Why YOU Should NEVER Move Apartments (SCAMS) 

You tugg, listen to some mlp songs (Stand for everfree, under our spell etc.)

I used your code and now they won’t let me cancel my subscription the only option is to skip a month or email/ call the place to cancel and I’m not calling anyone so thanks dude :/

Can I get a shout out please it's almost my birthday I'm pretty sure I'm older than you.

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You forgot it also Men’s Mental Health month

i feel you, i

Another reason i still stay in same apartment. Rent + shared tenant water cost usally equals about $660 at most a month

Yeah they expect us to be able to afford this smh

Same. Despite having a degree and a "real job" I literally cannot afford to pay rent in my city and had to move back in with my family in my 30s.

When I went looking for an apartment out of high school (around 2017-2018) rent for studio apartments was around $1500 a month in the Portland (OR) metro area. I don't even want to imagine what it looks like now

Indeed , it's becoming quite challenging to manage expenses.

I've actually managed to stay ahead of the curve. I'm even contemplating early retirement.

Impressive! How did you achieve that?

@@LeahLewis-ny9iu Our family got introduced to a financial consultant”DESIREE RUTH HOFFMAN .” about four years before my dad retired. That was what changed things, and I think my retirement income will be on the right track, luxury cars and trips

Absolutely, DESIREE RUTH HOFFMAN has a knack for analyzing market trends and helping clients make informed decisions.

Bad news, all the new apartments that we're building are luxury apartments that will cost you 75 percent of your income even if you have a semi-decent paying job.

@@richgerow3472worse news is these “luxury” apartments aren’t even very luxury. Just new. New is now luxury lmao. These 2-5s have wood walls. You gonna hear all your neighbors. The balcony is just a sliding door to a fence. The only thing that makes it luxury is the appliances are nicer than basic. Besides that, none of these new “luxury” apartments seem luxurious to me at all.

​@@richgerow3472That's good actually, that's the only way you can get affordable apartments because of restrictive zoning and fees to build. If you wait 10 years they'll become affordable 🎉

Bad news..Rich pepole buy the affordable apparents then rent them out to poor popple for duble what they are worth. This way poor people know their place and will never be able to own anything.

@@richgerow3472 Oof! And then people wonder why more and more younger generations can't afford to move out... 0_0

Your father is clearly not fit for the job 😂

That's tough hit the gym lil bro

Yeah, get lost spaghetti arms I’m gonna move my entire neighbourhood some place else like In that one SpongeBob episode

You got soft hands, boyeh💪🗿

Why don't you just push it?

Deportation creates housing space

20 or 40 bucks? Lol hahahahaha it’s like a 100 bucks on average just to get an application. Sad honestly Man I can’t wait till this Dementia old resident gets out of office, we are all going to drown in debt and starve to death, if things keep going like they are

Most of the time that's actually for the background check it said that they can pay for it on their end cuz they don't want to pay for it for you not to get in so if they're charging you like 20-25 bucks then that's fair but anything more than that and it's a scam

@@johnd8553yeah I just put in an application for one and it was $40 me and my fiancé had to do separate ones

Some places charge up to $150 for the application fee.

I live in NC and it’s 50-75 per anyone over 18

I will bet my bottom dollar they had zero intention of ever fixing that bbq and the only reason they have it is so they can deliberately keep it broken so they can charge people fees to pretend to fix it. Landlords are bottomfeedibg subhuman swine.

I'm so proud of you stranger

What was it like dealing with the small claims court?

That sounds great but how much time did you spend so that you could break even? (Not saying you shouldn't do it at all! Just kinda crazy that you had to put in a ton of work to just not LOSE money)

kind of a dumb question but how do you prove the pictures were taken when you just moved in?

absolutely evil and heartless individual

hope he didnt pay for it lol

THATS LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME💀

I remember reading this too! You need to be such an awful human being to do that

actual soulless individuals

I kept my Allen wrench for mine, just in case. It was easier to put together than my nightstand

There's nothing saying you have to have a bedframe, if you already have a bedspring then just put that sucker directly on the ground

Best thing that's stupid kind of screw thing that fits into a slot on the frame but somehow doesn't

​@@Weatherman4Evasome of us like to have the storage that you can put under a frame. Great place for shoes when they're out of season. And extra quilts for that matter. And for those of us who are not that young, it's difficult to get up off a little bit. Very difficult lol lol

@@DunkinCrew Man up and get a hex key set

We ordered their smallest truck. Got there and all they had was a fucking 28-footer. For an efficiency apartment. Got stuck in the mud for literal days because the truck itself was so heavy. Absolute nightmare.

