Apartment Etiquette

[Élistariel]

This is for anyone who lives or has ever lived in an apartment.
What have you learned. What would you consider rude?
Any rules you have come up with for apartment living?



My apartment is broken up into several buildings. 12 apartments per building. 6 on bottom 6 on top. We also have a lake with a LARGE amount of Canadian geese. The apartments go around the lake.

Mine:
Don't get your kid a trumpet. No one want to hear your kid try to imitate the sounds of drunken geese.

Don't blast your music. Not everyone cares to hear Michael Jackons blaring at 2 pm. Nor do they care to hear "don-ka-shane???" at 4am.
-I broke that rule by blaring "Sir Mix-a-lot" at 4 am the next day. I haven't heard loud music since. hehehehe. (the donkey shave :lol: people were in the apt right above me. It was my revenge. It worked.

In gated communities, OPEN the gate BEFORE you drive through....

If you drop something of yours on MY poarch, it becomes MINE. Unless I don't want it, then I kick it into the outdoor "hall area" - yeah, I know I shouldn't but oh well.
I get news papers every once in a while. I never asked or subscribed to them. So if I am getting someone else's oh well. Mine now. I know I know, I'm bad.

DO NOT let your pets out unsupervised. OH MY FU....ING GOD! I HATE when people do this. I had this one cat to come to my apt on a daily basis. I left food out for it, I can't afford a cat. They're $100 a month here JUST TO KEEP. :foh: I told the office about it, and they said they'd do something. About a week or so of still feeding the cat, the office told me that they were getting complaints. That was when I flat out told them "If someone has a problem with me feeding the cat, THEY can come to ME. I don't care what they think. I don't see any of them doing anything to help. Besides, you said you were going to do something..." (folded arms, taping foot deal). A few days later someone from another apartment building in my complex adopted the cat :woot:

[WynterWynd]

Don't have your kids put their tv (with game system attatched) on the smae wall as your neighbors bedroom....cause believe me, they will not be has thrilled as you would think to know all about your kids ninja fighting race car driving sonic coin grabbing level beating prowess :D

Oh yeah....and don't try to 'out stereo' me....cause chances are mine is bigger than yours.:devil:

Oh how I love living in an apartment:lol:

[Raven Reed]

Having company is nice. Selling drugs so there is a constant stream of traffic all day and night makes me call the cops! Many times. And yeah, I can tell. If someone arrives at 3:30am and is gone three minutes later, I know what is going on. The person isn't borrowing sugar!

Fights with your boyfriend that involve screaming and metal pipes are a no-no. Trying to run one another over with cars is definitely not cool... If your teeth get knocked out, don't glue them back in with super glue, it only makes me think you are a moron. Don't then have the same boyfriend sneak back over even though he is forbidden by the courts to do so.

Please, if you are going to set yourself on fire, don't do it right next to my car!!!

These are all real occurances and different neighbors... I live on "the wrong side of the tracks." I thought stuff like Jerry Springer was somehow not real, now I live next to these people. *shakes head*

[Élistariel]

lol VB, I know all about the stereo thing.
I have: a clock radio and boombox in my bedroom
another clockradio less than 12 feet from my bedroom one
and anotherr clockradio in the living room

Tick me off and you shall face the wrath of 4 radios BLARING all at once, at 4 am.
hehehehe

[Bec_W]

We live in the middle block of three a blocks, a block of six, another block six (us) then a block of four. Anyway here are my rules:

Don't steal my car port because it's more convenient and because you're cars so old and heavy that you can't turn into your own car port. PS if you can't turn corners in your car you probably shouldn't be driving it.

Don't allow your two year old daughter to run up and down along the side of our appartment at 10pm screaming because she's over tired and you haven't been bothered putting her to bed.

Don't leave your washing in the ONLY communal washing machine all day while you go out or you will find it in the middle of the dirty floor after being walked all over.

Don't get drunk then break into a neighbours appartment so you can wake them up by making pig noises.

Don't then attempt to knock down the only tree on the property by bashing it with blunt objects.

Don't play your music so loud that no matter where I go or what I do I can still hear it.

No, 2am is not a good time to hammer in painting hangers.

Really, I don't care enough about you to want to hear what you're watching on television.

Don't turn my gas hot water system off because you think it'll be funny (yes I saw you do it) or you'll find that your electricity turned off in the middle of the night there by stopping your alarm from blearring at 5am and making you late for work but allowing me and the rest of the block to sleep in until a more godly hour.

[Valerie]

Living in an aprtment has made me BADLY yearn to buy a house. I like my privacy...and as much hot shower in the water as I want. *Smiles*

[morrigan]

I'm usually a very quiet person and i keep to myself.. i dont like living in flats/apartments much but sometimes theres no getting away from it..
if you happen to be my neighbour......
dont smoke outside my front door.. if you smoke outside your flat/apartment because you dont want your place smelling like an ashtray what makes you think i want mine to smell like one..
dont stand outside my back window looking in.. I wont be responsible for what you see or if your offended by seeing it..

if you wake my kids up late at night because your hanging around outside the bedroom windows you had better be able to run really really fast

if you have dogs keep them quiet at night and dont let them poop out the front of my place.. (you could end up with a flaming bag of crap on your door step lol )

make sure your friends know which flat/apartment is yours cause if they knock on my door at 1 am they wont be greated with any kind of politness..

dont come and ask me if you can borrow something eg teabags sugar tools etc.. I'm not the local grocery store.. and i'm not a bank so dont dare ask to borrow money.. (especially if i dont know you..)

kitties are always welcome at my place but make sure your cat doesnt decide to spray on or near my place as i dont want to smell it..

dont come over and bug me about stupid things like how i should use my a/c because that will just result in lots of manson being played on repete, full volume with the speakers as close to your apartment as i can get them while i go out for the day.. (and no i dont care if you are trying to call clients because you work from home.. as one of my old neighbours found out the hard way WEG)

I'm not a people person, i'm not interested in being buddy buddy with any of my neighbours and i dont want you dropping in for coffee when ever it takes your fancy.. if i want you in my house i will invite you over if you dont get an invitation then leave me alone..

if you dont bother me i wont bother you..

