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What about apartments with that popcorn ceiling?

My cat likes the height - so we put her cat bed up there and she's up there all the time! Sleeps up there all day sometimes cause it's high and warm :)

My husband and I had a terrible "first apt." experience after we got married - because of that - we were scared into finding and paying attention to a few things:

- Does the bathroom have a fan/source of ventilation (we just had a window but the window went into this dark ally between units that was like a tall air pit in the middle of the building and ours had no screen and the management couldn't replace the screen cause there was noway to get into this air area, and it was just too creepy to have this dark expanse of open air next to you while you're showering not knowing who can see you if anyone can...)?

- Is there ventilation in the kitchen/a hood over the stove? (not talking about just a window since that's all we had, but you never realize how much a hood does until you don't have it and you're burning pancakes...)

- How do the windows lock? Try the opening and closing the lock - does it seem sturdy? Ours broke within a few uses.

- Are there any weird piles coming out of the baseboards along the walls? We had a weird long pipe laying down along the baseboards that was attached to the wall and the lady who showed us the apartment said that it used to be for old space heaters back in the 40's when the building was built and that it was the remnants of that. Well - one night we had friends over for my husband's birthday and we were sitting on the floor playing Cranium when we felt/heard a pop. Then we started smelling gas. We called the appropriate people and after a long and grueling ordeal (this is why we ended up breaking the lease and moving out), we got the management to remove the pipe from the space heater and cap the pipe...now we will not live somewhere older than a 1970's building unless the management can show us proof of pipe quality.

- Handicapped access - we have a grandparent in a wheelchair and he wanted to visit our new place - but we found that there were 2 sets of stairs with no ramps in the front of the building - it was sad.