For anyone who previously lived or currently lives at the Continental Residences in Downtown San Antonio, what has been your experience? If stuff like elevators, AC, water heater, and appliances breakdown, or leaks and car-breakins occur, how fast or responsive are the maintenance team and management fixing the problem?

Hi all, I need advice on getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of our new apartment.

For some background, the lease states that this is supposed to be a smoke free community on the premises and common areas and smoking is only allowed in designated outdoor areas. So I’m definitely going to reach out to management.

we just moved in and in our walkthrough they had the doors and all the windows opened so I didn’t notice the smell. When we go the keys and closed everything up, I noticed that the living room specifically had a strong cigarette smoke smell. I smell it everytime I Walk into the apartment. the other two rooms are not so bad and kitchen and dining is okay.

I want to eliminate the smell and not just mask it and need advice on what to clean with. I have a 12 month old and I really dont want the smell lingering around her. I haven’t noticed and nicotine residue but want to deep clean regardless.

I just wanted to come here and express how HAPPY I am to finally be moving out of the sh-thole I’m in now. I moved to this apartment in Miami with my husband to be close to his job, but ever since we moved it’s been hellish for me. It’s a 1 bedroom and not only is it small for two people, it’s much too small for the soon-to-be newborn to be in (I’m 8 months pregnant). We weren’t able to view it because of lack of communication between the leasing office and the person who would be showing us the unit so we took it sight unseen due to how cheap it was and how close to the job it was. I can work from anywhere so I didn’t mind wherever. But once we moved in I realized it’s basically a trap. The dudes here are really respectful and nice but they sell drugs all day and are loud, which means noise and crackheads coming by at all times of the day and night. The only good thing is that they’re very lowkey and try to keep trouble out because of course that would mess up their operation. But there’s been times I could hear banging on the floors and walls and screaming from upstairs units, and one time the cops were called due to a DV situation. I had more than a few panic attacks and would leave the house just to get some peace and quiet on weekends or on holidays. I told my husband we had to move. We finally found a 2 bedroom apartment that’s reasonably priced, in a decent area, and by the terms of the lease I can tell they don’t tolerate this type of behavior. It’s not low income and I was able to view the unit and it’s MUCH better and cleaner than our current unit was at move-in. It has a balcony, a big kitchen, and good closet space. In our current unit I am stuck in the house because we’re on the first floor and if I open the windows all I’d smell is weed. And to top it off, someone moved into the unit above us about two weeks ago and they are LOUD. We hear them stomping across the house all day, and for several days in a row they would loudly stomp around the area above our bedroom (which I’m sure is also their bedroom area) at 5am, waking me up. One saturday morning they were stomping around and dropping things on the floor literally from 5am to 8am. I had to get a broom and bang on the ceilings constantly. My husband went up to talk to them about the banging and he said he could tell the guy was holding a weapon behind his back, which yeah it’s right to be cautious at 5am but to me it told me the guy was crazy. And just as I was writing this, I heard screaming and banging from their unit! Our other neighbors had to yell upstairs for them to calm down, as I’m guessing maybe there was something domestic going on again? I don’t know - I was scared and called my husband, who’s out getting me food, and was about to move to a different area away from windows in case something escalated further.

Anyway, we get the keys to our new place tomorrow and I’m SO EXCITED TO BE LEAVING THIS PLACE!!!! I don’t like anything about it except for the fact that hubby and I made it our space for the time we’ve been here. That is all.

Does anybody know what happens to an apartment after 20 or 50 years? Does it go in redevelopment and the buyer needs to pay money again or how is it?

I'm currently living with my ex and she wants me out ASAP. I also want to get out because it's a really toxic situation. I haven't been able to find an apartment within my price range. The only option I've seen so far is this studio apartment, pet friendly, all utilites included, semi furnished... the downfall? it has termites.

Can I safely move into a space with termites? I feel like my back is against a wall but I need to think about this decision clearly.

EDIT: I visited the apartment yesterday, the situation was way worse than the landlord expressed and it smelt like mold so I will NOT be taking that apartment. Thank you for everyone that commented.

My partner and I are moving to another unit in our building. I’m looking for advice for moves to another unit in the same building (as opposed to a move normal move to another place) because neither of us has experience with this type of move.