You can hear the recession too

only another 20 years to go

At least we have Scentbird to cover the rank and depressing stink of the impending crisis!

People were shouting "housing crisis 2.0" 6 years ago, and I waited for it to happen, and I'm still waiting, except now the same houses costs twice as much as they did back then.

@@Kentama Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. People can't predict when things are going to change but they know the current conditions are unsustainable.

Genuinely trying to be helpful here, PLEASE look into FHA and down payment assistance programs in your area. I managed to buy my own condo in denver on a single income that was about half the median income (thankfully got a couple raises since then but it's still not much). I did get lucky in a lot of ways, but I also put in a lot of work and had to wait quite some time for an FHA-approved property to come available in the area I needed. My mortgage is about half the average cost of rent here and I'm actually building equity. There ARE affordable homeownership options for people with low incomes!!

Lmao is 1700 where I live

literally just had a conversation with a family friend, she's an older retired woman and owns a condo in florida her and her husband used as a vacation home. They're looking to sell it now and she was saying they bought it in 2010 for $220k and they're getting offers between 700-800k on it right now. She kept saying how happy they were to be making so much money and then immediately asked why i havent bought a house yet. I wanted to drop kick her lol. "Ohhhh i dunno it just seems like every house these days costs between $700-800k!"

Nobody said you had to buy the house all by yourself. One reason previous generations were able to afford homes was because they had cosigners (marriage) and their homes were on average 3 times smaller than homes built today. It is possible.

Ooo I hate ppl with rich parents who are so out of touch

Too late for father's day, but I will finally have something to give him this Christmaswr!

And get him a silk pillowcase. I mean a good one. I think he would like it. I love mine but why should only women have them? Very nice feeling on your face

​@@rediocre4350Go outside to a store and buy one then. You don't have to get everything over Amazon.

​@@LKMNOP FACTSSS I have a silk pillowcase and it's so great!!! (hardest part is getting out of bed lol)

damm bro i got him frozen yogurt

I've talked to my landlord to fix my shower because one of the walls is peeling off. Then a corpo bought the property and I'm now putting a file together because they won't even return my calls about reimbursement for when one of the complex's poorly maintained trees broke my car window when a very big and heavy branch crushed another tenant's car.

I see you've got a slumlord then

It makes me so mad when people say "there's someone to fix all the issues!" I've lived in this place almost three years and it's been under constant construction for 2 1/2, because the contractor will come for a few hours every three months. I haven't seen my landlord since I moved in.

I am the literal only person I know that has a landlord that timely fixes issues. AND ITS ONLY BC THE MAINTENANCE GUY LIKES TALKING TO ME ABOUT MY COMIC COLLECTION which, hey, it’s fun to talk to the guy but the fact that that’s one of the only reasons I get such a fast response and repair???? Extremely unfair to literally everyone else in my apartment complex that I’ve heard takes almost 2 weeks to get things fixed when I get responses within 2-3 days.

I've rented from 3 larger property management companies in Toronto and all 3 have had multiple on site building managers that also live in the building to take care of these issues. These aren't fancy buildings either, they're older and don't have a bunch of amenities. Once though I did have to call 311 (non-emergency services) to launch an investigation in my previous building because half the laundry machines in the building were broken and it was causing issues with machine availability. 311 came on site within a week and told the building if they didn't fix the machines within 3 months they'd start incurring a daily fine for each day they remained broken. They fixed them really fast after that (like within a month). The horror stories I hear from people here are mainly with mom and pop landlords, since they're a lot harder to hold them accountable and get help with maintenance, especially if they don't even live in Toronto themselves . I do think we have decent tenant protections here though that make the big companies behave this way. They aren't just doing it out of their own good-will, they're doing it to avoid hefty fines that come with poor maintenance. Not saying it's perfect and some people do have bad experiences here, but there are also a lot of buildings that are decent to rent from.

Show then this video

Just tell them to find an apartment for you and tell them to tour it themselves.

@laiyalaiya6088 My parents think that buying an apartment is stupid. But me buying a house in this economy at slightly above minimum wage? I don't think so.

@@TheKhfan001 how the hell are you gonna buy a house with the interest rates at 8%??? Have they looked into the economy at all? What makes them think you’ll get approved for a loan on a house but not an apartment cause news flash you won’t for either ! They need to find the house for you since they know everything! I’m sure if you could leave you would’ve been left

I just told my sis what my monthly income was (less than $1700) and then she began to realize why I can’t afford my own place, gas, groceries, etc

Start saving, stay with your parents as long as possible and create a family budget

Skip college. Trade school jobs pay better, and the debt of a college degree that will be obsolete by your junior year isn’t worth it.

