| One of my biggest pet peeves with living in an | | | | point where if we don't do our food shopping |
| apartment complex is the parking situation. Too | | | | during the middle of the day (when it isn't quite as |
| often (depending on what time of day it is), I will | | | | crowded), then we will almost always be |
| leave my apartment to go run an errand or to | | | | guaranteed not to get a parking space near our |
| hang out with friends, and if I get back after 7 | | | | apartment building. |
| p.m. On most days, I cannot find a parking space | | | | One of the perks of being a home owner is |
| anywhere near my building. It has gotten to the | | | | having a guaranteed place to park your car. In |
| point where people who live in the apartments in | | | | most cases, owning a home also means that you |
| the buildings around me have actually resorted to | | | | will have a covered garage in which to park your |
| simply parking illegally because they simply cannot | | | | car when you are not using it. These are two |
| find a parking space otherwise. Well, finally enough | | | | things that I, personally, look forward to having |
| complaints have come in that the management | | | | one day. When you own a home, it can |
| office of our apartment complex recently sent | | | | sometimes be aggravating to walk out of your |
| out notices to each of us letting us know that | | | | front door and see that someone else has parked |
| they will soon start issuing parking passes for | | | | their vehicle on or in front of your property |
| residents to put in their windows. However, I | | | | (depending on how far your property line |
| worry that people who don't live here or whose | | | | stretched out in front of you home). One of the |
| vehicles aren't listed with those who are | | | | things that drives my own parents crazy is when |
| registered residents of this apartment, will | | | | they are home and they see or hear someone |
| somehow find a way around this new rule. | | | | pull into our driveway so that they can turn |
| As it is, over the last few months of winter, | | | | around. Because I know that this annoys many |
| whenever my boyfriend and I would go food | | | | homeowners, I try not to do this when I am |
| shopping, we would often do our food shopping | | | | driving. Instead, I go to the next block on the |
| late at night in order to avoid the massive crowds | | | | street or neighborhood that I am in and conduct |
| of people at the supermarket. It was better this | | | | my u-turn there. |
| way because our supermarket (as well as the | | | | Whether you live in a house or in an apartment |
| Walmart) were open 24 hours a day. However, | | | | building, be aware of how others around you feel. |
| when we would finish our food shopping and get | | | | If, for instance, you are visiting friends who live in |
| back to our apartment, there wouldn't be | | | | an apartment or a house, ask them ahead of |
| anywhere for us to park. We started getting | | | | time where the best or most acceptable place is |
| used to parking at least a half a mile away from | | | | to park so that you don't aggravate other people. |
| our apartment building. It has now gotten to the | | | | |