This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 20 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 20 years here in a weekly blog post.
This week we heard the fire truck drive by our window early in the morning and I got my camera and took a picture of it parked around the corner. We heard a lot of yelling coming from over there a little while later but no idea why the fire truck was there.
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On Wednesday a woman went to my neighbors door and started kicking the screen door in and smashed in the window all because the woman's brother was put in jail last week by the wife who lives here and the wife wouldn't help the sister get in touch with her brother or help her find out where her brother was. The sister then went out to the alley and busted out the windshield of the wife's car and later that night the sister came back and busted out the side window of the wife's friends car because she told the police when they showed up that she was a witness to her smashing the window and screen. I heard what the fight was about because they stood outside screaming at each other about it.
The window was broken as well as the screen door but I didn't get a picture of the screen door.
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This week another one of my neighbors was evicted. Evictions take a little while, they are given a 30 day notice, then a 5 day notice and then a 24 hour notice. When they are given a 24 hour notice, the Constable comes when the 24 hours are up and has the maintenance guy change the locks and they make the residents leave. Then the Constable puts a yellow sticker on the door that says no entry. That way if the residents are caught breaking back into the apartment, they can be arrested. The manager usually gives people who have been evicted 7 days to make arrangements to come back and get the rest of their belongings if they left anything in the apartment. After 7 days everything left in the apartment gets thrown in the trash or sometimes the manager will let other residents go in the apartment to see if there's anything they want.
Oh and the manager got fired. The new manager came by on Friday while she was handing out a paper to everyone to fill out and bring to the office. Just regular info that should be on all our leases like name, apartment number, vehicle registration and license numbers, how many people n the apartment and emergency contact numbers. All of that info should already be on file so I'm confused as to why they want it again.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
no idea why the fire truck was there
ReplyDeleteMaybe that burning pickup truck on the other side of the wall was still burning?
All of that info should already be on file so I'm confused as to why they want it again
Maybe the previous manager trashed everything when she got fired?
Ya know if the previous manager did that it wouldn't even surprise me.
DeleteI am not surprised the previous manager got her marching orders, and hope the next one will do better. She is on a shaky start though.
ReplyDeleteI hope she's a better manager too.
DeleteThe window smasher sounds like a nutball. Maybe the new manager will be decent and needs the info as they old manger was dumb at filing things.
ReplyDeleteI am hopeful that will be the plan.
DeleteHmm. Maybe the new manager is just trying to see if everything is current and correct. I'm sure there are people who lied the first time, the question becomes if they remembered what they said the first time.
ReplyDeleteMelanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
That could very well be it.
DeleteProbably wants that info because the last manager was not to be trusted to do any decent administrative work. I suppose there's also concern on management's part that people could be sub-leasing or housing others which is usually a no no.
ReplyDeleteYeah I am hoping that's all it is.
DeleteThat's a whole lotta breaking going on! I hope this manager is some better.
ReplyDeleteThere have been so many broken windows around here in the last couple of years.
DeleteAh, yes, resubmitting information they already have so the new owner can exert their 'authority.' That old trick. LOL
ReplyDeleteWOW. You have some interesting things that go on near you! Stay safe!
It's never boring around here that's for sure.
DeleteFingers crossed your new manager is an improvement on the last one!
ReplyDeleteI can only hope.
DeleteI can only hope.
DeleteI just hope this new manager actually does their job!
ReplyDeleteSo do I.
DeleteThe manager's job seems to have a revolving door that keeps spinning in new people and spinning out the old. Maybe this will be a good one. :)
ReplyDeleteWe've had so many managers. Hopefully with the new owners things will change.
DeleteProbably many broken windows in your area.
ReplyDeleteThere have been a lot.
DeleteI still want to know what the firetruck was doing there.
ReplyDeleteSo do I.
DeleteIt seems like they go through a whole lot of apartment managers. Crazy!
ReplyDeleteWe go through a lot of managers.
DeleteWow! I don’t think I would want to be a manager at your apartment complex. It sounds like a hellish job. I can’t believe the woman breaking the windows. I hope she spends some time in jail or at least has to pay for the damage.
ReplyDeleteI hope she spends some time in jail too.
DeleteI really hope that the new manager turns out to be better than the last one and gets control of some of the crap you're having to deal with. It sounds like the Wild West at times!
ReplyDeleteI can only hope so.
DeleteHope the new manager is better than the old one!! And the window smashing thing sounds crazy, but I know it's just another day around there.
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
It's been crazy. But the old manager fixed this window so the new manager has only seen one broken window so far. lol
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