Not done yet!

@dfollin (24146)
United States
May 24, 2020 9:45pm CST
It has been a crazy week! Monday morning I got into the shower, after washing I turned the water off and looked up and saw a huge bulge in the ceiling over my head. I got dried off and dressed then took pictures of it and emailed them to the assistant property manager. He called the maintenance crew and the didn't come over for an hour ! I was so worried the ceiling was going to pop open. That happened to some people in the next building and they moved out ! I asked about that and the one man said, "Yes" and then the other man interrupts and says but that is something different. Then they said they would be back that they had to go to the apartment upstairs the man upstairs toilets was flooding. When they come back that one man said that the pipe in my ceiling has a pin hole leak! Well that was an awfully large bulge to be just from a pin hole leak. He was lying! Being having to keep 6 feet away I couldn't watch what they were doing. Apparently they popped the bulge and cut a hole in the ceiling. They put a cardboard box over it and he said it was safe for me to use the shower. Asked him if the people upstairs could see me in the shower and he said yes. I was not sure that he understood me correctly so I repeated the question and he gave me the same answer but added that it would be ok for me to take a shower. He said that they have to notify the other people in the building the water would be turned off for about 2 hours. About an hour later we go the notes on the door saying the water would be off all day! But when they came back the next day it did not take all day and they still put the box over the hole. Two days later on Friday the other men came to fill in the hole and paint, so it did smell all day. All 3 days thou, everytime I would pull my mask down so my glasses didn't fog up someone would walk thru the living room and I would have to quickly pull my mask back up. An hour later I get a note on my door on Friday before the holiday weekend during a crisis that says that my wooden desk I have had on my patio as a plant stand that has been there for almost a year has to go by the end of the holiday weekend. Really nothing was ever said about it before, they know I cannot move that table to the trash by myself and that I cannot afford to hire someone and it's a holiday weekend and I cannot get someone to help me. Little notice! I cleaned the shower and part of the counter from their work mess! Got the top shelf off the table and started carrying it pushing on the ground and a maintenance man saw me and had me set the board down and he took it the rest of the way to the trash. But I couldn't get the rest of the table apart.
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@Nakitakona (56322)
• Philippines
25 May 20
You have done a lot of work with no one helping you. That's great.
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@dfollin (24146)
• United States
25 May 20
Thanks!
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@dfollin (24146)
• United States
1 Jun 20
@Nakitakona Thanks!
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@Nakitakona (56322)
• Philippines
26 May 20
@dfollin That's what we call initiative.
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@LindaOHio (153180)
• United States
25 May 20
What a mess! I'm glad everything is fixed now.
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@dfollin (24146)
• United States
25 May 20
I have to now get the desk moved off the patio by 9:00 tonight!
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@LindaOHio (153180)
• United States
25 May 20
@dfollin Oh, no! I hope you can find some help.
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@dfollin (24146)
• United States
29 May 20
@LindaOHio No and I called the office and left them a message about it too.
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@AmbiePam (84660)
• United States
25 May 20
THAT is stressful. I have had water damage before, but it has always been because of a leaky roof. My water was turned off last week for a day, but they neglected to tell us. Then we all started calling the office about it, and the manager for annoyed.
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@dfollin (24146)
• United States
25 May 20
Oh well that's the manager's problem, he/she should of notified everyone.
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