[Katya]

Having company is nice. Selling drugs so there is a constant stream of traffic all day and night makes me call the cops! Many times. And yeah, I can tell. If someone arrives at 3:30am and is gone three minutes later, I know what is going on. The person isn't borrowing sugar!


i know it seems like i shouldn't know this, but it doesn't take 3 minutes. the person getting some usually does a line/ smokes down fro about 30 minutes before leaving.

ha that makes me sound baaaaddd. :gagged:

[Scarlettvixen]

if u live above me dont wear yr damm high heel shoes on the wooden / lino floor!
dont slam the doors
dont steal my car spot - i pay for it u dont and yes i will give u 2 polite warnings and then sit there with my hand on the horn till u come and remove it (alternatively i have had it towed and impounded, scratched the crap out of it or taken to it with a sledge hammer)
dont use my garbage bin - use yr own!
dont leave yr clothes on the outside communal line for 2 days
dont think u can knock on my door at 10pm and ask for the rent that isnt due till tomorrow

[WynterWynd]

lol VB, I know all about the stereo thing.
I have: a clock radio and boombox in my bedroom
another clockradio less than 12 feet from my bedroom one
and anotherr clockradio in the living room

Tick me off and you shall face the wrath of 4 radios BLARING all at once, at 4 am.
hehehehe That could work;)....I know 500 watts of bass thumping Rush ( I think I played WitchHunt:lol: ) sure stopped the mexican fiesta music blarring thru my floor:rotfl:



Oh yeah........

If you have a dog, and you live in the upper apartment.....letting Rover do his 'business' on your balcony is just gross!!!! I didn't appreciate the 'yellow rain'!!:mad:Get off your lazy butt and take the dog for a real walk!

And those are 'our' stairs......not you personal landing pad/meeting place. Don't you dare glare at me for trying to get around your big ass just cuase you think the stairss llok like a good place to have a beer!
....and while we're on the subject of stairs...last time I checked little skanks stood on the corner for all their pick ups....stop using the steps for picking up your multitude of dates!
....and bouncing your wife off my walls so hard you knock down my pictures will not cause me to run and hide, it just makes me call the police, social services and anyone else I can get to come out here and harrass your wife beating ass!

[Élistariel]

oh about the cat, I forgot one
If there is a cat that has been wandering around "my" section for a few days, it will result in me literally picking up the cat.. and walking up to your door. and going
*knock knock*
*door opens*
*holds up cat* This your cat?
No... :wtf:
Okay, thank you
*moves to the next door*

I can NOT believe I did that.... :bigredblu

[WynterWynd]

:lol:

I forgot a big one.....

This is NOT AMerican Idol, The Apartment version.....just because you think you can sing doesn't mean you can!!! Knock it off!!http://www.emotipad.com/artists/comino/slap.gif

[Bec_W]

lmao about the cat!

VB my neighbour was convinced she could one of those Evanescence songs - she was so mistaken! :lol:

[WynterWynd]

I've got a neighbor now, who fancies himself some kinda singer. I just have the misfortune of having to here him walk past my apartment, on his way to the garbage singing at the top his lungs:eyebrow: One of these mornings he's gonna catch me with no one in the house........and the remote to the stereo:devil:

[Raven Reed]

i know it seems like i shouldn't know this, but it doesn't take 3 minutes. the person getting some usually does a line/ smokes down fro about 30 minutes before leaving.

ha that makes me sound baaaaddd. :gagged:


Oh there was plenty of that too... Trust me. The person finally got busted. I wasn't imagining things.

[Lilith79]

i know it seems like i shouldn't know this, but it doesn't take 3 minutes. the person getting some usually does a line/ smokes down fro about 30 minutes before leaving.

ha that makes me sound baaaaddd. :gagged:
If one is only purchasing, it doesn't take long.

[KEishin]

Don't smoke *anything* outside my apartment door/windows unless you'd like me to burn asafoetida incense outside of yours. Note: asafoetida is the stinkiest fungus known to humankind :T )

Don't invite your whole clan over to stay the night. Especially if any of them like to ogle women in their bathrobes picking up the newspaper at 7:30 on a Sunday. No I don't know why your father-in-law had a heart attack . . . really!

Get a pooper-scooper for your pets/kids

Alarms are necessary to get up in the morning, agreed. Kindly silence your alarm *once you're up* at 4am unless you want me to pull the fuses to your bedroom out of the basement and throw them at your head to wake you up.

If the pictures on my walls are shaking, then yes, your music's too loud.

Don't let your sink overflow onto my ceiling, then say it's my fault when I ask the landlord to repair the water stain.

Never, ever, ever double-park behind my car, while I can see you , unless you can run really, really fast.

Anything you see looking in my windows is none of your business and never the topic of conversation.

Just because I have friends come over does not mean I'm sleeping with them, and no I won't set you up with any of them either!

[Catiana]

I currently have some lovely people above me who enjoy running, jumping, throwing each other into the walls, and every other way possible to make as much noise as possible to disrupt my entire household, and then when management comes knocking on their door from my complaints, look innocent and say they were just walking normally. Uuggghhh. Time to buy a house as soon as my lease is up.

[Invidosa]

Please refrain from moving furniture, dropping bowling balls, or what the heck else you are doing upstairs that causes my entire apartment to shake at 3 in the morning EVERY NIGHT.

Either give your on again/off again boyfriend a key the darn building, or answer your phone when he calls, a drunk guy screaming “Jennifer” repeatedly outside my window does not make for happy neighbors. :twitch:

Do us all a favor and stop with the all night parties in the parking lot. 2 reasons here, first we ALL get a parking spot, and it makes it kind of difficult when you have 25 cars in the lot. Second, you know there is no air conditioning, so in the summer you’re keeping the whole building awake, and you wonder who called the cops!

Please do not throw garbage out the window of your third story apartment and call it “taking out the trash”.

Please try to keep a lid on the sounds you make while being, …ahem…. “intimate” I am not interested.

Do not ask me to animal/house/baby sit, please and thank you. We are practically complete strangers, I sure would not trust YOU with my cat.

Do not ask me what I was doing the other night when you were “accidentally” peeking in my window.

Do not steal my clothes from the laundry room and then wear them in front of me. I will notice. And being that stupid will get you in trouble some day.

