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Maintenance finally showed up to fix the dishwasher

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (127172) • United States 4 Oct

I called the management office on Thursday to get an update on the situation. She said that they would be here yesterday. Great. I was off yesterday so I was here when the head maintenance guy showed up. He replaced 2 of the...

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A Semi-Fix to a Previous Problem

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 2 Jun 23

So some of you might remember my discussion, “I don’t know how to fix it.”, which was about our trash collector not emptying 2 dumpsters in my apartment complex because people living in the neighborhood behind me kept dumping...

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Laundry Room Ettiquette

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 15 Apr 22

Laundry Room Etiquette I left my stuff in the dryer 20 extra minutes to take an important phone call, and got a nasty note stuck to it by a so-called neighbour. LOL There are 10 washers, and 10 dryers. 9 dryers were as empty as...

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What Do You Do When The Elevator Breaks Down?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 5 Aug 21

Today I had to go out and run some errands. When I came home i discovered a bunch of unhappy people gathered around the elevator. E1 was out of order as anticipated, cause they're upgrading it, and much to our dismay, the blue...

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I don't want to be friends.

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 17 Apr 21

So there is a guy in my apartment complex who has threatened other people (he physically assaulted a guy once) and is my neighbor. He's always been nice to me, but I tried to steer clear of him. He's just not quite all there. He...

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Biggest Problem

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 24 Jan 21

Where you live, what is your biggest problem? I hope to move soon, and over the years I have talked about all the problems I have in my current apartment. But what really bugs me is people who don't clean up their dog's poop. I...

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Do I Look Like I Was Born Yesterday?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 15 Jun 19

Last night I was sitting in the lobby of my apartment building waiting for a friend to pick something up from me. Along came two young women, and they started waving at me and pounding on the door, claiming they were locked out....

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So Much For Living In A Secure Building, Eh?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 17 Mar 18

Holy crap on a cracker!!! After about three weeks of bronchitis that made me wonder how much longer I had to live, I actually felt like myself, today. To celebrate my recovery, I went to the mall for a cuppa coffee at Tim...

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random musings

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Writing again after moving to new abodes.

rosyrose @vickyrose (2236) • Cooma, Australia 9 Mar 18

It's been a busy start of the year. First of all, we just finished our renovation works. Our flat is now rented. Now, we also moved to another location, 30 minutes away from where we used to live. It's different experience as...

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house move

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Pick a Door

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 6 Mar 18

I got notice this afternoon, just like everyone in my apartment building, that the apartment complex would be having some concrete work done this Friday. It starts at 8am, and they won't be finished until 8pm. So they told us we...

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When You Live In A High Rise, You Will Occasionally See This Sign.

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 20 Jan 18

This was from back in December, so of course the elevator has been fixed, but notes like this are not uncommon when one lives in a building like mine. I live on the 11th (top) floor, so I'd better pray that at least one of the two...

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We cleaned an apartment

aubrey @averygirl72 (38848) • Philippines 2 May 17

My brother rents his apartment in the city where he works. He does not know about housekeeping. Mother and I would need to be there at least every 6 months to clean up his house. We went there last Wednesday and the house is...

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Crazy Neighbors And Newlyweds

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21845) • Canada 22 Mar 16

The first place we rented as newlyweds was a furnished apartment. It was clean, cheap, beautiful and had two swimming pools. Students and staff from Kansas State University lived there, families from the army base at Fort Riley...

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Have you ever thought something that really happened was a dream?

Yuki @yukimori (10192) • United States 29 Aug 15

My husband and I were talking this evening, and he was telling me about this crazy dream that he had last night. It started off normally, with him waking up to me complaining about finding a mouse in the house. He said I was...

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Should people in apartment complex have surround sound systems?

aireanna18 @aireanna18 (1914) • United States 12 Oct 12

Hello myLot community, I have a question that I want to pose to the community. Do you think people living in apartment complex should own surround sound systems? Here is my view, I have livPe in apartments for several...

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Would you have a problem with it?

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 23 Feb 12

I didn't say anything to her about it. But I thought it was disgusting. So my bathtub was clogged as was my bathroom sink. It was like that when I moved in, and it has continued to be a problem even though I quit using my...

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Do you expect to have peace and quiet in an apartment?

cream97 @cream97 (29085) • United States 3 May 10

If you are living in an apartment, whether it is sound proof or not, do you expect to have peace and quiet throughout the entire day? The reason why I ask this is because, my downstairs neighbor says that he wants it to be quiet...

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Blind Windows

Amber @AmbiePam (121088) • United States 26 May 09

I have those vertical blinds that seem to be standard in so many apartments. They're white, but luckily in this apartment they don't have stains I cannot get out. So what are on your windows? Blinds,...

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Picking up after the neighbor's dog

carpenter5 @carpenter5 (6782) • United States 10 Mar 09

We live in an apartment complex where the rules are that you must pick up after your pet. I go to a lot of trouble to go and purchase Doggie bags and I have the little scooper. The problem is that we have a few neighbors that...

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So Frustrating!

trickiwoo @trickiwoo (2702) • United States 3 Mar 09

So on Friday my boyfriend and I got a letter taped on our apartment door from our landlord. We live on the third floor, and the letter said that on Monday they were having contractors come in that would be removing the stairs from...

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