My student housing depresses me

[CoffeeDrinker]

I'm sorry about this. IDK where it should be...I probably deserve to be flamed for this, but this is what's on my mind right now....
It really really depresses me all these issues I have to deal with by myself. I don't know what to do, I'm stuck in this lease til the end of May. I'm not staying on the dorms, I'm staying right across the street from my College at a privately owned housing complex/Inn. The maintenance crew are all crack-heads and they barely know how to install a screen on a window properly, let alone do any plumbing, electrical, etc....The entire staff here are druggies for sure, and they suck at their jobs all of em.

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I was an hour late to my first class because as soon as I woke up, still barely awake, I go to the bathroom and the toilet just completely overflowed. Little bits of shit everywhere. UGHGHGHHHHGGH!!!! FUCK THIS PLACE!!!!! I can't even take a crap here, plus with all the coffee i drink, I NEED a toilet I can rely on. There was no toilet paper or anything clogging it up, I usually have to flush like 4 times to just down one regular load. I just tried flushing the crap by itself w/o any paper, but even that was asking too much....

I've been through almost a gallon of Drain-o in a month! For both sink problems, and toilet problems, I know you're not supposed to use it for toilets, but it seemed to really help unclog shit. The toilet problem caught me off guard, I didn't have a plunger the first time it happened. This isn't the first time I had a million school-related things on my mind, only to be completely blindsided with all this fucking bullshit. This is like the 4th or 5th time it's happened since the semester started and it just sucks the life out of me and completely gets my day started off on the shittiest note imaginable.

Imagine being like "okay I got 30 minutes to finish this assignment" then, bam, "holy shit there's shitty water everywhere!"

It's getting to the point where I'd rather just commute the however many hours it is every day, in my breaking down car, rather than live here for one more fucking day.

Not to mention they straight up LIE to me about getting shit fixed. I'll complain, "Hey one of the outlets in the wall just stopped working randomly" and they're like "okay what room, blah blah blah, we'll fix it tomorrow...,"....a few days later "hey my outlet still hasn't been fixed" then, of course "what room are you in? etc. etc." That outlet still doesn't work, I had to run extension cables everywhere, adding to the clutter of the place...

These people are fucking druggies for sure. They can't keep a story straight, they don't do the shit they're supposed to do, that they SAY there going to do. The broadband, that I paid for, still hasn't been fixed, and I haven't seen a single repair truck from a cable company. Every time I complain they say "oh it's too late in the day to call them, I'll call them tomorrow" and the dance continues....So I have to play around and try to find the best hot spot in my apartment for wireless connection, which is always a tricky game...

God damn...it's getting on my nerves, it's interrupting my quality of life, it's getting in the way of the my schooling, these problems are not improving whatsoever! EVERY single time Ive complained, and asked for stuff to be fixed, it's either been ignored, or took forever for them to get around to it (like replacing the screen in my window which had holes, letting in all kinds of fucked up spiders and centipedes and stink bugs (no lie) and shit, it took a week after I complained) It's really overwhelming...

God damn, Living on your own and going to school is hard enough without all these fucking problems. I just want to cry or explode or something. It's a combination of the principle of the matter, the fact they're lying to me constantly, the fact that I have way more important things I should be focusing on, and the fact that I just had to get on my hands and knees and fucking sanitize my whole living space of the.....man....I'm breaking down, and my next class is about to start. I'm just in such a put-off mood.
I hope this doesn't make me look crazy and pathetic....but the situation is kinda crazy and pathetic...so IDK what to do anymore....I'm seriously considering dropping out or going on a shooting spree....

 

[Deleted member 210577]

I just started college here in the UK. Can't say my level of problems is anything compared to yours, but if it's any consolation i got fucked over by the accommodation office. First i got the wrong set of keys, then i got put in a room with a common room above my head and two slamming fire doors outside that EVERYONE in the block goes through.. now i've moved to a room one floor up, which is better, but now i have the massive boiler for all 3 blocks beneath me that resonates my entire room. This combined with the fact that im doing the most demanding degree at this college, and people who are doing such easy degrees get the nice quiet rooms, plus having to pay for this out of my 3 years of work savings = total bullshit..

 

[CoffeeDrinker]

Yeah, I hear lots of noise in my place too, but seeing as how I have a big amp and play my guitar loudly, I don't complain about that at all. It wouldn't be right. lol

I guess I just gotta deal with it...I'm going to ask to change rooms. I really really really hope they let me do that...idk what I'm going to do if I don't end up switching rooms, I literally can't take a crap in my apartment, basically. It's some BS. The plumbing is really the only thing I care deeply about; the broadband, the broken outlet (which isn't a fuse problem btw), the fact that my door has to be slammed HARD in order to close (more than once have I come home with my door cracked open because it just swings open if it wasn't shut hard enough, and the lock is just for the knob), and the fact they lie to me/are druggies, all that's forgivable, just let me take however big of a dump I need to in my own place ffs....!!!

 

[paranoid android]

Well i know fuck all about student housing but the only advice i can give you when dealing with landlords or their type is to go hard on them. You won't get anything by being a pushover or bitching at other people but you could get alot by bitching at them. Focusing your anger and getting a leash on it can do wonders trust me . If the place is in bad condition i would get some of the rent knocked off for sure. Bottomline be hard on the rack renting slum letting bastards

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Wow, that's crazy!

I don't believe you deserve to be flamed for that at all.

I hope you get this resolved as soon as you can, best of luck!

 

[muvolution]

I hope you didn't sign a lease. Just get a month behind on your rent, slowly move your stuff out to a friends place, shit in the middle of the floor, and call it a day. That way losing your security deposit is no big deal.