Re: Advantage of Apartment Living

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

yes, apartments do have advantages---same thing happens when I need something fixed---and it doesn't cost me anything---but there are disadvantages too-----

sceniccoast · ‎03-09-2010

@hckynut

I grew up in a public housing project also. My Mom got very worried when people looking to purchase drugs showed up at our door a few times. The project originally was for Vets, then they allowed certain people there & it went downhill fast! Then, she found out about a one-street public "duplex" housing that was being built. She applied & you'd think we were living in Hollywood! Thinking back, it was but it's funny in memory.

I envy you with 2 acres. I realize there's more work on a larger property .. but thinking of the quiet, peacefulness, beauty .. I'm sure it beats our "less than 1/4 acre" city lot. Some things in life are worth the sacrifice.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@millieshops

Yes - great place to live - NYC - 80 acres along the East River - all sorts of amenities - great management - staff of 500.

StuyTown in the Summer

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@wagirl

Having grown up in a house and owned two of our own .... give me apartment living any day.

Other than rent and amenities charges - anything that needs to be fixed - all I do is either email or call the office.

I'm sure there are disadvantages ... but in my 26 years of living here .... haven't come across any of them.

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@wagirl wrote:
yes, apartments do have advantages---same thing happens when I need something fixed---and it doesn't cost me anything---but there are disadvantages too-----

HonestLife · ‎04-07-2011

@RealtyGal2 What company do you use for your Home Warranty? I'm looking to get a policy but not sure which to use. Thanks!

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@sceniccoast

I was born in '39, no WWII vets while we lived there. Mostly just mothers raising their kids with no dad. My mom was of the few that worked, the others kept having more babies.

Don't know if there were government help back then, but no way my mother would ever take money she didn't earn. Drugs weren't around back then, but lots of booze was around.

We love where we live. Rural, but can get to about any part if town in half hour or less. Close to Interstates and mostly 4 lane roads. We are buried away and unless you have been here, most do not know there are even homes here. One way in, one way out, and very few houses.

Stay well now,

hckynut

hckynut(john)

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

@ALRATIBA I understand what you're saying but paying rent for decades without anything really to show for it does not appeal to us. (Maybe you're in a rent controlled apartment??) Our condo management is very responsive to problems although not, of course, replacing a broken appliance. For us it's the best of both worlds--home ownership and not much home ownership responsibility.

BTW, we're heading to NYC next week with the intention of buying an apartment there.

icezeus · ‎10-30-2010

@RealtyGal2 wrote:
@ALRATIBA wrote:
Last night I entered a service order online that my freezer compartment in the fridge wasn't freezing.

Today - tech came to look at the fridge - determine it needed to be replaced.

New fridge will be here later today.

I own my home and have a home warranty plan that includes my refrigerator. They have someone come out to repair my refrigerator, or if it cannot be repaired, they replace it with a new refrigerator.

@RealtyGal2

I own my home and have a home warranty plan as well. The downfall is that they do not come out immediately, at least that has been my experience. It's normally a wait of at least three days. Then you have to hope that whomever they send out can make the repair that day, normally my experience has been that the repair can be made the same day. However, if not you have to wait even longer. I have a good GF who has the same warranty company. It took over two weeks for her AC to be repaired.

My AC has been going out for one reason or another for the last several years every darn summer. This year, I decided to just pay to replace my whole system myself. I was in a constant state of anxiety thinking it would go out and it would take forever to get it repaired by my home warranty plan in the height of summer.