Choosing an Apartment: Avoid Rinky Dink Toilets

If you are contemplating a move and you tour an apartment with a rinky dink toilet, run away.  Your toilet won't be able to handle any volume of waste and a guy won't be able to handle all of his bathroom business while seated.  If the toilet gets clogged, you'll have a devil of a time unclogging it without making a mess.  Don't even ask me how I know.

A Small Toilet - By Deror avi (Own work) [Attribution, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

When it comes to selecting a new apartment home, don't choose an apartment with antiquated plumbing.

Tips For Touring an Apartment Complex

If you are selecting a new apartment, an apartment tour is your chance to really inspect a potential new home and make sure that it meets your needs.  It can be tough because apartment complexes always try to put their best foot forward and dazzle you with charismatic leasing consultants and beautiful club houses, great looking pools, and top notch exercise room facilities.  Sales professionals call this "selling the sizzle and not the steak."  When you tour an apartment complex, you have to sniff out the steak.  You need to know what it's really going to be like to live in an apartment complex.
 

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 If you don't you may find yourself living in a roach motel with unsavory neighbors.  It's only a slight step up from a van down by the river.

Watch Out for Trashy Neighbors

 Here are some things that you should notice whenever you tour an apartment complex:

Ten Things to Notice on an Apartment Tour