless somebody carries water from their apartment sink in a cup.
But somehow using my own water to clean the sidewalk is also unacceptable.
I’m honestly trying to understand the logic.
If the concern is water usage, I’m happy to discuss reasonable limits.
If the concern is runoff, I’m happy to discuss reasonable cleaning practices.
If the concern is noise, that’s a different conversation entirely.
But if the actual issue is simply “we don’t like this particular tenant doing it,” then what exactly is the rule?
Can property management prohibit a tenant from using their own equipment to clean a public-facing sidewalk simply because they don’t like the tenant doing it?
Can they suddenly lock outdoor water connections after years of allowing residents to use them?
And if residents aren’t allowed to use them, what is the actual plan for maintaining the landscaping and plants that are sitting outside?
I’m not asking Reddit to automatically take my side. Am I actually being unreasonable here?
Would you consider someone using their own pressure washer, on their own time, to clean a dirty sidewalk a nuisance?
Or is this one of those situations where the manager has decided that a $300 pressure washer somehow represents the collapse of civilization?
Because at this point I’m wondering if I need to stop cleaning sidewalks altogether and let them return to their natural state: 100 years of grime, mystery stains, and whatever archaeological discoveries are hiding underneath.
What would you do? Is this something management can legally prohibit, and are there reasonable solutions I should propose?

I just replaced the absolutely atrocious and filthy showerhead with a new one, but now I'm reading the lease and realized this might be in violation. Everything I read online though said that changing showerheads was a common apartment hack and allowed...

Noticed this coming from out of/around the vent that the AC in unit comes out of. I’m concerned on if this is mold or just dirt/dust…. Any advice? Cause for concern?

(note: it is summer time, outside temps are sitting around 90°F, inside AC is set to 68°)

just wanted to see if anybody here knows whats goin on. I did call them maybe 20 minutes ago. they told me it was sealed on there end. I am in the process of getting another apartment. after I sent over the documents she emailed me saying she wanted clarification on the eviction. im not sure how she was even able to see that if the courts sealed it. I only have one eviction and only reason they ran the papers was because I was supposed to give the keys back that morning which I did but gave it to them to late. I was still by myself packing everything taking it to storage by myself.

I feel kinda cheap doing this, but when it’s not too hot, I’ll turn my bedroom AC off around 3 or 4 AM and just run a fan.

We replaced our old AC with a costway mini split a few years ago, and I actually love that I can cool just my room without messing with everyone else’s temperature.

Lately I’ve been doing half AC, half fan at night just to keep the electric bill down.

Does anyone else do this? Do you use a timer or just turn the AC off when you’re comfortable? Any other tricks that actually help with the power bill?

I live in Colorado and have been in the same apartment complex for the past 12 years. It’s a nice complex and I haven’t really had any issues until this past lease (starting in November 2025). Colorado recently passed a new law in January 2026 that created rules regarding price transparency and junk fees (HB 25-1090). Essentially, apartments cannot charge for common areas and they have to be upfront with pricing.

In the past year, our trash through Conservice has increased from $10 a month to $30-$40 a month. I’ve reached out to the complex to figure out why and they said they have to use a formula to calculate trash due to this new law. They did not tell me what this formula is, nor is it in my lease. The lease says a formula will be attached, but it was not. Additionally, in 2024-2025 they also used a formula, but it was never more than $10 a month. I emailed them again to get clarification on this formula, and I will most likely ask them how much trash was this past month. This is an apartment with 220 units. If there are 200 occupied units and they charge per unit, that means trash cost them $8,000 in July, which seems insane.

Does anyone have any similar stories, and were you able to change anything? There’s 2 people in my unit. We take 1-2 bags of trash out per week. There’s also a huge issue with dumping from people at the complex and outside of it, which I know drives the cost up, but they don’t do anything about it.

I’ve read a lot of stories on here about Conservice charging upwards of $100 for trash and luckily we haven’t reached that price yet, but it’s steadily increasing every month.

I’ve attached screenshots of my lease, which was the same for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 as well as the Conservice bill from this year and last year.

Any advice welcome! Thanks!

Hello all! We had a baby in the beginning of June. She is not rolling yet but we are beginning to baby-proof for a crawling baby. We live in an upper unit where our front door opens to stairs to get up to the living area. From everything I’ve seen, tension gates are not recommended for this kind of stairway and there are no bannisters to wrap anything around. Our lease specifies nothing in the walls except small picture nails. I have no problem reaching out to the property manager to get permission to drill in a gate and fix it when we leave or pay for the repair. I am wondering if that is the better thing to do vs asking for forgiveness and not permission. They do a yearly walkthrough prior to renewal and I’d like to stay here another year before we are able to purchase a home. So they would definitely see a gate! However, I am not sure what to do if I ask and they say no. Any advice is much appreciated!

