r/ApartmentMaintenance

I'm looking for stories (true accounts) of people who did maintenance for a family owned complex that was then sold to a bigger company that already owned other properties. Please share as much as you can. Things like, were you aware of a pending sale or just blindsided when it happened? Did the new owner keep you? How long did it take to transition? Same pay & benefits? How long did you work there before and after it sold?

I've just been informed by the owners that the complex that I've worked at for 10 years is being put up for sale and I'm not sure what to do. Do I ride this out to see if the new owners are going to keep me on? Ask for more money from the new owners? In my mind, if they do keep me on, I would just be training my replacement. Am I right?

Any advice is welcome because I'm at a loss right now.

Hi. I have a floor AC, like the one with the tube that goes out the window. The tube goes out the window that is adjacent to the fire escape, I have a second window in the apartment but it is small and in a weird lil cubby corner so the AC doesn't work there. But the issue is people who live in the building smoke on the fire escape and it is coming into my apartment through my AC. I have tried talking to the landlord but this is lowkey like a slumlord situation but idrc because its cheap and they let me do a 6 month lease. But they said that they prohibit smoking on the premises and they will tell the other tenants to stop but I dont think the other tenants care or will stop.

But I really dont like the smell of cigarettes (especially whatever cheap stuff theyre smoking, I'd have less of an issue if it was American Spirits) and I dont want it sticking to my clothes. I have an air filter but I dont think its doing anything. I was wondering if there's anything I could do to keep the smoke from coming in? Or is it possible that my AC is like gonna explode so it smells like cigarettes? Idk. It smells ucky and if yall know how to fix it please help

I’m a renter in a 10 year old building with a seemingly cheap aluminum patio railing. When it rains, which is often, the water hitting the railing is incredibly tinny and loud. I am not looking for white noise, earplugs etc. I need a removable material to dampen the sound. I have tried a pipe insulator that looks like a pool noodle, landscaping fabric, a combo of those two, and a fabric used to line ponds. No luck yet. The last one was the best so far. I’m wondering if there is a strip of some kind I can run along the recessed under side of the railing to absorb or deaden the sound. Has anyone tried this? AI suggests a “closed cell EPDM foam strip” , but AI has led me astray many times.

For context, we are a family of 4, so we can’t just stay somewhere else while looking for a new place. Also, we live in San Diego County which has a ridiculous market where places are either too expensive or too small. This place is unfortunately “perfect”.

Today was move-in day and everything was perfectly fine until the night came along. As we sat around wondering what to eat for dinner, my mom saw a roach. We looked around and saw another, then another, then another. We went out to buy some small traps thinking maybe they got in while the place was being remodeled. When we got back, they were EVERYWHERE. They were on my mattress that I’d left on the floor, in the shower, the cabinets, the closets, around the floors and walls, hell even in the damn light fixtures. In total, we killed about 15 roaches and saw about 20 (ran too fast or immediately hid). Since it’s a holiday weekend, we can’t reach our landlord. We need to be out of our current place by the 12th of this month. That gives us less than 9 days (again, due to holiday) to either get our money back and find a new place or get rid of these damn roaches. I think they are the German types but there seems to be a mix or German and American. I don’t know enough about roaches honestly. I haven’t dealt with them since I was a kid, but I have a huge, huge phobia of them. I can NOT sleep there in its current state. I have a pretty good plan on how we’ll get rid of them, but send help. I need as much advice as possible. PLEASE!!!!!!!!

ps. i ordered advion and am getting bug bombs, caulk, and even waterproof tape to cover small openings TOMORROW first thing in the morning.

I moved into my apartment on 4/24 of this year. Because I work from home and didn't have internet yet, my first night actually staying there wasn't until the following Monday.

That very first night, I woke up to rain literally splattering on me from the windowsill. Water was coming in from outside. I immediately took photos and sent them to the leasing office.

Since then, they've had multiple professionals come out to inspect it. Eventually they told me they were submitting a repair quote for approval (around 6/10), but I haven't heard anything since. Throughout this whole process, I've had to repeatedly follow up just to get any movement.

I emailed them again today and I'm waiting for a response. The problem is that we're expecting heavy storms this weekend, and with the 4th of July holiday, I don't expect anything will get fixed before then.

At this point, is there anything I can do to get them to move faster? Would it be reasonable to ask for a rent credit or some other compensation since this issue has existed since essentially my first night living here? Has anyone dealt with something similar?

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Just came Across this news and A few incidents in News I thought like why the police doesn't look into such incidents as a sort of poisoning, Vapor poisoning or water poisoning from lower or upper floor of the Apartment complex as the structure is very constricted and same water line runs in all the flats, If a heavy chemical is mixed in upper floor or light chemical on lower floors water lines it'll come down or go up with time.(people should complain and get the community involved if they smell anything or feel the water in their flat is not right).Maybe just a thought but it's getting common unknown deaths in apartment complexes in big cities.It's just dismissed as a normal health crisis and blamed on vaccination or bad Lifestyle but even if 5% of it is somebody's doing it needs to be addressed.

Just wondering what everyone's experience has been so far.

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We moved into a house next summer and smelled a strong putrid odor on top floor and attic floor (has two bedrooms with attic in between) that we attributed to the previous owners many dogs and cats. Our realtor told us he found a bat in the sink and that it was a random bat that must have gotten in and been there for months between the listing and closing. We had a crew rip out the flooring down to the studs in the top two floors but did not go into the attic. One member of the crew fell ill with respiratory illness and felt generally unwell for a few weeks but seemed to be fine a few weeks later and to my knowledge is doing well and still working. The smell was not pronounced after October and until this past month when it became warm again. A few days ago, several baby bats were found in our house during different times. We started rabies shots and moved into a hotel. We called two different wildlife inspectors and both told us we had a colony or roost of bats living in the attic and that they have been coming to that same place for at least a few years. Legally they cannot be moved until mid august. My partner feels safe to move back into the house this weekend because one of the companies sealed up any visible holes with tape and foam. He recommended door sweeps for our doors and to keep our vents closed. He said it would be fine to move into the house. We cannot do guano removal and remediation until the bats are released. Is it safe to move back into a home and sleep on the same floor with the heavy stench? We would be sleeping on the floor beneath the bat roost. My partner thinks using air purifiers and door sweeps are sufficient. I have hypothyroidism and am generally sensitive things and quick to get sick. There are a few nights in the past month where I remember having a few moments of full body chills at night and thinking that it was strange. There is one night i felt nauseous. My partner thinks I overreact about medical issues because of my autoimmune disease, but I feel like it is impossible for us to live safely in a house with an active bat infestation and sleep on the same floor that has the guano stench, even if the ac and purifier in our room mostly masks it. Any insight on histoplasmosis and how you contract it and how it manifests in symptoms is appreciated. Would you stay in the house? I am ok with going back after remediation and will be listing it for sale shortly thereafter.