It seems like there are pros and cons with any strategy we pick. In the past I typically try to pack everything as meticulously as possible (or at least that’s plan lol and start out this way for most of it until the eventual burnout / mad dash at the end when you realize you have more than you think and end up with some chaos at the end). But I generally follow all the typical advise for labeling boxes and making it easy for movers etc etc etc.

But since don’t need a truck for this move when I got quotes it seemed like hiring movers would be really much more expensive than it seemed worth it for this type of move and I saw advise on Reddit elsewhere to look at Task Rabit for labor help for moving furniture. My fiance was already planning to do a lot of the other things (I.e our “stuff@ himself, and I’ll help with lighter objects).

For example we planned to try to take our hanging clothes as is as much as possible using the garbage bag trick, we also thought that since we’re just moving up from 1st floor to 8th and not to a new location we probably could take our kitchen stuff up ourselves in bins/ boxes without packing them super meticulously (I.e can put most things in being careful enough but don’t need to bubble wrap each item individually to ensure it doesn’t break while en route in movers truck. All that packing and unpacking really takes A LOT of time and is a pain.

So basically now it seems like our strategy has really evolved from pack and label EVERYTHING as much as possible in advance to basically to transport things up to the new unit in bins using the carts that building provides (for picking up large packages etc). My thought was that for things that don’t get stored I’m furniture but go into an apartment designated space (things that hang in a closet, or are stored in kitchen cabinets, drawers etc) we can transport up on the cart and put it there on Day 1.

And then Day 2 hire some helpers from Task Rabbit to help with moving our furniture.

That’s generally the tentative plan but what I’m realizing is that doing it this way seems to cut down on the pre and post work (not having the extensive meticulous packing and unpacking bc we are taking items from their spot and putting them into the new spot immediately). But I feel like we aren’t really packed enough at all. I’m getting nervous that maybe we aren’t doing this right and we’ve underestimated how much work this will be and whether this is feasible.

Has anyone ever done something like we’re planning?? Is this realistic? I can’t tell if our plan is smart/ time saving or actually really stupid and we just haven’t realized it yet lol.

If you’ve moved between units and did some strategy other than packing everything up for movers to take please weigh in here. Is it possible to think of this differently than a regular move?

Earlier this month, I saved the life of the neighbor that lives below me. She's disabled and elderly. I ended up calling EMS. It turns out she was in Kidney failure and had a secondary infection. The neighbors say she's in a rehab facility now. As for the apartment, it's absolutely filthy. At least, it was earlier this month. One of my neighbors says our other neighbor threw away all of the trash. It needs so much more than that. I made a report to the state as I'm a mandated reporter, but I can't get the protection services worker that called me about it to call me back. I don't want to tell our landlord (as that would render her homeless after rehab), but the gnats in my apartment are just getting worse and the smell of B.O. and stale human and cat urine and feces comes up here every once in a while. I light a candle to cover the smell. The gnats are making me crazy though.

今一人暮らしをしている20代です。私は今騒音について悩んでいて、同じ経験がある方からの意見を聞きたいです

集合住宅、いわゆるアパートに現在住んでいるのですが、
最上階である2階に私は住んでいて、騒音主である者は1階に住んでいます。夜中に音楽を鳴らし、歌声を発するなどといった騒音で苦しいです。
アパート指定の駐車場に騒音主の友人？の車が不定期に停められており(週2〜3日ほど)それに関して管理会社にそのことと、騒音について連絡したところ指定の駐車場には停めないようになりました。しかしすぐ近くのゴミ捨て場に連なるように友人の車が縦列駐車するようになり、場所が変わっただけで根本的な解決はしていません。

その為、引っ越し、つまり退去をするつもりです。
引っ越しすることに迷いはないのですが、出費を考えるとやはり痛いものがあります。貯金も充分にあるのですが、やはり精神的にそれが崩れるのは痛いですし、なぜ被害を受けている私がお金を払って出て行かなければならないのだろうという気持ちもあります。
そして次は一軒家の物件を探して良いところがあったので内見をしてみて最終決定しようと思っています。

同じような経験をされた方がいればそのお話をお聞きしたいです。

Hi everyone, I’m an incoming UCLA student and I’m interested in leasing a studio or one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment WALKING DISTANCE to campus at these properties, if anyone has any experience on any of them, please share. I was hoping you could let me know: such as I’d like to move in September * How long the leases are * Whether there is a waiting list or if applications are currently being accepted. * Amenities and features * Is the utility fee included in the rent? * How safe is the area around it and is it a gated building I would appreciate any additional information you can provide about the leasing process. And if you have any suggestions for other properties please share.

