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Imagine living next to awesome neighbors, but when they move, the new landlord doesn’t do a very good job of taking care of the building. For example, he’s too cheap to pay for weekly trash pickup, so the building has accumulated a trash pile.
Would you blame the new neighbors, the landlord or the city?
In this story, one person vents about the situation and the awful consequences of having trash keep accumulating.
While he doesn’t completely blame the neighbors, he knows the problem isn’t only caused by the landlord.
Let’s read all about it.
Neighbors and their Lanlord from hell….can go to hell!
We live in a small apartment building (only a few units) on a street with mostly houses.
There are a couple of other apartments next door.
The one that is directly next to us used to only have one occupant (a couple).
I believe they or a friend of theirs owned the building and it was only those two. Very quiet, wouldn’t even know they were there.
But things changed.
Well, the building was sold. The couple moved. A new landlord/owner remodeled the place (looked good on the outside at least) and new tenants began to move in.
What a nightmare.
I began to notice that when our building’s garbage (and every other home/apartment) was picked up, they would skip next door.
Every once in a while, a pickup would occur. Which means weeks of trash outside while everyone else’s areas were free of garbage and regularly attended to.
The residents sound awful.
It started to seem like a huge turnover of residents.
U-Hauls every few months, new cars, and worse and worse people. Loud, gross, police activity.
Cops rarely came down this street and now we’ve seen a lot of them. Only going next door.
How gross!
Then , after almost a decade living here and never, not once seeing a rodent.
There’s an exterminator next door placing rat traps/poison everywhere on their property.
More garbage piling up out back.
Residents that leave just dump what they don’t want to take, so their trash area has turned into a mini dump. Trash, furniture, etc.
It sounds like it’s mainly the landlord’s fault.
Residents have shared on social media that they’re dealing with a slumlord. And I believe it, considering he has it arranged so he “pays for trash pickup” meaning it sounds like it’s included in the rent. But he doesn’t have a regular pickup and only does it once in a while.
Our arrangement at our place is that we pay for garbage service. Our rent is significantly lower than what that resident shared on FB.
So I can’t entirely blame the residents because their landlord is being dishonest and uncaring.
But the residents aren’t helping anything.
On the other hand, they are also not helping the situation.
They’ll bbq outside and dump the coals on their own paved walkway, food stuff and other mess along with it. Pour out sodas on the pavement outside. Leave their fast food trash on the sidewalk after they get out of their car.
I will look into reporting the garbage situation.
It seems unbelievably unfair that all the rest of us are now affected by one person’s decision not to pay for a regular trash pickup.
Where I live, trash pickup is a weekly thing that’s included in my utility bill to the city along with water and power. I don’t think it should be optional to skip a weekly trash pickup. The consequences sound incredibly unsanitary.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
This person has some advice.
Another person has a question.
It would be hard not to think about it.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a neighbor who steps in to stop illegal driveway construction for friends down the road.
This person can relate.
It seriously might be time to think about moving. This neighborhood is not the same as it used to be, and the living conditions and neighbors sound like they’re just getting worse and worse.
It’s probably worth a try to report everything and see if anything changes. If not, finding another place to live might be the best decision.