I could have said for fuck’s sake, but I didn’t. Well, I guess I just did. But let me get to the point of me saying anything at all …
Since I hadn’t heard anything back from our apartment management, I gave them a call yesterday, inquiring when they’d be fixing our neighbors’ noisy floors. The girl tells me they did it on Friday. I said, “You’re kidding me, right?” She responded with, “Why? Is there a problem?” I said, “Oh yes, there is. First of all, I was told we’d be warned before they did the repairs and more importantly, there’s been no decrease in noise, so apparently they didn’t do a very good job.” So she told me she’d talk to the maintenance guy on Monday and have him call me. Later that same day, she left a voicemail on my cellphone (which I’m notorious for not carrying on me unless I’m alone), stating that she talked to the maintenance guy and found out that they did the living room and hallway on Friday and will be doing the bedroom on Monday.
Ok, I have a bunch of problems with this, the first being that they did not let us know like they promised. I swear, they do that all the time! I’m really getting tired of the office manager because she tells me one thing, but doesn’t communicate it back to the maintenance team. Second of all, if the bedroom was the source of most of our complaints, why couldn’t they have fixed that first? No, instead we have to endure another weekend of sleeping according to their schedules. Such bullshit. And the most annoying thing? The living room creaking is even louder than before! WTF?! How does one make the situation worse??? You know, I have a bad feeling that this issue is only going to resolve itself by us moving out. And right now we just can’t afford to do that, not to mention the fact that our lease isn’t up until March 2004.
I bet they didn’t even follow my suggestions. I told them they had permission to come into our apartment so that one guy could listen down here while the other guy walked around to see if the noise had ceased. It’s called common sense, but there’s no way they could have possibly done that if they hadn’t warned us first (as our lease states) and the noise got worse. I’m going to have to prepare myself for battle mode, because I’m not letting this go. I’m sick of listening to every step they make up there. And before anyone dares tell me that’s apartment living, that’s bull. Besides, the company who owns our complex owns several others, and the woman I sent my letter to even said that our complex is the only one with the creaking floorboards problem.
I just keep thinking about what my upstairs neighbor said to me once when I ran up there to let her know her toilet was leaking into our ceiling, “Our downstairs neighbors have always seemed to have lots of problems.” Little did I know at the time – she was the problem!