Sunday, May 20, 2018

Apartment Life #28


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.

Back in 2014 we had a neighbor who would call the police on himself all the time. I had called the police 2 nights prior to this incident because he started screaming and yelling at no one because no one was around...but he claimed that the managers son had threatened his life and he wanted a restraining order. So this guys calls the police, I know this because he was outside while he was screaming at dispatch on his phone. No one went to jail because the incident never happened. This guy has brain damage from an accident and his mother pays for all his bills but in the mean time he drove us all crazy and because of the way he acted all the time the manager finally evicted him. He lived 2 doors from me so we got front row seats to the insanity.

Update for this week:

3 days ago a neighbor asked the manager and maintenance man to do a welfare check on an elderly neighbor because no one had seen him for 2 days. The manager didn't want to so the neighbor called police and asked them to do a welfare check on the guy. They came at 10pm and since the manager wouldn't answer the emergency phone or her door, they kicked the door in and found the elderly man had died in his bed. Police and the coroner were in the apartment for hours and we went to bed. The next day Ken was talking to the maintenance guy and said the manager called the man's son who lives in another state and his son said he wanted nothing from the apartment so the manager and maintenance guy went through the apartment and took what they wanted before trashing the apartment out. The comical thing was that people from that courtyard were standing around outside while they were taking things out of the apartment and the maintenance guy said a couple of people asked about certain things the guy had and if they could have it if no one else wanted it but the maintenance guy told them everything was going in the trash and if they wanted to pick through the trash they could but no one was being allowed in the apartment. That sure got the gossip flying around the apartment complex.

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

34 comments:

  1. it's sad they didn't want to see of the person was well or not...

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    1. The manager doesn't see that as her responsibility.

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  2. First guy was sure a wackado. But then with brain damage can be hard to help I suppose.

    Sad his son wanted nothing at all. Manager sounds like a vulture.

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    1. First guy moved back in with his mom. The manager and the maintenance guy are both vultures.

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  3. It sounds like your first neighbor had some mental health issues. I hope he was able to get some help to be more stable. That is so sad about the elderly neighbor dying alone. The manager didn't handle that well at all.

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  4. Good thing they found him when they did, imagine the smell gets worse and worse with each passing day

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    1. Oh we had another neighbor that died a few years ago and it was the smell that alerted Ken to call the police to check on him.

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  5. Call the police on himself...so funny! We had this client who would call the police on staff, thought staff were getting into his money, don't worry I'm not breaking HIPPA laws.

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  6. That's so sad and depressing. It sounds like that guy didn't really have anyone around in his life. :(

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  7. It's too bad nobody wanted to check on the elder guy.

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    1. Yeah. It's sad when the neighbors care more than anyone else.

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  8. Always wondered what happens when somebody dies and nobody knows them, or nobody who knows them cares enough to come and deal with it. I guess it depends on who happens to be in charge.

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    1. I've seen this happen several times in the 20 years that I've lived here.

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  9. That is so sad. You do have an interesting little neighborhood!

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    1. All of my managers have been idiots.

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  11. I'm sad that the elderly man didn't seem to have anyone who cared about him in the end.

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    1. I know. I don't know much about him either.

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  12. I find that manager's attitude very bizarre. Whether tenants are alive or (potentially) not must come into their area of interest, surely?

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    1. My manager could care less about this place or the tenants.

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  13. That's awful! Poor old man... You really do live in an interesting place!

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    1. Thanks. Never boring that's for sure. I feel sorry for the poor old guy.

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  14. Oh that's sad on both cases. What an awful manager. smh

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    1. I just don't understand her sometimes.

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  15. When I lived in an apartment I called the front office because I hadn't seen the elderly person across the way in days. Still have no clue if he was okay. I'm glad someone called it in and the cops actually responded!

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    1. I am too. We've seen quite a few people pass away in these apartments.

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