Apartment Life #398

 

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 have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I'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 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

Last year in this post, I told you how my apartment complex installed Electric Vehicle charging stations. And then just a little while later in this post I told you how the hose on one of them had been cut off. Well, new management took them out completely. Just the cement block one of them was sitting on is there now. 

That pipe by the fence is usually in that hole in the middle right there. But someone pulled it out. The city workers came by and replaced the pipe a few days later. I bet someone was trying to get their car on this path and wouldn't fit with the pole there so they took it out. 

I noticed these pretty flowers next door so stopped to get a picture of them.

This guy has a bakery van! He comes through the neighborhood every so often selling Mexican sweet breads and other Mexican bakery items. I watched this guy buy a huge bag of Mexican sweet breads. You can tell he's coming because he plays music from his van really loudly like an Ice Cream Truck would. And no, I haven't bought anything...yet. 

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Monday night 2 hours before my daughter and I took Falcor for a walk and took this picture, there was a homeless person inside this box and they were chucking rocks at people and cars going by close enough for them to hit. So my daughter went with me on our walk in case they were still winging rocks at people. Nope, instead the box was filled with a bunch of junk. 

Beside the box there was more junk. No idea who put this here or where it came from but Falcor was interested in the kiddie pool filled with tiny Styrofoam balls. My daughter felt down inside the pool to make sure that was all that was in there before we let Falcor sniff them. 

He was interested in them and curious why the tiny Styrofoam balls kept sticking to his nose. lol

Later the wind picked up and blew the tiny balls all over the street and neighborhood. They are absolutely everywhere now. 

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After almost 2 weeks of the homeless people breaking into Xavier's (Missing man) apartment, 5 calls to the security, 1 call to the police, several emails to the manager and 1 call to the apartment manager's office number...maintenance finally came out and boarded up that apartment's door and living room window. The bedroom window was already boarded up. I emailed the office, then called the office when they didn't respond. That got them all down here with the security company and maintenance and now the apartment is finally secured. It should never have taken this long and so many times me emailing and calling. You're the manager, do your damn job. 

And just when you think the Xavier (missing man's) apartment saga is over...it's not!

Thursday morning at 7:30 am I was walking Falcor and noticed the homeless people had once again broken into his apartment. Took the board right off the window and broke the window in order to get in. I emailed the office once more and at 8:30am maintenance was out boarding up the window again but this time used a bunch of screws instead of nails. Hopefully this will be the last of the drama. I still have no idea what happened to Xavier but I think at this point it's pretty obvious that he probably passed away, which is very sad. 

Anyone want to take a guess as to what happened Thursday night into Friday morning? 

If you guessed that Xavier's apartment was broken into again, you are correct!

11pm Thursday night I took Falcor out and watched as a pair of legs crawled into the apartment window behind the board they had pulled away from the wall enough to get in. So I called security. They didn't come though. Big surprise, right?

The board that had been on the window was leaning on the wall next to the bushes. 

At midnight, a neighbor texted my daughter and said that they just got home and saw homeless people going in and out of the window so they called security. At 1am security finally shows up and starts banging on the boarded up door telling them to come out. They go to the bedroom window, and they have a German Sheppard with them who is barking his head off at 1:30am. So me and Falcor are now up. I'm watching through my window camera but my AC sticking out the window blocks me from seeing much but I can sure hear them. They get the board off the window and make them come out. I hear them saying to get up against the wall and then security calls the police. The homeless people were arrested early Friday morning. But I bet they won't be in jail for long, they never are. 

This was the window Friday morning.

The person who was arrested was Jeff and his girlfriend. Long time readers might remember the apartment fire directly across from me 3 years ago? Jeff used to be my neighbor and his apartment caught fire after something he had attached to a battery blew up, at least that's what he said. You can click on the link and read about that fire if you want to see what happened back then. 

Friday morning I went down to the office and talked to Virginia, one of the apartment managers. Boy did she give me an ear full. 

First she thanked me for calling security and said maintenance was boarding up the windows from the inside with wood and screws. 

I said I saw the homeless people get arrested last night and she said yes, they did but they got out early this morning and were right back here at 7AM! Someone called security again and they made them leave. But the cops weren't called since they spend less than 4 hours in jail. I told her that Jeff the guy who keeps breaking in used to live here and told her about the fire in his apartment. She had no idea. 

Then I asked if anyone knew what happened to Xavier. She said the detectives have no idea where he is. His family keeps calling the office asking if he's turned up and his family have called all the hospitals, jails ect. No one has any idea where the man is. He's a missing person and Detectives still have his case open.

Then she told me that the first time his family called in a welfare check and the police came she looked in the apartment and all of Xavier's electronics, keys to his car, laptop, tablet ect were still in the apartment. 

When the homeless people (Jeff) started breaking in, his car keys, and all his electronics disappeared. She thinks Jeff and his girlfriend found his car keys, stole his car and sold or pawned all his electronics. Xavier's family has no plans to come and get any of his belongings. 

I wonder what the heck happened to Xavier?

The high this week was 63F/17C

The low this week was 40F/4C

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