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The sad part is I've got loving tons of these. You'd be amazed how much poo poo you see working/living in apartments. Done five years so far across a few properties as both a technician and a supervisor. Suicides, criminals, assholes, crappy maintenance techs, lying leasing agents, domestic abuse, sadist children trying to torture the local wildlife...you name it. And my complex isn't even a cheap shithole in the wrong part of town.
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*pays 1200 a month to live in a 1 bedroom efficiency in a downtown suburb, apartment is right next to a parking garage on the first floor. Have to move my car and re park it if I'm home more than 12 hours because my parking is public parking unless I pay my landlords even more money for a parking pass 2 or 3 levels up* Only ADSL or satellite were available for internet too.
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Aug 22, 2015 15:09
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*Has trouble with toilet running. Decides to open the tank and rip the entire fill valve out. Leaves and goes to work, leaving toilet geysering water almost to the ceiling. Never calls maintenance, leaving my downstairs neighbor to do it once their apt turns into Niagra Falls. Repeatedly turns off and removes equipment that's there to remove all the moisture and gets charged money for doing so. Thinks "That equipment has to stay on or it'll be mold central" is a strongarm tactic to get me to pay for the damages. Is too stupid to realize my renter's insurance is covering it all. Is the kind of wierdo who keeps my porn, anime, and anime porn nearly organized in the living room.* *Lets known fugitive stay at apt after a string of bank robberies. "Guest" uses me as a hostage when the police show up. Gets dragged out of the attic after tearing through the ceiling to escape the tear gas they throw in after your friend calls your bluff on shooting him and just climbs out a window.* E:also should've mentioned that hostage guy was using an airsoft pistol. And *Gets stuck working an entire weekend to repair A/C wiring and linesets on two whole buildings after crack/methheads cut them all for a paltry amount of copper. Two weeks later fourteen cars get the cat. converter cut out. Residents scream and yell at staff because clearly it is their fault.* Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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Aug 22, 2015 15:20
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a real jerk posted:*watches anime in the dark, shotgun in hand*
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Aug 22, 2015 15:38
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YeahTubaMike posted:having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of a lovely apt complex that has a laundry room in the building tbh
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Aug 22, 2015 17:34
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Hi, yes, while I'm here I should probably let you know that the caulking around my bathtub needs redone, I'd rather get it done sooner than wait until the people downstairs are getting rained on. Oh, you'll send someone out next week? Cool, thanks. *8 months pass*
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Aug 22, 2015 17:59
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*33% of the outlets work, not always the same ones* *Accidentally pull lever off kitchen sink a year ago, notify landlord, still broken to this day.* *Outdoor light doesn't work? Eh, just pull it out rather than fix it.* *Heat is uncontrollably at full blast. Have windows open in January in Wisconsin.* *Upstairs neighbor apparently shoves ham down drain, plumbers need to rip apart my walls. "Be ready to yell if something goes wrong!" and "We needed that, now it's gone forever!" are uttered.* *Front "yard" is literal poo poo hole due to tenants not picking up after their dogs.* *Sees lady take a comforter out of the Chinese restaurant's dumpster.* *Couple loving in their car at 3am, my dog decides to take a massive dump.* *Pregnancy tests and birth control pills just everywhere.* also these:  
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Aug 22, 2015 17:59
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Why yes, it is exciting living somewhere that the fire alarm has a short in it and will go off for no discernible reason once or twice a year!
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Aug 22, 2015 18:00
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Thank you for not offering to let me out of my lease early after someone shot through my window, it really shows you care about your residents' safety!
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Aug 22, 2015 18:01
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NigelsPoppet posted:* move into new apartment*
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Aug 22, 2015 18:05
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It's alright that you're only taking two years to replace the burnt-out streetlight at this end of the complex, it's not like it's the only one on this entire stretch of road or anything.