And finally, never, and I mean NEVER throw an animal at me. (yes, this really happened)

I only have two neighbors in my building because I live in the corner, and the apartment below me is empty. The couple on my floor are really nice, but my upstairs neighbor is guilty of all the above indiscretions. I should have known as much when I moved in. I met her the second day I was there, and the conversation was this:

Her: “oh, you live in 29 now?”
Me: “yeah, I just moved in”
Her: “oh good, I was wondering what had happened”
Me: “what do you mean?”
Her: “well, I haven’t had the cops called on me in a couple of weeks is all”
Me: (with a sense of dread) “huh?”
Her: “the guy who used to live in 29 would call the cops on me all the time, he said I was too loud or something, I don’t know, he was an ass”

Yerk! one day I might just snap. :fishsmack

[Élistariel]

I'm guilty of the singing thing. I don't think anyone can hear me. I refuse to sing w/o a radio or headphones, and I will not sing outside. We have good installation, so I tihink my neighbors are safe from my offkey half-forgotten lyrics singing.

not a rule, but we have a separate builing each apartment where our water heater is. It can be used for storage. Lawn furniture and patio umbrella type storage, not "greatgrandma's heirlooms" storage.
Ugh the blasted thing has burst THREE times already. Everyhing I had in there has been practically destroyed. I have some plastic lawn furniture, some bird feeder, and a few other yard knick-knacks left.
The second time it burst: I opened the door to a HUGE black widow spider in the doorway right at eye level. :foh:
didn't help that a few feet away there was a hole in our stairs, and I saw "Mama" and aaaalllllllll her babies run in. :yikes:
Mind you, I wasn't too thrilled when "Mama" decided to visit me in my bedroom one night. :woah:
The third time It burst :My broom molded beyond recognition. 1/3 of the thing was green from mold. :blech:

trust me, you don't want to know my "horror stories" involving giant spider and giant centipedes. :shaker:

[Ailinea]

I just got back from a few blissful days in the countryside. I dread being home in this apartment. The good news is that the people above us have one more chance, then they're going to be evicted. They only moved in last June. They're behaving now, but I can't wait until they screw up again.... :bangyourh

Anyway, I just *had* to vent in this thread too. :rant:

Oh how I want to tell my neighbors:

I have swords on my walls. If they fall down due to your bass being too loud, I am NOT afraid to use them on you.

Do NOT decide that 2 am is a good time to do your laundry. And unless you want to buy a new one, putting your sneakers into the dryer without towels or something to buffer them is not a good idea. Yes, we can hear the banging noise they make while tumbling.

I know one of you gets up at 3 in the morning to get ready to go out somewhere. I don't expect you to levitate through your apartment, but take off the clunky-heeled boots while walking around. And go on a diet.

I don't appreciate listening to Michael Jackson's "Beat it" every morning while you take a shower. I already know what you're doing in the shower. You don't have to advertise it.

Speaking of your intimate moments, you only provide us with belly laughs. You made it to what...2 minutes as your record? WD-40 for your bed, please.

Yes, we now own a small collection of random sports equipment that your kids threw on our balcony. Expect them to be used as voodoo poppets and hung from said balcony next Samhain.

Speaking of kids, teach them to pick up their trash. We had a mouse in our apartment (we're on the second floor!) because your little spawn leave food, wrappers, and more food outside by the building.

They're the cause of that line of ants going up to the building as well.

And letting them yell obscenities at the top of their lungs while playing makes me question your parenting skills. Oh wait...they're yelling obscenities at the top of their lungs because you also allow them to turn their stereos on full blast inside the apartment and leaving the porch door open so they can listen to their music outside the apartment.

Same goes for people who drive through the parking lot with their bass turned up. If it's dark outside, people are probably asleep. We don't need to hear your music that you're playing inside your car from the other side of the community.

As for the apartment managers, my fiance was working from home when all of this was going on. He got to be the one to complain to them, and once they sent the assistant manager up to inspect. The guy told my fiance to turn on our tv or stereo to drown out the music that they could feel through the floor...while my fiance was working!!!??? Seriously, he said, "Well, if you had your tv on you wouldn't notice it." My fiance: "*turns on the tv* See, it's on. I can still notice it." Asst. manager: "Well, I would have my tv on louder than that." Fiance: "That's my point...we don't keep ours on loud because we don't want to bother anyone. Apparently you don't care!" The parent company got a not-so-glowing e-mail later that afternoon, and the assistant manager was really nice to us afterwards. Thankfully my fiance also finally got through to them when he had to make some early-morning complaint phone calls. Appropriately-placed f-bombs really get the management to sit up and pay attention. Yes, we're leasing-agreement nazis. We're paying a LOT of money for a home and have certain expectations such as everyone abiding to the same rules that they agreed to in the same contract they signed when they moved in. So when the apartment managers wanted to have us come in for a meeting with our neighbors to discuss the problem, I think my fiance put it into perspective when he told them, "I know you want to have a little pow-wow, but I don't see why it's necessary to tell ADULTS they're BREAKING THE RULES and they need to STOP or GET F-bomb OUT."

The neighbors have been good so far...but time will tell.

[ap Dafydd]

I don't like my neighbors. I parked in their spot ONCE (because they had a guest and was parked in MY spot and they reported me to the landlord. The landlord is thier friend so he had a talk with us and our neighbors STILL park in our spot. Grrrrr.

Worst I ever had to cope with was someone with squeaky bedsprings in the flat above.

Seems fairly mild compared to some of these...

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[WitchJezebel]

if u live above me dont wear yr damm high heel shoes on the wooden / lino floor!

HELLO!!!??? My landlady lives upstairs and don't get me wrong, they're practically family, I've known them since I was 4, but even though you work the evening shift and don't get home until 2 am; I get up at 5 am, can't you take those things off at the top of the stairs?

I don't really have many complaints about neighbors, but I've got plenty to say about the condition of the place I live in.

[WitchJezebel]

Speaking of your intimate moments, you only provide us with belly laughs. You made it to what...2 minutes as your record? WD-40 for your bed, please.

Oh man, when I lived in Los Angeles, I shared a common wall with a couple next door. I didn't hear bedsprings, but what I did hear was her staged commotion that never lasted more than 2 minutes; my ex and I timed it on numerous occasions (they were both actors - believe me, she was faking). That was a hideous time to live next to someone, she was so self absorbed I couldn't stand her, so inconsiderate of anyone else in the world.

[Pentangling_57]

DON'T take a shower at 3 am. It pisses me off. And I know that you can't know that my bedroom shares a wall with your bathroom, but I think that it's a pretty common rule for life in general. Good horse sense and all that.

Oh yes. If you MUST take a shower at 3 am, do not make it last until 4:30 am.

[Pentangling_57]

if u live above me dont wear yr damm high heel shoes on the wooden / lino floor!
I second that!

And, this goes for my friend's apt.:
DON'T play your damn piano at all hours of the day and night. If you MUST, play something OTHER than scales.
DON'T let your child ride their tricycle in the house. I live downstairs from you, it isn't fun to hear the clanging and banging and squeaky wheels.
DON'T let your child go on a rampage through the house, acting like a barbaric monkey. And don't let them do it all day and night.

You know, I think that whenever that happens again, I'll take my broom and stand on a chair and bang on the ceiling with it. Payback, you stupid upstairs people...

[LightDancer]

This is a NON-SMOKING building, there is an ashtray outside the door, and everyone else uses it...that's what it's there for...I don't need to smell the 50 cigarettes you have in a sitting coming under my door.

