At least in my area, there were a few waves of building. I've lived in buildings built in the 60's, 70's and 2000s. The latter was the 5 over 1.
The older buildings are built lower, usually max 3-4 floors, but build with concrete cinderblocks and bricks, with wood framing inside for interior walls. This has a few benefits, less flammable, less noise between apartments, generally feels more solid, and any bugs have usually been worked out decades ago.
in the 5over1 apartment I lived in, you could distinctly hear other conversations anywhere in the apartment, the windows leaked like a sieve every time it rained, and I mean like a loot of water. I'd have to put bowls down because towels were futile. It was so big that you had to park far away from your apartment, which meant every time you bought groceries, it'd be a multiple pass hike up and down 3 flights of weather exposed stairs. The grass in the courtyard was plastic. Just built very cheaply but made to look "nice". So people with money flock to the 5over1s and neglect the older condo complexes which generally are nicer to live in without losing a single amenity, sometimes gaining them.
My old place we had to pay for a garbage service which would take a single bag from outside your door in their provided trash can each night except for weekends. In the older buildings, theres an easy to access trash room and condo fees pay for the trash to be taken a few times a week.
this is more or less a rant about my experiences but I'm still pissed I gave that corporate apartment company money. Landlords are trash but at least the smaller landlords through smaller property management companies tend to be easier to deal with and easier to get better prices with.
made me look at all modern residential construction in a new way. i don't know how to rent a safe place lol.
I had lived in one and it was the worst rental experience I've had. At least I didn't have mice. Now I don't want to rent anything built after 1980.
why not?
At least in my area, there were a few waves of building. I've lived in buildings built in the 60's, 70's and 2000s. The latter was the 5 over 1.
The older buildings are built lower, usually max 3-4 floors, but build with concrete cinderblocks and bricks, with wood framing inside for interior walls. This has a few benefits, less flammable, less noise between apartments, generally feels more solid, and any bugs have usually been worked out decades ago.
in the 5over1 apartment I lived in, you could distinctly hear other conversations anywhere in the apartment, the windows leaked like a sieve every time it rained, and I mean like a loot of water. I'd have to put bowls down because towels were futile. It was so big that you had to park far away from your apartment, which meant every time you bought groceries, it'd be a multiple pass hike up and down 3 flights of weather exposed stairs. The grass in the courtyard was plastic. Just built very cheaply but made to look "nice". So people with money flock to the 5over1s and neglect the older condo complexes which generally are nicer to live in without losing a single amenity, sometimes gaining them.
My old place we had to pay for a garbage service which would take a single bag from outside your door in their provided trash can each night except for weekends. In the older buildings, theres an easy to access trash room and condo fees pay for the trash to be taken a few times a week.
this is more or less a rant about my experiences but I'm still pissed I gave that corporate apartment company money. Landlords are trash but at least the smaller landlords through smaller property management companies tend to be easier to deal with and easier to get better prices with.