As somebody who just spent a year living in a low-income complex, I can tell you from first-hand experience that it's really not that great. I promise you do not want to live next door to a bunch of crackheads. You don't want to have to live with some tweaker above you overdosing for 2 weeks straight moving furniture around at 4:00 in the morning and then screaming at you because you're like the devil and then getting all of her friends to harass you because you just want to be left the fuck alone and not deal with her shit. You don't want to deal with that shit unless you're already a tweaker. I could tell you it is better to live in a tent on a piece of land in the middle of butt fuck nowhere with no utilities other than what you can dig out of the ground or harvest from the sun than it is to live in one of those fucking shit box apartments. You don't want to even live in the same neighborhood as a low-income complex. The managers are retarded and lazy and they let the crackheads do whatever the fuck they want, it's basically an extension of the whole revolving door legal system. That bitch upstairs for me last time I checked hadn't even paid the rent in like a year and they still wouldn't evict her, meanwhile I'm just a college student trying to mind his own fucking business and I couldn't leave to go get something from my car without being strapped up.
Brand new apartments that had just gone up the year before and were still undergoing construction when I moved in. They were built very cheaply, and made to look like exactly the same as every other brand new apartment that had gone up but you could tell in the construction that they had taken tons of shortcuts. Gray wood pattern vinyl flooring, beige apartment paint on the walls, a washer and dryer stacked that wobbled because it was older second hand and the feet on the back were mounted on screws that were stripped and the maintenance didn't do anything about it, some kind of composite quartz like countertop, and a washing machine that generally took about 4 -5 hours to do a load of dishes. Cost me $1,060 bucks a month and the income requirements to get in were kind of fucked up because you weren't allowed to make more than like $35,000 for a household of one. Despite it being brand new, it was already starting to fall apart when I moved in. Paint was peeling, I couldn't run a blender in there without shorting out a fuse, in the winter for that one bedroom apartment if it got really cold my electric bill went up to like 450 bucks because of how poorly insulated it was and how bad the wiring was. All in all the apartment itself wasn't bad really I don't mind those little inconveniences, what made it terrible was the property managers and their negligence with handling any kind of issue. Also the neighbors. The property managers let homeless people camp out in the parking lot and they never trespassed them, they let people have unauthorized occupants in the units which meant that there was always sketchy ass people and drug dealers hanging around and also drama domestic violence the kids were running around the parking lot of all ages unattended pulling trash out and throwing it all over the place deliberately destroying things because their parents didn't give a shit. They had a nice grass lawn on the building across from me for about a month after it was installed before it looked like a green and yellow leopards print from all the dog piss and shit that people left there and didn't clean up. There were campers on the street out front and this long ass line of cars with people sleeping in them, if you were a regular person you were watched like a hawk and they were looking for any reason to evict you but for some reason people who were just total fuckups and who didn't work and just sat around fucking having drama for no goddamn reason got to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Two weeks after I moved in there, one of my upstairs neighbors was outside my bedroom window yelling at me and calling me a pedophile. This bitch had a pair of aggressive pit bulls that she just let run around off leash and one of them attacked my dog when I was taking her out on a walk. People all of them had these fucking aggressive ass pitbulls and none of them would keep them on a leash they would just let them out of their apartment and run around the neighborhood terrorizing the whole complex. We would have people driving through the parking lot All hours of the night looking into people's cars for shit to steal and breaking in and siphoning gas, The whole neighborhood around the place was actually kind of nice like a middle class working class neighborhood but in retrospect I totally understand why the people in that neighborhood treated me with distrust and suspicion when I went to walk my dog through. At first glance the apartment complex would look kind of nice, until you look closer and then you see all the glass from broken liquor bottles and broken car windows all over the parking lot and you see the cheap paint peeling on the exterior. You would have people pulling up in front of your bedroom window at 1:00 in the morning with their Rob me speakers in their car blasting at full volume until the cops showed up, and if you ask them to stop they would get super fucking aggressive and act like they wanted to fight you. I had one guy try to ram me with his car when I was driving out one night at 10:00 in the evening and then he honked at me and flipped me off after he swerved away at the last second. The police didn't do anything about it and when I complain to property managers they basically called me a liar. I had a meth addict upstairs who would tweak out and be moving furniture and jumping around up and down over my bed screaming at me literally all fucking night long and the property managers never did shit about her. One night she was on a bender for like two or three weeks straight and she didn't sleep at all, and she eventually collapsed and hit her head from exhaustion outside and left a trail of blood going up to her apartment, and when the first responders came she refused to go to the hospital and I'm presuming it's because they would drug test her and they'd find the meth in her system. This bitch made my life a nightmare because I needed to sleep and I actually ended up missing a couple of important exams because I just was up all night because of her fucking bullshit.