I am NOT a resident babysitter, yes I do have a habit of 'parenting' other peoples children when they are doing something that will hurt themselves or others, or that I know they shouldn't be doing...but that doesn't mean you come out check on them and upon seeing me with them...return back inside...like I'M supposed to be watching them. Also when 8:00 or 9:00 rolls around and your 2, 5, and 7 yo are still out unsupervised....there is a problem with the way you parent.

I WILL call the cops if I suspect drug dealing, or if you are beating up your girlfriend. And if you are blaring your music when I am trying to put my kids to bed (my oldest's room is right next to his apartment) don't blow me off when I ask you to turn it down, because 'the bylaw says you can be loud until 11:00' my child is trying to sleep because she has school in the morning, I don't CARE about the bylaw.

If I see your kids hurting their animals...I WILL take them away. My neighbor beat me to it though, their cat has now been adopted by a loving family.

Don't have a party out on the lawn, or in the hallway. I'll call the cops if it is still going at 2:00am, OR if I see your drunk friends getting into their cars to drive home.

Oh and do you REALLY think it's a good idea to have your 13yo son who has a history of molesting children coming to visit when you are RIGHT ACROSS THE HALL from two young children :atantrum:

Thanx, I HATE my apartment full of drug dealers, wife beaters, bad parents, and pedophiles (yes there is another one in the back... :ahhhh: ) I need to vent every once and awhile. Hoping I'll be out of here by the summer...IhopeIhopeIhopeIhope.....

Jamie

[Know Your Rights]

Respect that other people live around you and KEEP THE MUSIC DOWN! Particularly at 2:30 in the morning, and do not use the fact that you can hear their two cats at 2:30 am as a suitable reason to keep your bass up, nor can you get away with saying you can not turn the bass down.

Do not run up and down the stairs, it causes the dishes in the cupboards to rattle

Clean up after your animals, nobody wants to walk in dog/cat manure on their way out to their car or the bus stop or whatever

Don't bang on doors in the building, and don't bang on balconies/windows outside the building, it vibrates, people get ticked off....

Clean up after yourself when you use the laundry room, or any other communal area, no one wants to clean up after you.

Please don't let little kids run loose in the hallway, they're loud, and all anyone'll want to do is kick em out of the building.

Don't smoke in a non-smoking building (inclusive of the manager), some people are sensitive to smoke.

DO comment to the super if you're having issues with something in your apartment (like the heat not working), you're not going to have to pay for it if you say something and it's not your fault...

Don't tick off the asst. managers daughter (preen)

And.... behave, I bite.

[enchancea]

I havent had many problems with neighbors. I have had the cops called on me though. Because I was lighting off smoke bombs and sparklers on the 4th of July and one of the neighbors was mad. But yet he sat outside in his wheelchair with oxygen tank smoking a cigarette waiting for the cops to come. He used to complain about every little thing we did until one day he proceeded to yell about something while coming into our yard and I told him if he took one step in our yard I would knock his old butt down. Well maybe it wasnt that nice but since then I havent had to much trouble with him except that he watches us mow the lawn to make sure we dont go into his lawn and he had his lawn people come into our yard and cut down some of my flowers. Needless to say Im waiting for his oxygen tank to blow up when he lights another cigarette.
So ok maybe we still do have trouble with him but Im more than happy to let him know about it now. Like over the last summer this tree that he says is in his yard and is his tree and he doesnt want us by it, fell down into our yard and almost on his garage. Wow suddenly it isnt his tree anymore and he is out there telling all of the other neighbors about how its our tree. Once our landlord gets all the wood taken away suddenly he considers it his tree again. He is just a jerk, I actually hate this guy more than I hate Bush. And if any of my flowers get chopped down this year by his lawn people may god help him.
And I dont like it when some of our other neighbors dont take care of their pets. The neighbors out back have viscious little dobermans and they never tie them up, I have hosed those dogs down many times. So everytime I take my girl out to the bathroom or just out in the backyard for anything their dogs come running after her. And then there is my other neighbors cat who digs up all of my plants so every year I have to spread chili peppers around the house and in my gardens to keep it away. I like the cat but I work to hard to have it dig up my plants and plus he kills alot of the birds that come in the yard. And then another neighbor had a cat who was killing this family of birds who lived on our porch and one morning I waited up for it and threw my shoe at it and hit it and it never came back. I just hate when people let their cats run free.
Other than the pet issues and the old idiot I have no complaints lol

[Cev'aq]

If you have children, do not let them play on our cars. They dent roofs, hoods, and their nifty new Nikes leave indelible marks on the paint.

[Know Your Rights]

:rant: 11:40 in the evening when, at 1:00 that morning the fire alarms where misbehaving is NOT a good time to be playing you effin music either. We are tired, we are cold and we do NOT want to put up with your music, period, ever, at all, no, never.... and I swear if I can hear this at 12:30 I WILL go downstairs and inform her it's too loud... and if not I will lodge a complaint to the asst manager (Oh MOMMY!)...
Yes, I am irritable, it's -50 C (so -58 F) outside, and cold inside, and I was up till 2:30 cause the stupid fire alarm was reacting to the cold air that was getting into the building due to the opening of the doors to the outside... and they kept going off all night until 11 this morning when it actually went off entirely instead of a clang at a time and we had to have DA Electric come in and cut the relay to the alarms.

[KiNoRonin]

I'm not a people person, i'm not interested in being buddy buddy with any of my neighbours and i dont want you dropping in for coffee when ever it takes your fancy.. if i want you in my house i will invite you over if you dont get an invitation then leave me alone..

if you dont bother me i wont bother you..

Watch out, the Negative Karmanic Energies you create always come back to your by the Power of Three Times Three!

Ki No Ronin

[KiNoRonin]

alternatively i have had it towed and impounded, scratched the crap out of it or taken to it with a sledge hammer

Calling the Towtruck is the preferred method. Scratching or Sledge Hammering the offending car will cause the Wicca Rede of the Law of Three Return of Energies will kick into Play.



dont think u can knock on my door at 10pm and ask for the rent that isnt due till tomorrow

I never do that. It is the Day after Rent Day that I start going around with Little Sticky Reminder Papers that I paste onto the Doorknob of the Delinquent Tenant's Door.

KNR

[KiNoRonin]

I have swords on my walls. If they fall down due to your bass being too loud, I am NOT afraid to use them on you.


Do Not Do That! That will just release Bad Karma that will be returned to you by the Power of Three Times Three!

KNR

[KiNoRonin]

I have been an Apartment Building Manager for 10 Years now.

One day, I wrote the following essay on what it is like being an Apartment Building Manager.

it goes:
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD APARTMENT BUILDING MANAGER?

