This is a 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 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post.
With our rents increasing, I guess management decided to do some beautifying of the property. So they trimmed the trees and bushes and removed a dead tree. When I first moved here 24 years ago, there were so many nice looking bushes and trees but so many have died and been removed because there's no sprinkler system in place to water any of the vegetation. So everything eventually dies, like this Pine Tree did.
I wanted to show you exactly where this is. So this cart is on the walking path that I walk Falcor on. To the far left hand hand side you can see the tall sound wall. Directly on the other side of that wall is the freeway. That's how close we are to the freeway.
It looked like this guy had a very large speaker on his cart. Maybe he was going to sell it?
The same day the tree was cut down, the landscapers trimmed the palm trees. Palm fronds scattered the sidewalks all day.
The palm trees had been really full but these guys left like 4 palm fronds on top. They look naked now.
So this place can't manage to install a sprinkler system but the water spigots get turned on and left dripping all the time from the homeless people. This is just one of them. There are 7 spigots along the front, back and sides of each apartment building. I have no problem with the homeless people being able to have access to water but maintenance is aware that some of the spigots are broken and leaking and haven't bothered to fix the leaks in over 2 years, so they sit there and drip 24/7. This wall is the outside of someone's bedroom and with the water soaking into the wall like it does for 2 years...I have no doubt there's water damage to the inside of the wall and and is probably growing black mold. Not that management will do anything about it. But by all means, make the palm trees look nice.
There's so much water dripping by this wall that plants and moss have started growing there. It's irritating because now we have to pay an extra $40 each month for water but they can't fix these kinds of issues.
The high this week was 80F/26C
The low this week was 47F/8C
I started adding our low temperature as well since it does get cold here in the Winter time.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
I think those palms look sad.
ReplyDeleteAnd your management sounds pretty woeful.
You have had quite the temperature range this week.
I am glad for the cooler temps.
DeleteUnfortunately there's a severe shortage of apartments these days. Landlords figure they can get away with anything because there's always plenty of people looking to move in if anybody gets fed up and leaves.
ReplyDeleteBlack mold is a health hazard. I don't know what the laws are like in Nevada, but in some places the owners could get penalized for letting that happen.
In our lease it says if they find black mold they will make you move out so they can fix it.
DeleteWe woke up to a chill this morning.
ReplyDeleteThat mold is going to kill someone.
They would make them move out and then just close up that apartment If they found mold.
DeleteI don't know whose management is worse, yours or mine. But at least we here have the protection of management, not wanting to lose their tax credits, eventually getting around to doing their job. That leak against the wall can eventually take down the wall ... like the leak in Miami took down an entire building. Your management/owner may live to regret being so callous and money grubbing.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm sure they will eventually.
DeleteHi, Mary!
ReplyDeleteYour high temp has finally dropped lower that that where I live in Central Florida. It must feel heavenly to people who have a roof over their heads, but now the homeless need to start enduring the overnight cold rather than the daytime heat.
I am sickened by the chronic problems you face as a renter. Leaking faucets drive me crazy, and you are surely correct in assuming that the water collecting beneath it is doing structural damage and/or encouraging the growth of mold which, once it gains a foothold inside a unit, is very difficult to eradicate. To their credit (I suppose) management is trying to spruce up the neighborhood. I hope they know what they are doing by severely pruning those palms. If I may ask, how effective is that tall sound wall in reducing the traffic noise from the freeway?
Have a safe and happy week, dear friend Mary!
That sound wall is not effective at all. It's still very noisy if I have my window open.
DeleteI like the sarcasm behind this post. Yeah the only thing our property management has done in terms of beautifying is move the vending machines back and forth between the lobby and the rec room, depending on which is better for the pandemic. pEOPLE WILL GET THEIR SNACKS.
ReplyDeleteThank you. If we had vending machines here I'm sure that they would be broken into.
DeleteHow irritating. Some property management companies really suck, but with the extreme need for housing I guess they think they can get away with lots of shit. Rental rates are skyrocketing all over, and our area's not immune to it. The thing that gets me the most is the way they justify the high rents with "amenities". I've grown to detest that term to no end. Just give me a decent, simple basic apartment, no frills, decent/no neighbors, no bells & whistles, and leave me alone. I know, I'm fantasizing.