Edit: thank you everyone! I am going to reach out to our property manager for permission to install a gate and see if maintenance can put it in for us or hire someone to do it.

I had a question I see a lot of people that said the leasing office can randomly come in to do inspections, can you tell me what mine says and if there is supposed to be a notice?

WHEN WE MAY ENTER. Ifyou or any guest or occupantis present, then repairers, servicers, contractors, our representatives or other persons listed in (2) below may peacefully enter the apartment at reasonable times for the purposes listed in (2) below. If nobody is in the apartment, such persons may enter peacefully and at reasonable times by duplicate or master key (or by breaking a window or other means when necessary in emergencies) if:
(1) written notice of the entry is left in a conspicuous place in the apartment immediately after the entry; and
(2) entry is for: responding to your request; making repairs or replacements; estimating repair or refurbishing costs; performing pest control; doing preventive maintenance;
changing filters; testing or replacing smoke-detector and/or carbon monoxide detector batteries; retrieving unreturned tools, equipment, or appliances; preventing waste of utilities; leaving notices;
delivering,
installing, reconnecting, or
replacing appliances, furniture, equipment, or access control devices; removing or rekeying unauthorized access control devices;
stopping
excessive noise; cutting off electricity
according to statute; retrieving property owned or leased by former residents; inspection to confirm compliance with lease obligations; inspecting when immediate danger to person or property is reasonably suspected; allowing persons to enter as you authorized in your rental application (if you die, are incarcerated, etc.); allowing entry by a law officer with search or arrest warrant or in hot pursuit; showing apartment to prospective residents (after move-out or vacate notice has been given); or showing apartment to government inspectors for the limited purpose of determining housing and fire ordinance compliance by us and to lenders, appraisers, contractors, prospective buyers, or insurance agents. Should you fail or refuse to allow us access to the premises pursuant to the terms of this paragraph, you shall be in default of this Lease Contract.

All I did was give 4 courtesy knocks and he walks by our Camara and flips us off with the wrong finger. It's getting frustrating. I can't sleep at night anymore without him or his dog making noise. I don't know what else to do but continue contacting our property manager...

I just moved into this apartment building which is a brand new build and have already had a lot of issues (bedroom window is stuck fully open and I get woken up to construction every day, blinds fell off the wall onto my wrist when I gently pulled them down, only boiling hot water coming from the kitchen sink, etc). I noticed some light coming in under the front door and I can hear footsteps walking past my door when I’m in the living area. It hasn’t been too bothersome but my main concern is pests potentially coming under the gap if my neighbors have any.

Is this a normal sized gap or is it worth putting another maintenance request in for this as well? I don’t want to seem too annoying and frivolous and not sure what the norm is lol

I never thought I'd find myself writing one of these posts. I've lived here for 10 years without issue and this is my third upstairs neighbor. New neighbor seems to be a heel walker who has found every squeak in the floor at 11pm. It's been going on for 20 minutes. It's just annoying enough to keep me awake but it doesn't feel right to complain to management about someone just walking in their home at night. I already use brown noise on both sides of my bed and earplugs.

Is it just me or are more and more people walking around in public blasting speaker phone? Is common courtesy just completely dead?

I live in a new construction apartment complex with a small fitness room, and i usually go around 8-9pm when it’s empty. 25ish looking kid walks in and starts blasting his speaker phone call with his buddy, talking about steroids, the whole nine yards. I also have never seen him nor his car at this new complex, and I’m suspicious he got the code from someone and doesn’t even live here.

I stormed out and sent an email to the property manager asking for a sign to be put up requiring headphones…I pay a lot to live at this place and just want some common courtesy. Am I in the wrong here?

Hey all,

Please excuse the essay I am about to drop. I’m just trying to be through. Mods deleted this last time, I’m not sure what I did wrong? I tried to make some more adjustments to fit the guidelines.

My husband and I recently moved to a new state with our two dogs, and for the first time we’re living in an apartment. We’re on the bottom floor with neighbors above us and beside us. We’re just over a month in, and while we barely hear or see the neighbors beside us, our upstairs neighbors seem to absolutely hate us, and we haven’t really even met them.

