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*** WARNING EXCUSE, my language. If you don't like a lot of F bombs and S***, etc ***
Well I just moved into my first apartment ever. I'm only paying like $550 on rent here in San Antonio. The Air Force is paying me $1362 tax-free for house money (that doesn't even include my food money, salary and etc) so yeah that just shows you how ghetto the area I'm living in. The reason I'm paying so low rent is because I'm paying for two apartments currently. My wife is chilling in Korea at our old apartment which is still on a lease. She can't come to the US until her visa immigration interview finishes in April. I told her that I don't want her working. (CRAZY RIGHT?) I wanted her to just relax and chill at her apartment. So I plan on flying back to Korea for her interview as morale support, assisting her with the visa paperwork, practicing the possible questions they would ask her about me the US citizen, and then finally helping her pack all of her shit and assisting her to fly to the United States of MURICA for her first time. PLUS I WANT TO FLY BACK TO KOREA BECAUSE I MISS KOREAN BBQ. Omg Texas does not compare to fine Korean cuisine. I already miss kimchi, delicious galbi, all the different types of soups available and etc. (fuck which reminds me... I promised her I'd drive her to the Korean "supermarket" located in San Antonio. I found it while surfing the netz...
Anyways back to the story, according to the military though I'm supposed to be getting $1362 like I said before for housing money because I'm married. It's $1104 for single guys. So after paying $550 for my apartment and like $500 for hers I come out even (after adding utilities and shit). I really had to budget on my apartment here in Texas. Saving up for two airplane tickets (mine and hers), another $404 dollar visa fee (gotdammit), a new medical exam for immigration (facepalm), paying a Korean notarial office for a fancy stamp to say something was translated properly in English, and bla bla bla basically that shit adds up to be a lot of money.
So getting back to the apartment... I knew this place was going to fucking suck. I was ready for the worst. I can't complain because "I get what I paid for", but got damn... I'm glad I asked the lady again how long my lease was... she tried to make me sign a 1 year lease. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!
I told her she better hurry the hell up and give me the minimum lease which was 7 months. The only reason I'm staying in this hellhold is until my wife gets here so I can pay for only ONE GOOD, no correction* AWESOME apartment. The next apartment me and my wife be will living in will be so good you'd find it on MTV Cribs. So while she's chilling in K-town. I'm spending my first night here fearing for my life and I ALREADY see the got damn ambulance and police at the apartment building across from me. I don't know if some old lady fell down the stairs and had a heart attack or what but it's already kind of crazy here. Some Hispanic woman was arguing with someone really loud. Got damn the yahoo / apartment reviews were right people are always having "domestic" fights at these cheap apartments.
There are cats fucking everywhere (by the way my wife is super scared of cats). My got damn toilet doesn't even work. How the fuck can you move into an apartment the first day and the toilet doesn't even work? It's a "gated" community, but the fucking gate is always open hahaha... what's the point of even giving me the password. Everybody from Texas and MURICA can come right into my neighborhood and cause some mischief.
There was a got damn mosquito I swear the size of my book bag (and my bag is pretty damn big) inside of the shower. The kitchen counter top is about as white/dusty as Ashy Larry from Chappelle Show. Kitchen should be clean, but that shit is SUPER dusty. The book shelves are more got damn clean than the kitchen.
I'm sleeping on the floor tonight (Korean style) because I'm too broke for furniture, but that's my fault. I can't blame the apartment for that one. I CAN blame the apartment for these shitty ass carpets though. Fuck these carpets look like someone just shitted on them and wiped their ass across the hallways. I don't even know if the best Hoover carpet cleaners can clean this shit hole. I'd laugh if management tries to make me pay for it when my lease ends. Plus outside is SUPER muddy no matter where you step so you definitely have to take your shoes off if you enter my apartment.
So far I haven't had my car broken into yet or got my door busted in yet. I'm just sleeping in my living room waiting to see if any shit goes down. Speaking of shit... if only my toilet worked... I guess I have to wait until tomorrow morning and go at work. ROFL!
IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF YOU WILL NOT LIVE HERE!
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Sounds really bad lol. I wish your luck for the upcoming bureaucratic bullshit.
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You poor bastard. That shit sounds aweful!
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Yea shitty apartments suck, at my old one I found a hobo dead outside with a needle in their arm twice.
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Am I bad for pissing in the sink? I'm too lazy to go piss outside in the bushes and I don't want to bug my neighbors. They are probably paranoid and would pull a gun on me if I'd knock on their door at midnight.
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Not only will I vote for but i'll go out into the streets and campaign for the first guy to run for president openly stating he's cutting military spending. It's repulsive they would give you 1100+ bucks for rent if you were single. Not to mention what you make doing whatever job it is you have there, which is most likely something completely mundain.