@@ChiakiNanami736 I can't skip college, I'm gonna be an electrical engineer. Can't get hired for that if I don't have a degree, but thank you anyway, I appreciate the attempt.

Don’t electrical engineers go to trade schools

​@@notdeadyet382electrical engineer here working at a company building industrial washers. Got my associates at the local community College, did lots of learning on my own as well. Stay curious and don't be afraid to ask questions. Good luck.

Are there any moving companies that don't do this? Everyone I talked to got underquoted and then the quotes changed once the stuff was on the truck, and if you try to stand your ground they charge you hundreds a day in "storage costs."

​@@GrifHowe​ If you go to one of the major legit moving companies like Mayflower or American Van Lines it will cost you A LOT, but all costs are upfront and you will get what you pay for. The problem is that people are scared of the high price so look for cheaper options. Most of the cheaper options are there to hook you in, then hit you with hidden costs that end up costing you more, but by then they have your stuff and it's too late. Overweight, packaging, long carry, flights of stairs - all extra. Unfortunately sometimes the customer doesn't bother looking at the contract, or doesn't tell the movers about the fact that there is no elevator for your fourth floor apartment. Then when he doesn't have enough money, an argument ensues. We also would only accept cash or postal money order since checks can be canceled after services.

Or move out of the country. A better move for some

@@BLET_55artem55 America's economy affects everyone. I was looking into England, but they're having just as many problems as us.

It’s the same up here in Canada too

@@lexiheart6558 well, Eastern Europea, mid-east and Asia are always an option (each has it's own pros and cons, obvious and hidden)

I've had my pitchfork and torch ready for years. There's 330 million of us and like 100 of the top .01% who have all our money. Why the fuck aren't we at their gates demanding it back??

Passive aggressive

Passionate

Same thing happened to me and i had them send me a letter shkwing i paid my debt in full. I was able to take that letter to get a new apt. This wont help u get out of ur car but if ur able to put money back pay it off and u should be able to get a place. Bless

Sounds illegal as hell like what?? Can't you file a claim against both your job and the complex? Like genuinely.

Have you tried renting a room in a house? They usually have very uninvolved landlords that live across the country and won't even check your renters history. Good luck

With a lot of the companies that come in and buy up apartments and then rent them back to us, not only is rent really expensive, but sometimes it's unfortunate where you have to make the call between a medical condition or a roof over your head. And that's obvious bullshit, and it shouldn't be like that. The fact is, these companies just don't care. I've looked into some other options; I have tried to find ppl either looking for a roommate or has a room to rent out. Some of these places are sketchy, I did almost get scammed at least once, but I was able to back out before any money was taken. There's been a lot of shady risks that I just don't want to take, and I came out here with no friends or family. I don't want to make the post too long, but in context, Iwas disowned by my family nearly 10 years ago, and they don't even know what state I live in. I pulled myself away from them on purpose, and I don't have anybody to rely on in that sense. The back to the issue of housing at hand, there are some government housing institutions I can look into, but most of the wait lists are over 2 years long and they're going to prioritize a family over a single person, like myself, which I completely understand. So I just keep going to work grinding, showering at the gym, doing what I can to get by and save up money. I am seeing a therapist who is helping to connect me with other sources, if need be, but at the moment, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's at times like this that I'm glad that I have some camping and survival skills, so I basically just fashion by car to feel like I'm living in a tent with 4 wheels. It's not the best, but it's certainly not the worst. I appreciate everyone's concerns and I'm going to go back through these replies in the morning and see if there's any possible suggestions that I might have missed. Thanks you guys.

@@Noctali_Volkova I wish I could, but the most they'd tell me to do is just pay what I owe. I mean, I get that's common sense, but it's almost down to just principle now, ya know?

Either that or "the only reason I've ever cleaned an oven"

@@vincentvangogodanceror the one about driving the moving truck with no experience 😂

It's the same with moving from Kansas too

Why the depression there? 😭

seattle is fucking expensive

I'm about 2 1/2 ours from you in Salem, OR. It's getting ridiculous here too.

Landlords typically want you to make at least 3x rent. That means if rent is more than 33% of your gross income, they won't rent to you. But having rent as 33% of your gross income is a very high percentage. The United States National Housing Act of 1937 created public housing that would charge people no more than 30% of their income. They determined that people who spend more than 30% of their income on housing are in a precarious position. This was squished down to 28% for rent and 30% with utilities. Mortgage lenders generally won't lend to you if the monthly costs would be more than 28% of your income. Landlords rounded it up to 33% for rent because they don't care what other bills you don't pay, as long as you keep paying them. This rule was created almost 90 years ago but it'd held pretty true. If anything, people should be spending significantly *less* on housing than 30% because there are so many more bills today than there were 90 years ago, especially the cost of healthcare and childcare.

