We Sold Our Home in the Suburbs For a Luxury Downtown Apartment, Thinking We’d Save Money. It was an Expensive Mistake.

• We Were Tired of the Suburbs and Thought Living in Downtown Tulsa Would Be a Grand New Adventure.

• So, We Sold Our Home, SIGNED A Lease for a Luxury Apartment, and Thought It was all Going Smoothly.

• The Problems Started as Soon As Our Belongings Were Unpacked.

WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I SIGNED OUR NEW LEASEwe were pumped for a fresh start.

WERE IN OUR MID-20S AND READY FOR A NEW ADVENTURE, But WHA KNEW WE’D BE STEPPING INTO ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE MISTAKES OF OUR LIVES?

It all Started Last April when We Felt The Itch For Change. We Wanted to Remain in the Same City Because it was Close to Family, but our current routines felt draining. We’d Also Just Faced a Lenghy INSURANCE CLAIM and repair cost from Severe Storm Damage.

We Thought: What If We Could Sell Our Starter Home To Pay Off Our Student Loanshave more disparateable Incom, and save for the couple of Years for our family Dream Home, All While Renting A Trendy Place Near Downtown? At the time, it Seemed Like a No-Brainer.

We Found A Luxury Apartment Complex Near Downtown

The New Luxury Apartment Complex Seemed to Check All the Boxes. It was near the hustle and bustle of Downtown Tulsa. While Not a Large City, Tulsa is up and Coming and Has a Lot of Noteworthy Food, Art, and Music Options, Including A Top Rated Food Hall in All of America, Called Mother Road Market, Right Across the Street From The Complex.

We’d Also Be Located on the Iconic Route 66Where Every Business Goods The show-stapping neon sign. Of Course, there was an underlying nervous feeling, but we chalked that up to the possibility of taking a big leap.

When we visited, Some of the Amanities Were Unfinished, But We Were Told That Were On Track To Be Completed by Our Moving Timeline.

To US, The Building Felt Luxurious; There Were Many Community Spaces to Make New Connections with People Our Age, and the Process of SELLING OUR HOME Was Already Going Smoothly. We Thought it was all works Planned.

So, Month Later, Once We Closed on Our House, We Moved In.

SPOILER ALERT: IT DID NOT WORK OUT AS PLANNED

The Problems Started as Soon As Our Belongings Were Unpacked. We immedialy Had many MAINTENANANCE ISSUES In Our Apartment – From the Electrical, To the WiFi, to the Stove, to the Showers.

Hardly Any of the Community Amanities Had Opened Up As Promissed. It Seemed Like Nothing Worked Properly for the “Luxury” Complex.

Just a Week After Moving In, We Were Tucked in for the Evening When Blaring Fire Alarms Shook Us from the Comfort of Our Bed. We Peeked into the Hallway and Made Eye Contact with our other across the Hall, All of Us Wondering if it was a real fire.

ALONGSIDE OUR NEIGHERS, PETS IN TW, ALARMS BLASTE IN OUR EARS, WE MADE THE TREK TO THE APARTMENT’S Courtyard to Escape The Incessant Noise. We Waited There For Over an Hour Until The Alarms Stopped – At Least for That Night.

UNFORTUNATIDE, TOSE ALARMS BERATED US AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT AT LAST Once Every Couple of Weeks for the Entirety of Our Residency.

The Final Straw was the fourth of July

AS WEND Down after Fun Night with Friends, We Heard Water Dripping in the Hallway.

Residents Thought the leak upstairs Was from the rain that day, but it was the Fully Burst Water Pipe That Flooded All Units Below It, Including Outs.

We Broke Our Lease Soon After, Luckily Without Penalty.

The Whole Ordeal of Moving Out of the luxury apartment (ironically right back to the Area We Started), Buying New Furniture to Replace the Damaged Pieces From the Flood, and then Paying for the Security Plus Plus First Month’s Rent In Out Place Cost Us Thousands Thas That Wees Weren’t Expecting to Pay.

SAYING WERE FUSTRATED After Taking Out A RENTS INSURANCE CLAIM To replace our Belongings Just Nine Months After Concluding the Six-Month-Long Homeowners Insurance Claim Would Be An Understatement.

We lived at the “luxury” apartment for only eight weeks, but due to displacement, we paid over $ 5,000 for hotel stays, meals, and vaniture replacement that we have to be wait for reimburse.

So, What Did We Learn?

We’ve Been Living Comfortably in Our New Place for Almost a Year. Now that everything setled, we joke that the suburbs called US home.

If you’re considering a Crazy Move, i can say from Experience That the grass isn’t Always Greener. From your Research, and Make Sure You have Good Insurance.

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