Please remember a good Manager is not going to be the end all and be
all of knowledge. Mabagers are human too, and make mistakes. Be
charitable with your judgment. A good manager is willing to admit and
fix their mistakes. Often times good manager must make hard decisions
that may be unpopular with their residential clients. If you are
having a hard time with a difficult decision, ask the Property
Manager. Keep in mind that we as manager have to make a choice based
on our best judgment, experience, knowledge, and instincts. A good
manager will be as fair as they can be, but sometimes a fair judgment
is unpopular.

As YOU have made the decision to become a Manager, it is up to you to
remember to keep to the building is good sound order. This is
instrumental in keeping the building and to keep the respect that it
deserves.

ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:

Why do I want to be an Apartment Building Manager?

Do I have the time to do this? How many residents will I be willing
to Manage? Since most residents live there for a full year, am I
willing to make the long-term commitment?

Do I have the necessary knowledge and experience? Am I proficient in
the basic property management skills? Do I have a good understanding
of the rules and regulations of the Residential Tenancy Act? Do I
have the skills to manage others? Do I have the patience? Can I
explain building rules in a simple manner? Am I able to be honest
with your students about their shortcomings as well as their
strengths?

Am I willing to answer the same question a thousand times? Can I keep
breaking down the answer to that question until the apartment
resident understands? Am I willing to work individually with unwise
apartment residents to help them?

Am I willing to go through property management refresher courses so
that I will able to field the questions my residential clients have?

Would I think of myself as a teacher? Someone who guides their
tenants in their own personal, yet spiritual growth and development?

Am I willing to also be a part of a family in spirit? Am I willing to
respect my fellow neighbors.

Am I also willing to be a friend to all residents, to help them when
they need it the most?

Am I willing to reassure them in their failures, and encourage them
in trying times, and congratulate them in triumph?

Am I prepared to reassure them when they experience new things, and
to help ease their fears of what they do experience?

Am I willing to confer with experienced property managers if I myself
are unable to answer a question, or if I am in doubt of something?

Can I set clear expectations and ground rules?

Have you asked your employment councillor for a recommendation for
you to become an Apartment Building Manager? If not, why not?


Ki No Ronin

[Scarlettvixen]

I never do that. It is the Day after Rent Day that I start going around with Little Sticky Reminder Papers that I paste onto the Doorknob of the Delinquent Tenant's Door.

KNR
In my case I had been there a year and had normally been 4-6 weeks AHEAD in my rent - I had been away on holidays - which the ahole knew
I got home after a 10 hr flight and 7pm and he knocks at 10pm and asks me for my rent!
not due to till the following day - but he wanted to go partying on my rent money
he got really peeved that i didnt have it there to give him
it was in the bank - i was going grocery shopping the next morning and would get it!

i was never a delinquent tennant, i never made noise, i never left a mess, and i never parked in other peoples garage spaces - all things that would happen to me that the guy would do NOTHING about

[Djinn]

A few rules for living with (or near) Djinn:

1. Do not pour a ton of lighterfluid on your BBQ grill and cook out on your balcony. I will call the fire department on your worthless butt and they will fine you. We live in a wood building and I don't fancy burning to death.

2. Don't smoke your tobacco or anything else in the hallway. I own a SuperSoaker and I will use it.

3. No, I will not babysit your kids or accept your mail. Don't ask.

4. Don't get into a stereo war with me. I'll wait until we're blistering the paint with the volume, then turn mine off and call in a noise complaint. It's worked before.

5. Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. It works on rattlesnakes and it will work on me.

[Breathless Falcon]

And I thought The landlords kids screaming at out door at 9pm was bad!!!! :alol: After reading this thread I don't feel as bad. ( Actually the yelling and screaming lasts about 12 hours , non school day, 9a - 9p) After the thread about cats scratching and declawing I needed this thread , Thank You ALL

[greenwitch]

I realize that you may be trying to spruce up your apartment but doing it at 11:30 on a school night or at 5:30am on a saturday morning is not a good idea as I will start hammering things into your door at 2am and see how you like it...
don't yell at me just because you missed the elevator, it's not my fault the "door open" button doesnt work, you miss it you miss it....
do not lock your two year old son out of the apartment so you can scream at your spouse, he screams and cries and has an obsession with doing it outside my door until I take him in.....
I walk fast for a reason, so when you see me get the hell out of my way before I get angry....
yes I am a witch. I am not christian, so do not place bibles outside my door, or nail crucifixes to my door either, if you like I'll hammer a pentagram to your front door and a copy of the Rede with a smile on my face. I have my faith, you have yours, lets just leave it at that...
lady, I understand that you're a lawyer, and that you must dress up, but when you get inside take the damn heels off your feet!
I dont like rap. I dont listen to rap. so dont blast rap when you have a party. I will plast manson like no other as my speakers will surely beat out yours any day....
when you are piss faced drunk, and completely smashed, dont come to my door. I dont like you when you're drunk as I'm sure many other people dont either.....
Dont ask me for baking supplies, I dont bake very often and the supplies are far and few between, rare at that to find in my house....
Dont get in my face about anything, I dont care if I pissed you off. I dont know you. dont yell at me...

*humph* I hate the city.

[KiNoRonin]

In my case I had been there a year and had normally been 4-6 weeks AHEAD in my rent - I had been away on holidays - which the ahole knew
I got home after a 10 hr flight and 7pm and he knocks at 10pm and asks me for my rent!
not due to till the following day - but he wanted to go partying on my rent money
he got really peeved that i didnt have it there to give him
it was in the bank - i was going grocery shopping the next morning and would get it!

i was never a delinquent tennant, i never made noise, i never left a mess, and i never parked in other peoples garage spaces - all things that would happen to me that the guy would do NOTHING about


I had a similar incident once.

It was in about 1998 and I was managing an 26 Apartment Building in Downtown Vancouver.

There was this Nurse who was from the UK who always paid the Rent Dead On Time every Month.

Then one month, her Rent Checque did not show up on time and after it being Four Days Late, I became concerned. I started Ringing her Employment, and Personal Aquiantances.

It turned out she had just gone back to UK to visit and forgot to drop off a post-dated checque.

When she showed up, she discovered that I had been making inquiries as to her safety. Instead of being grateful, the Cow became upset while thinking that I had committed Personal Invasions of her Privacy, and she came to my office and had a go at me.

About a month later, a Canadian Female Federal Civil Servant went to Yellow NWT to take care of some business. While she was up there, she got Kidnapped and Murdered. The thing is that she also was always Johnny on the Spot with Paying her Rent, so when her Rent was about 2 or 3 Days Late, her Apartment Manager raise the Alarm.

After that story came out, my UK Tenant stopped rowing at me.


