Hi Freddie and Biologynerd.
A few quick quick questions for you both. What do you intend to do with your new pet when you are at work. Will the dog be home by itself all day? Do you think that is fair on a social animal like a dog as even smaller breeds need to be outside and being locked 8 hours a day minimum in an apartment is plain cruel.
Oh, you intend to take it out every morning and evening for a walk don't you? Is that before or after dinner and tv?
I can tell you both from my own miserable experiences with dog owners in neighbouring apartments that your good intentions wont last long. All the talk of highly training your animal will be just that, all talk. Your dog will go slowly mad due to being locked up every single day and will look to you for its socialisation every evening. It is cruel beyond belief putting a dog into an apartment and if you can not see that it is selfish of you to lock up an active creature all day every day I don't know what more I can say.
Dogs are intelligent creatures that are evolved to run and hunt. Not sit in a small flat staring at 4 walls their whole lives waiting for their master to return home. It is selfish and cruel in the extreme.
An imposition on your neighbours who just want to live quietly and a cruelty to the animal who deserves better.