Wherever in the world I am,
In whatsoe'er estate,
I have a fellowship with hearts,
To keep and cultivate,
And a work of lowly love to do
For the Lord on whom I wait.
A. L. WARING.
Having lived in an apartment setting now for almost eight years, I have noticed that people sure move a lot in life. Our parents and grandparents basically stayed in the same house they bought or maybe moved once or twice. Nowadays, nothing could be further from the truth. People are moving constantly, especially the ones living in an apartment.
I've been in homes for majority of my life. It wasn't until 2011 that we moved into an apartment. For the most part, it has been very satisfying. We no longer have to worry about cutting the grass or shoveling the sidewalk. Who would miss that?
As the years went on, our opinions have slowly changed. I mean slowly, because as we experienced things we changed our opinion based on how it turned out, right? We have learned a few things about apartment dwelling, especially when we moved here.
1. Landlords
Landlords play a huge part in our review. There are all sorts of them. We have had an agency that we could call anytime we needed a repair. No problem. I have found that places like that usually hire anyone to be a handyman. They do come out, but really don't do a good job or it takes them a long time.
Then there are the landlords that are first time owners and helicopter the building. They are over all the time. They constantly knock on your door wanting to come in and check on this or that. That was my last landlord. When he did come in, a constant flow of what's this or what's that?
The third kind basically never fix anything until it is broken completely and it could cause further damage like a leaking ceiling. Otherwise, don't bother them for minor things like a dripping faucet. That is my current landlord. He is very nice, though.
2. Neighbors
Where does one begin? There are all sorts of people in the world. The ones I don't care for are the ones who seem not to respect anyone around them. For some reason, they seem to think they are alone in the building and they can be as disruptive as they want at any time of the night. We have had neighbors who fought violently in the hallways at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . every night. We have had neighbors who whooped, hollered, danced and sang until the wee hours of the morning on a weekday. . . . everyday. We had nice neighbors who would put in a load of laundry and then go out for the day. People are crazy and every one of them thinks they are right, including us.
That is the life of living with others. One has to take everything into perspective. We have to get along, share and be polite to one another. We have been fortunate for a year to have a great group here in our building, but then one moved out. Now, it's the party train people. I'm missing a small house right now.
Have a blessed day everyone.
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