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Aug 22, 2015 18:06
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*Chucks garbage all over the loving place where I live because I am a literal pig. Is also incapable of actually putting their trash in the dumpster when I actually take it out. Even if I am not guilty of these things, you bet your happy rear end I will complain about it while refusing to rat out who's doing it so the staff can put a stop to it.* *Has dog poo poo matted down into their carpet. Raises children in this hellhole.* *Checks out resident's A/C. Sees that it is freakishly low on refridgerant and obviously has a leak. Charges the system back up because most techs are too stupid/lazy to find and repair the leak. Gets fired when somebody competent realizes how many pounds of expensive R-22 I have carelessly fed into a leaking system. Robs the shop and my fellow techs blind on my way out.*
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Aug 22, 2015 18:13
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I used to work at a lovely apartment complex. Highlights included: -Community gates that never worked. -No hot water in the on-site laundry facility. This was despite the fact that we bought a new one a few months after the old one broke, but never connected it because we were missing a piece. Honestly, though, it was probably so they wouldn't have to pay for the gas it took to run the thing. -People breaking into apartments in waves. We'd have months of no activity only to have all four apartments in one breezeway broken into simultaneously. -lovely kids that destroyed about a fifth of our sprinkler heads for no appreciable reason. -lovely kids caught on our even shittier security cameras breaking into the indoor pool to empty some fire extinguishers. -Roach infestations. -Rat infestations. -Motherfucking termites in several town homes and apartments. -Two dumpsters overflowing with garbage because the residents were too lazy to go to the third dumpster a little ways in the back. -Pools that would routinely look and smell like ponds full of scummy water because we didn't pay our vendors on time and they didn't get serviced, or the pumps would break. We still had people jump in those pools, despite locking the gates and putting up signs, though. -No emergency window AC units (in Florida) for when someone's AC would inevitably go down the shitter. -AC compressors in the roof of second story buildings, which the maintenance techs had to carry up ladders because we didn't have a cherry picker or any sort of safety equipment. -Breezeway lights constantly needing replacing. -Breezeways that needed to be repainted, but we instead pressure washed once in a blue moon, with little to no effect. -Wood balconies so ratty we actually had one come loose from one of the buildings and almost collapse. It was awful. Some of the residents were just as bad as the apartments they were living in.
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Aug 22, 2015 18:20
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*watches car burn at entrance, whole complex smells like burning car for an hour*
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Aug 22, 2015 18:33
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Hi. None of the burners on my stove work. Can you fix the replace them? Oh...you actually use them?
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Aug 22, 2015 18:44
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drat some of these stories, goons are some poor motherfuckers when i was in college, a lot of the student apartments were gated but the gates were always broken and open because people would be drunk and just crash through them
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Aug 22, 2015 18:46
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"time to troll facebook complaining about my neighbors" *gets trolled back by Home Alone fan*
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Aug 22, 2015 18:46
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lets see. somebody trashed a ford escape once by busting out the windows and throwing what i can only guess was an industrial supply of mayonaise in it a homeless guy squatted next door but he was quiet and didnt bother anybody a drunk dude once drove halfway into the pool, cut off his suv, and went to his apt to sleep a couple cops got ran off by people throwing beer bottles at them from the second and third floors, charge of the light brigade style
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Aug 22, 2015 18:52
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Blue Raider posted:drat some of these stories, goons are some poor motherfuckers my last complex had gates that people would just ram their way through, so maintenance welded a bunch of 2 ft long spikes onto the outside. i moved out after someone planted a bomb in their ex's van on valentines day.
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Aug 22, 2015 18:53
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Bonzo posted:Hi. None of the burners on my stove work. Can you fix the replace them? New burners? You'll be lucky if we have any burners left in the stoves in our vacant apartments to give you.
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Aug 22, 2015 19:14
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I never realized so many goons live in refugee camps in Haiti.
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Aug 22, 2015 19:29
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Freestyle posted:I never realized so many goons live in refugee camps in Haiti. no poo poo lol
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Aug 22, 2015 19:36
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*dont understand why your rich friends flinch at the sound of gunshots* *fail to stifle laughter when they suggest calling the police*
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Aug 22, 2015 19:44
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My friend worked as the groundskeeper at the same apartment complex (I leased apartments). Groundskeeper was really just a catchall term for "whatever the techs don't want to do". This meant that in addition to trashing out apartments, that's hauling out all the poo poo previous residents left behind, he also had to clean them once we stopped paying the cleaners. So he goes into this one-bedroom apartment that a hoarder and her young son lived in. It had newspapers stacked to the ceiling all over the loving place. But the real prize was the bathroom. The toilet had long since stopped working, apparently, and it was full to the brim with poo poo. Not only that, but they had taken to squatting over the tub's drain and making GBS threads there. At some point, someone had to squat in the tub next to a toilet full of feces so they could relieve themselves. Lovely residents.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:01
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Ramsus posted:so i'd just flip her breaker off and she'd have to call the landlord to come fix her power, place was nuts but luckily only had to live there for a few months Super-jerk mode would be to flip the breaker to open and then supergluing or epoxying it in the open position. That would require shutting down the panel and replacing the circuit breaker. I've also heard of people using modified CB radios to blast the hell out of their neighbor's electronic/audio equipment. (This is illegal.)