Ki No Ronin

[DixieWitch]

I guess I've been lucky so far with this apartment..my only complaints...don't blare your fricking music at 2 am in the parking lot. NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FLIP WHAT YOU LISTEN TO!! especially not at 2 am or later! Have a little respect! Please please please...get your lazy ass out of the car and knock on the door to get them...don't sit there, blaring your horn for 5-10 minutes until they come out! Show us your not stupid and have a little manners!!

[VelvetBlade]

Oh the joys of apartment living, huh? We moved 3 months ago, and so far the neighbors here are ok. The lady downstairs we knew before we moved in ( we moved from the building next door) and she's a doll! The guy upstairs is very standoffish, and that's fine. But why must he stomp on the stairs every single time he comes in the building...clomping with his big ole work boots so hard my walls and door shake. And then, of course, he must slam the door. Drives me nuts...have some freakin' consideration!! Anyway, the horror stories lie in the apartment that we moved out of.

The building has 9 or 10 apts in it. All studios...we had the only 1 bedroom. Our upstairs neighbor was ok...a drinker, but harmless for the most part. Just a pain in the ass....forever forgetting his keys so he'd be pounding on the door or our kitchen window at all hours trying to get in. I must say, there was more than one occasion when I'd wake up, and then roll over and go back to sleep and leave him there. We had another neighbor who would throw his scap food out of his 3rd story window. It would land right outside our bedroom window. He was "feeding the animals" he said. Well the animals he ended up feeding were nice big fat RATS!! Ughhhhh....

The winner of the bunch was the guy who lived in the front of our building. We shared common walls with him. He would BLAST music at all times of the day or night, and was usually drunk when he did so. I'd always call once, and politely ask him to turn it down, and he'd refuse, call me a bitch and hang up the phone and turn the music louder. So I'd call the cops, and they'd come and he'd hem and haw and turn it down. But then he'd spend the next 2 or 3 hours screaming at us through the walls....how he was going to kill us, and that we "messed" with the wrong dude." He'd "make us pay". After repeated complaints to the property manager, with nothing being done, I decided I'd had enough. The next time it happened...around 4am I believe, I picked up the phone, woke the manager and told him from then on...every time this happened, no matter what time it was...I was going to call and wake him up so he could join us in our misery. Boy was he pissed !!!

Now some background on this guy. We actually got along quite well when he was sober, and quiet. He was covered in tattoos, and multiple piercings and would use his appearance to try to intimidate people. I have nothing against tattoos or peircings..I have both, but don't use that as a crutch to gain power ( or your version of it anyway). He would tell people that he was a Satan worshipper and that he once ripped a man's heart out and ate it. *rolls her eyes*. He knew that I'm a witch...we had discussed some basic information, but I never got into detail...my practice was none of his concern, so I think he was never really sure what I could and couldn't, or would or wouldn't do. He was always pretty leary of that with me. So one day, in the midst of his ravings through the walls, he called me that "C" word. Well...you want to call me names, that's fine,...but not that one, at least, not unless I've earned it. *grin*. The next day when I saw him, he was so apologetic and he didn't mean what he said. I said nothing...just smiled and said "oh, not to worry, Mark..things happen, don't they?".
Well starting that day, his life just went downhill. He was evicted, and in the midst of that..destroyed the apartment. Barracaded himself in and would use his window to enter and leave, so no one could go in and evict him proper. He just really lost it all around. He was arrested for smashing out all the windows in his apartment...he had destroyed all of his furniture and left it in the middle of the room. He painted lovely sayings on his walls, threats to the world etc etc. and was also arrested for going after other neighbors with a baseball bat. The timing of all of this was pure coincidence to my conversation with him, but to this day he believes that it was a "spell" that I put on him that ruined his life. And I did nothing of the sort...honest. Unless the powers of suggestion are alot stronger than I ever dreamed.
I wonder, sometimes, what's become of him....

[BlessedByTheGoddess]

I have never in my life lived in an apartment. We have always lived in this same house.

But after reading this thread, I want to move into one and get a load of this

[Scarlettvixen]

I have never in my life lived in an apartment. We have always lived in this same house.

But after reading this thread, I want to move into one and get a load of this

ohh believe me you dont!
u really really dont want to!

offer to house sit for someone lol

[KiNoRonin]

We had another neighbor who would throw his scap food out of his 3rd story window. It would land right outside our bedroom window. He was "feeding the animals" he said. Well the animals he ended up feeding were nice big fat RATS!! Ughhhhh....


I once evicted a Mentally Challenge Woman with a One Year Old Baby for constantly throwing Food, Garbage, and Used Baby Diapers out her Window.



Well starting that day, his life just went downhill. He was evicted, and in the midst of that..destroyed the apartment. Barracaded himself in and would use his window to enter and leave, so no one could go in and evict him proper. He just really lost it all around. He was arrested for smashing out all the windows in his apartment...he had destroyed all of his furniture and left it in the middle of the room. He painted lovely sayings on his walls, threats to the world etc etc. and was also arrested for going after other neighbors with a baseball bat. The timing of all of this was pure coincidence to my conversation with him, but to this day he believes that it was a "spell" that I put on him that ruined his life. And I did nothing of the sort...honest. Unless the powers of suggestion are alot stronger than I ever dreamed. I wonder, sometimes, what's become of him....

People who do those sort of things are adversely affected by the Bible's Passage in Genesis 1, Versus 26 to 31, which is the Biblical Prophesy proclaiming Mankind as Created By God in God's Own Image and also given exclusive Dominion Over The Earth.

People who believe that tooooo much start behaving accordingly, trying to proove they are created in a Godlike Image by behaving in such a way.

Of course, you did not cast a Spell onto him. It was just the Wiccan Rede of all Bad Karma one generates being brought back to them by the Power of Three Times Three.

Generally, other People quickly tire of other People who try to Behave Godlike really Fast, and they usually end up Ostrasized and without any Friends. I would probably guess that this guy is now either Homeless or in a Flop House for the Homeless.

Either that, or he picked a Fight with someone he should not ought to have and is now Passed On onto the Goddess, where his Destructive Energies will be Recycled, Reshaped, and Reused by the Goddess for better uses.

Ki No Ronin

[BrigidMoon]

I never had many problems when living in the apartments. I did however, have some neighbors that on occasion got drunk and fought. I was downstairs and they were upstairs. One night, my daughter was at her dad's thankfully, I had cleaned and was listening to music and I heard -- "Bum bum bum bum bum THUMP" --- the neighbor had literally thrown someone down the stairs. I locked my door and windows....in about 15 minutes afterwards, I got an apology. I also go a promise that if I needed any physical protection from anyone, I could holler and he would be right there!

They were the craziest neighbors!!

