this is bizarre. I lived in my last apartment for almost 9 years and it was great for the first 7.5 of those. Things did start going downhill when it went from

this is bizarre. I lived in my last apartment for almost 9 years and it was great for the first 7.5 of those. Things did start going downhill when it went from being owned by a local, private family business to a publicly traded American corporation, but I don't blame that on time. And my apartment _itself_ was fine, it was the common areas that were degrading.