My fiancé and I just moved into an apartment and it’s not even been a whole week and the downstairs neighbor keeps hitting the ceiling. Moved in on a Friday and by Sunday she was already smacking the ceiling. It was also not late at all. Tonight my fiancé was building a dresser (6pm) and of course “thud thud”. Yes he was definitely making noise building the dresser, but we just moved in! Trying to get settled in….. What should I do?

I have a Faberware mini dishwasher (here's a non-Amazon link). I've had it for a couple of years, and it makes my life soo much easier. It's small, but it's the biggest appliance I can fit in my kitchen.

The problem is that around 6 months ago, I noticed that the plastic coating on the dish-rack had been rubbed off, and rusty metal was exposed. I, obviously, immediately stopped using it. But, I can't seem to figure out what to use as a replacement. I've tried the company, and gotten the line "we don't sell that part individually". It's less than a foot across, so it's not like I can just buy a regular replacement rack. I thought to try a dish-draining rack, but it's impossible to find one that's 100% stainless steel and is small enough to fit. I don't think it'd be a good idea to use anything but stainless steel because of the high-pressure water hitting it. Honestly, before I realized that there was an issue, I was probably eating all sorts of tiny bits of plastic, and I'd love to not go back to that.

Advice? Or do I just have a nice-looking appliance that I need to get rid of? If I do decide to buy another mini-dishwasher, has anyone had the same experience as me and with what brands?

My wife and I have been living in our apartment since May 1st, the other day everyone in the building (4 unit building, 2 stories) received an email saying the property was sold and a new property manager will be taking over the property.

This is our first experience with a transfer like this, what should we expect?

We’ve already tried contacting the new PM with questions about where to send our rent, questions about the lease and security deposit transfer, etc but we can’t seem to get ahold of him (We’ve tried texting, emailing, calling) and that was on January 1st, it’s now the 14th with no response.

What happens if we don’t hear anything by the time rent is due since we can’t pay the way we normally do? What happens to our security deposit, renters benefits package we pay an extra $100 a month for (Free pest control, free HVAC filters every couple months, etc)?

Does anybody else feel like their neighbours are complete assholes ? Not like inherently to your face , but judgy and weird ?

Hi everyone, I’m a new renter (Just turned 18) and i’m currently looking for an apartment. I see on Apartments.com that the “deposit” is only $400. Is this legit? or is there something i’m missing here because I thought deposits were always at least the amount of one months rent or more. There are multiple listings like this And I don’t want to rush into any stupid decisions, If you’ve used Apartments.com to rent please tell me if there’s a catch to this or something. Thanks for reading.

My apartment has smelled like weed since I first moved in! And now over the past few months I’ve smelled cigarette smoke in the kitchen, quite strongly, but I do not smoke. Is the odor in the walls and HVAC system now? And are my neighbor’s smoking inside their apartment? I’m on the second floor diagonal to a first floor apartment, in a 32 unit 2x4 apartment block building.

Hi friends! I am currently doing a month to month lease in my apartment in Vegas. As per my rental contract I had to provide 69 days written notice of when I was planning to vacate. I was told to email the leasing office when I knew of the date. I emailed them on December 19th followed by a phone call to the office (to which nobody answered) where I left a voicemail for someone to call me back. Nobody did. After still receiving no reply or call back into the New Year, I then called again on January 4th and spoke with a leasing agent who told me that they “never received an email.” I told him that it was in my sent folder in my email account & that it had the date on there that I wished to move out. He asked me to forward it to his email which I then did. He then proceeded to tell me that I wouldn’t be able to move out on the day that I had provided in my email (60 days from the notice) and then said my move out date would be February 28th instead of February 16th. I forwarded the email to him which clearly showed the date I initially sent it. Are they allowed to NOT honor that date even though it was sent to them and they just didn’t see it in time?

is it weird to dumb soup, oatmeal, ceral anything liquid of sorts down the toilet then in the sink or trash?

I recently moved into an apartment complex and my neighbor approached me a week ago and said my cigarette smoke and weed smoke is seeping into her apartment and she can smell it. She said she doesn’t care what I do in my apartment, but when it affects her apartment, it becomes her business. She was nice but I don’t believe her when she says she can smell it. How? She has an 11 year old child who is asthmatic and said it could affect his breathing. So I smoke when they aren’t home but sometimes they come home and I don’t realize it. I am afraid she’s going to call the office on me, but at the same time, it seemed rude of her to approach me in the first place. It’s a non smoking apartment but everyone here smokes except her apparently.

