I have been unlucky enough to live in apartments almost my entire life.
And I have hated every single second of it.
Apartment heating and cooling is inferior in every way, shape and form to central heating and air conditioning of the home. Especially if you have something like window air conditioning. What about central heating and cooling in apartments, you might wonder? Well, the difference is that you don’t have control over your own heating and air conditioning machine, the landlord does. So if you are having issues with your heat and A/C device, you are completely dependent on someone else to take care of your issue with the HVAC system. Now depending on the landlord, sometimes it can be ok, but other times it is pretty bad. I have had some landlords turn out to be great, and other ones? Not so much. I would be stuck in the intense heat, my cooling component is broken, and the landlord is not responding to my calls. Sometimes I would call a separate heat and A/C business to take care of the problem for me, and would you believe that the landlord complained about having an unfamiliar cooling worker at my home? Utterly ridiculous, and only another reason why I couldn’t wait to move out and into my own home so that way I could control my own HVAC system. Yes, being a homeowner is harder, but at least I am completely free to make my own decisions around my home.