[BlessedByTheGoddess]

Alright. anyone need me to house sit?! LOL

[EJ1096]

1. if you get a dog for christmas fine, if your dog barks nonstop from 5a.m. till you get home from work because you lock it in your bedroom. NOT FINE. also If your dog barks from 10 P.m. till 3 A.m. non stop then I cant be held accountable for my actions due to no sleep.

2. I dont have to leave for work at 4 am so you dont have to tell everybody by slamming your doors when you get ready.

3. if you have kids CONTROL THEM!!! thier your kids not mine.

4. If your management don't lectuer me on the problems of mold, then do nothing to fix a very large A/C condesation vent that drips in my utility closet. causeing the nastiest moldy place on earth. only to come out and spray paint the mold and say its fixed

5. if you like rap fine, if you assume I like your rap music NOT FINE. that causes me to to make you listen to angry guys scraming in scarry voices.

6. it's called a security gate for a reason. not a let everybody you dont know in, gate. Also if you leave your drunk friend passed out in the passanger seat of his car blocking the gate DON't give me attitude when you come back to get him 20 min. later and my self, the Fire department, and the police are there to greet you.

7. If you worship Jesus Cool, DON'T assume I do to, then procceed to tell me all about him and give me directions to your church. I don't even know you.

8. Finally, know where your neighbors bedrooms are in relation to your appartment. Because I know my wife and I can be louder than you and your girlfriend. We respect our neighbors. :seehearsp

[Élistariel]

for those of you who have annoying musical neighbors. ie those who play music too loud.
Join them in their fun. Do as they do... but do it YOUR WAY. :evilgrin:
Play music the same time they do, just as loud...but wait until they're not playing it...
I had the people above me BLAST music a year or two ago. They're gone now. It was loud enough to wake me at 4 in the morning, but not quite loud enough for me to understand it. So the next day, I had insomnia from having to listen to it for a solid week. I though, okay YOU seem to think this is fun. I'll give it a go, but MY way :hehehe:
Sooo... the next day... I turn on all FOUR of my radios. and wait for a good song to come on, then crank UP the volume as loud as I dare....
4:30 am...

I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE, YOU OTHER BROTHERS CANNOT DENY....

the entire thing... from "Oh my god Becky," to the last note....

funny, I never heard a PEEP out of my upstairs neighbors after that, can't imagine why...

:rollingla

[Élistariel]

I know sex is perfectly natural, and I accept that. I don't care if you do it or not, however, I do not care to know WHEN you do it.
If your bed squeaks, get a new one. And for the love of my sanity, move your headboard AWAY from the wall.

[KiNoRonin]

4. If your management don't lectuer me on the problems of mold, then do nothing to fix a very large A/C condesation vent that drips in my utility closet. causeing the nastiest moldy place on earth. only to come out and spray paint the mold and say its fixed


Sometimes Mother Nature is a total Bitch, and that is one of those times. When Mold starts to grow, there is only so much the Landlord can do about it.

Actually, you can paint over the Mold so long as your wash the surface clean with Soap and Bleach, then paint over it.


Mold in buildings is actually more prodominate in 4 to 5 storey buildings that are Woodframed. The Cellulose in the Wood is what the Mold feeds on.

Fortunately, the Apartment Building I manage is a 9 storey Concrete and Steel Frame, so there is nothing for Mold to fed on here, so I do not have that problem.

KNR

[storm_child]

Youve all made me very scared of moving into my apartment come late summer.

[EJ1096]

Sometimes Mother Nature is a total Bitch, and that is one of those times. When Mold starts to grow, there is only so much the Landlord can do about it.

Actually, you can paint over the Mold so long as your wash the surface clean with Soap and Bleach, then paint over it.


Mold in buildings is actually more prodominate in 4 to 5 storey buildings that are Woodframed. The Cellulose in the Wood is what the Mold feeds on.

Fortunately, the Apartment Building I manage is a 9 storey Concrete and Steel Frame, so there is nothing for Mold to fed on here, so I do not have that problem.

KNR


Nope they just came in with a can of spray paint shook the can and sprayed a very very thin layer of paint on the already water saturated wood flooring. they havent even attempted to fix the leak

[Rhaevyn]

I know sex is perfectly natural, and I accept that. I don't care if you do it or not, however, I do not care to know WHEN you do it.
If your bed squeaks, get a new one. And for the love of my sanity, move your headboard AWAY from the wall.
Oh geez, I had that going on last night at 2 am for a half hour. First I thought it was the washing machine unbalanced because of the VERY fast "THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP". But I was still half asleep at that point...up until I woke up enough to remember the washing machine is on the opposite side of the apartment. :geez:

[Lunamoth]

I can never sleep when I know people are screwing in the apartment above me. I try to ignore it, but just can't.

Apartment etiquette? I don't care how dirty it is or what hours you keep, it is not okay to squeegee your bathtub at 3am. There's this thing called "telegraphing" that happens through the tub and subfloors, making it much louder for me, than for you.

[Cev'aq]

If your bathroom is adjacent to my bedroom, and you: a) get drunk every night, b) vomit repeatedly every morning at 3 am, for cat's sake, soundproof your bathroom or stop drinking!

[KiNoRonin]

I just sent the following Letter to a Tenant that throws his Cigarette Butts out his Window:
-------------------------



I am afraid that there has been a Complaint from your Neighbor, which is below you.

She has complained that Cigarette Butts are being tossed down from
Your Balcony down onto back Parking Lot below.

She has complained that one of them was Still Burning when it fell
down and Burnt A Hole in the Cushion on her chair.


This is an Official Written Request to Please Not Throw Cigarette
Butts Off Of Your Balcony!


Your Cooperation in regards to this Matter will be Greatly Appreciated.

------------------------------------------------------



People who throw their Cigarette Butts out Windows on anywhere on the Ground is being Disrespectfull of Nature!
:wtf:



KNR

[Nitefalle]

If you are my landlord and I call you to tell you that I have mice in my apartment, DO NOT tell me that I'm not allowed to have pets!!!!! It makes me want to bash your brains in with a lead pipe! And for gods sake, don't CHARGE me for parking when there's a private lot behind the house, you ***hole. And when I tell you there is a ***king WATERFALL pouring from my living room ceiling that almost took out my tv and you don't happen to be there at that exact moment, don't you dare give me a look like I'm lying!!! Especially when I pay over $1000 a month to live there!!!

Sometimes, it's worth it to break your lease.

[AoibhellFaeryMoon]

I've lived in some real winner places.

