4 apartment hacks

These are apartment hacks that will save you time and money. Before moving out of your apartment, ask maintenance workers what they check during the move-out inspection. I asked the maintenance team and not the management team because most of the time they'll be the ones doing the walk-throughs and the move-out inspection. And they do it so often, they could have done one just that day or last week versus the management team may not be physically present during the move-out inspection. And I asked the maintenance worker in my last apartment, he told me that anything under a quarter, I had to fix on my own. Mind you, I thought that I had to fix everything because of that conversation. I saved myself a lot of time and money and buying extra stuff to fill them. This next one is going to be very controversial, but I actually think that you should buy all your furniture all at once. When moving into this new apartment, I bought everything the first week and I have not bought anything new for my apartment since versus in my last apartment, I just got the basics when I first moved in and then settled in and bought stuff as I needed them, but I felt like that caused me to buy stuff up until the last month of me moving out because since I didn't buy everything at the beginning, I felt justified anytime I saw something in the store and was like, oh, you know what, like technically my apartment isn't fully furnished, so I can get this. Building everything all at once and not thinking about it again. It's easier to not go back and buy new things, especially things that you don't need. So I would recommend setting a budget, buying everything you need all at once, building everything all at once and not thinking about it again. If you don't know how to mount your TV to the wall, don't want to hire someone to do it, buy a studless TV mount. I know this seems like a terrible idea, but mine has held up this entire time and a lot of other people mount their TVs this way. It works for any TV up to 70 inches and come move-out time, you're not gonna have four holes to spackle. In my last apartment, I did the traditional TV mount and it cost me $30 for the mount and $75 to get someone to mount it to the wall. So just spending $20 on this mount, knowing I could do it myself, was really good. I'm a little crazy when it comes to this stuff, but I would recommend going on the Facebook group of the city that the apartment is in, make a post and saying that you're thinking about moving to this apartment and you want to hear from people who live there. And I guarantee you people are gonna DM you and tell you everything you need to know. I was in between the current apartment I live in now and another apartment, which was so much bigger, was cheaper to live in, had amenities and was in a better location. But it had 3.2 reviews from 500 people. If you have a bad management and maintenance team, I promise you it is not worth the stress. If you have to wait weeks to either hear back or get something fixed in your apartment, that is not somewhere you should live. Make sure you check out part one if you haven't already and follow for a part three.