I graduated from college with a tremendous amount of debt. I had lots of student loans to pay off and a vehicle payment, vehicle insurance & health insurance. While I managed to get a job, I wasn’t making much money. I could only afford a truly small, rundown apartment in a rather sketchy city. I was terrified all the time & yet the door didn’t lock always. While I couldn’t keep the door shut, the windows refused to open. Half of the light fixtures & power outlets didn’t work. If I ran the microwave at the same time as the toaster or Pepsi maker, I tripped the breaker. There was hardly any water pressure, the toilet ran all the time & I only had enough warm water for a twelve-minute shower. My greatest complaint was with the heating & cooling system. The cooling system created such a musty stink that it offered myself and others a terrible headache. It didn’t put out enough air to accomplish anything & cost so much to operate that I never used it. I tried running box fans but kept tripping the breaker. The best I could do to cool the apartment down was to prop the front door open & hope for a breeze. I then dealt with an influx of exhaust fumes & bugs. In the winter, the weather in our local area makes heating a necessity… No matter how I adjusted the thermostat, the apartment was never warm enough & the furnace ran non stop. I needed to bundle up in layers of overcoats & sleep under a heated blanket to keep warm. I finally realized that I was spending so much money on our weekly energy bills, I could afford a better apartment if I offered more energy efficient appliances.