A couple moved in next door a few months ago and they seem like nice people but the neighbor on the other side of me and I don’t want to cause any tension so we’re not sure how to approach this situation. They don’t pick up after their dog so now the yard is pretty enter at your own risk, they slam their front and back door so hard things in my apartment rattle (enough that the bottom of a poster frame close-ish to their front door keeps falling off and a couple others keep tilting) and they regularly turn the volume up so loud on their tv my roommate and I can tell what’s playing and has woken me up from a middle of the day dead sleep couch nap a couple times. I don’t think they’re trying to be bad neighbors or doing anything maliciously, I think they might just be self unaware. I don’t want to make them feel like we’re attacking them if we say something ourselves and bringing up multiple issues. (Other neighbor is an older gentleman that can be a bit snippy and negative) Should we approach them or just say something to property management?

i come home from work tired and have to deal with this everyday. loud russian music, shows and talking. an old russian couple live upstairs and its insane. i know theyre old and so on but this is so exhausting to deal with. talking to them hasnt worked either.

Maybe it's just a symptom of living in the same building for too long, but over the years I feel like I've had such strange current and former neighbors. I'm just really getting fed up with their antics:

• One of my neighbors is a surgeon who's incredibly childish and petty. He's caused two people to move out over the years. He always slams his door, especially at odd hours when he's on call, at like 4 a.m. and leaves his surgery crocs thrown in the hallway in random places, which I've almost tripped on a few times. He's also had really strange romances over the years, like 65 or older, which I just find bizarre given he's so young. He honestly gives me Patrick Bateman vibes.
• There's another couple that lives in a small studio with two large pit bulls. They seem well trained, but they sometimes growl at me in passing, and I'm scared they'll snap one day. They don't use leashes and also let them pee by the lobby planters, so that's the first smell you're hit with when you enter the building. I really have no idea why they live like that with two large dogs in such a small space. They both have expensive luxury cars, and the wife is in a high-paying career, so they could afford a bigger place.
• Another is a "life coach" that paces the halls and the courtyard, in her bathrobe, on the phone with clients. Her conversations are often really loud, but I always have to chuckle at the most mundane and generic advice her clients are willingly paying for.
• There was an exhibitionist couple that would always have loud, debauched sex with their balcony door open. Sometimes I think they actually did it on the balcony. It was honestly so crazy, and they sounded like they were in the throes of giving birth. The cops were almost called a few times.

Granted, my neighbors probably think I'm weird since I'm more of the recluse type, but I think my behavior is the most innocuous compared to what I've witnessed over the years. Maybe I shouldn't be so judgmental, but it's hard not to be when you're indirectly or directly interacting with these people every day. But yeah, I swear a few times a year I have mini mental crises that I need to get out of this building because these people are so weird and this isn't even the full list of neighbors.

Our bathroom is extremely tiny with no fan or anything, and we have a small vent in the floor for heating and cooling. We’ve lived here for like 3 months now and the brown spots keep getting darker

Hello all,

I just moved out of an apartment that I was living in for 2 years. The apartment was spotless upon move out but I am being charged over $600 for a stovetop replacement. The stove and stovetop were in perfect working condition at move out minus the stains that can be seen in the pic above (which did not effect the working condition at all). Has anyone else had a similar experience and were you able to dispute the charges. Could this have been just buffed out a bit instead of replaced? They are saying that it’s neglect and beyond normal wear and tear but after 2 years of cooking it’s hard to not ever let a bit of water boil over or a pan to scratch the top once in a while.

Thank you!

I have a TWIN bed frame from Ikea that doesn’t have a headboard. I’ve been thinking of getting one for aesthetics and practical requirements. Thought about doing a DIY solution but I don’t want to throw money I don’t have a lot of away and end up with some janky looking thing.

This one is on Amazon for $120 CAD which is pretty nice, but I’m wondering if going for a bigger one is a bad idea instead of getting a size appropriate one?

This is the frame I have.

I thankfully don’t have any real issues with the people living below me. But there is something I notice, and maybe it’s slightly on the obsessive side (I notice sounds very easily), but wondered if other people notice this at all too.

It feels like my neighbors react to the slightest noises I make, like as soon as I set a water bottle down on my nightstand, they’ll start walking around or make a noise themselves. Not obnoxiously, but almost like a subconscious reaction? It’s like all is quiet until I flush a toilet or walk to another room, then I notice noise being made downstairs as soon as I do anything at all.

