Why Renting Sucks!

      Now I know what you're thinking. Of course renting is terrible, you pay upwards of twelve thousand dollars to live in someone else's investment. Besides the obvious things such as applications, deposits and landlords what sucks about renting?
     First of all the fact that your home never really feels like your home. Often times you can't paint or fix up your place. We've been blessed with horrible green curtains and an 80's brown bathroom. While you may be thinking you can at least change the curtains, I'm here to say, not in my budget! The windows are huge and to get curtains for them all would cost well over three hundred dollars, no way!
     Secondly, our neighbors smoke. Now I don't really care about the life choices of others, but when your way of smoking is sitting in your bathroom with the fan on I will have an issue. Living in an apartment means that you get the cigarette stench blowing through your bathroom and kitchen fan, how fantastic! I know you could have similar problems if you owned the apartment but the difference is you could fix the issues yourself. My partner and I often feel guilty about complaining when something doesn't work and we have come to realize that it doesn't really matter because the owners won't fix it properly anyway.
     That brings me to my next point, living in a construction zone. When we moved into our latest home we were told that the deck wasn't up to scratch and would need to be fixed. This would take a maximum of two weeks we were assured. We had hammering through our Birthdays, Christmas and other holidays. It has been three months of one feeble old man installing a new deck and trust me, I am feeling it. He is a nice guy, don't get me wrong but I don't want hammering and awkward greetings in my own home. If I owned the apartment I would've hired a proper team to assemble it but the owners were more concerned with saving money than doing the job properly.
     So why does renting suck? Because you pay 300 dollars a week to get a run down apartment full of problems and bad neighbors and you have no power to fix any of it. It doesn't come with air-conditioning? Oh well... The plumbing is broke? You can go without water for a week. No TV? Who cares it's not a necessity! Congratulations, welcome to life!