Apartment Frustration

More apartment hunting frustration today.  Two of the complexes we had been narrowing in on hit me with the 'Income Restrictions' block-buster. 

At one point, prior to buying our house, we rented an apartment in Silverdale at a complex with rent limitations.  At that complex, the average income of all the renters had to fall within a calculated band.  While my income was at the upper part of that band, there were enough people with lower incomes that we were able to stay there.  Yay. 

Now, out here in the Tri-Cities, things are different,(truthfully, they could be different state-wide...it was 7 years ago the last time we rented).  Rather than average incomes for all residents, there have been a number of complexes(the more easily affordable ones...duh!) where I was told in no uncertain terms that I made too much money to stay in their complex.  Having a family of 4, I could not make more than $40,000 to be able to stay in the complexes in question.

These weren't bad looking places either.  A lot nicer looking than some more expensive places we had looked. 

Now, here is what frustrated me...and I wish I had thought ahead to take pictures of the parking lot at these two complexes, because I was blown away buy the number and types of vehicles in the parking lot at these 
'Income Restricted' apartments.  A lot nicer and newer than the 2004 Subaru SWMBO drives, and newer and nicer than my 2005 F-150.  There were a few cars there than had to cost some of these people over 1 year worth of their salaries given the 40K income limit.  And the parking lot was filled to overflowing, meaning each apartment must have had at LEAST one car, almost certainly 2. 

Just glad to know that our tax payer money is going to supplement people being able to drive Cadillac's, BMW's, Explorer's and Jeep Grand Cherokee's. 

The bitterness will fade at some point.