I finally got to the end of my lease and turned in my 30-day notice, and these bastards kept my entire security deposit and because I chose not to renew they decided to try and charge me a lease break fee of $1,500 on top of a whole month's worth of rent. They are still currently charging me rent even though I've turned in my keys and I can't find any fucking lawyers to tell them to fuck off. Tbh I would have been better off staying at a super 8 for this past year even though it would have been more expensive. Right now I am staying in My girlfriend's 200 ft² camper with her daughter, her 4 cats, and 3 dogs. We don't have to pay rent and we are basically camping out doing camp hosting with the state parks at the day use areas. I'm still trying to go to school online using starlink which BTW is some of the best fastest most reliable internet I've ever had, like it's a one-to-one upgrade over DSL or whatever the fuck the technology is they're using now. Just got hired for a dishwashing job at a forestry museum about an hour away but I'm not sure if I want to do that now because I don't have any appropriate clothing and I can't afford to buy the stuff I need to work there and I'm only going to be there for a month before we have to move to the next campsite. We want to save up so we can buy a piece of land out in the boonies and start homesteading because they're selling some serious acreage for like 10,000 bucks if you're willing to go out to the country, and that apartment was like the last time we ever want to deal with a landlord.
As somebody who just spent a year living in a low-income complex, I can tell you from first-hand experience that it's really not that great. I promise you do not want to live next door to a bunch of crackheads. You don't want to have to live with some tweaker above you overdosing for 2 weeks straight moving furniture around at 4:00 in the morning and then screaming at you because you're like the devil and then getting all of her friends to harass you because you just want to be left the fuck alone and not deal with her shit. You don't want to deal with that shit unless you're already a tweaker. I could tell you it is better to live in a tent on a piece of land in the middle of butt fuck nowhere with no utilities other than what you can dig out of the ground or harvest from the sun than it is to live in one of those fucking shit box apartments. You don't want to even live in the same neighborhood as a low-income complex. The managers are retarded and lazy and they let the crackheads do whatever the fuck they want, it's basically an extension of the whole revolving door legal system. That bitch upstairs for me last time I checked hadn't even paid the rent in like a year and they still wouldn't evict her, meanwhile I'm just a college student trying to mind his own fucking business and I couldn't leave to go get something from my car without being strapped up.