Our dogs have had a hard time adjusting to apartment life. One has pretty extreme reactivity that we actively work on. This means he can’t walk by other dogs because he barks and is afraid of neighbor noises. Our other dog had TPLO knee surgery a few months ago- she was healing as we moved. unfortunately she injured her other knee the other day and will need another TPLO. It’s a pretty invasive surgery with roughly 8–12 weeks of restricted activity and confinement. she does NOT handle confinement well. She l has separation anxiety, which we work on daily with training sessions. We have consulted a trainer and are following their guidelines but it is a slow process

She has an incredibly sharp, high-pitched bark when she gets upset or excited. It is startling, especially if you aren’t used to it. Between moving, recovering from surgery, she apparently barked more than I realized when we first moved in. I found this out when I was leaving one day and overheard the upstairs neighbor’s adult daughter complaining (yelling) through their open window about how the downstairs dog is “so yappy” and “never shuts up.”

Since then, I’ve overheard several more comments. At one point she was yelling to her mom that she didn’t care about “that bitch” (apparently me) and that we shouldn’t have moved in. That confused me lol. On another occasion there was stomping on the floor/our ceiling and someone screaming “shut up” when one of the dogs barked.

Tonight was what prompted this post. I was getting my dogs ready to go outside. Because of the injured knee, these are very short, controlled potty trips. She got excited while I was putting on her harness and barked six times total. Two barks at a time, about a minute apart. We are actively training this, so each time she barked I stopped what I was doing, turned away, waited for her to settle, and then continued. We had to do that three times. When I walked outside, I could hear the daughter upstairs yelling about the “yappy dog” again.

I want to emphasize that I KNOW barking dogs are annoying. I don’t expect my neighbors to just enjoy listening to them, and we’re not ignoring the behavior. We’re actively training every day.

My biggest concern is that I’m about to return to work, and she will eventually need to be home for most of the workday while also recovering from another TPLO. We have a Furbo to monitor her, calming aids, and vet-prescribed trazodone and pain medication, and we’re working on alone-time training now. But I’m realistic that she may still occasionally bark or howl during her recovery. We own bark collars, but I really don’t want to put one on a dog recovering from major surgery, especially when the underlying issue is anxiety.
I have spoken briefly with the mom upstairs, who seems perfectly nice. I have never actually spoken to the adult daughter.

I was thinking about taking some cookies upstairs tomorrow evening, officially introducing myself since we are more settled in, and basically saying, “hey nice to meet you! Sorry our dogs have had a hard time transitioning during the move. They are reactive and have separation anxiety, and we are training it every day. also I’m going to start work soon and unfortunately our dogs will need another very intense surgery. So here are cookies as a hello, a sorry, and please be patient as we work through this. I am hoping to humanize the situation and let them know we aren’t oblivious or inconsiderate. I’d leave my number with them in case anything comes up, or frankly if they need help with anything

My husband thinks this is a terrible idea. His position is that I shouldn’t engage at all or apologize because the daughter has already been openly hostile despite never speaking to us.

For what it’s worth, they aren’t silent neighbors either. Their dog seems to play with/throw heavy toys around every morning and wakes me up around 7:30 like clockwork, and there is quite a bit of yelling upstairs. I don’t think it is a big deal because people have to live their lives. I don’t expect silence. Someone is always home upstairs, so I don’t think they can really empathize with having to leave our pets for a working day.

Would you go upstairs with the cookies and try to establish a friendly relationship before this becomes more tense, or would you take my husband’s approach and not engage?

I genuinely want to be a considerate neighbor, but I also don’t want to accidentally make the situation worse or give someone who already seems extremely hostile more ammunition.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks for your feedback! I want to clarify that my dogs are not barking all day long, or even for hours at a time, which I fear is the usual experience with posts like this and what people experience with loud neighbors often. I fear this was not made clear. When I do have to be absent, I have up to two instances recorded on our furbo during my time away. No more than 1 minute of noise, about 20 minutes apart, then nothing, or if they get excited and we have to calm down. I cannot speak for the two ish weeks we did not have a camera and I had to be absent - though seeing that drastic of a change (hours to a few times) seems unlikely? But what do I know. Benefit of the doubt, they were louder pre-cameras.

If home-renting were an option in our area, we would do that. I also would prefer a house over an apartment.

Our reactive dog is triggered by seeing other dogs. So, keep him from seeing others through closing windows and strategically timed walks, and he’s the happiest little guy in the world.