ReplyDeleteRight! They list the pool as an amenity, but it hasn't been open in years.
DeleteMakes me realize how lucky I am with the landlord I have. Those palm trees look sad.
ReplyDeleteThe palm trees do look sad.
DeleteI wonder if the water department would do anything? I live in an area with no shortage of water, but the city still makes a big deal about not wasting water and will send someone out for free to see if your house has any leaks.
ReplyDeleteThe water company has been called. The only thing the will do is dine them. They just raise our water bill to cover it.
DeleteI hope you're enjoying the cooler weather at least. I've had my share of crazy apartment experiences, but it seems like yours it compounded by the area that surrounds you.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying the cooler weather.
DeleteI know you're close to the highway but I didn't think you were THAT close Dang! That's totally not even safe with the water dripping like that all the time and unfair to the tenets that have to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm really close to that Highway.
DeleteThose naked palm trees do look a bit sad. And all those leaky faucets constantly dripping and wasting water would drive me crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe palm trees look terrible now.
DeleteTo waste water in an area that really can't afford to waste even a drop is crazy.
ReplyDeleteI know but they don't care.
DeleteThat place looks so dystopian, and not in a good way.
ReplyDeleteOne of my husband's therapist and it look like a jail.
DeletePoor naked palms trees
ReplyDeleteThe palm trees look awful now.
DeleteThat's a bummer about the trees...
ReplyDeleteWow you are close to the highway! And I would be so annoyed at the water issues too.
Those palm trees look bad and we are very close to the highway.
DeleteYour weather has been similar to ours as of late. That is awful about the leaking water. They just want their money and can't be bothered with anything--or anyone--else.
ReplyDeleteAll they care about is their money. The weather has been nice, be happy when it's cooler
DeleteDang, those landscapers they hired must be the junkies, they're a bit messy!
ReplyDeleteThey were incredibly messy.
DeleteI suppose the wall that borders the highway is acoustic, so no noise of traffic reaches the tenants.(Noise from the highway could be maddening).
ReplyDeleteThe sound wall doesn't stop the noise from coming into our apartment doesn't work at all.
DeleteWhere is people basic pride at.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
I have no idea.
DeleteI'd be so mad at those landscapers!
ReplyDeleteI think they cut it back so much so that they won't have to come back out here again for a while.
DeleteThe palms do look pretty pitful, but maybe it's good to trim them down far at this time of year so they'll grow back better? (I Know that's true with a few plants around here.)
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I think they told them to cut them back so much so that they won't have to pay them to come back out again for a while.
DeleteWater is precious in Vegas. I can't belief it is left leaking. 80 degrees with low humidity is a nice temperature! We had our first cold snap, but still no frost, yet.
ReplyDeleteI can't either it's crazy it's been nice but I'll be happy when it's in the 50s.
DeleteA two-year leak?! That's sooo bad.
ReplyDeleteI know. It's ridiculous.
Deletehang in there
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Oh I am.
DeleteSadly, too many of the decision makers are pocketing as much money as they can rather than doing the things which should be done. I'm sorry it's happening for everyone. It's clean water, clean air, safe foods and buildings, bridges and roads and power grids under assault.
ReplyDeleteAnne - Books of My Heart
It's true, and sad that it seems to e happening everywhere.
DeleteIt's a weird sense of priorities that they can hack away at the palm trees but do nothing about the leaking water taps. And yes, what's going on with that huge speaker?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the guy with the speaker again so I have no idea.
DeleteThey know about the leaky spigot and do nothing about it. I don't get it.
It never makes sense what things are ignored at an apartment complex while they will spend energy on less important things.
ReplyDeleteThat's so true.
DeleteOh dear. 😯
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteOh, those palms look dreadful now.
ReplyDeleteYikes on the dripping water issue. That's scary to think of the underlying damage it's causing dripping constantly like that.
It will take a couple of years for the palm trees to look nice again.
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