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.
On Christmas morning my next door neighbor's friend knocked on my door and told me that her friend ( Jose) that lived right next door to me passed away that morning. The lady that told me was friends with him and we spoke a few times. The man who passed away was 82 years old. Nice guy, was very quiet and always said hi to me. I feel bad for his family.
As soon as the paramedics and police got here and word got around that he had died, a bunch of the cretins from across the street were over here in front of his door trying to look in. One of my other neighbors knocked on my door to inform me what happened but I told her I already knew and I shut my door. I think she wanted a reason to stand there and I didn't give it to her. I heard her say, "Oh there he is in the chair." and the woman who found him yelled at her and said, "Don't do that, don't look a him." There were about 9 people standing in front of my door trying to see inside his apartment. The police finally had to tell them to leave, it was so ridiculous and disrespectful.
A little while after the ambulance got here the police and a detective pulled up as well. Then the white coroner van pulled up about an hour later.
On Friday I went down to the office and informed the manager that he passed away and that one of his friends had taken over his apartment. I wouldn't have cared except this woman was letting all the homeless in and there was a steady stream of drug addicts coming and going from the door while she was there and she had her boyfriend in there with her. I wasn't gonna put up with that. The manager never did anything though.
On Friday the 27th, a nephew of Jose, the man that passed away came to the apartment with the police because the woman who found him deceased Christmas morning was staying in the apartment and wouldn't leave. She told the police the day Jose died that she had been living with him so they let her stay there. The nephew came with the police on the 27th to try and get her removed but she told the police that she had been living there as his roommate for 6 months so the police told the nephew that he couldn't prove otherwise and would have to go to court and have her evicted.
The family showed up Saturday the 28th early in the morning and packed up all of his things. They knocked on my door to ask if we had heard any arguing the night Jose had died and we hadn't. The nephew told us that the coroner found Jose had died of head trauma not a heart attack like the woman who found him had said. But the police are not treating his death like suspiciously or foul play because he could have fallen down and hit his head when he was drinking. The woman wouldn't leave so the family got in her face, there was a shouting match and told her to leave which she finally did but she kept coming back so they called the police. The police knocked on my door and asked me if the woman lived there and I told them she didn't. That she came by every once in a while but as soon as he died she took over the apartment and had been letting the homeless and the local drug addicts into his apartment. The police said thanks and went back outside. She wouldn't give the family members the key to the apartment that she had so the police told them they should just change the locks so they bought a new lock, installed it and left the keys in the office drop box when they were done moving everything out. The office is closed on the weekends so they'll find the keys when they come back on Monday. She came back that night and tried using her key to get in and was pissed when her key didn't work. We watched and listened to make sure they weren't breaking in because if they had we would have called the police.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
What a total oxygen thief that woman is. I am glad that she can no longer get into the apartment. I suspect you are too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I really am.
DeleteShe sounds like a waste of space. Good on them for changing the lock. That is dumb that they aren't even going to look into his death.
ReplyDeleteI was really surprised that they aren't.
DeleteHow totally disrespectful of the cretins as you rightly call them. The woman's actions look a bit suspicious and I would've loved to see her face when she couldn't get the key to work!
ReplyDeleteI just wish they could prove foul play because she was acting so bad.
DeleteThat is so very sad. And really pathetic the police couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteI was really surprised that the police didn't kick her out.
DeleteWow, that was a lot of holiday happenings. I think it's odd that the police aren't pursuing what could be murder. They must be like the Cleveland police!
ReplyDeleteI guess they couldn't prove anything but they said it was suspicious.
DeleteTHat's so crazy. I'm sorry you had to deal with all of that during the holidays. Have a great rest of the year.
ReplyDeleteMelanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
Thank you. I hope you have a happy new year.
DeleteWhat a sad situation.
ReplyDeleteIt really was.
DeleteThat really is sad and awful with that woman just moving in. I do hope the police change their minds and look into his death further. Maybe after the coroner's report.
ReplyDeleteI wish they would too but I think it's a lost cause at this point.
DeleteDeath is already upsetting..too bad for the drama.. happy new years mary!
ReplyDeleteYes it is. Happy New Year to you too.
DeleteSo much craziness happens by you!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be neverending.
DeleteThis story is sad in so many different ways. I am sorry that this happened so close to you at the holiday.
ReplyDeleteIt is. I'm sorry that family had to deal with that woman on top of losing their family member.
DeleteWow Mary, that is crazy. Just sad and crazy.
ReplyDeleteI know. I have a hard time explaining the things these people do at times.
DeleteYour ambulances are really red.
ReplyDeleteYeah they are. That's the fire department's ambulance. The other ones are white.
DeleteWait, did you write about this somewhere else? Like on Twitter or something? Because I read about this same story somewhere else, but not in as much detail. Like, I think I saw something about it in the news? I remember seeing a story about an older man who had died and when his family showed up, there was a woman who claimed she and her boyfriend had been living in the apartment. It has to be the same story---so weird!
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yeah I wrote about it n Twitter and Facebook. lol
DeleteOh wow what a mess. Some people will take advantage of just about anything. Sorry to hear about his passing.
ReplyDeleteSome people really will. I felt bad for his family who had to deal with this.
DeleteThat's a real problem when someone moves into someone else's flat illegally. It happens quite a lot in council housing in the UK. Sometimes they get found out and told to leave, sometimes they get away with it for years.
ReplyDeleteI'm also surprised there was no further investigation of the head trauma.
A bad situation you could have done without at Christmas.
The law here is that if you even claim that you have lived at a place for 7 days straight then they have to take you to court and evict you. But because I and another person said that she had not lived there, the second set of police told her she had to leave and with the locks changed, she can't get back in.
DeleteI am so sorry to hear about your neighbor. How sad that he passed away and then someone tried to take his apartment. I can't even imagine. I am glad you were able to tell the police what you knew. I saw that you said that if someone has been somewhere 7 days straight they have to go to court to be evicted- so I guess visitors need to be gone in 6. :) Wow!
ReplyDeleteHope this week is quieter.
~Jess
Yeah it was sad. I felt for his family having to deal with that.
DeleteOmg this is jsut horrible
ReplyDeleteIt is.
DeleteSuch a horrible situation and made worse by people taking advantage for their own benefit.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I just don't get some people.
DeleteThat sounds horrible and so sad!
ReplyDeleteIt was really sad.
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