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Aug 22, 2015 20:02
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Batterypowered7 posted:My friend worked as the groundskeeper at the same apartment complex (I leased apartments). Groundskeeper was really just a catchall term for "whatever the techs don't want to do". This meant that in addition to trashing out apartments, that's hauling out all the poo poo previous residents left behind, he also had to clean them once we stopped paying the cleaners. ive heard of this kinda thing before. i have a friend that works for a county coroner and apparently a hoarder pissed and poo poo in his tub until it filled up. he didnt pay his rent and they went in to evict him and turned out he had a heart attack and fell face first into the tub and perished
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Aug 22, 2015 20:09
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Three-Phase posted:Super-jerk mode would be to flip the breaker to open and then supergluing or epoxying it in the open position. That would require shutting down the panel and replacing the circuit breaker. Breakers can be changed on a live panel if you're not a moron. Not exactly the safest method, but it can be done without blowing anything up (including yourself). In other words you'd put more time into sabotaging the breaker than I would replacing it.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:10
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*shower has the same water pressure as a hamster feeder* *can hear neighbors son jacking off every couple hours* *neighbor upstairs smells like urine and is always in his underwear when he opens the door*
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Aug 22, 2015 20:19
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I live in what was a cheap apartment that is now right on the edge of the rich part of town and it's pretty great to see the poors get the boot as the rent goes up. I can get the disgusting carpet ripped out and replaced with fake tile but then I'd have to move my poo poo out.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:20
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*plays rock band with 3 others at 2 in the morning on the 3rd story with hard tile*
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Aug 22, 2015 20:25
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We had a string of break ins once that culminated with the thief breaking into the apartment while the resident was home. The resident was showering at the time and proceeds to beat on the guy in the nude before the thief was able to get away.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:27
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Avernus posted:Breakers can be changed on a live panel if you're not a moron. Not exactly the safest method, but it can be done without blowing anything up (including yourself). In other words you'd put more time into sabotaging the breaker than I would replacing it. You're right; I had a brain fart. You'd be removing the wires to the apartment while the breaker was OFF. That's very do-able.  (Still would be a step above just opening them.)
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Aug 22, 2015 20:37
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"You moved in four days ago and you're noticing a huge roach nest around the fridge motor? You must have brought them with you. I'm raising your rent."
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Aug 22, 2015 20:57
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Inzombiac posted:"You moved in four days ago and you're noticing a huge roach nest around the fridge motor? You must have brought them with you. I'm raising your rent." Pretty sure it's illegal to raise rent in the middle of a lease. They can hike it up when you renew though.
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Aug 22, 2015 21:23
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Avernus posted:I've worked maintenance in Hampton Roads for five years. Pretty sure I know what complex you're talking about and it is indeed poo poo. this was a crap one in a bad part of ocean view, and during the flood of winter 2009 (i think that's when it was), when we opened our door cockroaches came running inside and my roommate's van was totaled by seawater, while the starter was ruined on my jeep
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Aug 22, 2015 21:44
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Avernus posted:Pretty sure it's illegal to raise rent in the middle of a lease. They can hike it up when you renew though. Depends on the contract. Mine says "you will pay $x for 12 months starting on date Y" but several in the Bay Area and the like say stuff like "you can raise rent no more than X% per year".
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Aug 22, 2015 22:06
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computer parts posted:Depends on the contract. Mine says "you will pay $x for 12 months starting on date Y" but several in the Bay Area and the like say stuff like "you can raise rent no more than X% per year". Yikes gently caress that poo poo. Ramsus posted:this was a crap one in a bad part of ocean view, and during the flood of winter 2009 (i think that's when it was), when we opened our door cockroaches came running inside Ah nevermind then. The place I was thinking of ain't in OV. Small world though.
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Aug 22, 2015 23:04
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My neighbors let their door slam shut every time it's opened and it's mildly annoying.
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Aug 22, 2015 23:27
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My neighbors say 'Good morning' to me after midday! The gall of them!
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Aug 22, 2015 23:33
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*pisses over balcony*
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