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neonacidtrip · 9 months

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I am home from apartment hunting and I would just like to say I am extremely disappointed, as an able-bodied person, to learn only 1 out of the 13 complexes we visited had an elevator.

#like i can take the stairs its whatever i guess #but something i had on my checklist was accessibility #one place had wheelchair ramps but it doesnt do much when you have no elevator #apparently its florida law that a building less than 4 floor isnt required to have an elevator #but then all the buildings are less than 4 floors?!?!?! disgusting #my boy tried to placate me by reminding me that we are able-bodied which turned into me lecturing him #that able-bodied people have to advocate for disability rights #it also pissed me off because both his mom and my mom have issues with stairs #and ive told him many times i dont like using the stairs because there are never cameras in the stairwells #not to mention one of our main goals is to make new friends once we move and those friends might be disabled #we ourselves may become disabled one day. i already have joint pain. its super easy to break a leg #its sickens me that disabled people either have to pay more to live in a place with an elevator #or they have to pay more to have a first floor unit (yes in florida 1st floor units usually cost more)#also! most of the stairs were just plain gross! dirty and rusty and covered with mold #anyway apartment hunting is fun but largely sucks because theres so much to be disappointed by #several places just had trash everywhere. multiple wouldnt answer phone calls. one wont answer emails #none have cameras in the parking lot and had no policy regarding crime that occurs in their parking lot other than 'file a police report'#one place tried to convince us its normal to have roaches in the unit in florida even though only one place had them #we didnt even go into all 13 units because by the end my standards had gone up and my tolerance had gone down #so we left two places without completing the tour just because our reception was nonexistent and there was trash everywhere #my boy fell in love with a place with 1star ratings trash everywhere and a raccoon problem. send help #neo rambles #neo speaks #neo apartment hunts #apartment hunting #tw mold mentioned #mold mentioned #accessibility #disability advocacy #ableism

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