by Cody Hodge

Created on: July 25, 2009   Last Updated: December 07, 2009

How safe do I feel in my apartment building? I think that when I have ever gone to look at an apartment, the first thing that I have always looked for is a place where I feel safe. If I don't feel safe in an apartment building, I won't even look at the place further, or sign the lease. It is better to take another day or two to look for a place as opposed to take something merely because it is available. I have to say that I have always felt safe in my apartments.

The key thing is to never forget your keys. If the doors don't have locks that is one thing, but I have found that it is hard to feel safe if the doors cannot be locked. I have never had anyone break into my apartment, nor have a ever felt like it was going to happen, but if the doors are locked it does make it a lot harder for someone to break in. I have never been in a place where at least the front door wasn't self locking, as in the entrance to the actually building had a lock. That way it wasn't going to be entered by anyone other than a tenant.

When it comes to the people that I have lived around, I have to say that they were never really a threat to me. Little kids, maybe some older people, but mostly just families. I had never seen a gun, or any drugs brought into any apartment building that I have lived in. Maybe there were, but I have never seen them, and if they aren't being kept out in the open, there must be some chance of getting caught. Hence there has to be some sort of security in place.

When it comes to my neighbors, I have never really felt like they were annoying or were going to harm me. Maybe there were a couple nights where a party might have gotten out of hand, and the neighbors yelled some things, but that was totally deserved. Usually I had good relations with the neighbors, and some even joined in the parties that were held in one complex that I lived in just after graduating from college. All in all it was a good time.

Apartment buildings tend to be very safe. I have never felt like someone was going to mug me in the middle of the night, or that I was going to come home some day and find that my stuff was gone, and that I had been robbed. The only injustice was that I never got any part of a security deposit back from one place, but other than that nothing too wrong with any experiences living in an apartment. All in all I have to say I have enjoyed living on my own.

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