r/Apartmentliving

I live in what they describe as a “luxury apartment living” (tho I personally find Luxury to be a stretch) and the last few weeks I notice every day there is a group of 5 kids between the ages of 8-14 at the pool with boxes of Poppa John’s. I notice every time I walk to the gym. Also their pizza boxes are never cleaned up and still sitting around the pool every night

Our apartments make us use an app to unlock all doors for the building, pool, gym, basketball courts etc. Last week as I was going to the gym, every day like clockwork one of them would say “I don’t have my fob can you let me in.” (Again we use our phones to unlock). A couple times I agreed just cause it was quicker but by last Friday after multiple times I told them they need to have their phone. They gave me attitude going “bruhhhh it’s not that fucking deep just open the gate”

I didn’t wanna assume they weren’t residents and come off as some Karen. But now when it rains they bang on the gym door to be let in where 1. you must be over 18 or accompanied by adult and 2. They are just running around screaming and being disruptive. I end up leaving my workout early out of frustration.

Mostly I would just ignore these things if they don’t affect my life but today as I was leaving my garage, I’m stuck behind a mini van where all 5 kids get out holding papa John’s boxes and the mini van drives off. They all start standing around the pool gate waiting for someone to walk by. I’m 99% sure now they don’t live in the complex and are being dropped off. I come back shortly to find all the gates to the pool are propped open with rocks.

My question is what should I do in this scenario? My leasing office is usually useless when helping residents with real concerns. We had a neighbor sue to get out of lease recently because she had Live Streamers constantly making noise all hours of the night. After months of reports to the office and them not doing anything, she got a lawyer involved. On one hand it’s not affecting me in my unit. On the other hand it’s the attitude they are giving, the commotion they are causing in the gym and pool, and mostly the fact us residents are paying to use these amenities and the gates require an app for only residents to unlock. What advice would you best give for this situation? I’m getting exhausted dealing with this everyday

A maintenance guy tried to enter, but his key couldn't open the door. It really scared me to see him forcibly try to open the door over and over again and push it. I caught it on video. It was terrifying as I am a single woman who lives alone. I find it odd he didn't knock or announce 'MAINTENANCE' like they usually do.

I sent the video to my leasing office and an email asking why this occurred. I also walked over to the leasing office, and they asked me if I wanted to call the cops, and I said yes. As the management office proceeded to tell the phone operator it wasn't an emergency and downplayed the situation, it made me really mad, so I called 911 and told the cops to come.

My windows were open, and the smallest due diligence would have allowed the maintenance man to see the unit was not vacant.

The cop later informed me after interviewing the maintenance guy that he couldn't speak English and entered the wrong apartment by mistake. It doesn't make sense to me when these maintenance guys have worked here for years, and all the doors are labeled. I feel an extreme concern for my safety. My unit had no work orders and he didn not announce himself like maintence usually does.

Am I being overdramatic? I also have not heard anything from management about this situation.

I'm looking at a unit that's within my budget (and also the cheapest I have been able to find so far) that meets basically all of my needs. Cat friendly, close to my job, close to outdoor recreation, walkable community but still gives me a parking space. The main issue I have is that it's a carpeted basement/garden unit. I get that carpets are needed so your feet don't freeze in a basement apartment but I am nervous about humidity and potential flooding. I've checked FEMA's floodplain maps and it's not marked as being at risk for flooding but it's not so far away from wetlands (which in a way is a plus as I love the outdoors). I grew up in a house near wetlands and one year we did have a horrendous rainstorm that flooded our (carpeted) basement and made it unusable for a season. The smell is etched into my brain still. I'm in the Boston area (USA) so we get all four seasons and my fear is that I'll sign my lease and then in a month we'll get some torrential autumn rainstorm. Does anyone else have experience with basement apartments in a humid continental region or an area with similar geography? Am I good to go or should I suck it up and pay for a more expensive unit that isn't going to potentially flood.

Unfortunately I am starting over. Just got broken up with after 5 years together, moving back home isn’t an option. This will be my 1st ever apartment. I have lived in rental houses previously but never an apartment. Ive seen so many horror stories from cockroaches, bad neighbors, bad management, ect. I need to feel like im not going to be completely miserable, please share some of your positive experiences / things to look forward to in my new space

Do you guys ever have to deal with kids having tantrums in your hallways? This is the 2nd out of 3rd place I’ve lived in where a mom will put their little kids out into the hallways while they’re screaming and crying to get back inside.

I get it’s just little kid tantrums (as they normally do) and the mom probably doesn’t wanna deal with it but why make it a problem for all your other neighbors 😭

I’m just trying to watch a movie or something in my living room and all I can hear is this lady’s kid screaming in the hallway for like 10 minutes before he calms down and she lets him back inside. This happens 3-4 times per week.