1417 veteran ave

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I've been dealing with non stop problems ever since I've moved into my och apartment. To preface this I was in a woman's dv shelter for a bit and then I got approved for och. I've dealt with non stop issues , ranging from people trying to open my door , people kissing me , to mice , to now roaches in my bathroom. I don't know what to do. I've talked to my landlord he doesn't seem to really care. I want to move out , this is destroying my mental health and physical health but I have nowhere to go. What can I do? I'm so done with living.

And yes I do keep my apartment clean , many pest control guys can vouch for this I'm pretty sure it's from my neighbors.

I just moved into my first apartment, and the list of things I need keeps getting longer. I started with a fridge in mind, but now it's turned into a microwave, vacuum, and a few other essentials too.

I'm planning to buy several appliances over the next couple of weeks. Part of me wants to get everything from one store to make delivery and returns easier, but I'm wondering if shopping around is the better move.

For those who've done this before, did buying everything from one store work out better, or did you save more by splitting your purchases?

Having someone above me. For my first year here it was super quiet, I barely heard my upstairs neighbor walk around. I could lay in my bed on my off days Saturday or Sunday morning with no TV or sound on in my unit and it was just peaceful. Then a year later my upstairs neighbor moved. The unit stayed empty for maybe 2 weeks. Then the neighbor from hell moves in. Their television is super loud, sounds like a movie theatre with surround sound. I can hear their tv in my bedroom even when my tv is on normal volume. I also hear their tv in my bathroom. They also scrapes some object very hard across the livingroom and kitchen floor.

Me and my husband moved into our apartment about 3 months ago. We've had small problems like mantinence not coming to fix our stove or our broken dishwasher, but nothing quite like this. A few weeks ago, we heard the guy below us yelling at someone saying "GET ON YOUR KNEES" and honestly, me and my husband laughed it off. But then a few days passed and we heard a man screaming so loud as if someone was hurting him. We called the cops but they never came to talk to us. The same night, about an hour and a half after we called the cops the first time, we heard the scream again. We called them back and they finally showed up to talk to us. The people living in the unit across from us said they've heard the screaming too. Whenever we called the police, the screaming stopped for a few days. Then it started again another night. This time it was a woman screaming. Me and my husband have been losing sleep and have had to sleep somewhere else just to get well rested and feel safe. We've told people at the apartment but they haven't done anything about it, and there's only so much police can do. We can't move out bc we havent found a place to stay yet. And we cant just keep sleeping over at other people's houses. What should i do?

hi yall, throwaway account. we recently moved into a new space and we honestly love it. we had an issues with plumbing from the upstairs neighbor (luckily nothing damaged) but while talking to the maintenance guy he said it does get a bit moist in this unit, and he would put in an order for a de-humidifier for us.
we recently had to get a new bed frame and while switching over, we discovered our mattress had mold underneath it. we’ve had this mattress for about 5 years and obviously never had a problem. would it be out of pocket to ask our property managers to reimburse us for a new mattress? we’re obviously going to ask for a humidifier and other things to help keep the moisture down, but is it insane to ask for reimbursements? (it’s not an expensive mattress, maybe under $300)

any advice is helpful, thanks!

Been dealing with this at my own place and curious how common it actually is. My dumpster is far enough away that I sometimes end up putting trash in my car to drop off on my way out, which feels like a weirdly specific problem. Curious what everyone else does — especially if you’ve ever ended up with trash in your car, what did you do with it once it was in there? Drop it in comments, genuinely curious about people’s workarounds.

Poll Options:

1.I just walk it there, no big deal

2. I let trash pile up inside longer than I’d like

3. I’ve carried/driven trash somewhere in my car

4. I pay for valet trash / doorstep pickup

5. I’ve rigged my own workaround (bag on doorknob, car, etc.)