Also, don't you get the opportunity to at least tour the apartment before you sign the papers? If so, cant really complain/rant about any of the utilities functionality.
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On February 14 2012 14:41 Ohhsee wrote:
Also, don't you get the opportunity to at least tour the apartment before you sign the papers? If so, cant really complain/rant about any of the utilities functionality.
I'm living in a shitty on-campus apartment at school right now. I toured the apartments before I moved in, liked the place, and paid my deposit. However, I neglected to, oh, you know, flush my toilet to make sure that it's working (it overflows about once a month) and run the sink for 30 seconds to find out that there are air gaps in the lines that make terrible grinding noises. And there are gaps between the windows and the heating vent which means we get terrible drafts in the winter (I toured in the summer).
There are things you just don't really check for when you move in to an apartment... at least not if you're a rookie like me I guess. Hahaha.
And man, I would just take a whiz in the sink.. just try to aim for the center as much as possible...
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That sounds like an extremely bad time. I loved the ashy larry reference though LOL
On February 14 2012 14:30 Balgrog wrote:
Yea shitty apartments suck, at my old one I found a hobo dead outside with a needle in their arm twice.
O.O
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well at least you have a pool! And at such an exceptional value!
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Shit, I need to get married. The military gives you too many benefits for it.
Were you living in barracks before this or what?
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Why are some people trying to turn this into an anti military-spending thread?
It would be hard for me to consider even a six figure salary to tie myself up to Uncle Sam for 4+ years.
About your apartment; that is a horrible experience and I feel sorry for you.
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On February 14 2012 16:36 jacosajh wrote:
Why are some people trying to turn this into an anti military-spending thread?
It would be hard for me to consider even a six figure salary to tie myself up to Uncle Sam for 4+ years.
About your apartment; that is a horrible experience and I feel sorry for you.
Yeah I really don't like the military too much. The fact of knowing that I can be sent to Afghanistan, Africa, or somewhere for 6 months or more away from my wife is a shitty feeling. Being with my wife is priceless. Or if we did ever had kids not getting to see them grow up because I'd most likely be deployed away from the US for some time away from my family.
If the military pay was so great everyone would be joining then right? It has its ups and downs. Also I'm currently not even getting paid any housing money because finance is fucking up my pay. I'll get back paid for it, but I don't know how long it will take for them to fix it. Right now it's 15 days and counting >,< Luckily I have money saved up to hold me over on bills/ housing payments till they fix their systems/fax machines.
Anyways back on topic: Some maintenance guy came over and fixed my plumbing in less than 2 minutes. He came over and just played with the toilet and got it up and running. Now I just need to febreeze my apartment to get the horrible smell out of here.
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Sounds like you landed in the best quarter San Antonio has to offer 
A friend of my sister's went there for an exchange and told her friends exactly the same when she came back. Lived in a "gated" community too, nevertheless it was considered one of the most dangerous quarters of the city. The guestparents drove them to school and back since they were afraid something might happen to them on the way...so yeah, you're not alone.
About your apartment: is there anything you can do yourself, like e.g. paint the walls or anything like that to make you feel more comfortable while you have to live there? My Mom had to live in similar shitty apartments when she first came to Germany in the 80s, told me she at first thought it would get better after the first one, but since it didn't, she complained to the agencies about it and when they wouldn't do anything, she gathered some fellow students and did it herself with their help. She still is the one who does everything technical around the house while my Dad doesn't even know how to cange a lightbulb. -.-
Another point why I'm pointing the "make it better thing" out is your wife. Finding an apartment is something that can take far too long (I'm just going through the same shit, so...good times^^), so she's eventually gonna live there as well. Since you can't solve the cat problem unless you plan on shooting them and be in turn shot by your neihgbors, the apartment should welcome her more friendly than the general neighborhood.
Good luck and feel free to ask anything about renovations, my Mom tought me everything she knows since I was old enough to hold a paintbrush without trying out what it tastes like
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Yeah thanks for the tips.
My lease is only 7 months so I plan on leaving as soon it expires. She will arrive in the US mid May and we will be moving out Mid September. So we have to deal with the hellish summer with poor A/C, but it's cool because we did the same thing in Korea. The A/C was non existent so we had a lot of fans plugged in. Towards the last couple months of my lease me and my wife will search for a new apartment together and then we'll start renovating the new apartment the way she wants it. I couldn't really careless about the current apartment I'm in. I feel like I'm just chilling in a motel room for 7 months until I find something better. I mean the rent is only $559 here...
If we're going to try and live our lives happily together I want it to be in a more established apartment. I seriously feel like "I get what I paid for" staying at my current apartment. I mean it's good so far. I'm on "Day 3" and nobody busted in my door, no broken car windows, etc. I just want me and her to live in a "dream" apartment where it may be expensive, but the quality speaks for itself.
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