# “Unusual” apartment amenities **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825 "2018-06-10T15:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/1 "2018-06-10T15:00:35Z")
So I was browsing some apartment listings in my hometown, mostly out of curiosity. And I found a place that promised that “their aspirations would meet my expectations.” So, if one is still bored after using the fitness center, pool, clubhouse, valet service and 24 seat mult-media theatre, this apartment complex offers a “cornhole playing field” for the exclusive use of its residents. I don’t know WHAT they are aspiring to but this was not one of my expectations. So after I giggled for 10 minutes, then cursed them for making me need eye beach, I checked the next amenity on the list, only to find that “corporate hosing is available”. I guess they don’t want the cornhole playing field to go to waste. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/2 "2018-06-10T19:19:46Z")
If anyone cares: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole) I once had an apartment that featured the requirement that one pass through the bathroom to get from the front door to the kitchen. I did very little entertaining in that apartment. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/3 "2018-06-11T22:03:04Z")
In the movie _Arthur 2_, Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli looked at an apartment that advertised “IOL in every room”. IOL = instant on lighting ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/4 "2018-06-11T23:53:12Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I checked the next amenity on the list, only to find that “corporate hosing is available”. I guess they don’t want the cornhole playing field to go to waste. You call it “cornhole playing” and “corporate hosing”. We call it “executive networking”. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/5 "2018-06-12T00:53:15Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > In the movie _Arthur 2_, Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli looked at an apartment that advertised “IOL in every room”. > > IOL = instant on lighting They used that same gag when the _I Love Lucy_ crew slept in a seedy motel. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/6 "2018-06-12T02:36:54Z")
I had a great apartment in a cut-up old house. 1890s Victorian mansion, chopped into many apartments. Mine had a fireplace in the bathroom. Also, the bathroom was the largest room. It was literally the only place in the apartment where an overnight guest could lay out his/her sleeping bag, assuming said guest was not sharing my single bed with me and my cat. I confess: I made s’mores in my bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/7 "2018-06-12T02:51:37Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I confess: I made s’mores in my bathroom. I had no idea that having someone utter that phrase was on my bucket list, but… **CHECK.** ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/8 "2018-06-12T04:10:29Z")
I guess it isn’t that weird, but an apartment building I nearly moved into has a library and a grand piano for guests to use. Not in the same room, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-apartment-amenities/815825/9 "2018-06-12T08:55:14Z")
A friend of mine was a property manager for a small garden apartment complex. She was required to care for people’s pets when they went out of town, including catching one lady’s cat and giving it injections twice per day. At first I thought this must be a side business of hers or something, but no, it was a requirement of her position.