So many reasons. Here are just a few:
- The revolving crowd of guys who hang out back drinking. Who knew a dumpster could be so happening?
- The consistently and creatively failing plumbing.
- The five parking spaces for six apartments (two of which are 2-bedroom units).
- The lack of laundry room etiquette.
- The occasional lines of unidentified white powder on top of the washing machine (I’m not sure who left it there, but I know it wasn’t either of us).
- The total lack of insulation.
- The weird placement of the coat closet, which sticks into the living room and creates an alcove that is the only place to put the couch–perpendicular to the TV, meaning that only one of us can sit there to watch television. That’s right, in four years we have almost never been able to sit next to each other and watch TV.
- Most recently, the neighbor’s relatives who brought their dogs over and let them deposit nasty piles behind our car–which they left for someone else (me, apparently) to hose off.
So while the housing market may not yet have hit bottom, we’re satisfied with the fact that it’s no longer at its high point. Home ownership, here we come!