1. Goodbye maintenance worries

When you lease or rent an apartment with a reputable, professional landlord, you’re almost guaranteed to have a handyman on hand who will take care of your home and building maintenance issues. Most apartment structures and buildings have their own contractors on hand for a wide variety of major and minor repairs. These are almost always included in the contract you signed as part of the obligatory upkeep of both your apartment and the building as a whole. In many cases, these repairs will be free of charge and in some apartment complexes, they can be reached by a hotline 24 hours a day.

2. Forget the gardening woes

Just as maintenance and repair problems mostly stop being an issue when you live in an apartment, so too do gardening and lawn care worries. Obviously enough, apartments rarely include their own gardens, and this especially applies to high-rise buildings. With their absence, all the notoriously tedious issues of keeping them in good, healthy order also go away. This however doesn’t mean that living in an apartment building won’t let you enjoy the pleasures of green spaces and sun-bathed lawns, since many buildings and complexes do come with their own community garden spaces that you can enjoy without having to worry about keeping them in good order.

3. Buy in or leave whenever you like

This particular pleasure of apartment living applies especially to renting and leasing apartments. The simple fact is that taking this route for the place you want to call home lets you move into wherever you like in any city you prefer at any time, or leave just as easily. Unlike a home purchase, a rental contract or lease agreement is both highly flexible legal structures. You can find many apartments that offer short-term leases so you aren't tied down to a year+ commitment. With apartment living, one of the many benefits is the ability to move somewhere new every year or two.

4. Style Choices Galore

One of the major pleasures of apartment rental or leasing is being able to pick and choose among neighborhood and design choices much more affordably than if you were buying. Want to live in a highly modern building with all sorts of cutting-edge finishing work, or maybe you prefer a more antique touch? Whichever the case may be, you can probably find it in a rental offering and move in right after you sign a contract.

5. Living anywhere without years of savings

Buying a house usually means having plenty of money to spare on a down payment, and this simply isn’t possible for many people. The problem applies especially to the country’s more expensive and trendy cities. This issue largely disappears if you simply go for an apartment lease or rental agreement. In both cases, your neighborhood and city options become much more manageable with even a modest salary, and you can change places at any time at a minimal cost.

6. Communal Enjoyment

While not everyone is extroverted, being able to meet and greet neighbors in a setting that makes it easy to know them is usually a pleasure. In apartment complexes and buildings, this can happen easily and rapidly. Meeting interesting people is especially possible in complexes with plenty of communal space to relax in. Buying a house changes this story entirely. For one thing, neighbors might not be near enough to promote familiarity, and on the other hand, if you end up having one that you can’t stand, you’re pretty much stuck with them unless you or they sell.

7. Amenities Galore

Apartment buildings and complexes aren’t just about the living space they give you. One of the benefits of living in an apartment includes numerous amenities. These might include communal pools, park space, free garbage disposal, maintenance hotlines, or interior fixtures like central heating that you don’t need to install or keep functional at your own expense. Homeowners by contrast have to pay for every single amenity they want in their home.

8. Watchful neighbors

Your neighbors might not always be your best friends, but you can usually count on finding one or two that can keep an eye on your home when you’re away, or pitch in to take care of pets and water plants. The very same communal spirit we already mentioned above can make getting help from neighbors much easier in this way.

9. Easing the financial burdens

Apartment rental and leasing mean one major expense: You pay the rent. That’s usually it and a little more needs to go out of your pocket except for your daily living expenses. When you buy a house or other home, on the other hand, the financial picture can change drastically for all of the reasons we’ve already mentioned and many others. Then of course there are the possible long-term costs of having invested in a property in a neighborhood or city that later descends into a prolonged economic slump.

10. Not letting gentrification get in the way

Gentrification takes problems in the opposite direction of an economic slump when it comes to buying a home. While in the latter case you lose out on the value of your property, in the case of gentrification, it can make it nearly impossible to afford a purchase in a desirable city or neighborhood unless you’re exceptionally well off.