#1--I lived in a flat above 2 stores. There were 3 apartments, one on either side of me. The gay couple on the left were sweet, quiet, and polite. The guy on the right played music FULL BLAST night and day. It was so loud that my friend (who lived in a flat across the street) could hear the music, and, thinking it was the person next door, called the police. When I called the police (about 5 times over the course of a month), the guy actually came to my door with a baseball bat, threatening to kill me. Of course, the landlord wouldn't kick him out. So we moved.

#2--I lived in a beautiful building, on the 14th floor. Our building was fairly quiet except:
a) One night (while my boyfriend was on night shift) I was startled awake, and thought someone was playing the accordian in my apartment. Upon inspection, they weren't. I went downstairs, no noise. Upstairs---arrrrrrgh! Everyone on the floor had their heads out their doors complaining. So I marched up to the apartment where it was coming from, and banged LOUDLY. An old Greek man answered the door with a drink in one hand and playing the accordian with another. He was HAMMERED. But he stopped playing.
b) The white trash building beside us was fun. Music blasting, people throwing furniture off balconies, the couple that screamed at each other and broke their balconey door many times, etc. etc. etc.

#3--Where I live now. It's a really nice apartment--until we got a Super who likes to walk into our apartment with no notice or anything. He also steals our mail (since we rarely get any). Our landlord no longer turns on the heat, and the guys who lived downstairs suddenly decided playing music full blast was fun. At all hours of the day and night. I guess they quit their jobs or something, 'cause they were never that noisy before. So one day we got home from a party at 4am. I was completely sober, because I couldn't drink a lot. I grabbed the metal base of my dressmaker's dummy and slammed it against the floor repeatedly. After everyone under us woke up, I went to bed. A month later, they moved out. hehehe. Also, our Super harasses us about garbage on our balconey. We don't have a dumpster, so we put our garbage out weekly--where ELSE do we put it? So they go on, and on, and on, about that---but the guy on the 2nd floor who doesn't work, and deals drugs, and has hookers hanging out in the stairwell, is okay? arrrrgh!

Cannot WAIT to rent a house next year!!!!!!!!!!!

[SilverSeraphim]

Do not drive into the parking lot whilst blaring you music. Furthermore, do not continue to blare said music while you are waiting for your top to go up. Only the fact that I had to go console a kid upset at having her nap interuppted kept me from kicking you ass for interuppting said nap.

Management should not have to send out a near-monthly memo to residents to tell some of you to keep your kids from playing with the sprinklers. Consider that we live in the middle of the freakin' desert, and it has been a very dry year. When your kids break the sprinklers it turns them into geysers, which is wasting the property's water. Sooner or later, management is going to decide to make up the increasing water bills by tacking it onto our bills, and I really don't want to pay for your bad parenting.

If your kids are too old to be ordering from the children's menu, they probably shouldn't be playing on the playground equipment. They most certainly should not be climbing on top of it, especially if they are overweight.

Do not slam your door so that it reveberates throughout my apartment.

If you are above someone and doing something in which you may end up dropping a heavy object and making a terrific crash, this activity should not be done in the middle of the night.

[Rowanbirch]

Okay, here's a good one-

Please,please please, stop smoking your weed under my bedroom window at 2:00 am. I have sinus allergy problems and I wake up from the smoke that is wafting up, with sinus cavities swollen shut...not to mention that maurijuana makes me sick to my stomach....

Look, I dont' care that you smoke weed, I really don't, and I know that your family has hit some difficult times right now-I know your mom had a stroke, and to pay for her rehab you all had to sell your house and move in together in a shyttie two bedroom university ghetto building. I know that i organized the building to unoffically desiginate the parking spot right by your front door as handicapped. I really don't want to escalate this to the landlord or the building manager, becasue then they have to call the cops, and then the cops will come, and if they find drugs in your house, the landlord has to evict you. I really don't want to be known as the lady who evicted the stroke victim. I just want to sleep through the night without smelling your weed at 2 am and waking up to my screaming because my sinuses have swollen shut, and I am quite literally ready to vomit up my dinner...

Thank you.

[Cindlady2]

If you think my son's music is too loud (which I could barley tell was on in the next room) Do Not turn your speakers face down and turn them up Full Blast!!! Come talk to ME!!! Then don't lie to the police and say you did talk to me!!! Especially do not do this while drunk!

Do Not think that just because something is in the shed you may take it! We pay extra for the shed.

Do Not think that the deck at our back door is for your use too! I do not enjoy walking into my kitchen and seeing you and your friends sitting in our chairs, drinking beer and looking into our apartment!

Do Not tie your over protective dog to the clothes line while My clothes are/were hanging there and then leave for the day!

DO Not let your friends park us in!

#1 Do Not... If you can not afford to pay your electric bill...Do Not hook up extension cords from the basement to your apartment and think we won't notice the extra $150 in the electric bill!!! (They managed to do it so we wouldn't see it unless we looked for it. We never did get our money! 2 months worth!)

[RoseKitten]

You know, I think that whenever that happens again, I'll take my broom and stand on a chair and bang on the ceiling with it. Payback, you stupid upstairs people...

When we lived in an apartment, we had kids that would run all over, loudly, in the apartment above us. Heh, we took a swiffer thing, and "chased" the kids with it (we would bang it on the ceiling wherever they ran). They stopped.

[Marcasite]

I don't even mind blaring music late at night on a Friday or Saturday, that's what you get for moving into a neighbourhood for university students but why, why blast the subwoofer at night on weekdays?
Also, don't leave your smelly, rotting garbage in the hall, please take it to the garbage shed in the back. Throwing it out the window is a bad idea too. Don't throw massive keggars where everyonme pukes in the hallways and someone punches out the window with his/her fist. If you're going to have a huge fight with your neighbour, non-violent is best.
Please don't play drunken soccor, kick the ball through our window and then pretend not to know what happened. I was in the appartment at the time!
Yeah, I'm a little bitter and beginning to think most people in my age group are drunken freaks.

I'm soo sick of calling the cops. :S

[TseMoana]

Yeah, I'm a little bitter and beginning to think most people in my age group are drunken freaks.

:hugz: Just a little reassurance, we're not all like that. I've never been drunk, I hardly ever drink (the times in a year I drink alcohol can be counted on less than one hand) and most of my friends, while they do drink, are not of the drunken trouble causing kind.

[JadeEmerald]

I have a problem with my next door neighbors....they constantly seem to have parties and blast their mariachi/hispanic music....if I can hear it over my tv, fan, and AC, IT'S TOO LOUD!

[TheWomanMonster]

hearing the police bash in the door to the apartment below ours and having an officer draw his pistol and aim it at my hubby while screaming at us to open the door to the building (it's not my fault you got locked out and your partner went inside alone buddy)... yeah that was fun.

but it did put a stop to the crackheads and their 24 hour parties.

I'm getting more new neighbors soon...
I'm scared.
hah