I get the tactic but there’s gotta be another way yo. Why are all of us neighbors having to listen to it instead of you, the mother. I could never see myself doing that. I know there’s things I can’t control noise-wise but one thing I could most definitely control is not putting my kid into the hallway for timeout when I know there are neighbors.

When we moved into our current apartment, I thought valet trash would be convenient.

But they miss pickups a lot, which is a problem since we’re only allowed two bags at a time.

Our apartment is small, so we can’t deep clean as often because there’s no room to store extra trash.

They won't take cardboard unless it's broken down and stuffed into another garbage bag.

They threaten consequences for tenants a lot because of trying to simply dispose of excess trash where the compactor is located.

I miss having unlimited access to a regular dumpster.

I’ve seen old posts about this, but things have changed over the past few years.

I’m hoping to get everyone’s opinions on tipping for couch delivery. I have one coming tomorrow and I paid $149 for delivery.

Thanks!

I’ve been dealing with a next door apartment neighbor from hell since April. This 54yo women blasts loud music Friday-Sunday non stop; music is so loud our shared wall is constantly pounding and our floor vibrates from the subwoofer.
We already tried asking her nicely once, she didn’t care. We got property management + leasing + cops(per management) involved over multiple noise complaints. Leasing sent her 2 letters about her violating her lease.
We don’t care about being able to hear the music but the constant thudding and making our apartment shake is just beyond ridiculous. I can literally feel the thudding/vibrations from the loud music when I’m showering in our bathroom on the opposite side of our unit , furthest point from our shared wall.
Yesterday she started playing her music midday pretty loud but the wall thudding was bearable. She then put her music even louder to the point where our entire apartment was shaking. I knocked on our shared wall to just let her know it was really loud. We do this cause when we’ve tried knocking on her door after our first interaction, she doesn’t answer her door.
She then comes to our door and starts banging on it. I recorded the entire interaction. She asked if that’s me “banging on the wall” and I let her know “ma’am your music is literally pounding on our wall” which was all I could get out because she started getting loud and saying we don’t let her “play her music” she can’t “turn it down or turn it up” she “can’t talk in [her] own apartment” I tried telling her she could play her music but it’s excessively loud to which she said that’s not her problem (fair, but also why come to my door then if she doesn’t care) she said we live in a “shitty apartment” and what is she supposed to do. To which I replied, “maybe don’t have a f-ing surround system in your f-ing apartment “ (I really got her with that one because she was at a whole loss for words then totally lost it after that.
I didn’t even realize she had a whole knife in her hand because I was trying to actually talk to the women about what the issue was. When she was telling me to call the cops and that they won’t do shit, my fiance who was behind our door saw her start yelling at me and pointing the knife at me. He told her to stop pointing that at me to which I got upset because whyyyy tf was there a whole knife involved. I started asking her why are you pointing a knife at me to which she said “no I’m not I’m cutting vegetables”…okay but why couldn’t the knife be put down before coming to my door, banging and yelling. My fiance slammed our door shut because he was scared for my safety to which she started punching at our door.
LAPD was called, showed them video. It didn’t show her pointing it at me because I was only recording the verbal interaction of her arguing with me but once I noticed the knife that’s when I actually recorded her person on video (you see her with the knife). Cops couldn’t do anything because she didn’t make a verbal threat. Told us to file restraining order. She wanted to file one on us because we were “harassing” her by calling the cops when we “know what cops do to black people” and for knocking on our shared wall because of her music. (She can have loud ass music that makes our entire unit shake but god forbid a girl KNOCKS on the wall)
The cops even addressed her loud music and told her she had to lower it, to which this full grown adult woman threw the biggest fit. Talking about “I work Monday to Friday, I’m just trying to relax and enjoy my weekend” which is crazy because we want that too but can’t because she’s been continuously violating our right to quiet enjoyment for the past 3mo.
She asked cops if she can file a complaint on me for “false accusations” to which they told her that it wasn’t false because she did come with a knife. She then called her adult daughter who pulled up after the cops left and they were both yelling outside our unit talking shit.
Me and my fiancé genuinely don’t feel safe in our apartment anymore because of this incident. The leasing company we’re with hasn’t done much but send her those 2 letters. Can they do anything with the incident that just happened? I’ve already emailed them and included incident report # w/ the card the officers gave me as well as the video. There’s also security cameras outside our unit. And I do plan on filing a restraining order on Tuesday (day off) against her.

TL;DR: neighbor came pounding at my door with a kitchen knife over noise complaints we have against her. Was pointing it at me when yelling at me. Cops were involved; couldn’t do anything because there was no verbal threat. Advised me to file restraining order. Leasing company already gave her 2 letters regarding her lease violation. What can they do/most likely do in regard to this incident?