u/JoeJr_1980

So yesterday my property manager sent all the tenants at my apartment complex that they were having a “Private Event and half of our apartment complex parking lot was going to be reserved for their “VIP Guests”. Well they didn’t bother to accommodate the fact that they didn’t leave enough space for the actual residents to park their vehicles and even the front street was completely full. I had no choice but to park in one of their reserved spaces and that was already an issue for me because I’m disabled and this is literally all the way on the other side of a very leather complex and I have mobility issues. I found out this morning from one of the other tenants on Facebook that their private event was our grand opening and they conveniently didn’t invite us as they are smugly celebrating a new community that they excluded the actual community members from attending. That was already completely disrespectful and tone deaf for all those involved in the event but this afternoon when I finally felt strong enough to walk all the way back to my car because I was going to take myself to Urgent Care my car was missing. There was no one in the office (they took the day off to celebrate their achievement). And they don’t have any emergency contact information so I finally found the maintenance guy who was cleaning up the VIP garbage and asked him in the middle of my asthma/panic attack combo if he knew if anyone had seen my car. He told us that management had anyone who was parked in their “Reserved Event Parking” towed before the event even started. They didn’t attempt to contact us or give us a chance to move our vehicles, they just moved them, had their ceremony and went home without saying anything to anyone. This may be where I’m the A/H and I probably overreacted. But I called the housing authority who was at the ceremony and complained but they said that they just funded the project and didn’t want to get involved. So I filed a complaint with the Americans with Disabilities act and I called the governors office and complained and anyone else I thought might be able to help me get my car back. I guess one lovely gentleman that I contacted did feel sorry for me and had the corporate owners office for the property called me. I proceeded to tell her just how tone-deaf and disrespectful this whole ordeal was to the tenants and how particularly hypocritical it was to have a community dedication ceremony while excluding the very community itself and that they owe all of us a very sincere apology and that their communication skills are pathetic and absolutely condescending and just how inconsiderate everyone involved in today actually was. So AITAH for calling out their behavior and demanding an apology to all of the tenants

So yesterday my property manager sent us a notice that they were designing half of our complex’s parking lot for a “Private Event” this morning and just left it as that. No warning about write ups or anything that would have warranted or justified their behavior today. When I got home last night there wasn’t a single available parking space left and the overflow had already taken over all available street parking, I had no choice but to use one of their VIP reserved parking spaces that was all the way on the opposite side of the property from my unit. I’m disabled and am having a lot of mobility issues so this was already a huge problem for me. I found out from one of my neighbors that their “Private Event” was the Grand Opening of the Apartment Complex, but none of the people that lived here were invited or told the what their “Private Event” actually was. To make matters even more insulting I finally felt well enough this afternoon to make the extremely physically demanding walk all the way back to my car and it was gone. The office decided to take the day off to celebrate their grand opening and they have no emergency contact number or any way of finding out whatsoever if my car had been stolen, towed or if they had even maybe seen who or what happened to my car. At this point I was having a lovely asthma/anxiety attack combo when I saw the maintenance man picking up all the leftover vip Garbage. I asked him if anyone had seen my car and he told me that management had anyone in their reservation parking towed. To say I was angry was an understatement. All I wanted to do was drive myself to the emergency room and now I’m having a mental and physical meltdown because my car is gone and they didn’t even have the decency to send a mess or a post in our Facebook group to allow us to move our vehicles. They just hired a tow truck and moved them like that’s acceptable. I apologize greatly for having to live here but they literally took my car and left and didn’t say anything to anybody. So here’s what my issue is and I might be the AH. I called the housing authority because they were all here celebrating a new community while excluding the very people of that community. They were hoping we wouldn’t find out and IDK act like white trash criminals (low income housing). I finally got someone from corporate to call me and explained to them just how disrespectful and tone deaf their entire approach was and just how much we literally don’t feel welcome in our own community. I told them I may be poor but I still expect to be treated with basic human respect and that they owe all of us an apology. Now corporate is trying to say that they are planning a separate event for the tenants that they just don’t know when yet. (I seriously doubt that, I be think she was just trying to get me to shut up and trying to make the situation look less disrespectful than it actually was.). So AITAH or AIO for being treated like I don’t deserve to be here by management and going over the property managers head.