Tom Schwartz Laments New Apartment ‘Screams Dude Who Just Got a Divorce’: ‘Not Sexy’

Tom Schwartz is still getting used to the single life.

During Vanderpump Rules After the show, Schwartz spoke candidly about living alone in an apartment since his divorce from Katie Maloney in 2022.

“Look, it’s not that bad of an apartment. It’s fine. It’s just literally the same amount as my mortgage. And I’m not building equity. It’s not sexy. It’s a bachelor shout. It’s a guy who just got divorced,” he said as he sat with costar Tom Sandoval.

Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney.

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After Sandoval said the apartment was “nice,” he joked that it “screams to me like the first apartment after someone moves out of the dorm.” Schwartz noted that he has the funds to renovate his home, but doesn’t want to live in it forever.

“I have friends who do interior design for a modest price that can make the place look really nice, but I don’t want to get comfortable here,” he said of his Valley Village rental.

A look inside Tom Schwartz’s apartment.

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He and Maloney announced they were separating after 12 years together via statements on their respective Instagram accounts on March 15, 2022. A few days later, Maloney officially filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court. The former couple moved out of their home that June.

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Maloney took to Instagram to share a photo inside the empty house and expressed that “closing this chapter in my life is like attending my own funeral.”

“Thank you home for being the most comfortable, the most brilliant home, for being a memory, for being my refuge, for letting me dress you up like a Christmas movie set and for being OURS. I will miss coming home,” read her description.

During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in November 2023, Schwartz said his apartment has gotten a little “cozier.”

“My TV in the living room is no longer on the floor. I have a bedside table or a chic TV stand. It still gives off mid-life crisis post-divorce vibes, but it’s much cozier there. It is no longer a depression chamber. I changed the brand.” He also confirmed to PEOPLE that he saw it as a temporary home.

Tom Schwartz.

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“It’s now my $4,000-a-month storage unit that I’m living in temporarily until I buy a new house or get a new apartment. That’s how I look at it now, and I’m grateful to have a roof over my head,” Schwartz told PEOPLE.

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