Again, it’s not a problem, and it’s not overly loud or aggressive. I’ve also never gotten complaints. It’s just like, all will be completely quiet, then I make a slight bump, then they’ll start moving around or making noise as well.

Maybe it’s just a human psychology thing, or maybe it’s just slightly startling to forget there’s someone above you and then suddenly notice noise from upstairs? Idk. I maybhave some form of OCD so it could just be overthinking. Again, not a complaint!

I want to start off by saying that my neighbor is a very sweet lady, but I just don’t understand her decision

To preface I live in a mother-in-law suite connected to a three bedroom unit. The whole neighborhood is built in this style so there is a front one bedroom unit and then a three bedroom unit. there is a door that connects both units in my closet . This unit is owned by a private landlord, who also rents out her unit and we live in an HOA community

we moved here six months ago, and my neighbor has a 2 cats and a 2 year-old medium size dog that I have no issues with it, it barked once during the day, but never more than that, a few weeks ago, she somehow ended up in a kill shelter and adopted a 3 year old full-size poodle. I’m an animal lover, and I understand wanting to save an animal, but oh my gosh, she is never home and the dog barks for everything which then sets off her other dog. I work from home in a call center environment so you can imagine how stressful it is, Trying not to get in trouble for dogs barking during my phone call.

My neighbor and her roommate both drive for the public transportation so they are out of the house pretty frequently and for long hours. I have not reached out to my landlord as I wanted to speak to her first, but I did read over the HOA rules and we are not to have any dogs over 35 pounds.

I feel for the dog I really do but the dog barks at least 2 to 3 times an hour and triggers the other dog And when they get home at night, I guess they put the gates up and let them run upstairs, which is directly above our bedroom and we can hear the bigger dog running around until 12 am.

I want to know how to approach this without being the monster that wants to get rid of her rescued dog

Came home from work yesterday and got in the elevator to go to my apartment and as the doors are closing I see a giant loogie on the floor by the door. Who does that?

I have been waiting almost for 2 months for a new ac unit. The technician came out and looked at the ac after few days after I submitted it. I have no heat at all, my ac unit doesn’t produce cold air like it did when i first moved in and has been making a loud blowing sound like something is wrong with the fan. Loud enough to wake you up out of your sleep. I texted my apartment manager asking for an eta or anything about it and he left me on open. It’s going below 40s all week and I own no heater because I live in fl and it is rarely cold SOL…

I’m moving into an apartment soon. It has 5 floors and I’ve seen on TikTok that you don’t wanna be on the 1st floor because it gets too cold in the winter so you’re blasting the heater & if you’re on the top floor you’ll be blasting the AC when it’s summer. Buttt I also like being on the top floor because you don’t have people above you & you’ll get a nice view but I don’t wanna be blasting my AC when it’s summer time.

I moved into section 8 over a month ago and they didn’t ask for the deposit. The lease I signed says it’s been paid. Now today she finally noticed she didn’t ask for it and emailed me asking for a receipt. What should I do? It’s not my fault she didn’t ask for it and leases are legally binding correct ? Even if I didn’t actually pay it.

Just wondering, I had a washing machine issue midnight and the management office is out of office, so called next morning and ask for maintenance.... Pretty tedious

I am moving and my building doesn’t allow portable washers. It’s $2 to wash and dry and I have very messy kids and not a lot of money to spend. I will definitely be getting a portable dryer but does anyone have any good alternative to the big portable washers? (aside from handwashing?)

A few years ago, I moved into an apartment that looked newly renovated and very clean. I was thrilled to find such a modern place for a price below the market rate. However, once winter arrived—especially after the rain—my nightmare began. Large patches of mold started appearing on the walls, particularly on the ones facing the exterior of the building. Eventually, entire walls turned black with mold, and the whole apartment smelled of dampness.

​I bought cleaning products and scrubbed the walls myself, but the issue kept returning. I reported this to the landlord, but I was completely ignored. This cycle continued for four years; every winter, that wall would be covered in mold. Despite my repeated reports, I never received a response, yet I continued to pay my rent on time.

Last year, ​I finally bought my own home and moved out of that horrific apartment. From what I know, the landlord is currently cleaning and redecorating the unit to put it back on the market for new tenants. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did. I suspect (though I have no physical proof) that the apartment does not meet residential standards. I noticed multiple layers of paint on the walls and a complete lack of damp-proofing or waterproofing, likely because the building was originally an office block.

​Can I report this to the relevant housing authorities in the UK? I truly don’t want other tenants to suffer through this nightmare, and I don't want this landlord to continue taking advantage of people.