Yeah, don't get me started on the laundry situation in my neighborhood LOL. Well, now it's not so bad...but two years ago I lived in an...OK (at best) neighborhood...with my clothes couples with a boyfriend who had absolutely zero dry cleaning and wore thick sweatshirts (in winter of course) when he got home at night, I had tons of it to do. I had to walk nearly a full block to the laundromat (from a third-floor walk-up) with approximately 25 lbs of laundry. Not pretty!! Then I would get there and NOTHING worked. Some dryers were better than others...but if a washer or two was broken, fuhgeddaboutit!!!
Then we moved last year to a building with "laundry facilities." Hooray! Thought our problems of nuisances were over. NOT! They had four washer and four dryers for nearly 45 apartments. Let's say there was an average 1.5 persons per household. About a month after we moved in, two of the washers broke and two of the dryers just stopped drying. I mean, they worked, but just blew like cold air on already wet clothes. Nice. We registered a complaint with the management office, as we found out in later months, my BF and I were one of the highest paying tenants in the building (and our rent, believe me, was NOT expensive)...due to rent control laws, the new management (in place about 4 years) could not legally jack their rent to current market values. So they just didn't care about our complaints. Honestly, we were friendly with the management office, and they were like, "Stop complaining about it."
But it wasn't even like I could go somewhere to do it. Noooooo...the laundromat across the street (similar situation to apartment #1 situation) had the same broken washer from the time I started to go there, and two broken dryers (never fixed) and dryers that were iffy at best. Some blew such hot air that I could only dry towels in it, stuff I didn't care if it shrunk. Talk about management who didn't give an S---!
Now? I live in a wonderful apartment with a wonderful landlady in a fabulous neighborhood. The first thing I asked about were laundry facilities. The realtor told us that there were none on premises but there was a great laundromat around the corner. I'm like, "here we go again." But...it was clean, stuff worked (thereby, eliminating stress on laundry day), a bit pricey but worth it for all the troubles I had w/ laundry from the get-go!...no jerks hijacking dryers (I hate that...could go on and on for hours on that one!), and it's closer to my house than any of the o thers. So it was worth the wait.
Plus, get this...for the people who believe in "ecological friendliness" (and I am pro-environment, yet I never considered it for that LOL), my BF suggested doing laundry at his parent's house this weekend (cause it was a short enough load to warrant doing it, but not worth the $$ it would cost us), and I was like "Are you crazy! It will take us four hours to do three short loads of laundry! We'll wait another day or two!!!" It was funny, how things work (although, I totally would not mind having my own, but c'est la vie!).
Then we moved last year to a building with "laundry facilities." Hooray! Thought our problems of nuisances were over. NOT! They had four washer and four dryers for nearly 45 apartments. Let's say there was an average 1.5 persons per household. About a month after we moved in, two of the washers broke and two of the dryers just stopped drying. I mean, they worked, but just blew like cold air on already wet clothes. Nice. We registered a complaint with the management office, as we found out in later months, my BF and I were one of the highest paying tenants in the building (and our rent, believe me, was NOT expensive)...due to rent control laws, the new management (in place about 4 years) could not legally jack their rent to current market values. So they just didn't care about our complaints. Honestly, we were friendly with the management office, and they were like, "Stop complaining about it."
But it wasn't even like I could go somewhere to do it. Noooooo...the laundromat across the street (similar situation to apartment #1 situation) had the same broken washer from the time I started to go there, and two broken dryers (never fixed) and dryers that were iffy at best. Some blew such hot air that I could only dry towels in it, stuff I didn't care if it shrunk. Talk about management who didn't give an S---!
Now? I live in a wonderful apartment with a wonderful landlady in a fabulous neighborhood. The first thing I asked about were laundry facilities. The realtor told us that there were none on premises but there was a great laundromat around the corner. I'm like, "here we go again." But...it was clean, stuff worked (thereby, eliminating stress on laundry day), a bit pricey but worth it for all the troubles I had w/ laundry from the get-go!...no jerks hijacking dryers (I hate that...could go on and on for hours on that one!), and it's closer to my house than any of the o thers. So it was worth the wait.
Plus, get this...for the people who believe in "ecological friendliness" (and I am pro-environment, yet I never considered it for that LOL), my BF suggested doing laundry at his parent's house this weekend (cause it was a short enough load to warrant doing it, but not worth the $$ it would cost us), and I was like "Are you crazy! It will take us four hours to do three short loads of laundry! We'll wait another day or two!!!" It was funny, how things work (although, I totally would not mind having my own, but c'est la vie!).
