Apartment Search

Jen and I are searching for a new apartment in Salt Lake City to move to in December. This is not because we don't love where we're at, but because we want to move closer to the U of U so I won't have a four hour commute everyday anymore. Jen loves me!

In our apartment search, Jen's come across a lot of funny rating and reviews on ApartmentRatings.com. Here are a few:

"The pictures looked nice, but the apartment smelled like urine."

"It seemed nice at first, until my neighbor got shot and killed."

"Yeah he got shot outside my door, but seriously, that could have happened anywhere."

"Close to world class ski resorts!" - In Midvale.

"I got locked in the racquetball area and then made me pay $50 to borrow the equipment."

"I do not like this place. I have been here three months and just found out I have to put the gas bill in my name....They don't even do repairs within 24 hours!"

"Ghetto. Ghetto. Ghetto."

"My neighbor kept beating his wife, and I notified the security patrol about it, who told me 'It's not our problem, call the police.'"

"I'm a single female, living alone, and I feel safe because security is always patrolling." Posted about the same complex with several violent reviews. I suspect that one was written by a rapist.

"This place is auto-theft paradise!"

"I lived in this place for quite some time and had nothing but problems here for the last couple of years. The first problem was due to the pigeons that live in the area. These pigeons roost, nest and raise their young on the balconies of the complex. I literally had ten pounds of pigeon waste on my balcony at one point, and the management would do nothing about it until I contacted the health department."

"RUN!!! no matter what they offer you!!"

"[N]ever live ANYWHERE near apartment 602[,] unless you like high school kids who don[']t ever go to school, don[']t work and run a drug selling operation out of there apartment. [I]f you like random people coming by at all times of the day and night, then they would be your ideal neighbors. So request to live near apartment 602."

"If you value your life, property, sanity, hearing, and safety, please do not even think of this place as an option. Go to a homeless shelter if you are that desperate, it would be better than here."



"We thought it would be romantic for our first apartment as newly weds to face the duck pond. But then the ducks kept us up all night quacking." - Jen is actually really interested in that apartment becausethey have gas stoves, washer/dryers, and fireplaces. Rudy is really interested in the ducks.