HOKAY. SO. Basically, realty companies can pretty much be blanketed as incompetent and ridiculous. One such realty company (whose name I will leave out because I don't want to get sued for slander/libel) resides in Auburn and likes to think of itself as having the ability to monopolize the real estate business in Auburn. And that wouldn't bother me so much, if they actually had a brain and could function well that way (kind of like Wal-Mart, but it has its problems). But they don't, and they can't, sooooo people like me and Clayton get stuck trying to fix all their half-heinied attempts at managing their properties, which leaves us to tend to: jammed locks on apartment complex entry doors, crap linoleum from 1991 all over the place, passé brown/navy berber carpet, moldy shower knobs, linoleum sheet-covered bathroom counters in a pedestrian forest green and onyx "marble" [that is peeling off might I add], a leaky refrigerator, half-attached 80s light fixtures with paint splattered on them, unpainted caulk patches on the walls, and a parking lot that is approximately 150 yards away. And would you like to know the only think they've done to fix these problems?... They proceeded to  lay a fake wood linoleum [which will inevitably have to be replaced again within 2 years] throughout the entire place with the exception of our bedrooms, in which they put new beige carpet, and our bathrooms, in which they simply left the 1991 1-square-inch tile, banana-colored linoleum. Now, look, I'm not trying to sound like a brat, because I know a lot of places are way worse than that, but those people don't pay the same amount as we do, not to mention that other people on our hall, who by the way pay the same rent as we do, also have nicer/newer/better quality components than we do, and I refuse to pay for what I'm not getting, as would any other functioning human being.

BUT, despite all their inadequacies, I still love our apartment, because it's ours; and hello, it has huge rooms, and it's in the center of everything.
Here's some pictures:

"This one is for like cutting food with, and this one is
for like killing people with."

This is Margeaux (the big-eyed monkey/lemur/loris thing) and Agnus (the alpaca/llama). They're fluffy and we love them.