What is the worst experience you had living in apartment or condo community

condo apartment life wrote:

A next door neighbor call the police on you because you were a little loud arguing with your wife? Yet people can smoke weed and shoot ducks and no one tells them anything. Anyone put nails in your tires on purpose? Mabey he complains on every thing you do? Or maybe managment was your problem? Always complaining on little things people do. What is your story?

Had one recently and won't say it on this board.

The person who lived below me complained that I was vacuuming too late at night (to be fair, it was 10 pm but I hadn’t realized it at the time.)

A friend of mine had to get rid of her treadmill because of the noise it made in her condo.

Living in a house is way better but also waaaayyyy more work!

I have call Condo security for , unpleasant smelling Indian food from neighbor , loud elephant walking from upstairs neighbor , loud couple 2 unit away , loud stereo from teen kids .

We lived next door to a couple in an apartment many moons ago, and the husband would come home drunk and yell so super loudly at his wife, often in the middle of the night. We never called the cops, but other people did, and we so cops over there frequently. We never witnessed any physical abuse, because if so I WOULD have called the police about that.

It so happened that this guy was a mammoth in-shape man who did some sort of martial arts training, so any fever dream of mine to go confront him toe to toe if he ever did hit his wife was out the window. The apartment complex had lots of slightly-smaller-than-baseball-sized rocks as part of the landscaping, so I had decided if he ever needed a confrontation, it would be me throwing rocks at him and running away if he tried to get me. I would have done that if I thought he wife was in danger. I'm glad I didn't have to.

I lived somewhere the mail was stolen when left on the door.

The woman in the apartment one floor above me jumped out the window screaming and killed herself.

Three letters: HOA

Lived in a small apartment block in London for a few years. Neighbour was a rastifarian who grew cannabis in his apartment to sell. Police were raiding him in the middle of the night about once a month. Often they would knock on my door at 4 am and show me a photo of him and ask if he lived in the flat next to me, before banging his door down.

White guy above the Rasta was a psycho who was bullying him. One day he unscrewd the hinges to the door to the floor me and the Rasta shared, which meant it was difficult for us both to enter/exit. So I did the same to his door.

One time I came home from vacation and my door had been busted down. The neighbour below had been flooded and blamed me and called the fire service out. They broke my door down believing a leak was coming from my apartment but it was from somewhere else.

The same guy complained when I bought an expensive punching dummy to train on, so had to bin that.

Another neighbour was the victim of a stalker who would put spiders and stuff through her letterbox. Eventually the stalker started leaving broken glass on the ground outside the apartment block which I trod on and it punctured my shoes.

If you move to Wimbledon SW 19 you might find it more congenial over there, but it may be pricey. Otherwise Tooting Bec is not a bad area and better value for money, close to the Tooting Common as well to keep fit, and the Lido for swimming in summer. Tube right there for convenient travel. Plenty of good value south Asian food both in restaurants and groceries.

I lived in a place that was mostly ok. A guy from the other side of the building would park his car on our side of the building. The car was a piece of crap and squealed very loudly in the morning when started. I think it needed new belts. He parked on our side so he wouldn't wake his wife up when he left every morning at 5am. Someone from the complex talked to him but apparently the guy was a real jerk and maybe violent or whatever.

Over a Thanksgiving weekend I bought a bunch of asparagus and ate it, drank about 5 gallons of water and saved a gallon of nice asparagus scented piss. On a Sunday morning, when he wasn't at work, I used a spare turkey baster to liberally spray the pee all over the inside of his car through a cracked window. I even pushed the milk jug up to the cracked window and poured some in.

I later heard he thought a cat got in the car and peed in it. I can't imagine how bad it smelled in there.

I bought a house and moved out shortly thereafter.

I have never lived in an apartment.

This one guy was wanking into tissues and throwing into the bin.

After a year like this his room was smelling like rotten cüm.

Ghost1 wrote:

If you move to Wimbledon SW 19 you might find it more congenial over there, but it may be pricey. Otherwise Tooting Bec is not a bad area and better value for money, close to the Tooting Common as well to keep fit, and the Lido for swimming in summer. Tube right there for convenient travel. Plenty of good value south Asian food both in restaurants and groceries.

Is it just a wild conspiracy to think that the mecca of south Asian food places in an area called Tooting Common was done purposefully?

An obese woman who lived below me complained to property management because I was doing sit-ups too loudly. (Seriously)

I had to move to an apartment sight unseen when I started grad school. It was infested with roaches because the previous tenants moved out with the sink clogged, and the landlord only halfheartedly tried to fix it (later we had mice). The downstairs neighbor was a nice guy but a drug dealer/addict and would blast the same song all night on Wednesdays. Another guy in the building was schizophrenic, and would yell about being God and killing his enemies outside my window all the time.

On the other hand, it was very cheap and had great running nearby.

Condo King wrote:

I have call Condo security for , unpleasant smelling Indian food from neighbor , loud elephant walking from upstairs neighbor , loud couple 2 unit away , loud stereo from teen kids .

Is this a joke? You're the nightmare here.

I lived in an apartment complex in Detroit for a while. I was present when there were two homicides occur in the complex, once of which I partially witnessed and was called to testify about. I had my car broken into, witnessed a car repossession, and got many (well deserved) noise complaints due to being a normal 21-year-old idiot.

Living in Detroit was nuts. You had the sense that you could lose your life at any minute. It was a good education for a green white-kid from the suburbs to do time in such a Hellscape.

Greg wrote:

condo apartment life wrote:

A next door neighbor call the police on you because you were a little loud arguing with your wife? Yet people can smoke weed and shoot ducks and no one tells them anything. Anyone put nails in your tires on purpose? Mabey he complains on every thing you do? Or maybe managment was your problem? Always complaining on little things people do. What is your story?

Had one recently and won't say it on this board.

Come on, tell us

Me and my dog being attacked by another dog (a big f*cking American Bulldog), then learning that we were not the first or second, or third people/dogs to be attacked by that dog and that the landlord knew but didn't do anything because she felt bad for the dog that was attacking others. Apparently it had "anxiety." Such a tragedy, I know.