Facebook has become my preferred method of communication with just about everyone I know. I can catch up with friends (some of whom I haven’t seen in years) without even having to leave my home. Facebook has a semi-personal feel, being able to comment on pictures, conversations and status updates. It...
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Going back to my first experience of living in an apartment, I have a few pretty funny stories I could share of being young and stupid. Today, however, I’m going to focus on the stupid side of that equation. While my story I’m about to tell worked out in the end, it...
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Having issues with roommates is never fun. Sometimes all your communicative efforts might be for nothing. Last year I was in a really crappy situation with a roommate. It got to the point where they were being disrespectful to me and my boyfriend and they didn’t care about their hygiene or the cleanliness of...
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Tracey Emin’s Everyone I have Ever Slept With is a piece of work. At its basic level, the artwork is a tent that has names appliquéd inside of it- 102 names to be exact. “Holy promiscuity!” would be the first thing that comes to my mind. But Emin had another take on the subject....
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For the past five years of my life, ever since I moved out of my parents’ house and started college, I’ve been living at least one story above ground-level. Now, at times this kind of seems like a bummer because of obvious reasons. Moving in, moving out, coming and going from your...
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Yes, I was a bit sore today from yesterday’s long run. Yes, I drank a ton of water today. No, that was not going to stop me today. I had a productive day – did some shopping with my friend, went out for a most delicious lunch, took a cat nap, and then met everyone...
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Since Pepsi’s remarkable benevolence to good ideas, I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something absolutely brilliant! Unfortunately, I am afraid I haven’t had much luck with discovering the secret to world peace. Luckily (and on a much smaller scale), I was thinking about a new type of connection advertisement,...
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Living in the low-income, student-ghetto of Kalamazoo over the past four years, I have known a lot of people whose homes were robbed. What’s so unfortunate about getting robbed, I think, is the easiest stuff to steal is the most expensive to replace and most important to the victim. If someone were...
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As promised from our blog posted on Feb. 1, here are MyRentalPad’s ideas on how to rid your apartment of pests if already infested. • This isn’t necessarily the “easy way out”, but if you have the money and don’t have the time, calling a pest control company or exterminator may be a great option to...
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You don’t necessarily have to be a slob to attract pests to apartment. They can come from neighbors’ apartments or a little spot around your pad that you never even thought about. The point is, pests are a part of life and can infect anyplace. It is your job to rid...
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