Wtf did you guys do? Burn the place down?

How did you get a $20k fine?!? Was that for breaking your lease? Some places will try to force you to pay for the rest of the year if you want to move early.

Ummm…never heard of that…what did y’all do?

I want to know what this fine was for as well, I've never heard of fines that big.

prove it lol. sounds made up or you were clearly a bad tenant or left early.

We allowed rabbits where I worked, we just had to write a special clause into the lease about it. I used to be an "office manager" at an apartment complex (the office person is NOT your landlord, just fyi, but they certainly get the death threats intended for the landlord).

That man needs to be jailed

i'm actually taking my bunnies to my moms house tonight because we have inspection coming any time this coming week and they're not allowed here either lol

​@@GoddoDoggo Imagine passing those messages on akin to a "compliments to the chef" type person

I can sue? A maintenance man just came in my apartment, and knocked on the bathroom door. I assumed it was the front door (bc no way)and stepped out naked to get dressed. It was very frightening.

Why is Albuquerque so wild? I went to visit and my cousin wouldn't let me drive my car there because he was too worried it would get fucked up and made me take his old beater.

​​​@@GrifHowe idk abq just sucks all the time. Every time I go out I'm so god damn stressed when I'm in a car because of how much most of everyone here absolutely sucks at driving.

I live in Seattle 💀

thank god for small miracles amirite

was? better still be the goddamn case wth

How? None of you have any applicable skills.

@@danielmorris7648 this.

If enough people decide to learn how to homestead we will never need to doomsday prep but they’re both marketing terms that effectively produce the same result except for paranoia. Applied physics, earth wind water and fire… most of my cohorts are blind to how elements work on a basic level.

homesteading is problematic in a number of ways and infeasible for most people, I just want a damn affordable house 😔

@@Taradoxxi I want those assholes to let us build houses on that land they let go fallow.

Not sure where you live, but if it's a safety issue you might be able to get the city involved and they'll make her fix them. I think it's called a slum lord law here. We have some shady landlords around here and I had to do that with an apartment that had no carpet where there should have been and holes that went all the way to the outside. They fined her and made her fix it after we moved out.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@chzybean Oh yeah I’ve been meaning to look our state’s up for ages. I just hope we won’t have to leave if we report her, our biggest obstacle is finding a place that would allow all our pets and that’s incredibly hard even without taking into account that I don’t have a job yet (there are quite literally no options, I live on a true Island) and my Ma, the only other person in the household, is on disability/retirement whatever it’s technically called Life’s tough lol 😅

@@LittleBabyBoy I believe you will make it :)

I would put all of my requests in writing, give her a month then stop paying rent if they're not fixed. In most states she can't legally kick you out.

I just moved from Florida to Seattle, sell that shit or rent a truck yourself. I got quotes of 2-3k and then once they had my stuff they jacked it up to 5k lol. I should have just sold the big stuff and rented a van.

and you can make some of the money back selling the furniture on facebook marketplace

I tried to rent an apartment off Craigslist. Nice little shotgun shack type house in the city for a good price. Guy says "yeah sign the lease, send me the deposit, and I'll mail you the keys because I am out of town." I thought huh? I told him "I'll just pick up the keys when he's back because my move date is like a month away." He's said "are you accusing me of being a scammer?!?! I assure you I am not and take offense for you implying that." Talk about showing your hand lmao

is there nothing you could do?? :C

soon, my friend.

Tampa has problems, but there is nowhere much better in Florida lol, I moved to St Pete for a few years, better but also expensive. I left the state this year and will never move back.

Chiming in as a neighbor (Riverview). F this state

You are doing it smart. Need to visit Minnesota again. Currently in Omaha.

I love that channel! 😂

We have one of those where I love!

Oh, we have one of those! It's like a 10 foot and some change clearance instead of 11 foot and all the hopefuls who have never driven anything bigger than a sedan just tuna can the absolute crap out of an Enterprise or Penske truck. Highly entertaining if you manage to catch it in action.

Lol any fellow Louisvillians in the chat here? That one on 3rd and Winkler has claimed so many truck roofs. I think it has its own subreddit.

It's every where and horrible

That's almost as bad as Seattle.

I actually found a moving company that refuses to use your boxes and tape because, and I quote, "company policy." Yeah, that sometimes doesn't work, either.

@@ivoryquillum4436 that means they're openly scamming you and you need to avoid that company, get a U-Haul or move it yourself.

Tugletts?

I believe it's tuggers. You imposter.

@@Wildiscool yes

Yo whats up my tuggas

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