New neighbors

elSicomoro · 11-03-2002, 12:59 AM

After a 2-month absence, we apparently have new neighbors.

There are 5 apartments in our building: a 3 BR on the first floor that is occupied by a nice family of 5; a 2 BR occupied by a nice older lady and a 1 BR occupied by a seemingly nice enough couple (though they make a ton of noise and seem to be running for trash couple of the year) on the second floor; and then there's our 1 BR and another 2 BR on the third floor. The 2 BR has been unoccupied since the end of August. The previous tenants, two female roommates about my age, moved to a 3 BR with another roommate. They played their music loud at times, and seemed a bit snooty, but they were alright overall.

I'm always a bit suspicious of new folks moving in. Are they going to be loud? Are they going to cause trouble? Do they have young kids that might keep us up at night? Are they going to be like the people in the building next to us and keep us up at night having sex? Four tenants have moved in and out since we moved in two years ago, so turnover is fairly common. In addition, we seem to have a large vacancy rate at the moment...apparently enough of a vacancy that they dropped the rents. (In fact, I'm kinda pissed about that. An apartment like ours used to go for $755 a month. Rho and I currently pay $734, and have been here two years. Now, they lowered the rent for newbies to $695...what the fuck?!)

The new folks have already started off bad with me--they propped open the security door (our front door that is always locked) by sticking a thumb tack in the door jamb and stuffing paper in the bolt hole. Okay okay...maybe they forgot about it. But I'm going to keep my eye on these folks for a bit.

On the other hand, maybe they're incredibly nice folks...we'll see.

11-03-2002, 12:59 AM	#1
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	New neighbors After a 2-month absence, we apparently have new neighbors. There are 5 apartments in our building: a 3 BR on the first floor that is occupied by a nice family of 5; a 2 BR occupied by a nice older lady and a 1 BR occupied by a seemingly nice enough couple (though they make a ton of noise and seem to be running for trash couple of the year) on the second floor; and then there's our 1 BR and another 2 BR on the third floor. The 2 BR has been unoccupied since the end of August. The previous tenants, two female roommates about my age, moved to a 3 BR with another roommate. They played their music loud at times, and seemed a bit snooty, but they were alright overall. I'm always a bit suspicious of new folks moving in. Are they going to be loud? Are they going to cause trouble? Do they have young kids that might keep us up at night? Are they going to be like the people in the building next to us and keep us up at night having sex? Four tenants have moved in and out since we moved in two years ago, so turnover is fairly common. In addition, we seem to have a large vacancy rate at the moment...apparently enough of a vacancy that they dropped the rents. (In fact, I'm kinda pissed about that. An apartment like ours used to go for $755 a month. Rho and I currently pay $734, and have been here two years. Now, they lowered the rent for newbies to $695...what the fuck?!) The new folks have already started off bad with me--they propped open the security door (our front door that is always locked) by sticking a thumb tack in the door jamb and stuffing paper in the bolt hole. Okay okay...maybe they forgot about it. But I'm going to keep my eye on these folks for a bit. On the other hand, maybe they're incredibly nice folks...we'll see.

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