First of all I apologize if the answer to the question is obvious but I have been away from the community for awhile so I don’t have the latest information regarding this. I’m curious because I have seen new wayspots popping up with these “apartment complex signs” which make me curious if they are eligible now (correct me if I’m wrong but I thought it was ineligible in the past).
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The answer it depends on the sign. If it’s a box-standard Building name, I would say they are generally illegible. If the sign has historic significance and there is evidence to back it up, possibly eligible.
Waits for @cyndiepooh to give a better answer
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Opinions will vary. I fail to see how they meet any of the acceptance criteria: a great place for exercise, exploration, or being social.
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I failed you. I did not mention the exceptions for ones featuring significant art, or historically significant.
I’ll be honest, I’m not convinced by the exception rule that I mentioned…
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I do know @jojenreed64 has submitted some historically significant apartments. But iirc he submitted the historical plaque rather than the apartment sign. Tagging him in case I got it wrong.
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I was submitting the buildings themselves and had mixed success. (unique architecture… exploration criteria)
As for your garden variety signs, I’d agree with the others that they would generally not be eligible… IMO.
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My apartment complex sign has a little picnic area with benches in front of it, which is often used by the residents to hang around. Would that be worth to submit?
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the picnic area would be something i would submit! you can include the apartment sign in the photo to help make it a distinct location.
(the benches make it an area designed to facilitate being social, if that makes sense.)
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Cool I didn’t think about it that way, thank you for the suggestion 
Seconding the above - that sounds infinitely more eligible than the real estate sign.
So checking in as I’ve gotten a number of these signs across this complex - the submitter seems to have entered every sign in the extensive complex - eligible or not?
I would reject that, how does it possibly meet any of the 3 criteria?
The description said it was a ‘historic area’ and therefore met the explore criteria. (I’ve already moved on so I don’t have a screencap of the rest of the submission.) There are a lot of other already accepted stops so I was questioning myself. I had been rejecting them as generic.
it’s a bunch of BS to influence reviewers. The area is historic? ok cool, what does that have to do with this sign at this apartment? Oh there are tennis courts nearby? great, nominate those, what does that have to do with this sign?
Yes, they’ve been successful getting some approved but I’d reject every one.
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After looking more on the map… yikes. Lots of other abuse going on here as well. Lots of misspinned things, multiple pins creatively obfuscating the fact that they’re for the same object, some things that I suspect are entirely fake. But there are hundreds of wayspots here, lots of work to make a report.
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Yikes…
Yeah, I live near townhomes that have a similar design to this, and they are not historic at all; this is just colonial style, which is still popular today. There’s even a neighborhood sign to the southeast, just north of the mattress store on N Quaker and VA-7. And with the pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, and most likely other eligible POIs that are more modern; they even have reserved off-street parking!
Thank you for digging deeper. I hope eventually it leads to better quality wayspots.
Ugh I see this one in my review history that I rejected got accepted 
Fairlington Glen Community Welcome Sign and Court 3