Brand new apartments that had just gone up the year before and were still undergoing construction when I moved in. They were built very cheaply, and made to look like exactly the same as every other brand new apartment that had gone up but you could tell in the construction that they had taken tons of shortcuts. Gray wood pattern vinyl flooring, beige apartment paint on the walls, a washer and dryer stacked that wobbled because it was older second hand and the feet on the back were mounted on screws that were stripped and the maintenance didn't do anything about it, some kind of composite quartz like countertop, and a washing machine that generally took about 4 -5 hours to do a load of dishes. Cost me $1,060 bucks a month and the income requirements to get in were kind of fucked up because you weren't allowed to make more than like $35,000 for a household of one. Despite it being brand new, it was already starting to fall apart when I moved in. Paint was peeling, I couldn't run a blender in there without shorting out a fuse, in the winter for that one bedroom apartment if it got really cold my electric bill went up to like 450 bucks because of how poorly insulated it was and how bad the wiring was. All in all the apartment itself wasn't bad really I don't mind those little inconveniences, what made it terrible was the property managers and their negligence with handling any kind of issue. Also the neighbors. The property managers let homeless people camp out in the parking lot and they never trespassed them, they let people have unauthorized occupants in the units which meant that there was always sketchy ass people and drug dealers hanging around and also drama domestic violence the kids were running around the parking lot of all ages unattended pulling trash out and throwing it all over the place deliberately destroying things because their parents didn't give a shit. They had a nice grass lawn on the building across from me for about a month after it was installed before it looked like a green and yellow leopards print from all the dog piss and shit that people left there and didn't clean up. There were campers on the street out front and this long ass line of cars with people sleeping in them, if you were a regular person you were watched like a hawk and they were looking for any reason to evict you but for some reason people who were just total fuckups and who didn't work and just sat around fucking having drama for no goddamn reason got to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Two weeks after I moved in there, one of my upstairs neighbors was outside my bedroom window yelling at me and calling me a pedophile. This bitch had a pair of aggressive pit bulls that she just let run around off leash and one of them attacked my dog when I was taking her out on a walk. People all of them had these fucking aggressive ass pitbulls and none of them would keep them on a leash they would just let them out of their apartment and run around the neighborhood terrorizing the whole complex. We would have people driving through the parking lot All hours of the night looking into people's cars for shit to steal and breaking in and siphoning gas, The whole neighborhood around the place was actually kind of nice like a middle class working class neighborhood but in retrospect I totally understand why the people in that neighborhood treated me with distrust and suspicion when I went to walk my dog through. At first glance the apartment complex would look kind of nice, until you look closer and then you see all the glass from broken liquor bottles and broken car windows all over the parking lot and you see the cheap paint peeling on the exterior. You would have people pulling up in front of your bedroom window at 1:00 in the morning with their Rob me speakers in their car blasting at full volume until the cops showed up, and if you ask them to stop they would get super fucking aggressive and act like they wanted to fight you. I had one guy try to ram me with his car when I was driving out one night at 10:00 in the evening and then he honked at me and flipped me off after he swerved away at the last second. The police didn't do anything about it and when I complain to property managers they basically called me a liar. I had a meth addict upstairs who would tweak out and be moving furniture and jumping around up and down over my bed screaming at me literally all fucking night long and the property managers never did shit about her. One night she was on a bender for like two or three weeks straight and she didn't sleep at all, and she eventually collapsed and hit her head from exhaustion outside and left a trail of blood going up to her apartment, and when the first responders came she refused to go to the hospital and I'm presuming it's because they would drug test her and they'd find the meth in her system. This bitch made my life a nightmare because I needed to sleep and I actually ended up missing a couple of important exams because I just was up all night because of her fucking bullshit.
I finally got to the end of my lease and turned in my 30-day notice, and these bastards kept my entire security deposit and because I chose not to renew they decided to try and charge me a lease break fee of $1,500 on top of a whole month's worth of rent. They are still currently charging me rent even though I've turned in my keys and I can't find any fucking lawyers to tell them to fuck off. Tbh I would have been better off staying at a super 8 for this past year even though it would have been more expensive. Right now I am staying in My girlfriend's 200 ft² camper with her daughter, her 4 cats, and 3 dogs. We don't have to pay rent and we are basically camping out doing camp hosting with the state parks at the day use areas. I'm still trying to go to school online using starlink which BTW is some of the best fastest most reliable internet I've ever had, like it's a one-to-one upgrade over DSL or whatever the fuck the technology is they're using now. Just got hired for a dishwashing job at a forestry museum about an hour away but I'm not sure if I want to do that now because I don't have any appropriate clothing and I can't afford to buy the stuff I need to work there and I'm only going to be there for a month before we have to move to the next campsite. We want to save up so we can buy a piece of land out in the boonies and start homesteading because they're selling some serious acreage for like 10,000 bucks if you're willing to go out to the country, and that apartment was like the last time we ever want to deal with a landlord.