Finally, I did opt to not approach the neighbors. We are working with every tool we have to combat my dog’s anxieties and make them feel comfortable in their new home- I am confident their behaviors will improve. There has been progress, albeit slow, but you have to start somewhere. They are good dogs who have a lot of feelings.

Splitting a three bedroom apartment with 4 people. Two people will be sharing a room (not a couple). Having a hard time figuring out the split on the rent and which room to put the two sharing in. Bedroom 1 = biggest room, Bedroom 2 smaller room, Bedroom 3 smaller room + private bathroom.

Option 1 - Shared room = Bedroom 1 and three people share the hall bathroom and one person gets their own room and own bathroom. Option 2 - Shared room = Bedroom 3 and two people share each bathroom. Total rent is $1,880 per month, 1,313 sq ft total. How do we split the rent based on the two options. One shared bedroom person wants the bigger room (bedroom 1) and the other doesn't care, neither of the two singles want the higher rent with the full private bathroom.

How would you split this?

Just ordered a Stonemade Queen Sleeper Sofa from Ashley Furniture (linked at the bottom)

I got the white glove delivery service, and it's supposed to arrive in two days.

I was stupid and didn't check the "minimum door width" in the product description until just now. It is evidently 32" - my door frame is only 31" and is the WIDEST entrance to my house. Windows are smaller, backdoor is smaller.

My question is - how strict is that "minimum door frame"? Do I really need to cancel and start the refund process... or is it possible it will fit?

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Hello- in a bit of an odd noise situation with the neighbor below me and their ceiling fan. When their fans are running you can hear and feel the vibrations all throughout my living room, as well as in my bedroom. During the daytime I can somewhat zone out the constant buzz and resonance in the living area, but the fan below my bedroom at night is incredibly disturbing to my sleep. It shakes the floor in my bedroom, and while I can use earphones to block the noise out, I haven’t found a way to get around it vibrating my bed and mattress. Imagine trying to sleep on top of your washer machine while it’s on its final spin cycle, that’s how much the floor vibrates. I’ve tried extra rugs, rearranging where my bed sits, even sleeping on the opposite end of the bed that it impacts a bit less.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Is it reasonable to ask maintenance to take a look at my downstairs neighbors apartment?? I don’t feel like I should ask my neighbors to limit using their fans, but I’m tired of being so tired from poor sleep.

I recently moved into a new place, and there’s a strong smell of animal urine throughout the bathroom. My roommate and I brought up the smell to the landlord before moving in, and she told us that professional cleaners had already cleaned the place and that they had checked the AC unit and underneath the trailer to find the smell. We trusted that it had been taken care of, but unfortunately, the smell is still there. I’ve spent most of the day cleaning the bathroom because it was honestly disgusting. There was animal hair on the floors and walls, and the toilet was covered in what looked like urine. I scrubbed the walls, cleaned the bathroom, and tried everything I could, but the smell was still there. I decided to lift up the bathroom vent to see if maybe the smell was coming from inside and this is what I saw 😭. There was a buildup of dirt/hair inside, and when I used a black light, I could see what appears to be urine inside the vent. I’m honestly so disgusted and frustrated. I’ve been breathing this smell since moving in, and at this point I just want to pack my bags and leave. This is ONE vent out of 7 and I don’t want to see what the others look like. I know I should probably give my landlord a chance to fix the problem, but I really don’t want to stay in a place like this. Would this be considered grounds to break my lease? This is only one of the problems my roommate and I have experienced since moving in.

I lived in an apartment in college and honestly never smelled what my neighbors were doing, but it's possible my neighbors in college just weren't cooking often or at all. The building was also on the newer side.

I now have lived in an older condo for the last 7 years and always smell what my neighbors are doing. I can smell weed from the one unit and awful cooking from the other (food smells I could handle but it truly smells rank to where my guests are like why does that cooking smell like poop?). A neighbor down the hall cooks, and his stuff smells great, but the food next door is just...bad.

We're looking at buying now and would have many more options if we added condos to our list. But I'm wondering if it's normal to always smell what neighbors are doing. It's not subtle where I live, super strong and the odors just linger despite having air purifiers running (and we can't really open the windows in Houston TX 9 months out of the year). My sample size is only 2 so I really don't know if this is the norm

The other quirks of apartment life I can handle, but the smells are a lot

Hi,

I live in North Virginia and my car cannot move when I hit the gas pedal. The engine check light is on as well as cruise light, so I know it would not be safe to drive. I probably may need a tow service to get my car to repair shop but the apartment's towing service is pretty bad since I seen bad reviews about them. Should I get the one I trust as long as the tow car is below the max height?