You are lucky if you read this before having a contract with the apartment.
This apartment building is old, so living on the 1st floor is, to be honest, horrible. I can hear where the upstair resident is walking around from the noise I hear downstairs. At night and early morning, I wake up every time the resident upstairs wakes up and moves around the apartment, so I have to use earplugs, radios, or 2 fans-on to help me keep sleeping at night and early morning. I even had to move my bed from
...the bedroom to the living room to avoid the horrible WOOD CREAKING SOUND of the bedroom (& living room). I regret that I moved into this apartment, because I cannot have a good night sleep and cannot concentrate on my work during evening time. Maybe it could have been much better if I could have moved into the 2nd floor. People who want to have a good night sleep (as well as who want to do their work in a quiet place during evening) may want to consider this.
UPDATE: The wood-creaking sound has been horrible, and I have sent written notice to the management a few times. They said, it is not possible to be fixt at the moment as the upstair apartment is occupied. I notified them that I will move out as they could not fulfill the obligation (to fix things and managing property as a livable place), and they said yes. They noticed me that they WILL NOT RETURN the $700 deposit, and now I am ready to file a lawsuit.
IF YOU WANT TO MOVE INTO THE APT, PLEASE HAVE A CHANCE A PERSON WALK AROUND THE APARTMENT THAT IS RIGHT ABOVE. YOU WILL HEAR HORRIBLE WOOD-CREAKING NOISES THAT WILL WAKE YOU UP DURING NIGHTS, AND YOU WILL DECIDE NOT TO MOVE IN.
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