The Office Again

I went down this morning, an hour after they should have opened, to check my mail and remind the office to change the dead light bulb outside my door. The hallways here are dim enough on their own, let alone when the light above my door is out. Makes it hard to get the key in the lock.  Anyway... It's been at least a week since I let them know and it hasn't happened yet.  Disappointing.
What's more disappointing is that I didn't get to remind them because the office is closed yet again. This time, due to "illness." Fortunately they're only closed til noon.   But I'm going to rant on this, more specifically, the fact that the office is closed again. It's as though they put the sign up last night so they could sleep in this morning. I'd believe it.  With their track record, it'd fit right in with closing the office to run errands, have an extended lunch, or make a goddamned dentist appointment. That last one blew my mind.  I arrived after they were supposed to have opened again (according to the sign), so I knocked on the door to find name omitted was in there and had simply forgotten to change the sign back afterward.  Wtf. No.  You don't close your office during work hours to do your own chores, and then forget to open it back up.  It's absolutely unprofessional and upsetting. Frankly, the office has been unduly closed every other time my husband and/or I go down during working hours. It's not a make or break it kind of aspect of this apartment complex, but it's enough to upset me. I'm glad I won't be here another year. I'm so glad my lease is up in a couple months.

Still Here, Still Disappointed

Yes...I have been gone for a little while, but I am back now, and just as disappointed as ever.

1. Water still pools up at the windows and when the neighbors smoke it up really hard, smells still come in through our bathroom vent. Speaking of pervasive smoke...
2. It gets so bad sometimes that the entire building reeks. It happened again this last week. It got so bad that someone went through and opened every stairwell window they could get to. Middle of Winter, below freezing out, but tenants here either smoke so hard the building reeks, or are so desperate to air the place out that they'll freeze the building. It sucks either way.
3. The construction here is just weak.  When my apartment gets quiet, I can hear the neighbors peeing through the bathroom wall. Who wants to hear their neighbors taking a leak from the supposed comfort of their own home?  Not me, that's who.

Oh, and about the locks on my building  I suppose it's a thing for apartment complexes, having locks on the outermost doors. They're still mighty inconvenient when you're getting groceries though. I've got a specific story in mind as well.  The night when the lock wouldn't work at all.  In a nutshell, I came home with groceries late one evening to find the door by the parking lot was stuck shut. I had to walk all the way around the building to use the (fortunately working) door on the other side. (You can't get to that door from the parking lot. You have to go up to the street and walk the long way around the building.) Anywho, after getting my groceries in, I decided I'd go down and check the stuck door one more time. I figured if my key wouldn't work, I'd prop the door open, put a sign up explaining why, and tell the office tomorrow.  However, the door wouldn't open at all from either side. It's not like you need a key to leave the building. It was just jammed.  So I called emergency maintenance.

The maintenance dudes here may be the only/best feature of this complex. They're prompt and know their stuff. They came out that night and fixed it.

With regards to my malcontent with this apartment complex, the point of this story was not just for me to vent, but also for me to express that this complex bought the cheapest, lightest, dumbest locks they could to put on their building, didn't get them professionally installed, and for that reason, they're likely to not work sometimes. I want to say it's a show of character on the place's part. 

Unreliable.