For anyone who lives or has lived in an Apartment...

Make a point of cleaning your apartment once a week, especially if you're messy and disorganized like me. It's really easy to put it off and let your apartment become a disaster.

Make sure you turn on ALL of the faucets and flush the toilet. Low water pressure sucks. Check to make sure the oven and everything else works. Believe me they have no problem renting you an apartment without working appliances. Don't believe them when they say they will fix it. They will when they remember or get around to it. Also if the grass is high it is because they didn't pay the guys who mow it and they stopped. Not what ever the landlord tells you. I own a landscaping company and I will not do any work for a landlord unless they pay in advance. I have never worked for a landlord that cared what it looked like. They just want it done as cheap as possible. ALWAYS REMEMBER the person who rented you the apartment doesn't live there so they don't care.