RUBs - This is a bullshit system to be added to your rent with. This is basically saying “on top of what you’re paying to use, you’re to pay what EVERYONE else in the building uses!” even if it’s divided up. I get fucked over every winter for example, because I use electric heaters in my apartment and nothing gas-related. I’m still smacked with $48 ~ $62 of usage, despite that. This raises my rent up and makes it variable.
No-Bite Management - Management who lets nearly everything go, despite them trying to sound strict. You may be in a bit of a rivalry with a neighbor who likes slamming things or having loud music, obviously breaking lease agreement, who makes you wonder why they’ve gotten away with it as long as they have. You record, you report but management does next to nothing. They tell you to your face that the only way they can move forward, is a police report. Now that kind of thing should be reserved for more escalated and involved cases, not something management could deal with when they were the ones who made up the terms of the lease agreement.
Pets - From experience, people are AWFUL with their pets. Mostly dogs, I’ve never seen anything go wrong with cats, unless the owners don’t care enough to let them run around until they’re kidnapped or ran over. But dogs, they just let them go and go with the barking. Not to mention the dog shit on the ground they refuse to pick up.
Not sure what makes sense to ask but my personal experience:
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I would wanna ask if they recently had any work done to their plumbing for the building. I moved to a new place once but the building was older and just my luck as I had taken up a job that was WFH–surely enough, while I was at home, they had to turn off the water randomly (for hours) throughout a given week and this happened like every other month. They would only give notice via some random paper they slipped through unit front door but otherwise, I had no other way of knowing when this would happen.
Second thing to maybe ask is if they plan to do any kind of work on the parking lot (assuming the building has an actual lot). For me, I didn’t think to ask this but about 3 months in, the building ended up having work done in the parking lot to redo pavement and redraw parking spaces. They forced every tenant to move their car from the lot and as a backup measure, let us use a nearby parking lot that was actually for a restaurant. As you can imagine, this was not a good idea. I was sort of lucky because being WFH meant I could move my car when everybody else was at work but in hindsight, the temporary space they were offering was not enough for the amount of tenants and cars.