INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you rent in an urban area, having access to parking is an important factor. The building may provide a private lot for its residents, or may have reserved parking spaces for each individual apartment. If not, look into the availability of street parking. Parking several blocks and walking to get to your building works fine during the summer, but can become a major hassle on cold winter nights. If you're not certain, ask the building manager where most residents park or how often the parking lot fills up. If you don't have your own vehicle and are going to rely on public transit to get around, you'll want your apartment to be located less than 12 mile (0.80km) from a bus stop. Drive through the neighborhood that the apartment is in and see if you spot bus stops. Or, look online at the city's public-transit map and see where the closest stop is relative to a potential apartment building that you're scoping out. If you have your own car, this will be less of an issue. But, it's still worth knowing where the bus stops are in case you need to hop a bus one day. Before you select an apartment building to live in, find out how close it is to your place of employment. Having a short commute is nice, so finding a place that's within a 10- or 15-minute drive would be ideal. If you own your own vehicle and commute more than 30 minutes each day, you'll end up spending a large portion of your monthly budget on gas. Or, if you take the bus to your job, you could end up commuting for several hours a day if your apartment building is far from your workplace. Driving a long distance to your job or being stuck in rush-hour traffic will leave you less time to enjoy your apartment.

SUMMARY: Find out if the apartment building provides parking. Find out how close the building is to public transportation hubs. Consider your commute if you have to spend a lot of time on the road.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: These sort of plants absorb water through their leaves, so it is important to wet their foliage, as well as the area around their roots. However, it is good to water them in the morning because that gives their leaves the day to absorb the water and dry offif they stay wet overnight, their risk of growing mold is higher. Once your azalea is established, they can pretty much handle themselves. However, in the dry season, it will be important to water your azalea. Azaleas will wilt when they become a little dry, so monitor your plantit will tell you when it's thirsty. Using sprinklers to water the plants from overhead is a great way to water these type of plantsjust remember to set your sprinkler system so that it waters them in the morning. In late spring when the plant's flowers are fading, you should give your azalea a nutrition boost. Apply new mulch to the area. Use an acid-forming, controlled-release fertilizer (which can be sprayed through a hose-end sprayer) to give your plant a boost and help it get through the summer. Good fertilizers include commercial azalea food or cottonseed meal. Remember not to fertilize your plant before it bloomsthe fertilizer will inspire leafy growth rather than flower growth. Make sure to keep the mulch a few feet away from the trunk of the azaleas. If you have a deciduous azalea, you should prune your plant when it doesn't have any leaves and is dormant. Evergreen azaleas tend to grow in crazier shapes, so heading off a wonky branch will give your plant symmetry. Never prune after July 1st, as this will greatly reduce next spring's blooms. Keep in mind that if you can avoid pruning, then this is a better option. Do not prune unless it is necessary.

SUMMARY: Water your azaleas regularly until they are established. Water your azaleas in the dry season. Mulch and fertilize after the blooms fade. Prune your plant.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Consider this if you have books ranging from trade paperbacks to oversize art albums. Place the tallest books on the lowest shelf, placing smaller and smaller books as you move upward. This creates a tidy, organized appearance. On some bookcases, this is a necessity to adapt to the height of each shelf. This system looks great, but are best used if you have only one bookcase. In larger collections, they can make a book difficult to find. In addition, you need to consider that you may have to split books from a series, when they do not have the same colour. Here are a few sorting systems based on spine color: One color per shelf (a blue shelf, a green shelf, and so on). If you're having trouble filling a shelf, wrap some of the books in kraft paper. A gradual "rainbow" flowing from one color to the next, or from the most saturated colors to pastels. A pattern that creates a flag or other simple image when the whole bookcase is filled. This is time-consuming, but impressive. This is a great system if you consult your books frequently for research or reference. Keep the ones you use daily on the shelf at eye height. and a couple shelves below, where you can easily see and reach them. Books you only use occasionally go on the lowest shelves. Books that you almost never open go on the shelves above your head. If you have enough books to fill two or three bookcases, fill the most visible bookcase with the important books. If you have an even larger collection, this system may not work well. If you have a large number of books you'd like to read, why not give them their own shelf? Keep an empty shelf on the same bookcase so you can slot the finished books back easily. You might want to revisit your organization once you're through your reading list, but this can be convenient in the meantime. Fill the top shelf with books you read in early childhood, and move down adding books in the rough order you discovered them. This one works best for books with strong associated memories and for people with strong memories as well. No matter which system you chose, you have the option of leaving one special shelf. Usually the most visible one, this is where you keep your first editions, your signed copies, or the books that have changed your life.

SUMMARY:
Sort by size. Place books based on color. Arrange by frequency of use. Divide based on your reading plans. Create a chronology of your life. Reserve a shelf for your favorites.