RUBs - This is a bullshit system to be added to your rent with. This is basically saying “on top of what you’re paying to use, you’re to pay what EVERYONE else in the building uses!” even if it’s divided up. I get fucked over every winter for example, because I use electric heaters in my apartment and nothing gas-related. I’m still smacked with $48 ~ $62 of usage, despite that. This raises my rent up and makes it variable.
No-Bite Management - Management who lets nearly everything go, despite them trying to sound strict. You may be in a bit of a rivalry with a neighbor who likes slamming things or having loud music, obviously breaking lease agreement, who makes you wonder why they’ve gotten away with it as long as they have. You record, you report but management does next to nothing. They tell you to your face that the only way they can move forward, is a police report. Now that kind of thing should be reserved for more escalated and involved cases, not something management could deal with when they were the ones who made up the terms of the lease agreement.
Pets - From experience, people are AWFUL with their pets. Mostly dogs, I’ve never seen anything go wrong with cats, unless the owners don’t care enough to let them run around until they’re kidnapped or ran over. But dogs, they just let them go and go with the barking. Not to mention the dog shit on the ground they refuse to pick up.
It’s also possible to rent a house or own an apartment. Most of those advantages and disadvantages are about the form of ownership.
Apartment hopping is another issue legislation could fix. Here in Germany, it’s really difficult for a landlord to throw out a tenant. You can only do so for a very short list of acceptable reasons, and even with such a reason, it can take easily half a year, if the tenant refuses. 3 months to cancel the contract, and another couple of months to get court approval to have the police throw them out.
You can still do apartment-hopping, if you want to move around a lot. But you won’t be forced to.