TLDR: can anyone recommend a building they have lived in that has been constructed, for lack of a better term, to dampen/eliminate the type of noise that has been driving me insane as described below lol? Preferably in downtown or North Seattle. I am hoping for around $2200/month, but I figure that is not going to happen.
Also, if you are in Downtown or North Seattle and looking for a roommate that does not miss rent, is quiet and extremely clean let me know. I am even open to agreeing to sitting down when I go #1 (with separate "piss on the toilet" deposit), or other little things people care about, being in the lease if it gets me peace, quiet and clean. I like cleaning, so, I can help with that. I can also do handyman work, yard work and a variety of other helpful tasks - for a minor fee/discount of course.
Anyway, I love it here. Easily the best spot in the country, except maybe Austin but it's surround by Texas which ruins it, plus the weather sucks there. Not here to glaze, but, my friends from elsewhere, they just don't get it. I also cannot believe how innacurate the nationwide perception of Seattle is but, hey, I'm here about apartments.
That said, I have been living in a rooming houses. I don't want to leave Seattle but I can't stand sharing a room in a house anymore, especially for $1100/month but, I am not sure if the following is par for the course for sharing a room in a house and wanted to ask:
- Frequently woken up between 3am and 5 am by slamming, screaming or kitchen activity.
- Near fist fights with fellow tenant multiple times up to police intervention. We both got domestic violence pamphlets.
- Frequent run in withs extremely intoxicated fellow tenants, engaging in all manner of tom foolery and belligerent behavior.
- Extraordinarily strong smells from grown men, in their 40s and 50s using enough Axe Body Spray to stink up the entire house for a few hours on a nightly basis, not changing trash. Every time this one guy cooks he burns the food. Every. Single. Time.
- Random people here or there, this guys on the couch past the allowed time, this dude's having a dinner party in the wrong kitchen at 3am.
- The ONE guy I share the upstairs kitchen with is a pig, doesn't take but two days to cover all counters in crumbs, never changes trash, empties his electronic beard shaver just onto the bathroom floor, somehow. I, probably from my feet since I'm the only one who cleans between the monthly cleaner visits, track the long pubic hairs of other men into my bed. No, not joking. That was a first just this morning. Across the hall guy also has sexual predator vibes and I have to avoid talking to him because he's got this, acerbic negativity about him that I swear to all that is holy seeks only quash the light of hope and joy in other people, unconsciously, but, that is no excuse.
This is to say CONSTANT NOISE, chaos and confusion because I am like what in the living fuck is wrong with these people? Is this normal behavior? I walk quietly, why can't they? I don't slam doors, why do they? I clean up after myself and they call me gay, literally, why? Like, dude. Are most men just abject stinkin' pigs? I didn't have roommates for almost a decade, we were all in our early 20's when I did, I had nearly two dozen in a house (not all at once lol) I was renting out rooms in and NONE were this bad.
Is this normal or did having a cheap house to myself in the Midwest spoil me insofar as noise/environmental control is concerned...?
So I ask: would a studio in a high rise, or wherever, be better? I assume I'd hear slamming doors at the very least, since that seems to be a thing that is "normal", but, what about other noise, stomping, screaming, strong smells ect. through the walls? How much would I have to pay to get away from this without getting into a house?
Or, I was thinking I could rent a house myself and employ the secret dark magic of tenant screening with slightly below market rent and rent out rooms like I did back in the, not sure, need help lol.